How To Join

Business Owner or Manager:

This is to introduce you to the North Louisiana Trade Exchange.  We have been in business in the Monroe/West Monroe area for the past 16 years.  It is a network with over 180 local businesses who barter or trade their good and/or services with each other.  Instead of spending cash for items you want or need for your business or for yourself, you trade what you do for what you want.  As you can see from the enclosed list, we have a huge variety of businesses to choose from.  There is advertising with radio and television stations, printing companies, doctors, lawyers, accountants, dry cleaners, gift shops, and on and on.  You can get your vehicles oil changed and washed.   We also have restaurants where you can take potential clients or customers out to eat and pay for it with your trade dollars instead of cash. 

Outside of the local business for you to trade with, we are members of other exchanges all over the nation.  You can purchase travel with trade dollars instead of cash.  We have hotel, condos, bed & breakfast, rental cars and restaurants almost anywhere you want to go.   Virtually anything you can buy with cash is available for trade. 

Joining our trade exchange is easy.  A one-time membership fee of $300 is required to join.  But, we give you $300 in trade dollars to spend immediately.  It’s like getting the membership FREE.  The only other cash fees you ever pay is 10% of what you purchase through the trade exchange.  Let’s say you buy $1000 in advertising or printing.  You don’t pay them any cash.  You pay the exchange $100 (10%) for $1000 in advertising or whatever you buy.  Which had you rather pay?  $100 or $1000?  Now you can see why you should join.  We help you to conserve cash while spending the COST of your product or service to buy things you need. For example,  if your product cost is 50% of your retail price, then the $1000 in advertising you bought actually cost you $500.  Counting the $100 cash due the exchange, you saved $400 on that one transaction.  

Every business has traded what they have for things they needed at some time.  But, have you really gotten your money’s worth from them?  This is an organized way to see that you do.  And, what if they go out of business?  You still have your trade dollars as a member of our exchange.  One-on-one trades are great, as long as both sides need what the other business has to offer and in the same amount.  If they don’t, that is where our exchange is better than one-on-one trading.  You don’t have to trade with someone that trades with you.  You can spend your trade dollars with anyone in the exchange. 

So give me a call at 327-7555.  Let’s meet and talk about the possibility of you taking advantage of all these opportunities for your business.  Thanks for your time.

Roger Crawley