Bartering Sites

An article posted at entrepreneur.com poses the question to entrepreneurs "are barter sites right for you?" To answer this question I say yes, please refer to my previous post.

Anyone can use a baretering site to grow and develop their business, whether it's finding items or trading services. There are ton of sites, I could go down the list and name them all, but it will take all day. I will say there is a bartering site for everyone, just be sure to do your research or each site to make sure it's for you.

Is Bartering Catching On?

This is a great question to ask. Once again came across another interesting article. Seems that craigslist.com is an internet portal to bartering. You can practically trade any item or service you want as long as both parties are satisfied with the outcome.

This article is filled with people trading services or items. This goes back to one of my earlier post "A Life of Baretering."

To answer the question "Is Bartering Catching On?" I would have to say yes. And we have the economy to thank for that. There are still some people out there that prefers the almighty dollar, or should I say the weakened dollar. No matter the preference, money or trading services as long as end result is what is desired.

However, I will add to save money and finding quality people to trade with is well worth it.

Cash Flow and Bartering

I was talking to a co-worker the other day, we some how got on the subject of cash flow. I really didn't understand cash flow. I though cash flow was the same as profit, but I was wrong. A lot of first time business owners and entrepreneurs make this mistake.

Over this Memorial Day weekend I came across the article about cash flow. We, meaning business owners and entrepreneurs are so busy coming up with ideas and products to sell, making payments, and investing in the business, we tend to associate profit with cash flow. To my understanding cash flow is the constant inflow of money to accomplish all the things mentioned above.

Also to avoid cash flow problems, have good customers and take advantage of various sales tool. But knowing that there will always be a few people slowing down the cash flow. The article suggest and I suggest it as well is those that present problems or show any signs of slowing down the cash flow, bareter with them.

You can barter goods or services to sure up cash flow loses or improve baretering relationpships. With barting you can improve cash flow, build realtionships and establish creibility in your business.

A Life of Baretering

Here is a interesting story I ran across today about a woman named Catherine Chipman who made a life of baretering. http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/apr/18/lets-make-a-deal/

I've always believed in barter with other business owner and rising entrepreneurs. This give us other opportunities to grow a great idea and develop a working, trustworthy and on-going relationships and create possible partnerships. Bareter itself is great advertising, the most basic actually, word of mouth.

There are many blogs, niche or micro social networking, and classifieds sites like craigslist.com. Strangers exchange, barter or giveaway items all the time. In a time of a recession it's no wonder why baretering has not caught sooner. There are a plenty of people from graphic designers to real estate agents to massage therapist baretering.

This old time tradition is a testament of time itself and how sound the economy of today's society or world truly is. Bartering is more about giving freely of yourself, gifts, talents, hand me downs, time and a passion. Money isn't everything, though it helps to have, but having something of value someone else wants is worth a lot more.

Like the old saying goes "Another person trash is another person treasure."

Property Bartering

About a week ago, I came across this link (http://www.propertybarter.co.za) in one of many news feeds. The name of the site is Property Barter and it's based in South Africa. It caught my attention rather quickly. I thought how can you barter property?

According to the site you can exchange assets of equal value. I thought this was a neat idea, if you get tired of something then barter it for something else. If you had your eye on your neighbor's or friend’s house, condo, apartment, or car and vice versa, wouldn't you try to trade for it? I know at one point or another we all jokingly said “I’ll take that off your hands" or “I’ll take it if you don’t want it.”

This is a really good idea for countries with poor economic value. Heck this might be even good here in America, with out weak the dollar is and the abundant foreclosures.

If there is anyone wanting to start this let me know. I'll jump on board.