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5 Quick Tips To Improve Your Presentations
When done right, presentations are fantastic for engaging with your audience and putting forward the message you want to give to the audience. To have a successful presentation, you need to have a confident persona as well as
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How can you use marketing contra deals for your business
In a competitive business environment it can be hard for start up businesses to earn their fair share of the marketplace. With smaller budgets and less access to other resources it can be a very volatile environment for
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Is it legal for business to trade goods and services in a barter trade?
Bartering has been a technique used for centuries to achieve gains through mutually beneficial trade. It comes in many different forms and a lot of companies chose to do it as a way to get to grips with
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Tips on how to use an online barter exchange to coordinate transactions
The online world that we conduct business in means bartering with other companies is now as easy as logging onto a website. Usually, this comes in the form of an online barter exchange. Barter exchanges are essentially a
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4 important rules for good website upkeep
Launching a website for your business is just the beginning of your work, not the end. There are some business owners who would like the website to do all the work as they sit back, watch the visitor
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Top tips for creating a great contact page
Your contact page is one of the most important pages on your site and is one of the top landing pages. When creating a site, the contact page is often a page that gets left behind and gets
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Settle Invoices Quickly with Contra Dealing
As a business, it’s important to understand how cash on hand can impact your ability to expand and develop, and how contra dealing can be a useful way to smooth out your cash flow. Being able to take
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The Advantages Of Using A Euro Debit Card
Debit cards have become a staple of life, in many instances, they have replaced cash as they are convenient, flexible, and they avoid many of the most common hygiene issues. People are generally far more conscious of these
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3 reasons content marketing is important for your business
According to the Content Marketing Institute, content marketing is “a strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly-defined audience — and, ultimately, to drive profitable customer action”.
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4 digital marketing tips to grow your start-up
When launching a start-up, the journey can be incredibly rewarding but also quite daunting. Digital marketing is a powerful tool which can contribute powerfully to your online presence, and positively impact the performance of your business – especially
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How e-commerce businesses can take advantage of Bartering in the Black Friday run up
Getting the most value out of your e-commerce channels can be challenging and in the run-up to Black Friday, many are going to be focusing on driving sales and revenue through discounts and offers in prep for the
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Preserve your corporate image with reusable personalised face masks
Since March 2020 face coverings have become the new norm, with members of the public taking to the streets clad in masks a common sight. From snoods worn in colder weather to disposable masks and face shields, there
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Easy ways to make your business more environmentally friendly
Many individuals are becoming more environmentally conscious, and this ethos is now extending into businesses. We all need to do our bit, and there are plenty of ways to make your office more ‘green’. Of course, this does
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How to trade unsold stock with bartering and other innovative techniques
Running into liquidity issues is not a position any company wants to be in, however, if it does happen getting out of it promptly is crucial to the long-term survival of your business. Finding ways to get value
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How to barter across a range of different sectors from one company
The Bartering of goods and services is often only taken up during times of economic difficulty, with a focused goal of improving cash flow and saving money. Despite this relatively short-term goal, many go onto to incorporate bartering
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How can businesses save money by bartering with their goods and services?
Getting as much value as you can out of each, and every transaction is crucial to running a business that is sustainable in the long term. Not only will this help increase cash flow, but it could also
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How Bartering can work for your business: Top 10 tips for success
Getting a competitive advantage in business can be challenging, particularly if you are operating through traditional business methods. Bartering (trading without currency) gives you access to a whole range of different business who you may not have operated
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How Contra-Dealing can increase your cash flow
We all know that cash is king, and is often referred to as the ‘life-blood’ of any business. This analogy is as true now as it was in the 2008 financial crisis and even as far back as
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How to value goods being traded in a contra deal
Cash is great as it attaches an instantly recognisable extrinsic value that all those within a given society have agreed upon. This makes dealing with each other, whether it be in businesses or individuals much easier and
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6 interesting items that your business could offer in a contra deal
Getting the right product and services together to offer in a contra deal can be a challenge but you should not make the mistake of underselling yourself. If you are in business and operating (particularly through these challenging
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How to ask for a contra deal
So, you have readied your business assets and are primed to start the profitable journey of bartering with local businesses, but how exactly do you ask a company for a contra deal? Well, there are several different
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How barter trading can become a lifeline for small businesses
Times of economic hardship is a tough place for any business to be in, particularly if you are a small company where a firm grip on cash flow could make the difference between your business flourishing or
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Business are now bartering to get through tough times
Given the current situation many businesses are facing, it is understandable that directors are looking to get a grip on the company finances by tightening up operations, however, if this is done on a large scale it could
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How you can deal with the supplier/client relationship in contra deals
Contra dealing doesn’t have to be complicated, however, if you do not pay attention to the details of managing the relationship between your contra dealing clients it can lead to some confusion down the road. The lack of
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Some of the best business benefits you could experience from Contra Dealing
Keeping your business sustainable and competitive is reliant on healthy growth year in year out and a robust plan on how you are going to deal with upcoming events. Staying open to new ways of operating is
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How to upgrade your Contra Deal game in 2020
Keeping costs down is a key part of good business no matter what size you are, and there are often ways to ‘trim the fat’ in many different areas of an organisation. One of the key areas that
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A guide on developing your first contra-deal contract
Many businesses are attracted by the idea of a contra deal as it allows them to reduce overhead costs and network with other businesses to work with. Unfortunately, this is as far as many companies go in their
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How to get contra deals for your events
Keeping costs down is high on the priority of many businesses because of the serious impact it can have on the bottom line of your business. This is true in event management when often the profitability of each
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Essential tips for successful contra trading
Contra dealing is an activity that can save your business a lot of time and money, and the rise in the digital economy is making it easier to trade with other companies more so now than ever. There
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3 great ways to reduce costs as a new business
Starting a small business can be challenging, there is a myriad of considerations that need to be made that simply are not thought of from the get-go. One thing that all small businesses have in common is the
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Industries that are effectively using contra dealing and bartering
The barter economy is difficult to measure given the relative ambiguous nature of the deals it contains. However, it has definitely come back into fashion as the internet has reduced the barriers to trade. Many businesses are now
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What the Development of Cryptocurrencies like Facebook’s Libra Means for the Barter Economy
The digital economy is constantly shifting and evolving with different trends and technologies taking over the limelight. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and the Block Chain technology behind them have added a new dimension to the bartering economy. The launch
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3 Ways to Fund your SME without a Traditional Business Loan
Many people dream of starting up their own business and escaping the rat race. However especially in this era of uncertainty, many are stepping away from taking risks as they are wary of losing a large amount
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What Services are Best Suited to Contra Dealing?
Contra dealing is the exchange of goods through a barter-agreement between two parties without the exchange of cash. Contra dealing can offer a more efficient way to run your business however it only really makes sense if you
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If you want to succeed, switch to a bartering mind-set
Success comes in many shapes and forms. It is getting that promotion at work, getting your children to help out around the house more, or even making a sale. All of these things are things we want, but
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Countries Turn to Bartering to Avoid Trump’s Tariff’s.
There is a lot of global uncertainty currently. The tariffs imposed by the U.S government are putting strains on growing economies and forcing them to act in historic methods of trading. What are Trumps Tariffs? Most of
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4 Steps to SME success
Millions of businesses worldwide compete for success. While you might have an excellent product or service, true success lasts on people. Your customers, other businesses, and your employees will all determine your SME’s success. Every step of the
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How to barter in 2019 – 3 Simple Tips
The year of 2019 brings a lot of hope and fear to many people in the UK. There are questions looming about the safety of businesses when Brexit hits, and uncertainty about what will happen to businesses that
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Christmas Bartering: How To Save Money This Christmas
Christmas can be fun, stressful, and everything in between. Many with lower budgets this year may be worrying about how they are going to afford to get everyone their gifts, but you need not worry – barter instead.
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3 ways to help your business stay afloat after Brexit hits
There is a tonne of uncertainty floating around at the moment and banks are becoming less and less likely to loan money to the more at risk individuals. What businesses need to be doing to fund their small
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Contra Deals – 3 Big Benefits
Contra Dealing is a form of arrangement or agreement between two parties (most often business) where the business exchange their good or services for the other businesses goods or services. This agreement can work out very well for
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How to Make Sure Your Bartering Arrangement Goes Smoothly
Business bartering is picking up steam as more and more entrepreneurs discover the benefits and spread the word. That means plenty of people are thinking about making their first deals, and that often comes with more than its
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Why Should Start-Ups Use Bartering Websites?
We all know what bartering is; instead of using cash, you get the goods or services you need by trading goods and services of your own. Unfortunately, people still see bartering as a somewhat antiquated arrangement; you might
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Should rural communities barter more?
Bartering can be very beneficial to anyone who wishes to use it as it generally involves exchanging something you have an abundance of for something you need. There is no money involved, so you can save this for
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Facebook: One of the Biggest Bartering Companies in the World.
Most of us barter every day, and we don’t even realise it. Whether it’s the little things like trading skills around the office, trading your goods/ services with other businesses for benefits or perhaps you’ve just been
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The Booming Business of Bartering
What do companies such as Amazon, Sainsbury’s, and your mechanic all have in common? Bartering. Business bartering is happening at all levels and it’s big!
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How To Trade Items Online
How to trade items online Contra-dealing and bartering can be exceptionally useful methods for a business to exploit goods or services they provide for profit. By operating outside of a cash economy, contra-dealing enables businesses to leverage
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How to Trade Services for Goods
Contra trading is most often seen as a way for businesses and individuals to swap and barter assets that they own. Trading physical items is one way for contra dealing to work, but it’s also possible to barter
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What is Business Barter Exchange?
When businesses need to make the most of their cashflow, it’s important that they’re able to use every tool at their disposal. Turning to a business barter exchange can be a very practical way for businesses to alleviate
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What is a corporate barter?
Flexibility is key for businesses, no matter what sector they’re in. The ability to shift and adapt strategies to meet a changing market is vital for the continuing success of any commercial entity, and nowhere is this adaptability
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