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Executive Summary

NuBarter, “A new Twist on an Old Idea,” provides both individuals and companies with the ability to successfully buy and sell goods and services using trade credits. Established September 2006, NuBarter is on course to become one of the largest and most successful barter companies in the United States within the next 24 months. Members enjoy access to NuBarter’s online exchange listings and their local trade brokers to quickly solve their business or personal needs.

No Cash, No Problem. NuBarter has really reinvented an ancient custom in the Internet age, allowing businesses to utilize their excess capacity to barter products and services and greatly reduce their capital outlay from essential staples to desired luxuries.

We provide our customers with a trading platform and bookkeeping system allowing them to easily find and trade for the goods and services they need or desire.

NuBarter provides an alternative form of currency, allowing members access to credit otherwise not available in the market.

Through the combined efforts of exchanges like NuBarter that comprise the modern trade and barter industry, we are saving existing jobs and creating additional employment by lending credits to small and medium-size businesses. These loans provide significant capital for business that have lent to growth of the economy and added employment.

Value Proposition

Quite dramatically, NuBarter’s member companies are able to increase their business by 10% to 20% by embracing the barter process.

NuBarter itself is able to generate significant profits from members who pay a minimal 10% cash transactional charge when they make a barter purchase. NuBarter members also pay an initial membership fee of $395, and a recurring $15 monthly maintenance fee to maintain their membership status.

Our profit potential and growth is also driven by selling geographically based sales territories. These licensees manage and develop our new territories allowing corporate to focus on finding investors for additional new territories.

NuBarter is able to deliver to our customers unsurpassed customer service and a quality, efficient barter transaction. Our key focus on customer relations drives us to determine, through our sales representatives and licensees, our customers’ needs and desires, and act on them diligently, meeting and exceeding their expectations. NuBarter also has a core focus on technology as an enabler and delivers its services utilizing the latest in bartering Web site technology.

Size of the Potential Market

NuBarter’s goal, to help companies worldwide to operate at full capacity, allows us to compete in the $65 billion Worldwide Barter Industry. NuBarter’s potential marketplace is virtually unlimited with the worldwide GDP of $69.49 trillion. NuBarter has the opportunity to become a major influence in the world economy.

Bartering share of the total world market is increasing daily, as the true facilitator, the Internet, allows customers around the world the opportunity to use their excess capacity as a viable alternative to hard-to-find credit.

Competitive Summary

Our two key competitors are:

ITEX, the Membership Trading Community.

• A leading nationwide bartering network across the U.S. and Canada.
• Publicly traded company, based in Bellevue, Wash.
• Over 24,000 bartering business members.
• City-based franchise barter brokers in Alabama, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Quebec, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington.
• Retail and corporate barter.

International Monetary Systems (IMS)

• Large full-service, membership-based trading network in business for 25 years.
• Publicly traded company based in New Berlin, Wis.
• Over 17,000 bartering business members.
• Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Wisconsin.
• Retail and corporate barter.

While NuBarter’s key focus is on delivering a high level of quality service to its own customers that will guarantee their repeat business, due to the nature of the industry, NuBarter also focuses on collaborating with its competitors through the structure and rigor of the International Reciprocal Trade Association (IRTA). This allows us to deliver to our customers a universal method to barter products and services across other companies’ barter networks.

Delivering Prize Impact

Our plan to use the Forbes “Boost Your Business 2009″ contest prize money is to expand our barter network into key target markets. We have carefully targeted key markets where we have identified ease of entry and high compatibility with our existing territories.

Our new key target markets are:
1. Atlanta and its suburbs.
2. Jacksonville, Fla., and its suburbs.
3. Tampa and St. Petersburg, Fla., and their suburbs.

In each of these markets, we are going to actively seek quality-driven individuals to license our new territories, and combine this with a targeted campaign to raise market awareness of our services in these geographical areas.

Our market awareness efforts will focus on:
1. Industry exhibitions, local business conventions and franchise trade shows.
2. Newly enhanced customer and prospect training and education processes.
3. Targeted online marketing and coordinated print marketing campaigns.

We will also improve customer experience and competitive advantage by implementing trade credit cards, which will allow our members to quickly process secure transactions using “swipe and go” technology among participating barter businesses.