Member of International Barter Alliance
The Barter Group was founded in the early eighties at a time that the country been through an extended recession, and retailers were having a tough time of it. Problems existed in the ability or willingness of the banking industry to assist small business or startup entrepreneurs without a proven track record.If you fall into this category you probably feel the restraint even today.
A method was needed to provide liquidity for the small business. Then as now and throughout history the exchange of goods or services has been the salvation of economies. Barter has always been on the sidelines awaiting rebirth at the time of it's need.
Organized BARTER offered a partial solution for this problem by creating an accounting system that provided a contemporary forum for the transfer of goods and services, without cash. This was accomplished by setting up a line of credit secured by each of the business owners pledges to allocate a fixed amount of product or services into a system that was regulated through a central clearing house similar in nature to a bank or credit card system. Businesses owners who were willing to work together and exchange the "things" they had for the "things" they needed were the nucleus of the resurgence of barter.
The Barter Group was launched when a member conceived merger unified efforts to develop a more efficient, reciprocal barter association. The Barter Group catalyzed fragmented exchanges including :Barter Systems, BX, Intraworld and smaller area exchanges with varying trade credits, and limited scope, into a unified organization under one unit of trade (analogous to EURO dollars).
The Barter Group was run as a member managed barter and business referral system serving members through five statewide licensees and nationally through a network of reciprocal barter exchanges.
The Barter Group has remained reciprocal with many national exchanges and as such may accept the credits of other nationally recognized barter organizations with advance notification.
Barter as a form of business has increased the buying and selling of power of thousands of businesses leveling the playing field between small business and the big boys.
