How a Barter works...

Your product or service value is "banked" toward the creation or maintenance of a website.  The value of both services (mine & yours) is set and agreed upon by both parties.  With this "value" you and I will "pay" for the hours needed to create the website you desire or I to get the services you are bartering, just as if you were paying for it in dollars. 

It's that simple.  The barter contract spells out each parties responsibility and any terms or conditions to the barter...for example if you are offering eye glasses it may or may not include the exam, type of lenses & frame, when delivered in exchange for say a Flash website of 12 pages, hosted with a domain name for one year, created with 10 hours of labor in 2 months time.

Of course, every barter will be different, but that's the beauty of it - it's flexible enough to meet everyone's needs.  I get what I need and you get a state of the art, brand spankin' new website you might not be able to afford otherwise. 

Items I would consider in barter for web services:

  • Small fuel-efficient car in good mechanical condition no older than 2004

  • Optical services (exam & glasses)

  • Freshly butchered meats or poultry

  • Large diesel generator 6500 watt or more

  •  College Classes at a nearby university

  • Fuel Credit (Gasoline)

  • Local Veterinary services

  • Restaurant Meals (local)

  • Many many things too numerous to mention!

We reserve the right to decline services or products we have no need or use for.  In that case we would still be glad to do a website for you the "normal" way - using cash or credit cards....

 

 

Barter for a Website? Why not?

Bartering is not negotiating! Bartering is trading one valued service(s) or product(s) for another. In essence, bartering is simply buying or paying for goods or services using something other than money (coins or government printed paper dollars).

Bartering has been around much longer than money as we know it today. It's so easy a cave man did it! Recent estimates indicate that at least 60 percent of companies on the NYSE  use the principles of bartering as a standard business practice.  Aircraft manufacturers barter with foreign airlines in order to close sales on million dollar contracts. Perhaps you have experienced at one time or another in your life a friend saying, "Okay, that's one you owe me..." which is basically bartering.

The reason bartering enjoys renewed popularity in times of tight money is simply that it is the "bottom-line" method of survival with little or no cash. You don't need credit cards or cash to barter. In a bad economy, cash in anyone's pocket is indeed a very precious commodity, and bartering is even more popular. Bartering affords both the individual and the established business a way to hold onto cash while continuing to get needed goods and services.  It's also an ideal way for businesses to obtain goods and services from other businesses. 

If you have a service or commodity you think we might be useful to us, I may be willing to barter a website for it.  No guarantee that it's something I'll want, but it doesn't hurt to ask.  The size and complexity of the website will be in proportion to what you offer.  A typical e-commerce website can run anywhere from $2,000 to $10,000 depending on the number of products and site requirements and requires a high degree of skill and time to build it. Typically a trade is done on a dollar for dollar value, though we will occasionally barter for partial payments.  We will not barter for something we don't need or want.  Period.

To obtain bartered web services, you will need to let me know just what you plan to barter and once services or goods are delivered, the amount of that service is banked toward building your website.  If you get carried away and go beyond the bartered amount that is "banked", you will be responsible for anything extra in cash or additional bartered goods.  Just because it's bartered, doesn't mean you have carte blanche and can go overboard - you will get a website comparable to the goods you barter.   We do require a barter contract and you will may have to pay sales tax on any services you get, even if they are "free" according to the IRS.  How you delcare this is up to you. 

We think everyone should be able to grow their business - even small cash-strapped companies.  A presence on the web is the perfect place to increase your visability and provide great customer service.  If you have a product or service we can use, it won't "cost" you anything except your time or that product.  How cool is that?