Media/Advertising companies take advantage of the services provided by the American Trade Cooperative to increase business, cash flow and profits.

All companies must meet the following qualifications to be admitted to the Cooperative:

          1.  Be well established and creditworthy

2.  Have unused and unsold capacity and a desire to increase sales by providing services to

3.  Have use for goods and services provided by other members of the Cooperative

The unique feature of the cooperative is that it facilitates transactions using a Mutual Credit System, meaning that purchases and sales (additional advertising business) are paid for using a combination of the national currency, the American Dollar, and Trade Credits issued by the Cooperative. The Cooperative also extends credit to qualified participants.

          •   Members must be able to “earn” Trade Credits by selling goods and services to other

          •   Members must be able to “spend” Trade Credits by buying goods and services from

Example:

The publisher of magazine that publishes, on a monthly basis, a 75-page magazine will have a nominal cost of adding pages, sold on a part-cash, part-trade credit basis, to Cooperative members and the incremental cost of making those sales will be limited to the direct cost of providing those additional pages because the operational expenses are fully paid by the cash sales.

Therefore, the publisher can sell additional pages for as little as 50% cash and 50% trade credit, cover its cost and the rest is positive cash flow and when the company uses the 50% in trade credits, together with cash, to pay for goods and services from vendors, also members of the Cooperative, those savings add directly to the bottom line of the business. (Note: This method has been used by advertising providers effectively for over 30 years in Switzerland).  

Examples of Products and Services available from Suppliers members of the American Trade Cooperative:

          Paper, Ink and other product needed in the publishing business

Goods and services provided by outside contractors

Machines, Equipment, etc.

Maintenance and other services provided by contractors

          Business Services

          Real Estate investments

                    and more….