The press today is covering barter in an ever-increasing manner, but many of the stories is about the simplest way of trading, one-on-one barter. The International Reciprocal Trade (more…)

If you feel things are going to he*# in a hand basket you should be planning your (more…)

The number one reason why companies use independent sales reps is because they get nationwide and international coverage and only pay the rep on results. The average cost for one direct employee (including expenses, benefits, salary, bonus and inside support) is $120,000 per year. The average company needs (more…)

Personal bankruptcy filings in the U.S. rose 34% in January compared with a year earlier. A clear sign of the deepening economic crisis…these individual filings climbed to 88,773 up more than (more…)

Dan Danner, executive vice president of the National Federation of Independent Business, issued the following statement in reaction to the U.S. House passage vote on H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:

“America’s small businesses play an essential role in our nation’s economy. Small businesses employ half of all private sector employees and have generated 60 to 70 percent of net new jobs over the last decade. Small businesses also create more than half of nonfarm private gross domestic product (GDP).

“However, small businesses are not immune from the current negative economic (more…)

Steve Forbes, Publisher of Forbes magazine, says there are 4 needed actions to get our economy moving (more…)

Insights into the American Awakening Seminar

February 7, 2009 – Pocatello, Idaho

It determines what we eat, who eats and how food is produced.
It determines what we wear, what we drive and what we think of ourselves.
It determines our mental stress levels that cascade down into our physical health.

What is it? It is money - created and distributed by the financial system. And the substance of money is credit. And credit, by virtue of its character, spins off more debt (more…)

Wondering how to survive the 2009 recession? It will require some different thinking as well as actions taken. Here’s (more…)

Record barter sales at the IMSBarter Holiday Barter Expo’s were reported by management. The company surpassed trading (more…)

BarterNews.com Tuesday Report of December 16 had four stories about “Barter In (more…)