Keep Your Top Employees & Customers

With an IMS Barter account, you can sidestep the usual sizable cash investment when creating the benefits pack­age because you have an option­—barter. Consult with your broker and do a little brainstorming as to the numerous creative opportuni­ties available to you through the exchange for packaging an employee benefits program.

Benefits Program: Holiday bonuses, dental plans, legal ser­vices—all but a few of the employees' benefits can be offered in trade dollars. Reward your employees around the holidays for a job well done by a gift of trade dol­lars. Set up a dental program for your employees and their families, and pay for it with trade units. Give employees legal service cov­erage through prepaid legal ser­vices premiums acquired with trade dollars.

Participation Program: You can give your employees discounts on all purchases. You pay the trade dollars and collect the discounted cash amount from employees.

Incentive Program: As an incentive to increase productivity, trade units or goods or services purchased with trade dollars can be offered to employees as a reward.

Combination Program: Combine all three programs to obtain a maximum incentive program for your staff and the extra bonus to you of improved production.

Contest Prizes: Using your trade dollars, purchase prizes or other appealing items with savings to you for use in such competitions as Best Sales, Cost-Containment Ideas, or Safety Record. There are many con­test promotions that can be put together using trade dollars to supply the rewards.

Holiday Giving: Thousands of dollars are spent during the hol­idays by businesses to purchase gifts for customers. Using trade dollars for holiday gifts, as well as other types of gifts throughout the year, will help save your cash reserves for other uses. Some suggestions include corporate logoed items, luxury goods, gift boxes, IMS gift cards, gift certificates and much more. Let your clients know you appreciate their business with a gift from IMS Barter.