Yes, frequent flyer miles is now a gargantuan $300 billion currency, but guess what…operate in an inefficient and stingy manner, and over time, you will be replaced! What could replace the frequent flyer (miles) programs? The existing and ever-growing (more…)

Tom’s Year-end Report - 2007…Monetary expert Tom Greco is back home after almost a year of traveling the globe. Greco’s message on private currencies and how the barter industry could influence the world, if coordinated and structured as a single currency, was shared at the 2006 International Reciprocal Trade Association’s annual convention. Welcome home Tom!

The nomadic life has much to recommend it, but it can wear you down. By the
day after Christmas I will have been back in the U.S. a full month. I hadn’t
realized how tired and run-down I was from my travels until I got (more…)

Coming into BarterNews are exciting reports that a certain barter company is about to smash their 25-year sales record for the month of December.

Full details will be forthcoming in (more…)

The bartering of airlines miles…now a global currency approaching $300 BILLION…is a nifty idea and could be VERY BIG. A most valuable service, indeed. But as it stands now the airlines are too (more…)

Just a quick note on some exciting developments at Swapagift.com…

Chances are you may receive an unwanted gift card this year. If you do, don’t fret. You can easily turn the card into something of value by bartering it (or selling it) through a service that specializes in this business, founded by my friend Mike Kelly and his wife MJ.

If you haven’t seen their new look, and new services - check them out (more…)

This is another example that “the best and brightest barter.” Viacom and Microsoft announced a wide-ranging, basically barter deal Wednesday around online ads, content sharing (licensing), games, and event promotion that will benefit each company, but especially Microsoft as it strives to better Google in online advertising.

The agreement is mostly about (more…)

From the barter desk of Bob Meyer…12/18/07


Bartercard Trade Dollars Provide Assist For Children’s Centre

Bartercard UK is one of the sponsors for a new centre for children with sensory and neurological (more…)

Barter has been used by many Convention & Visitor Authorities over the years. Essentially what’s involved are in-kind promotions from area hotels, golf courses, restaurants and various tourist attractions in the vicinity. These products and services in effect become a currency the authorities use (more…)

Thanks to Lynnea Bylund at House for alerting me to this story. Published by The Sunday Herald–Scotland’s award-winning newspaper.

As Christmas consumerism sweeps much of the planet, a tiny nation in the South Pacific is stubbornly forging a path in the opposite direction.

Vanuatu - a former Anglo-French colony named the New Hebrides by Captain Cook - is spurning the cash economy and instead reviving ancient modes of barter payment, using (more…)

Is ITEX, a barter company, a hidden dynamo for value investors? As readers of our blog, you’ve seen the posts on the recent talk about a take over by Western Sizzlin. This Texan investor has more to say on his blog about this hidden dynamo. This Texas investor also (he says) co-founded one of America’s largest companies. For more (more…)