In this special extra edition of the Barter News Weekly, we interview Catherine and Barry Cohen of Barter 21 who attended the IRTA Conference last week. Watch and see what happened…
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One of the things that has always intrigued me about the barter industry is the creativity that comes out of people when they start thinking about their stuff and time as assets instead of liabilities. If you are sitting on your hands as a painter, put your hands to work and get creative about what [...]
Continue →In this week’s installment of the Barter News Weekly:
We explore more bizarre news from HE-5 Resources Corporation
Announce the arrival of another internet barter exchange startup - AssetFair.com
The opening of another office of Astra UK in Hong Kong
Discuss the barter program the government of Bulgaria has instituted
Interview Mark Johnson of WNY Barter
Rant about piracy in the [...]
I found this on a Bulgarian news site, but apparently in the wake of 300,000 Bulgarians losing their jobs, the government has approved a legislated program where bonafide companies can give trade for food instead of money to their employees. They have mandated limits on this form of compensation, but it makes sense to me…if [...]
Continue →We’ve seen quite an uptick in internet barter startups in the last couple of months. Today I found another…
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In my search for barter and trade related news I stumbled on this article from the Bismarck Tribune about a group of people that used to get together in the park to swap whatever they had for the stuff that they wanted, back in the ’60s and ’70s. Now they are using Facebook as the [...]
Continue →In this week’s installment of the Barter News Weekly we cover:
The upcoming IRTA Conference
The Barter Media Solutions economic stimulus package
Dial Global’s new barter initiative
Barter 21’s first international exchange in Portugaul - Rede Barter
The industry trend towards suing brokers and clients
Tyler’s Rant: Protectionist measures that don’t work
More barter news next week!
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I found this, and am going to include it in today’s Barter News Weekly. If Marc Hatch is involved, you can assume the media he is going to get is legitimate. I have to say, when I first saw this press release, I thought it was a good gimick, a nice way to sell barter, [...]
Continue →This video is another NBC affiliate doing a cover story about bartering. It seems like there are a couple of these popping up every week from different major news outlets…
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In honor of the upcoming IRTA conference, I found this YouTube video from CNN. Happy viewing!
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