Gather Success – Barter Exchange Event
In business it always not good to work alone but to always find ways to network with others to expand your business. Just recently, my partner and I had decided to join the BarterXChange Network.
What is BarterXChange?
When you sign up with them, you will be given credits of up to 2,000 credits ( 1 credit = SGD$1.00 ). What you can do with these points is to redeem stuff in the BarterXChange network or over 6,000+ services to choose from.
The good thing about this system, if you are in business you can actually trade your products for Barter points to claim other services like printing and advertising in return. One good example how I used Barter would be using the credits to print my namecards or even do advertisements on the newspaper all on Barter.
So instead of me coming out cash, I use my products in exchange for points to claim these services. On top of the services they provide they also give us opportunities to setup booths at events.
Here are some photos of the recent BarterXChange Event held at the Art House
Me & My New Stand =)
My Pretty Partners And Helpers =)
The Traffic Mastery Booth
Picture Of The Crowd At The Event
So what we were doing there was actually to offer my course on full barter to allow others to experience about my workshop. We had 3 sits up for barter and guess what all were taken up quite fast =P
There were even food and ice cream given out in the event for free and guess what they are also on barter too! A few of us actually managed to even bought boxes of ice cream home for free at the end of the event.. keke.
Anyway another motive that I was there was not only to expose my business to others but also try to find joint venture partners or business man who are interested to work together with me.
Just look at the number of new contacts I got =)
And these contacts are not small people, they are all founders and directors of their companies. When my friends ask me how come I got so much lobang that’s because I know how to get the right people to work with me =)
So that’s a tip for you, always go to events like these to network around to get more contacts to build your business. For more information about BarterXchange and you go to http://www.barterxchange.com to find out more.
Hi Alvin,
Thanks for checking it out. Actually 100 over people voted already. And comments is that after they click the register button, they don’t really follow the steps in the page anymore. So i doubt breaking it up into 3 pages will be any different.
Ahh yes for total strangers I will probably not get votes. The free gift halfway done and will be released as a WSO pretty soon. =)
Regards,
Alvin Huang
Alvin.. I check out your voting page.. and I suggest you break down the step 1 to step 3 to 3 separate pages..
Also.. people like us will be too lazy to go through so much trouble to vote you… you would want to give a free gift to attract them =)
Congrats Alvin on the tie up.
Bartering is one of the strategies that Jay Abraham listed out in his book “Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got” that you were talking about the other day. Though of course he listed out more advanced strategies. For the rest who have not read it, its a must read. You can get the 1st chapter free from http://www.abraham.com/products/index.html (not aff link), Singaporeans can get it from the Success Bookshop at Penisula Plaza.
What I heard about BarterXchange was that there seemed to be not many valuable services/products to be exchanged for. But of course that was 2-3 years back. Nonetheless they are still the biggest bartering organization in Singapore.
By the way Alvin, if you have a minute to spare. Appreciate it if you could vote for me at http://www.alvinhuang.com/vote , I’m running for some entrepreneur award and need all the support I can get. =)
Regards,
Alvin Huang