Today I ran across an article that nicely articulates what I have talked about for ten years: using barter as a source of employee bonuses and perks.
I used to put together packages of dentistry, massage, chiropractic, and certificates to family doctors and sell them to small businesses as a way to add to their health [...]
Found this great video on Ebay. Enjoy.
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This is a video from last year’s IRTA convention. Catherine Fitts talks about the role of barter in the “new” economy. Her assertion is that the global economy is breaking down and that barter will fill the role of traditional currency in global transactions. It sounds like there are a number of people thinking that [...]
Continue →In this week’s edition of the Barter News Weekly we:
Congratulate Don Mardak of International Monetary Systems for being inducted in the IRTA Hall of Fame
Report on a new municipal barter web startup
Report more of the silliness from HE-5 Resources Corp
Tyler rants about the general lack of customer service in the industry.
Have fun!
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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 [...]
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