From the barter desk of Bob Meyer…11/13/07

IMS’s Don Mardak Appears Weekly On Radio

Don Mardak, CEO of International Monetary Systems (OTCBB:INML), is appearing weekly in live and taped interviews on “Steve Crowley’s American Scene” syndicated radio show. Two or three of these interviews usually run each week; several were broadcast live from the Money Show held in San Francisco this past August.

Steve Crowley is the former financial expert from “Good Morning, America.” On his current show he often has guests such as Steve Forbes, Joe Battipaglia, Tobin Smith, and other financial gurus. There are three million listeners per day on broadcast radio through Business Talk Radio affiliates, plus a huge audience on the Internet worldwide.

All programs are archived for two weeks at www.businesstalkradio.net…the business shows on the Talk Radio Network are offered on a barter basis.

“American Scene Radio”is at www.moneychannel.tv/scas.php.


IBM Unveils New Program Encompassing Barter Feature

IBM has unveiled a program that will give users of its System-2 main frames and System-P servers access to third-party certification. This certification can be used to get energy credits from either their state government or other trading partners.

The program involves Neuwing Energy Ventures, a financial services firm involved in the emerging business of energy efficiency certification. Neuwing will take 25% of payment in barter, i.e., Energy Efficiency Certificates (EECs) as its compensation.


Kayak.com Partnering With LateRooms To Offer More Hotel Deals

More deals on hotels are coming as www.LateRooms.com is working with www.Kayak.com, wherein Kayak users will have access to real time rates and availabilities from LateRooms’ inventory.

LateRooms.com has a database offering 500,000 bargains across the U.K. and Europe. The company acts as a clearing house for unsold hotel rooms, and its range of accommodations is huge–over 15,000 properties from luxury 5-star hotels down to guesthouses, apartments, and B&Bs.


Facebook’s Incredible Deal With Microsoft

Microsoft’s $240 million investment in the social-networking web site Facebook values Facebook at $15 billion, or 500 times its estimated 2007 earnings of $30 million. To put such an evaluation in perspective, if you used the same evaluation on General Electric, for example, GE would have a market cap of $11 trillion…which is just $3 trillion short of the annual U.S. gross domestic product.


Travel Costs Will Rise According To Global Business Forecast

The American Express 2008 Global Business Travel Forecast says international business-class fares will jump 5% to 10%, and hotel rates 4% to 7% (5% to 8% on higher-end hotels). Three factors will create the rate increases - strong demand, tight capacity, and oil costs.

India’s Utility Eyes Coal In Power-Plant Barter Deal

India’s state-owned generation utility NTPC and Indonesian coal-miner PTBA are actively engaged in structuring a very large barter deal. The full significance is yet to be determined, but NTPC will take equity in the Indonesian firm?’s coal acreage, in return for helping them set up a power plant in Indonesia.


Carson City Bartering Acreage To Secure Open Spaces

Carson City (NV) located in Douglas County, is intent on creating views and open spaces for its citizens. They will do so by securing rights on pasture lands, obtaining needed land in Douglas County by exchanging 1,722 acres the city currently owns.


Vietnam, North Korea Looking To Barter

The countries of Vietnam and North Korea have agreed to broaden cooperative ties, including the potential establishment of trading or investment joint ventures (JV), and the facilitation of countertrade.

Growing…Growing…Growing!

In October 2007, a Netcraft.com web-server survey identified nearly 143 million web sites, adding up to untold billions of web pages.

Flexible Staffing Use Is Swelling Worldwide Among Employers

Australia-based Hays is the world’s seventh largest recruitment-consultancy with 120 branches in 38 locations throughout Australia, New Zealand, and South East Asia.

They report the number of employers utilizing flexible staffing approaches (temporary or contract workers, part-time staff, casual staff and job sharing) has risen from 65% in 2004 to 80% in 2007.

For more information go to www.hays.com.au.


Gazprom, Ukraine Reach Barter Deal For $2 Billion Debt

Russian gas monopoly OAO Gazprom has reached an agreement on settling Ukraine’s $2 billion debt for gas supplies. Ukraine is repaying the debt by transferring gas from underground storage facilities in Ukraine to Gazprom for further export.

“From The Desk” is the opening segment of The Tuesday Barter Report. To read the complete report, see: TUESDAY

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