As I said before, I have experementing in trading services for services.  In the last week I have made two more successful trades.

Trade 1.

A guy had a new computer he built that was over heating, he also had 7 used computers that did not really work.  He wanted to have his computer work right and have more software, he only needed one other working computer.   What I did was trade in his 7 used computers and I gave him the nicest of all the used computers that we had.  I then rebuilt his old computer in a new case, his over heating was due to not having a case with a side fan.  I also added a used hard drive and gave him some of my files.  On top of trading in his old computers he also did a tune-up on my AC, he put 18 shingles on my roof in places where the wind blew them away and he removed 14 bags worth of grass from my back yard.  He was very happy to have the computers working and the software I gave him, I was very happy to get the jobs done.  On a even happier note two of the used computers he traded in were actuall better than the one we gave him, they just needed to have all the wires connected correctly on the inside and the OS reinstalled.

Trade 2

I pool guy called me, from Az Pool Care.  He is the owner and needed a website, he will have a basic site but with a shopping cart that can hold a few hundred items.  He is going to write all of the text and also input all the items into the cart.  I just need to do the rest, including finding a flash guy to make his logo animated.  For doing all of this, he drianed my pool, cleaned it, acid washed it, removed the sand from the filter and put in new sand, and is giving me a new cleaning machine that moves around and cleans the system, he then will put in all the start up chemicals.  He gets about a $1,500 website and I get about $1,500 in pool care.  Good trade for both of us again.  If you need pool care then call him.

Both of these trades are done on my end, on the second trade I am still waiting for content before I can fix it all.

For any business I think that trading can get you new clients and help you buy things you would not have otherwise.