Here’s another example of how powerful, versatile and meaningful a tool barter can be in the right hands. It also shows the business acumen of Tom Cruise and his longtime associate Paula Wagner, who were dumped by Paramount Pictures, after a decade of success.

In November Cruise and Wagner stuck a deal with MGM’s chairman Harry Sloan to revive the long dormant United Artists (UA) movie unit. As part of the deal Cruise/Wagner will have (more…)

In Southern California a bus shelter company faced almost certain oblivion five years ago when a “Ponzi” scheme forced it to seek bankruptcy protection, threatening to wipe out more than $45 million from investors.

Today the company is profitable and growing, and soon will be able to pay back some of the money its investors lost in the scheme by the founder who is now in prison.

The success story is a result of an unusual (more…)

Gerald Benjamin, is the President and Senior Managing Partner of International Capital Resources, San Francisco. He’s the author of the book, Finding Your Wings, which shows how to locate private investors to fund business ventures.

Benjamin says the “barter investor” is one of nine angel investors in the marketplace today. The barter (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…)

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…)

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…)

Back in 1983, and having been fired from seven previous jobs, Rush Limbaugh was a public relations man for the Kansas City Royals baseball team. He was admittedly scraping by on $18,000 a year…buying convenience store snacks on a credit card that was near its limit.

Only ten years later Limbaugh’s talk radio audience was the largest in (more…)

With regulatory approval now behind them, a tax-free, all-stock merger of equals (with a combined enterprise value of $11.4 billion) has taken place between Sirius and XM, thus creating a single satellite-based giant of radio (more…)

There’s more than one way to use the services of a trade exchange. How about the idea of selling your future production or services and immediately utilizing the needed services (or products) obtained!

This can be done rather easily by securing a barter line of credit through your trade exchange. Such a line of credit will be provided (with a lot less hassle and paper work than through a bank–especially in today’s environment) to a member of the exchange who has a valued (needed) product or service that the other member of the exchange desire.

Best of all–you pay back the (more…)

Here is another example of why the world’s richest man, Bill Gates, and the world’s 8th richest man, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, are so successful. They’re always thinking ahead.

A year ago Microsoft Chariman Bill Gates and Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, along with Four Seasons hotels chief executive officer, agreed to have the (more…)