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From the desk of Bob Meyer... 05/11/2010
Correction On April 27 Announcement
In our April 27 edition of �From
the desk� I reported a web site where Bartercard
members can purchase real estate. That site, we�ve been
informed, is not operated by Bartercard. The official
Bartercard site, which has a real estate section, is here:
www.Bartercard.com.
Barter Software Changes Designed To Increase
Trading
BCL Soft has released an update for their Barter 21 trade
exchange management software. The new design�s goal is to
increase trading activity within an exchange. Going against
the norm, the new effort sees a substantial reduction in the
number of categories thereby making each heading broader.
For more information on the Barter 21 software
click here.
Women Gain In Marketplace, Politics &
Financial World
History is rushing forward for women. Today more women than
men are graduating from high school, college, and graduate
programs in the United States. Consider that:
�
Women
hold 49% of all non-farm jobs and 51% of all management
professional and related positions.
�
About
40% of U.S. firms are women-owned.
�
The
number of women earning $100,000 or more tripled between
1991 and 2001.
�
Women
control 51.3% of the nation�s private wealth.
Online Coupons See Incredible Growth
Coupons made a comeback in 2009, according to a Nielsen
report, as redemptions grew by 27%. However online coupons,
saw a huge increase in growth � rising 263%! Retailers are
increasingly using their web sites, in-store kiosks, and
smart-phones to get coupons into customers� hands.
How Homeowners Can Earn Tax-Free Income
Homeowners who rent out their property for 14 or fewer days
a year may pocket the income tax-free. The property doesn�t
have to be a first home, but the exemption can be taken only
once a year.
U.K. Automobiles Are Tops With Wealthy USA
Consumers
According to the Luxury Institute, the United
Kingdom-manufactured Rolls-Royce is the top-rated
ultra-luxury vehicle brand among wealthy USA consumers. Tied
for second place, in the national survey of 505 nationwide
consumers with a weighted average-household income of
$845,000, were Bentley and Maybach.
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Is Your Trade Exchange Missing Out On
Valuable New Business?
If
your barter company�s listing on BarterNews.com isn�t current, you
are definitely missing out on new business. The web site
BarterNews.com receives heavy traffic � with over 150,000 page-views
every month. Entrepreneurs and corporate executives check the
thousands of articles, the weekly �Tuesday
Report,� and the �Contacts
Section� of our site. They use the latter to find barter
companies with which to do business.
Is
your barter company�s listing up-to-date?
To
keep your listing current is very easy. See the links below to (A)
update any changes to your company�s listing, such as new location,
phone number, web site or other information, and (B) if your company
has not been listed.
Here�s how to get on board:
To
make changes to your listing
click here.
For
new listings
click here.
Another Way To Barter
Your Products & Services
Just as Twitter evolved blogging into micro-blogging, Anttenna is
today launching a free smartphone application that reinvents
classified advertising as �microlistings.� Launching as an iPhone
application, Anttenna delivers a real-time, location-aware and
mobile consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer microlistings
marketplace for the buying, selling, and bartering of goods and
services.
Anttenna (www.anttenna.com)
has announced the application is now available in most major
metropolitan areas across the United States and Canada, building on
the success of pilots in San Diego, Seattle, and Austin.
�Anttenna is like a swap meet in your pocket,� said Marcus Wandell,
Anttenna�s co-founder and chief executive officer. �This year, more
people will access the Internet on their phones than they will on
computers, and smartphones are changing the very fabric of the
Internet with portability, geo-positioning, and mobile applications.
�With the exception of posting ads online and making them
searchable, classified ads haven�t really evolved all that much
since they were introduced 300 years ago. Certainly not to the point
of harnessing this technology revolution that will see billions of
smartphones in use around the world in just a couple of years.
�Anttenna fully leverages the smartphone platforms and new
communications standards to give people a whole new way to use
classified advertising. The application delivers a constant stream
of hyper-local, real-time listings, always relevant given the moment
and location in which they are seen.�
