How do you handle small service businesses such as restaurants, dry cleaners and beauty shops?
(A) One of our clients, an Italian restaurant with three outlets, ordered $25,000 in scrip – 1,000 certificates at $25 each. We made a profit on the printing which, in this case, we took out in restaurant scrip for our personal use. Whenever we make trade purchases for the restaurant (carpet cleaning, plumbing service, advertising, flowers and printing) payments are made with scrip and we receive a 12% cash fee. Back to Top 13. (Q) What’s your sales presentation? (A) I hand the prospect my business card and the PTD brochure. I have the Portfolio with me and introduce myself as a Professional Barter BrokerT in the Private Trade Dollar System. “We are specialists in identifying under-performing or vanishing resources of a business and converting them to cash by utilizing them to pay for a variety of your purchases.” I ask the prospect to take a look at the typical size of the vanishing inventories we are finding. It contains the following: Businesses that are losing $50,000 to $100,000+