Usually, there is membership fee to join an exchange. individuals, companies, and corporations, can join ICU trial membership and have a free listing in our members directory. You can obtain additional advertising space in the directory with your full membership and have full access to our online members directory.
ICU Gold Membership includes one custom web page in our members directory, and access to members directory for one year for only $300.00. Advertising Banners for can be displayed for only $15.00 per thousand exposures. Banner Creation $40.00 per banner. ICU Silver Membership includes access to members directory for one year for $150.00.
Bartering Exchanges, barter organizations, barter companies, barter dealers, barter auctioneers, can register with a reciprocal membership/trade agreement with ICU Barter & Trade Exchange. We will also list your homepage free of charge. Your membership also includes free listings of your "Available" products and "Wanted" products. If you do not have a homepage, one can be created for you for a fee, in cash or acceptable trade.
Our exchange eliminates the necessity of one-on-one trading where each business must want what the other business has to offer. ICU uses trade dollars, to handle all transactions. If one business trades $1,000 worth of advertising to another client, they receive $1,000 in trade dollars which it can use to purchase what it needs from other exchange clients.
ICU charges a small fee in cash or acceptable trade per
transaction to cover accounting and record keeping. Additional services
are available for marketing and promotions.
Internet bartering members will be able to search the
directory, by product category, to locate products and services of interest.
Barters will have the ability to make contact with other barter members
through Email or directly by telephone.
What are the advantages of bartering?
Barter conserves cash. Say you have twenty vacant hotel
rooms at $100/night and you need a new computer priced at $2,000. Barter
provides a way in which you can buy your computer, fill your empty rooms
(at your cost on the rooms) and keep your cash. . Barter allows you to
buy what you need and pay for it with otherwise unsold products and services,
without the use of cash.
Barter produces new business! Barter allows you to expand your market while you keep your cash-paying customers!
Barter provides a competitive edge. Barter clients are new clients that bypass competing companies to do business with you while you keep your existing cash clients.
Barter is a particularly good way to put idle equipment and employees to work at no additional cost to you.
You can
join ICU today,
have
your website listed in our directory for free,
place free ads in
our forum
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