Seems that in this economy, or maybe just coincidentally, I've been getting a lot more requests to do work on trade than usual.
It basically burns down to us paying our cost in exchange for items we may use/want/need. I received a new motor for my car recently on trade. We've recently been approached by a local ski resort and are finding that while our desire to work with them is very large... We will be losing about 500-800 bucks when it's all said and done. However, we get to advertise on the back of some of the products they want and we get to ski for free this season.
I wish I were a bigger company and had employees I could give tickets to as gifts or something. It just seems like we're too small to make this valuable.
There's greater incentive too - I have some ideas I've been wanting to pitch to this exact resort for some time now. I think the best "shoe in the door" I could get would be starting out taking some print jobs for the mountain.
We're probably not going to be able to take over their printing entirely, as they've been with their current people for a really long time and are happy with them, but I'm torn here... I would love to do it, but I don't know how/if we can afford it. It's somewhat of a gamble but it might really pay off.
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