After watching the great production and script of the Saturn Barter video, I am disappointed to tell you that a well-funded, high-profile internet barter company released a complete snoozer video. I found it very hard to watch, hard to listen to, and hard to be interested in. I understand that the intention of the video [...]
Found this on Fox Small Business Center this morning. Congratulations everyone that was mentioned: At ITEX, the Bellevue, Wash., membership trading company that has 24,000 members and 90 offices around the country, that percentage is 6%. According to Alan Zimmelman, a spokesman for ITEX, barter exchanges work best in local economies and is done predominately [...]
NEW YORK, USA – BarterQuest (http://barterquest.com), a platform that supports the cashless exchange of goods, services and real estate, today announced that it has initiated a sweepstakes for a $50 Amazon gift certificate. The giveaway is open to anyone who enters between September 1, 2010 and October 10, 2010. You can enter in three ways. [...]
New York, NY — (SBWIRE) — 05/29/2010 — BarterQuest (http://www.barterquest.com), a platform that supports the cashless exchange of goods, services and real estate, today announced that it has initiated a sweepstakes for an Apple iPod nano, 5th generation. The giveaway is open to anyone who enters between May 25th and June 24th. You can enter [...]
According to a release this morning, BarterQuest is adding an advisory board to the corporate structure. From their press release: BarterQuest (www.barterquest.com), a platform that supports the cashless exchange of goods, services and real estate, today announced that it has formed an Advisory Committee to provide expertise and guidance to senior management. The areas in [...]
NEW YORK, January 16, 2010 – BarterQuest (http://www.barterquest.com) , the leading online consumer and small business trading platform, today announced that it has come out of beta with the introduction of a new site design and enhanced features. The new features include account verification and points, a non-cash exchange currency. BarterQuest now has a unique [...]
I’ve been milling over whether to write a piece on the current trends in the barter industry and my predictions for 2010 and the industry for a couple of weeks. It seems there is enough movement in the industry right now to write something not only coherent, but informative, and perhaps be a little prophetic [...]
According to an email received this morning, BarterQuest has made the following feature upgrades: The opportunity to trade services The opportunity to trade real estate
On January 15th I published a story as part 2 of an experiment to trade a brand new computer and some furniture to anyone that wanted it. I posted the items on Craigslist, U-Exchange, BarterQuest, SwapTree, and PayMeWithAChicken. I used the same descriptions, the same pictures, even in the video I tried to post to [...]
I am uncomfortable calling this part 3, so part 2.7 of the battle of the internet barter sites it is. This is an update to part 2. In part 2 I posted items available for trade on four different websites. One week later, I have this to report: Craigslist generated no responses aside from the [...]
