20 Aug 2018
In my interview with Tamara, she had also asked me what first made me interested in bartering. Well, my earliest memory of bartering was doing
an “egg drive” to raise funds for something at primary school.
I would go to my neighbours and ask them for
a donation, or an egg. If they gave me
an egg, I would go the next house and ask them to buy the egg or make a
donation of another egg. And so on,
often selling the eggs when I had a half dozen.
And then I would start again asking for one egg.
I also explained how I have used what I learnt from onematchstick
in my coaching practice.
For attending my
training courses, I’ve bartered with clients cash for covering expenses like
printing and venue costs, and then bartered for the persons services for the
rest of the training costs.
I have also applied
what I learnt when I did what I called “three-ways” to my business. For an explanation of three-ways see here.
How I applied this was
there was a stage a few years ago where I need to upgrade my website for Inner Coaching, and I got a quote from my previous website developers.
I started saving up for this, and while doing
that I also asked my website guys if they would consider bartering for the site
(my first ever website I traded coaching for the founder of the company, for my
website, so I knew they would be open to bartering).
They didn’t need any coaching or training at
that time, so I asked them what they did need.
They said they wanted a year’s listing on a prominent PR website.
So I
contacted the founder of that PR website, and offered them coaching or training
for one of their packages. They didn’t
have a need then either for coaching, and so after asking them what they did
need, they said it was their company’s birthday celebrations soon, and they
wanted prizes to give away to their readers.
At that time, Nick who I trade with, the trade of the books for the Strandveld wine, asked me to teach him more about social media, and he’d barter wine for my lessons.
I convinced him to offer me many cases
of Strandveld wine for the lessons and social media consulting, which I then
offered to the PR website for their prizes.
They then offered in exchange
the year package, which I gave to the website developers, and they in turn gave
me a new website for Inner Coaching. And
a 4-way trade was done. Voila!
Anyway, check out page 62 in the GIBS Magazine, and let me know if you would use trading and bartering
in your business. Would you?
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