Bartercard Essex UK Franchise Resale - Business Opportunities UK - Find a business opportunity in the UK

Franchise Re-sale opportunity!
Existing established business opportunities outlet available for purchase in Essex......

Service Offered...

Bartercard is the largest worldwide trade exchange and has over 100 offices in 9 countires. We facilitate the trading between member companies using our Barter Exchange platform. This involves promoting members products / services for sale and sourcing purchases they want to make using their trade pounds.

Essential Skills...

A Bartercard business opportunities is essentially a sales and marketing operation therefore the skills required to successfully run, manage and grow a brokerage would include:-

• Running a trading team.
• Recruiting and retaining a sales team
• Organising member events
• Multi tasking and problem solving.

Daily Tasks in running a franchise...

A business opportunities has two distinctive operations – Direct selling of the membership and Account management (trading). The daily tasks would vary depending on which side of the operation your focus is, however the broad tasks would include:-

• Recruiting and retaining a team of 3 field sales people.
• Conducting some field sales appointments with your sales people to maintain skills.
• Manage a team of 1 account manager in the office for each 120 members your brokerage manages.
• Organise and run bi-monthly networking events and twice yearly trade shows for your members.
• Create a positive atmosphere and instil a ‘can do’ attitude in your team.

Support and Training Provided...

The franchisor conducts initial broker training which is residential for one week and then arms length training. Also provided by the franchisor are administrator training, sales training and Trade Co-ordinator training.

A national training conference is organised twice yearly by the franchisor plus an international conference for qualifying sales personnel.

The USP of Bartercard...

A client member of Bartercard is offered an interest free line of credit (up to £50,000) to spend within the network and Bartercard guarantees to introduce new customers to cover the cost of the spending. This improves cashflow, increases the sales line and enhances the profits. The Bartercard facility is the most refined Barter facility in the world, can be used in 9 different countries, runs through EPOS machines and is fully accountable therefore can by used for capital and real estate purchases.

Testimonials about Bartercard can be obtained from the following franchisees by completing the form below:-

Neil Slinn of Bartercard Northampton
Sharon Cook of Bartercard London West and south West
Brian Whitford of Bartercard Central Counties
Chris Bradley of Bartercard York

Financial Investment...

The business opportunities is for sale at £110,000 and a further £10,000 - £15,000 of working capital to cover some office set up costs however this is an established area therefore trading and billing activity would occur from day one.

Please note that this business opportunities opportunity conforms to the BERR Lending scheme therefore if you do not have equity to cover finance this should be available via the scheme.