How brands get free promotion on Help Barter

Advertising is expensive, and for a small brand it often does not pay back. Help Barter is built around trading rather than paying, which opens up several ways to promote a brand for free.

Business Cross-Promotion: partners, not ad spend

Business Cross-Promotion pairs businesses that want to promote each other. A café and a bookshop, a yoga teacher and a health-food store, a photographer and a wedding planner.

• It costs nothing to take part. You need a live Business Listing, and putting your card on the board is free.
• You set the terms: promote each other (mutual), or have somebody promote you for a commission or fee (single side).
• The terms are frozen once both sides press Start partnership, so nobody can change the deal later.
• Everything is on the record. Each promotion, sale or payment is recorded and confirmed by the other side, and contests stay on a public track record.

No money passes through Help Barter. The promotion happens on your social media and your customers buy in your own shop.

Group Rotation Works: an engagement circle every day

Join or start a group of people who all want engagement. Each day every member posts one task — "like and comment on my latest post", "share my launch" — and everyone does everyone else's. Groups of five or more earn Time Coins for every completed rotation, so the people in your circle are paid to help you.

Help from members, paid in time

Need a logo refresh, product descriptions, or a second opinion on your packaging? Ask for it on Ask for Help and pay in Time Coins you earn by helping others.

Be visible where people look

When you are ready to spend, the store has listings and adverts at prices far below social media ads — and Premium and Elite members receive Store Coins every month to spend on them.

Read the Business Cross-Promotion guide to get started.