1. Join a Barter Network. Entrepreneur Barrett Ersek needed a booth for trade shows. As a member of Atlantic Barter in Wilmington, Del., he traded in $5,000 worth of broken-down trailers from his Happy Lawn business to an outfit that wanted to fix and sell them. He applied that $5,000 in bartering dollars to another member’s $7,500 display booth; Atlantic Barter made up the difference, which Ersek will pay back by contributing other unwanted items to the network. “This is a great way to conserve cash,” says Ersek, who adds that Happy Lawn’s bartering totals $250,000 a year.
See the full story at http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/04/smallbusiness/companies_banks_borrowing.fortune/index.htm
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