In bookstores and available online later this month, The Art of Barter promises to be a guide to learn “How to Trade for Almost Anything”.
Barter is today’s best currency. Learn how to barter in this comprehensive, up-to-date guide. Just because you don’t have cash doesn’t mean you can’t get the products and services you want. According to authors and business gurus Karen Hoffman and Shera Dalin, it’s time to get a little creative. Most people have a skill they can trade. It’s just a matter of figuring out what that is and how to use it to get something else. From piano lessons in exchange for haircuts to an engine tune-up in exchange for house painting, The Art of Barter offers step-by-step instructions in:
- Determining your “tradable” skills
- Initiating a trade
- Figuring out a fair exchange
- How to close a deal
- Incorporating barter into everyday life
In addition, the book has a wealth of inspirational ideas on how to use barter in today’s tough economic world.
Bruce Kamm
Chief Evolutionary Officer
VirtualBarter.com
Here’s hoping this book does well and the fact anyone is releasing a book at all re: Barter is a good thing.
Organizations like the IRTA and NATE as well as the industry as a whole—needs to address the issue of why in the hell a billion dollar plus industry is so VOID OF BOOKS AND OTHER QUALITY INFORMATION pertaining to helping the average “Joe or Jane” understand that BARTER is a hell of a lot more then “chickens for goats”.
Organized Barter has squandered millions of dollars in recent media attention by refusing to step out of the dark ages in terms of promoting and positioning itself past the cliches of the caveman days and we are in 2010 people!
Don’t believe me?
Go to your local library and you’ll probably find more books on why Bumble Bees Bumble….then on Barter. Sad.
True.
Vegas Vince
Barter Arbitrage
Books are barter are not easily available…so, anyone out there who has the courage to product a book on barter trading will definitely get my support.
I totally agree with Vince, it’s a multi-billion dollar industry but almost ZILCH when it comes to information available…..
Ron
Barter Trade With Amir
I agree ,but check with Bill Meecham of BancMarc in Richmond,Va.He has just wriiten a wonderful book on Barter.
David Snow
Pres
Simplicity Barter