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How To Turn Your Spare Capacity Into Cash
More and more businesses and society as a whole are looking
for ways to use the assets and resources available to them more
efficiently. This is probably the start
of the Resource Revolution. A typical
asset that is underutilised is the
car. Most of the time the car is waiting
on the drive or in the car park. The car
normally has four seats and when driven usually the occupancy is less than
this. There are many initiatives such as
car-pooling around to try and utilise this resource more efficiently.
The resource or asset that is most often underused in a business is its spare
capacity. Every business except the odd
one-man band has some spare capacity.
The spare capacity of a business is the amount of extra business it can
do without increasing its fixed costs.
It is an asset that every business has right now. For many businesses like hotels, restaurants
and those in the service industry, the
spare capacity is a perishable product because if it is not used it is
lost. If a spare room in a hotel is not rented out
tonight it can never be rented out tonight ever again. The opportunity to extract some value from
the room tonight is lost forever.
Yews it or Lose it!
As an example, if a hotel had vacant rooms it could try and
entice customers to fill this spare capacity by offering a reduced rate. In fact, without being a member of a trade
exchange like yewtrade this is almost the
only option. By renting out a room in
exchange for yewtrade pounds (Yews) the hotel
can attract customers it wouldn’t have had from members of the exchange for
something tangible that can then be used to pay for other expenses the hotel
may have. The hotel could use the Yews generated
to pay for its own business expenses such as printing brochures; paying for
repairs from local tradesmen such as plumbers and electricians when needed;
paying for courtesy taxis for airport transfers and many others. Since these expenses can now be paid for by
the extra business it wouldn’t have otherwise had from its spare capacity the
cash normally reserved to pay for these expenses is conserved in the business
consequently increasing the cash profits.

Members of the Yewtrade Exchange can pay for their business expenses with their own goods and services and thereby get a large discount.
Using our barter system allows members to fill downtime in their business and so become more efficient and more profitable.
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