Contents in the January 29, 2008 Tuesday Barter Report, published by BarterNews magazine, include the following (more…)

Earth Class Mail™ gives people the ability to access their U.S. postal mail online from anywhere in the world, 24×7. The service is used by individuals, small businesses and major corporate and government enterprises, with users currently accessing the www.earthclassmail.com website from over 130 countries.

It is a popular alternative to P.O. Box rental, executive suites and mail-forwarding services. Earth Class Mail technologies also manage standardized process mail, such as (more…)

There are some 800 barter companies worldwide serving their local clients. (Some of the larger exchanges have multiple offices in various locations.) And over the years, as the commercial barter industry has evolved the trade exchange owners began trading more with one another.

A decade ago, the International Reciprocal Trade Association (IRTA) put together a system whereby exchange owners could use a trade currency (a trade credit) to trade with one another. This “Universal Currency” (UC) would act as a central clearinghouse for trade credit transactions among trade exchanges located throughout the world.

A recent example of the possibilities is clearly evident…Therecia (more…)

Western Sizzlin Corporation Chairman & CEO Sardar Biglari has issued a letter to the shareholders of the ITEX Corporation, (more…)

From the barter desk of Bob Meyer…01/29/08


Bartercard & BBX Working With New Australian Business Directory

Clickfind (www.clickfind.com.au), launched in late 2007, is a search engine and business directory that lists (more…)

Thanks to Reiner Husemann, (President of the International Trade Association-Europe Chapter) for the following information: The IRTA Europe Chapter Meeting will be held from 11. – 13. April 2008 in Gliwice/Poland

IRTA Europe is happy to announce the next IRTA Europe Meeting in Gliwice, Poland,
which is hosted by BCI Barter Systems Poland, CEO Dariusz Brzozowiec.

The meeting will take place at the Hotel Royal in (more…)

Today sports memorabilia is big business. It wasn’t always the case as this story shows. One enterprising trader was Barry Halper, a New Jersey collector of sports memorabilia, and he made one of the greatest barter trades ever when he swapped six bottles of J&B scotch with (more…)

Here’s a new way large commercial buildings are being bought and sold. The birthplace of the idea was Orange County, California…and it’s quickly become a multi-billion-dollar industry.

The novelty is viewing real estate as securities, like stocks and bonds. Succinctly, multiple investors join together taking title to purchased buildings directly, through the age-old tenancy-in-common (TIC) form of ownership (rather than through a corporation or partnership].

Tenancy-in-common dates back to (more…)

Members of trade exchanges (primarily small business owners) make sales to other entrepreneurial members and the resulting trade dollars earned, through their bartering efforts, can then be spent to acquire needed products & services.

One popular expenditure of trade dollars is for home renovation and upgrading. Here’s an example of what can be (more…)

Steven Spielberg is a multi-talented person who’s done extremely well. It’s estimated that during his last 29 years his work has generated more than $7 billion in revenues, by leveraging his uniqueness through barter.

Though Spielberg is most famous as a director (films E.T, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jurassic Park, Shindler’s List, etc.) he has been more prolific as a producer of other directors’ movies, as well as of television shows and animated films.

He’s made a tidy fortune from merchandising his films and from (more…)