5. Networking Expands Your Customer Base: Barter customers will bring you all of cash referrals that your present clients bring. You will gain new cash paying customers too - as long as you give your barter customers same great services and pricing as you offer everyone else.

6. Increase Productivity by Filling Downtime and Unused Capacity: Service Business: Increase billable hours! If you are not at 100% capacity twelve months a year and can handle new customers, you fill your idle time with new business opportunities. Now you will have trade currency to purchase what you need.

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The Barter system is a fantastic opportunity for people to gain what they want by offering what is some surplus stock or some time.

The Counter Trader buys $200,000 worth of American microchips and trades them in Singapore for $275,000 in computers. He ships computers to Senegal as Senegal buyer surface ships textiles to France (no import duty on Senegal exports to France) and from La Harve, textiles are surface shipped to Portsmouth. The London textile buyer air ships scotch to Cape Town as South African liquor buyer air ships uncut diamonds to Toronto. The Canadian gem dealer distributes stones to his American retail buyers. The Counter Trader starts with a $200,000 purchase. In Singapore, he's paid $275,000 in computers. In Senegal, he collects $352,000 in textiles. In England, he gets $450,000 in Scotch. In South Africa, he acquires $576,000 in uncut gems. In Canada, he is paid $738,000 for uncut diamonds in cash. His pretax profit is $243,000. Since Canada has a double taxation treaty with Barbados, he pays Barbados 8% income tax on his profit. Our Counter Trader's after-tax profit is about $224,000. He or she can repeat this series of barter trades four times each year. The Counter Trader's annual after tax income will be nearly a million dollars.

Conclusion

Counter Trades are potentially ten times more profitable than traditional export model. However, it takes ten times more effort to setup a series of successful barter trades. If you have initial contact for an export business consider operating a Counter Trade business rather than an export business. If you are seeking advice or a partner for a Counter Trade business, contact me at: Beowulftrading@Earthlink.net