- Carolina Barter
- 3290 Ashley Phosphate Rd.
- Charleston, SC 29418
- Telephone: (843) 720-9604
- Fax: (843) 725-4734
The restaurant industry is one of the most competitive industries in South Carolina which includes catering and specialty food and beverage store. It is an industry that takes a great deal of business savvy in order to be profitable.
Restaurant owners are constantly faced with pressures of competing with other independent restaurateurs in addition to corporate owned restaurants with virtually endless advertising and marketing budgets. The ultimate goal turns new customers into repeat business.
As a Carolina Barter client, restaurant owners can add a powerful marketing tool to their business which is guaranteed to bring in new customers, which will simply be filling otherwise empty tables. Restaurant owners and catering companies will have the opportunity to maximize resources and promote the restaurant to a larger audience.
This new business will provide you with valuable word-of-mouth advertising which will inevitably result in new cash customers as well.
Are you finding that your restaurant is open but often under capacity during the weekdays or weekends? Carolina Barter brings you the additional customers you desire while assisting you in lowering your overhead expenses, improving your cash flow, and increasing your cash profits. As part of barter, you can designate the days and times when customers can use their barter credits.
This new barter revenue can be used on your most common overhead expenses such as advertising & marketing, restaurant equipment & supplies, printing, building & property maintenance, uniforms, health care and employee incentives allowing you to keep your cash in the bank. You may also use the barter reward to travel.
Back To TopThe advertising industry and barter are practically synonymous. Barter exchanges elevate the cumbersome nature of managing direct trades. As a Carolina Barter client, you are able to take full benefit of trading excess inventory without all the hassles associated with one-on-one trading. Furthermore, you are able to keep your sales staff concentrating on generating cash business and client retention.
As a Carolina Barter client, our barter professionals act as your purchasing agent when you need to acquire products and services. This non traditional revenue enables you to purchase advertising specialties, printing, property maintenance, office equipment, signs and banners, fine dining & entertainment and all the other products and services that "just aren't in the budget".
As a Carolina Barter client you have an alternate revenue source, and most importantly, someone outside your staff to focus on trade, allowing you to reap the benefits of barter without distracting you or your staff from making cash sales.
Back To TopWhen it comes to purchasing a new or used vehicle or even getting repairs or service on an existing vehicle, the sheer number of new or used dealers and auto centers in the marketplace can be overwhelming to the consumer.
As a business owner in the automotive industry you understand the importance of word-of-mouth advertising and the need to develop a loyal, repeat customer base.
As a Carolina Barter client, you will receive additional new, business - which is new customers that you would not have received if you were not a client of Carolina Barter. In addition, because Carolina Barter Members have the incentive to do business with other Carolina Barter Members first, your business will have the opportunity not only to obtain new customers, but also to retain them, which will provide your business with a competitive edge in your marketplace.
If you find that you have extra inventory, empty or available time for appointments, let Carolina Barter bring you the new, additional customers you need to keep inventory moving, your bays full and your employees busy.
Instead of spending cash on your common overhead expenses such as advertising & marketing, printing, uniforms, building & property maintenance and employee incentives you can now utilize your new trade revenue and keep your most valuable resource - cash - in the bank.
Back To TopThe business landscape for the electronics industry has changed dramatically over the past decade. Corporate owned big box chains dominate an industry where products are in high demand and the supply seems boundless and ever-changing.
In order to stay ahead of the curve and be competitive in the marketplace, businesses selling electronics must resort to drastically lowering their prices and/or exhausting meager advertising and marketing budgets in an attempt to acquire new customers.
As a Carolina Barter client you are guaranteed new customers, customers that would have shopped with your big box competitor had you not been a client of Carolina Barter. No longer do you need to slash prices in an attempt to liquidate excess inventories.
Carolina Barter Members sell their merchandise at prevailing retail prices which in turn provides them with wholesale purchasing power when it comes to purchasing their own most common business and personal expenses. Some of those expenses include advertising and marketing geared towards bringing in new customers, printing, building and property maintenance, travel, health care and much, much more.
The question now becomes, would you rather pay for your overhead and personal expenses with cash, or with new business brought to you by Carolina Barter? The answer is easy  Carolina Barter.
Back To TopWhether you operate a sports arena, golf course, or theatre, you know each empty seat, tee time or appointment is lost revenue  lost forever, you can't double your efforts and make up for the loss next time. Carolina Barter enables you to protect your income source by filling empty seats with Carolina Barter Members.
Carolina Barter offers you a way to fill empty seats, tee times and appointments and generate revenue to pay for your overhead expenses. Our Carolina Barter Members use entertainment opportunities for their own enjoyment, to entertain Members, family and employees. If you are not filling every available performance, tee time or appointment time, bartering through Carolina Barter enables you to turn an underperforming asset into an income generating marketing strategy.
As a Carolina Barter client you turn the vacant into viable. The additional trade revenue provides you with barter purchasing power above and beyond your cash income. Carolina Barter Members use that additional income on items for which you normally would have had to spend cash, such as advertising & marketing, printing, signs & banners, property & building maintenance, employee benefits and your ongoing list of overhead expenses.
Back To TopTodayÂ's economy requires individuals and families to budget their finances more closely as their amount of disposable income is diminishing.
As demands increase, requiring you to dedicate more income towards lifeÂ's necessities, purchasing luxuries such as fashion and beauty tend to get reduced or eliminated altogether.
Carolina Barter provides our Members the opportunity to pamper and reward themselves, as well as others, using income they receive from the new business Carolina Barter brings their way.
Carolina BarterÂ's Members in the fashion and beauty industry become the direct beneficiaries by receiving new, loyal customers that they would not have received otherwise. In fact, Carolina Barter also provides you with the best advertising available, word-of-mouth advertising, with each new trade customer providing you exposure to new cash customers.
Tired of watching appointment times come and go without a customer or watching unsold inventory collect dust on the shelves? Let Carolina Barter customize a marketing plan guaranteed to bring you new customers, improve your cash flow and increase your cash profits.
You can then use this new revenue to purchase business and personal expenses such as advertising & marketing, printing, health care, travel, and dining and entertainment.
Back To TopCarolina Barter knows those in the medical and health care fields must combine their medical practice with sound marketing and business practices as well. As a Carolina Barter client, our barter professionals work with you to gain a return on the investment you've made in your business and create that balance between patient retention and growth.
Our experienced sales and marketing personnel provide you patient referrals and increase your billable hours. Many of today's small and medium businesses must rely on self-insurance programs to offset high medical premiums. They look to Carolina Barter to help them use barter to pay for their preventive, acute and chronic medical care.
As a Carolina Barter client you are able to gain a competitive edge in the marketplace, boost your sales and increase your profits by offering your products and services to our Members.
The new revenue generated from Carolina Barter enables you to offset overhead costs such as printing, building maintenance, advertising & marketing, professional services, travel and other needs that you currently have no alternative than to pay cash to acquire.
Back To TopToday, the home and garden industry is dominated by corporate stores with expansive advertising and marketing budgets and ad campaigns designed to capture the lionÂ's share of business in the marketplace.
This leaves other independent business owners in the home and garden industry with the dilemma as to how to acquire new business without offering steep discounts or increasing their advertising and marketing budgets beyond their means. Carolina Barter provides you with a solution.
Carolina Barter Members receive additional new business, business that they would not have received if not for Carolina Barter. Carolina Barter Members use this new revenue on business and personal expenses, allowing them to keep their cash in the bank.
Whether you have a need for new customers or a desire to move some of your excess inventory, Carolina Barter brings you the business you need to allow you to start maximizing your resources and improving your bottom line.
The wholesale purchasing power you acquire once becoming a Carolina Barter client provides you the opportunity to purchase your most common overhead expenses at your cost of doing business.
Overhead expenses such as advertising & marketing, printing, building and property maintenance, vehicle maintenance, health care and travel can all be purchased through Carolina Barter.
WouldnÂ't you rather purchase these items with new sales as opposed to your hard earned cash? Now you can with Carolina Barter.
Back To TopOffice equipment and supplies are an essential component for every business and the competition in the office equipment and supply industry is intense. In an industry dominated by corporate behemoths, independent vendors are forced to offer steep discounts and/or deplete their already limited advertising and marketing budgets in an attempt to acquire new and repeat business.
Carolina Barter guarantees to bring you new, incremental business, business that you would likely not have received if not for Carolina Barter. In addition, as a Carolina Barter client you have the opportunity to sell your products and services at prevailing retail prices, which provide you a wholesale purchasing power when making purchases of some of your most common overhead expenses.
Also, Carolina Barter Members will provide you with repeat business, as they understand that each purchase they make through Carolina Barter seeds a future new sale for their business.
The new revenue that you receive from Carolina Barter can be used on business and personal expenses such as advertising & marketing, vehicle repair, property and building maintenance, industrial equipment, entertainment, heath care and travel.
By establishing a strategic partnership with Carolina Barter, you will gain additional new business, lower your overhead, improve your cash flow and increase your cash profits.
Back To TopDonating to charitable organizations is a meaningful way for Members to use their trade dollars. In fact, due to the sheer number of non-profit organizations, most charities today are currently under funded.
Due to difficult economic conditions and the pressure of managing their own financial obligations, most people are not able to be as generous with their cash donations as their hearts may wish. Using trade dollars to merge the "need" with "good intentions" creates a win-win-win situation.
In the U.S. trade dollar contributions are treated in the same manner as cash contributions which result in a tax deduction for the individual or company making the donations, which provides an additional incentive to give generously.
Having viable charitable organizations as part of Carolina Barter adds "depth" to our trading options for Members, enables the charitable organization an additional source of purchasing power and creates additional goodwill worldwide.
Back To TopFor many individuals and families, pets play an integral part in family life and their health and well-being is just as significant as a child or other family member. However, the expense to simply maintain pets, much less provide routine or emergency procedures, can be financially burdensome.
As a business owner or professional in the animal and pet industry, wouldn't it be nice to have a competitive edge in the marketplace? Now you can!
When you become a Carolina Barter client, other Members will look to do business with you first because they understand that you accept Carolina Barter as a form of payment, and each purchase they make through Carolina Barter seeds a future new sale for their business.
In fact, Carolina Barter guarantees its Members will receive new customers or patients even from areas where you are not currently acquiring them, because Carolina Barter Members will go the extra mile to do business with you, as opposed to your competition.
In return for your idle inventory or underutilized time, you can now use this new additional revenue on common overhead expenses such as advertising & marketing, printing, building and property maintenance, health care and employee incentives.
In other words, by bartering your products and services, you can now acquire your business and personal needs with trade and keep your cash in the bank.
Back To TopWhether you are a quick printer or have web presses or any specialty in between, idle press time reduces your profits. Carolina Barter enables you to maximize your investments in equipment and staff by keeping your operation running at full capacity.
Participation in Carolina Barter's barter exchange guarantees to bring you new customers. This new business is more profitable business as the additional revenue generated from that new trade business is utilized to offset your overhead expenses. Carolina Barter becomes your marketing partner to boost your sales and assist you in customer retention.
The additional revenue that Carolina Barter Members represent enables you run a more profitable operation by reducing your need to pay cash for overhead expenses, driving new customers to your business and ultimately increasing cash profits.
Common uses of barter income include: marketing & advertising, janitorial services & supplies, delivery services, building and property maintenance, graphic designers, writers, professional services, vehicle maintenance, shelving and many more products and services that are purchased with your new trade revenue rather than cash.
Back To TopCarolina Barter knows your time is money. Our barter professionals know maximizing your billable hours is the key to maintaining a profitable business. Our vast barter network enables Carolina Barter to expand your client base and give you a competitive edge in the marketplace.
Are you looking for additional Members? If so, then Carolina Barter guarantees to bring you new Members, Members you may never have obtained without the services of Carolina Barter. In addition, Carolina Barter can assist you in retaining existing Members as well as developing and implementing marketing programs designed to improve your bottom line.
The new Members you receive from Carolina Barter represent more profitable business as you are able to utilize the barter income generated from Carolina Barter to replace common overhead expenses for which you are currently using cash to purchase or doing without.
Advertising & marketing, printing, property & building maintenance, office furniture, health care, and technology are just a few ways to use your trade income.
Back To TopWhether you are in roofing, asphalt paving, plumbing, electrical, janitorial services, remodeling or any service industry, your challenge is keeping your schedule full and generating income. Carolina Barter recognizes that idle time is lost revenue.
As a Carolina Barter client you will work closely with our barter professionals to assist you in generating steady income and growth by utilizing the resources barter provides: new sales, turning excess time for billable hours, keeping your staff busy and more productive.
As a Carolina Barter client you are able to use the revenue generated from your new Carolina Barter customers into additional advertising and marketing opportunities targeted at attracting new cash business. Advertising is just one way to utilize trade income. Printing, professional services, vehicle maintenance, signage, uniforms, health care, customer and employee benefits are just a few additional ways you are able to turn "down time" into new found revenue.
Understanding the importance of word-of-mouth advertising in the residential/commercial services industry, Carolina Barter not only provides you with trade business, but chances are you will receive a tremendous amount of cash referral business from the services provided to our Members.
Back To TopRetailers in todayÂ's marketplace face competition not only from other independent local retailers, but also corporate big box stores. The competitive nature of the retail business forces business owners to either stretch their advertising and marketing budgets and/or to offer discounts and incentives to attract new customers.
As a Carolina Barter client you add a powerful marketing arm to your company which guarantees to bring you new customers in addition to providing an avenue for you to move your idle inventory.
In the retail environment, business owners have a bevy of ongoing overhead expenses such as advertising & marketing, printing, building & property maintenance, health care and employee incentives.
As a Carolina Barter client you can cover most of your business and personal expenditures using revenue generated from new trade sales as opposed depleting your cash resources, thus improving your business cash flow and increasing your cash profits.
Back To TopHow Barter Works For Technology
Technology is continually changing the way we work and live. Carolina Barter bridges the gap between your need to distinguish yourself from the competition and having limited marketing and financial resources to get the job done.
Trading through Carolina Barter's vast barter network assists you in reaching new Members, makes your business more visible in the marketplace and increases your billable hours resulting in growth for your company.
Furthermore, as a Carolina Barter client you are able to purchase products and services with the trade revenue generated from that additional business to offset many of your overhead expenses such as advertising & marketing, advertising specialties, professional services, printing, health care, office equipment and much more.
New sales, client retention, and reduced overhead costs all result in a marketing strategy designed to increase your profits as a Carolina Barter client.
Back To TopAn empty hotel room, timeshare, or airplane seat is revenue lost forever. Your overhead expenses continue however; there is no going back and making up that void or reclaiming that lost income. Carolina Barter's barter professionals assist you in maintaining maximum occupancy without resorting to deep discounting.
As a Carolina Barter client you are able to turn empty space into valuable purchasing power. Our Carolina Barter Members travel for both business and leisure which will provide you with the additional financial resources you need to do advertising & marketing campaigns designed to bring in new customers, property and building maintenance, printing, as well as incentive and benefit programs for your employees.
Back To TopToday at a banquet of NABA members in Chicago, Research Director Shirley McBride announced that a new barter record of almost $36 Billion was set in North America...