Many businesses face difficult decisions at the end of every year to write off excess or aged inventory in an effort to have the financial statements accurately reflect the financial position of said inventory. Banks are now performing this every quarter for assets such as mortgages. The progressive opinion of writing assets off will be [...]
I was turned on to a new barter/swap/trade/free site and it is one that I actually like. Very simple to use, EcoFreek. is what a good search engine is – it finds opportunities for barter. Simply enter what you are looking for and pages of search results pop up. Try it for yourself. www.ecofreek.com
If you think you can’t afford to get nice things, think again. Through the magic of bartering, you can offer your services or even old stuff you don’t want anymore, and in return, get items and services that you do want. In most cases, money never even exchanges hands, and you can get the things [...]
Canada must have caught the barter bug. Most of the new barter sites I am seeing are coming out of Canada, and this one is better than most. My only problem is that the site is built in french, and I only speak italian and english. Let’s see if we can get through the site [...]
I caught wind of another new internet barter site, so I went and took a look. At the outset it looks pretty good. I like the function of being able to login with Facebook, though in my barter related work I rarely use that function. To an average user, though, it’s a real time saver. [...]
Smarter Barter is doing a good thing by putting videos up of their members and what they offer, but I have a couple of criticisms: First, don’t make a video with one of your part cash customers. Your other clients find out you allow part cash transactions and everyone will want to follow suit. It’s [...]
Tom McDowell, one of the handful of people actively engaged in offering training to the barter industry, produced a nice video some time ago, and while the video itself is fine, and actually makes a good case for barter even if it is a little heavy handed, it’s time to stop posting new copies of [...]
So it’s been a while since I’ve been to a new swapping site…and this one is silly enough that it got me interested. WhiteWilly.com invited me to check out their site. Here’s what I found: The home page design is pretty enough, though I just don’t know what a white elephant has to do with [...]
This is a post from a guest author, Jim West of Olympus Media. Enjoy! Overcoming Deficits in the Barter Industry by Jim West In the last thirty years that I have been in and around the commercial barter industry, a common problem among trade exchange owners has been the existence of a deficit in their [...]
I happened to receive in my email a forwarded copy of a letter that was sent to all Tradia members, explaining that ITEX had purchased Tradia and would be taking over servicing their accounts as of May 6th. Allow me to wax personal for a few minutes. Rarely do I take joy in the demise [...]
