Partner's One, Inc. is an association created by its Members, for its Members, with the purpose of providing business owners with opportunities to increase business and profits through managed trading.

The economic slowdown has meant that many businesses and individuals are having to get creative to stay afloat. An increasing number are turning to a mode of trade that's ancient - Bartering!

In a cash society the level of business is dependant on the flow of national currency. In times of recession cash is hard to come by. A decrease in the money available does not mean that there are not products and services on offer, simply that there is not enough cash available for people to make purchases. Barter can resolve this issue as it is wealth created by the trading of goods or services.

Find new customers or clients. It's that simple. When you Trade with Partners, you can turn your inventory or staff time directly into buying power to Trade for some products or services for which you are currently paying cash. In the process, you can boost sales, acquire important assets or get perks for yourself and your staff that you're unable to budget. Simply put, trade what you have for what you need.

Trade Idle Resources—Obtain Vital Assets.
Extra inventory? Unused staff time? When you Trade with Partners, you use what you already have to get what you need. Partners is not traditional, one-to-one barter. Instead, it's a vast community of local businesses connected online to exchange goods and services. When you sell to one business, you can buy from your choice of hundreds of others on the exchange with the guarantee that your dollars will be returned to you.

Save Cash and Increase Profits.
Strapped for cash? All businesses—especially smaller and newer ones—go through periods of tight liquidity. But With Partners, you can sell idle inventory or staff time at full retail value. With the Trade Dollars you earn, you can make the investments necessary to grow your business, even when cash reserves are low. And through organized Trading, you can reduce discounting and waste.

Win New Customers and Boost Sales.
With Partners, you gain online exposure and attract new clients with minimal investment. Listings put you in touch with tens of thousands of businesses across the nation. And Partners can help bring you new business over and above your current cash business. Of course, down the line you can turn your new Trade customers into repeat customers. You can even Trade to get the advertising space or marketing services you need to increase your cash business.

Barter—the oldest form of commerce—is also the newest, smartest way of doing business. Estimates are that, in the U.S. alone, more than 450,000 companies engage in barter—for a total of $16 billion in annual sales. About 65% of Fortune 500 companies regularly barter their products and services.

With the advent of the Internet, barter is exploding. Predictions are that within a decade, 1.2 million North American businesses will engage in barter, with receipts topping $30 billion a year. And we believe that figure is conservative. As the Internet breaks down international barriers, businesses can gain access to an international barter market that already totals $64 billion annually, according to the Wall Street Journal. When you include countertrade—barter between governments as well as multinational corporations—annual sales could reach into the trillions of dollars.

Bartering has always made great business sense.
It can save cash, net full value for idle goods and services and significantly expand your customer or client base. But in the past, there was a drawback—some businesses struggled to find trading partners whose needs exactly matched their own.

No longer. With Partners, you don't have to find a "one-to-one" trading partner. Instead, you can trade what you have to get exactly what you need.

Here's how it works.
After joining Partners, let's say you need advertising for your printing company. An accountant wants letter head stationary and purchases printing from your company through Partners. Now you can use the Trade Dollars from the sale of your services to buy anything available through Partners—including, of course, the advertising you've been needing. Simply search among the listings of businesses with Partners to find the product or services you want. Present your PartnersOne Barter Card and make your purchase—in Trade Dollars!