Tom McDowell’s Barter Blog

Other than restaurants, do you set any geographic limitations on the numbers of businesses in any one category that you’ll allow membership to?

We do watch the geographic areas of our clients to some extent. For instance, you don’t want a service station on each corner. Otherwise, you’ve taken these people who already compete with each other in the cash economy and pitted them against each other in the trade economy. Avoid taking regionalized businesses and putting them back-to-back. You’ve got to be able to offer them enough new business to make it worth their while to join your exchange.

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