In this week’s episode of the Barter News Weekly we explore: The Upcoming NATE Conference ITEX Mysteriously Forbids Franchises From Charging Sign Up Fees IRTA Advises Exchange Owners to Stop Charging Sign Up Fees Tyler Rants About Lies and Deception in the Barter Industry Barter Anywhere Group Owner Aaron Orgill is Interviewed
In an effort to separate what we are doing with the Exchange Trainers and the Barter News Weekly show, Barter News Weekly is going to have it’s own web site. Watch for it in the upcoming week. I should have the site up and the content moved by the middle of next week. I think […]
Just on a whim I decided to go check out whether or not someone had snatched up the domain AllBusinessBarter.com. It’s the old American Express barter experiment URL from ten years or so ago. I bought it. I own it. I don’t know what I am going to do with it, but I’m open to […]
The news is that paper traders have pulled their money out of the financial markets and put it in commodities, which creates an artificial scarcity of those commodities, which pushes the price up and makes retail prices higher, etc. The nugget at the end of the article I read was this: Hutchinson calls for countries […]
I found a link to a site that offers free Quickbooks advice. It had this to say about recording a barter transaction. Recording of Barter ExchangesIf you have customers who are also vendors you may decide to trade some or all of your services / products in exchange for payment. To record such a barter […]
There are many ways barter can be used to renovate or restore a home. You can use barter to purchase building materials and hire contractors. Many suppliers such as tile, carpet and stone companies have huge excess inventories or items that have gone unsold. They would welcome the opportunity to get full value for the […]
Most businesses suffer from the issue of bad debts (accounts receivable that will most likely remain uncollectible and will be written off). These debts appear as an expense on the company’s income statement, thus reducing net income and most companies make a bad debt allowance since it is unlikely that all of their debtors will pay them in full. (more…)