Rapid Change, Intense Competition And Growing Debt—Three Conditions That Ensure Barter’s Growth

Change, competition and debt will mean more bartering in the next decade. Barter will play a greater role in solving the pressing needs of businesses in the days ahead because it’s a proven business tool—one to be used in a company’s marketing, purchasing and financing efforts.

Barter’s benefits are threefold: (more…)

Just do it? These words are from John Masters, Canada’s most prolific oil-and-gas wildcatter, spoken on the eve of his retirement from the company he built:

“This is so simple it sounds stupid. But it’s amazing how few oil people really understand that you only find oil and gas when you drill wells.”

With these words this pioneer let managers in on his most valuable competitive secret: The only way (more…)

Benjamin Gisin, Editor of TouchTheSoil.com (Touch The Soil magazine) will be speaking in Pittsburgh at the end of the month–both at Carnegie Mellon and Penn State University. This foremost agricultural expert is spreading the word on what’s happening out in the real world of agriculture.

The US is the world’s largest exporter of wheat. Global wheat shortages have foreigners knocking on our doors. Meanwhile our bakeries are paying $57 for a hundred-pound bag of flour that a year ago cost $14.

Acreage is (more…)

Another barter success story from the files of Barternews…

Dean White (former owner of Whiteco Industries of Merrillville, Indiana) was #287 on the Forbes 400 Richest Americans list last year worth an estimated $1.3 billion.

He built the nation’s largest private company in the billboard business and then he sold out, in 1998, to Chancellor Media for $960 million. (Whiteco Industries had 21,800 displays in 34 states.)

Needless to say the 83-year-old founder is proud (more…)

We provided an informative case history on how to grow a barter company, “Start Small…Think Big!” The company studied was Sue Groenwald’s Barter Corp., one of the nation’s most successful independents. Included in the article were the five critical steps needed when undertaking the plunge!

We traveled to Chicago to cover the largest convention in NATE’s history. And David Johnstone, chairman of the Australian Reciprocal Trade Association, reported on the trade exchange industry’s dramatic growth in his country.

A Harvard expert explained the thought patterns that lead to success in “The Mind-Style Of The Entrepreneur.” Other stories were (more…)

The popular 1031 exchange has just been made safer for sellers of appreciated real estate.

Sellers performing a 1031 exchange can now worry less about not finding a suitable property in time thanks to a powerful tax deferral tool called the structured sale (aka Ensured Installment (more…)

Michael Bloomberg, the founder of Bloomberg News, a New York financial news and information provider, has been pushing his $1,225-a-month data terminal to the financial industry for almost two decades.

Today he’s fabulously successful and wealthy (reportedly worth close to $20 billion–the value of his 76% stake in the privately held Bloomberg empire), and the mayor of New York City.

Bloomberg candidly admits that it was his pro-active use of barter in his (more…)

The 10th Annual Latina Conference has been scheduled. It’s the first time the Annual Conference will be held in Riverside County. The one day conference features exhibitors, networking opportunities, seminar sessions, panel discussions and keynote addresses.

This year the theme of the Latina Conference is “A Life Full of (more…)

There’s a growing trend toward the use of barter these days, not only in the United States but globally as well. Thirty four countries now have trade exchanges. This means a growing web of barter opportunities around the world.

The message…this is no passing fad, but a serious, long-term cycle that’s gathering momentum and will possibly, some day, change the way the world does business.

As a business owner you should want to develop (more…)

Richard Branson, the flamboyant English showman and Europe’s best-known entrepreneur has built an empire of more than 200 companies. Billionaire Branson unquestionably harnessed a barter strategy that enabled him to launch a myriad of businesses with minimal (more…)