For those of you (like myself) that don’t closely follow the world’s top financial newspapers, the easiest description of the Financial Times is that it’s a British Wall Street Journal. It’s one of the best newspapers of it’s type in the world. For that reason I was very pleased to be interviewed by one of their writers a few weeks ago about my favorite topic and even more pleased that they published the article complete with a link to our humble little blog barterfantic.com.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6da4934a-121a-11e2-b9fd-00144feabdc0.html#axzz28vYMpLpI
Here’s a short excerpt:
Oct 10, 2012
The art of good bartering
By Alicia Clegg
With his twins about to start middle school, Brian Petro, owner of Bright Productions, a Californian web development business, faced a dilemma: how to pay for their education without draining the family finances. His solution? Barter.
A month or so on, he says, his sons are doing fine. The school is happy too. In lieu of fees, Mr Petro is redesigning its website and has procured $1,000 worth of art materials for the school by bartering his services with a local store: “Bartering allows us to go on vacation, maintain our cars better and educate our kids privately.”
Mr Petro, who has a blog, Barterfanatic.com, is not a lone enthusiast. Businesses have always bartered, often as a way of overcoming liquidity problems or bypassing currency restrictions. But according to the International Reciprocal Trade Association, a US-based body, the recession has encouraged more companies to offset the effects of shrinking order books and tight access to credit by putting excess capacity to use…
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