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Bob Baga

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
145 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

So we have a community of businesses that are all are able to buy and sell amongst each other.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

And rather than using us dollars, they use biz X currency biz X dollars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

Why would they do that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

The reason why they do that is that they're saving cash.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

And so, uh, you might have a restaurant tour.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

He needs $10,000 of the plumbing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

He has a choice.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

He can write a check or he can pay for it with $10,000 worth of new food sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

And so for him, it's only costing him his incremental cost, which is about 30 cents on the dollar.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

And so based on an average incremental cost of about 50%, that's $700 million in transactions represents about $300 million in actual cash saved to our members.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

Well, bartering is interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

Bartering is you and me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

There's two people one to one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

And the problem with bartering is that you both have to have what each other want at the same time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

How do you keep track of it all?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

How do you invoice it, take care of taxes?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

And what happens if one guy...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

you know, screws you on the other end or flakes out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

With this, it's actually what we've done is taken all the benefits, the economic benefits of barter and created a liquid currency.

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