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Archive for May, 2007

Airlines Now Bartering For Eyeballs

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Look for an e-mail if you’re a customer of Continental, Delta, Northwest or US Airways. The program began in January, as some 20 million e-mails were sent out inviting you to watch online ads in exchange (more…)

The 80-20 Rule Applies For Entrepreneurial Firms

Friday, May 18th, 2007

“In the history of humankind, there has never been a better time to be a guerrilla entrepreneur than right now!”

—Jay Conrad Levinson author of Guerrilla Marketing.

Levinson contends that all the circumstances are now in your favor—the mind-set, the technology, the splintering of many large businesses into (more…)

The BarterNewsBlog.com Is For You…

Friday, May 18th, 2007

We now have our RSS FEED setup.

On the right-hand column scroll down to “Syndicate”, and the web feed orange logo, for a daily feed of our articles direct (more…)

14 Places To Find New Customers

Friday, May 18th, 2007

New customers are found in variety of places, no successful business finds all its clients or customers in one way. Here are 14 places (more…)

National Volunteer Bank/Network Needed

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

I received this note today and wanted to pass it along, possibly there are such services which I’m not familiar with.

My parents are having difficulty changing my Dad’s bandages twice a day. They are ineligible for insurance and I’m sure that paying someone (more…)

The “Me Generation” (Baby Boomers) Are Most Loyal To Service Providers

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Baby boomers were revolutionary–but they are less brand-loyal than preceding generations. According to a study released this week by market-research firm Focalyst, a joint venture between AARP and the Kantar Group, boomers defy expectation.

The baby-boomer data represents something of a (more…)

Barter’s Role In America’s Latest Business Revolution

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

America’s latest business revolution is the consolidation of the country’s small independent businesses. Last year there were more than 10,000 such transactions completed for at least $1 million.

Here’s what’s happening…small, mostly family-run companies are increasingly (more…)

Murdock’s Barter Deals Builds Media Empire

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Rupert Murdock’s News Corp-owned MySpace, based in Beverly-Hills, Ca. it cutting barter deals with some of the most powerful and biggest names in the business…companies like the New York Times, Reuters, National Geographic, in addition to thousands of micro communities covering a broad of issues and (more…)

Bob Parsons Sums It Up

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

This a continuation, and the final installment, of the Bob Parsons story…Robert, if it doesn’t work, they can’t (more…)

Bob Parsons 16 Rules For Success In Any Pursuit

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

This a continuation of the Bob Parsons story… process, I came spooky close to losing everything I had, and actually made the decision to “lose it all” rather than close Go Daddy. Today, Go Daddy is the world leader in new domain name registrations, and has been cash flow positive since October 2001 (not bad for a dot com). As of this writing, I continue to be the only investor in Go Daddy.

Throughout all of these life events, I came to accumulate a number of rules that I look to in various situations. Some of them I learned (more…)