I credit Bartercard for helping me launch my career into the big time. It has been an essential marketing device and it really does work like magic – where previously there was an empty space in my diary, suddenly, thanks to Bartercard, it is filled with a new job. It's brilliant.

Bartercard is an opportunity to get into a whole new market and it has saved me so much cash. Everything that is essential in my gallery is paid for on Bartercard. All the lighting, the furniture, the electrics, working materials and the lot is purchased on Bartercard. It honestly works so well for me.

We used our Bartercard account to pay for 90 percent of franchise growth-related expenses. When we do franchise expo tours around Australia and New Zealand, we buy everything from hotel accommodation, food and beverage and franchise dinners, to meetings on trade.