Here’s the way to buy last-minute radio advertising inventory..through a reverse auction.


Bid4Spots is an online marketplace where radio stations compete for the advertiser’s budget and the lowest price wins…basically, Bid4Spots is a weekly reverse auction where radio stations (sellers) do the bidding for the advertiser’s (buyers) budget and (more…)

WALL STREET JOURNAL NATIONAL DISPLAY ADS ON TRADE

Full Page Black & White National Ad - 6 column x 21″ = $198,636.48 Irta UC or Nate Banc or acceptable Direct (more…)

It’s Healthful To Be Grateful All Year, Not Just On Thanksgiving, So Focus On The Good And You’ll Get More Of It!

JoAnna Brandi, author of the book 54 Ways to Stay Positive in a Changing, Challenging and Sometimes Negative World,says you can create positive changes in your life by developing an (more…)

“We don’t Get Paid Unless You Do!” This is basically the motto of a personal injury lawyer who barters…

Have you been injured, but are hesitant to talk with a personal injury lawyer because you don’t have any money? Hiring a personal injury lawyer usually isn’t as expensive as working with other types of lawyers. Here are several tips to keep in mind (more…)

Hotel General Managers might want to outsource their audio/visual services to a proven national vendor (has a sterling 25-year track record) wherein they pay for the A/V services with barter, i.e. “empty hotel rooms,” rather than cash. (Payment could also be in the form of trade dollars.)

In short, collect cash, as usual, from the guest accounts staying at your facility that require the use of professional audio/visual services. And rather than shouldering your ongoing employee costs, or your curent vendor’s cash agreement for A/V services, use the barter alternative.

Your hotel’s annual A/V billings must be a minimum of (more…)

From the barter desk of Bob Meyer…11/27/07

Europe Lifts Product Placement Restrictions

Although product placements are banned in most European countries, they are legal on imported American TV shows. Thus, American broadcasters in Europe raked in $1.5 billion last year, in contrast to European broadcasters which earned just $31 million from product placement.

That is about to change. Last month the EU (more…)

Read an interesting blog by San Diego’s Roberta Murphy. She pointed out that the first government-challenged like-for-like property exchange occurred when two farmers agreed to exchange horses. One owned six white horses, the other six black horses.

After the amicable trade the federal government claimed that a taxable event had occurred. Not so, claimed the farmers. They challenged the government and (more…)

Contents in the Tuesday Barter Report of November 27, 2007, published by BarterNews magazine, includes:

– Vendors at Seattle’s Pike Place Market barter with (more…)

The National Auctioneers Association’s latest data shows the incredible real estate slowing, which previously was the auction industry’s fasting-growing niche. Residential real estate was the organization’s (more…)

I’m offering to barter a $100,000 worth of Mexican Food at Manufacturer Wholesale Prices. Barter payment in IRTA’s Universal Currency. This is for a prepaid credit that allows you to pick and choose the products you want as well as pick the packaging you (more…)