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Anaheim�s White House Restaurant Owner Gains Fame Thru Philanthropy

Bruno Serato, the 53-year-old altruistic owner of the historic Anaheim White House restaurant (a family-owned Italian restaurant near California�s Disneyland), is becoming famous for the good deeds he routinely does. He also embraces barter, as noted below.

Serato has been generously providing 150 pasta meals to kids at the Boys & Girls Clubs in Anaheim, free of charge five nights a week for the past five years! That generosity has been covered in People magazine recently, and on the CBS evening news with Katie Couric. These stories and others can be found on the restaurant�s excellent web site.

The superb Italian restaurant, situated close to the Anaheim Convention Center and major hotels, is a member of the local ITEX trade exchange run by Peter & Neita Brooks. (E-mail: neita.brooks@itex.net)

The Anaheim White House restaurant�s extensive web site is really worth looking at. It�s full of stories, video�s, a list of famous celebrities and meetings, in addition to the usual information such as menus.

To access that info click here.

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.

Shoe Manufacturer Negotiates
Sweet Barter Deal

Shoe manufacturer Steven Madden Ltd. is coming to the aid of a large shoe store chain (Bakers Footwear Group) that will be profitable for them in two ways, in addition to saving a large distribution entity as Bakers has 239 retail stores across the country. The deal evolved because Bakers required $5 million to settle up with Bank of America, in addition to needing operating income.

Madden provided the loan at 11% interest over the next decade. Plus Bakers agreed to a barter-type of agreement by providing Steven Madden a 20% stake in Bakers, or 1.8 million shares of Bakers stock to clinch the deal.

Editor�s note: This deal reminded us of the agreement super-dealmaker John Malone of Liberty Media did with Sirius XM Radio, when �blood was running in the street� back in 2008 and Sirius� position dictated money fast in order to survive. Malone loaned Sirius $500 million at 15% interest (since repaid), and in return received a warrant for $12,500, that would convert when Malone desired into 40% of Sirius common stock. That stock (40%) is now valued at an astounding $2.8 billion. (Malone has yet to convert the warrant.)

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Renovation Exchanged For Exclusivity & Advertising

When business was lagging, Radio Shack got down to the basics and used barter for its surprising turnaround. A decade ago, the electronics retailer with 7,000 locations, tapped the former chairman and chief executive at the Shoney�s restaurant chain to be its president. He led a new focus on retailing.

Leonard Roberts did what every smart business-owner does, he focused on �using what he had to get what he wanted.� He determined that Radio Shack�s greatest asset was its 7,000 stores � even if some were outdated. With a visionary insight Roberts decided to refurbish the stores, having suppliers pay for it in exchange for exclusivity within those stores.

The three suppliers he worked with were Sprint, Compaq Computer, and Northpoint Communications Group:

�         When Sprint Corporation was looking for a retail base from which to sell its new wireless phone network, Radio Shack and Roberts offered to make Sprint its exclusive national wireless provider for ten years. In exchange Sprint would provide tens-of-millions of dollars in new store fixtures and advertising support, plus about 5% of the revenue generated by their shared customers.

�         Radio Shack cut a similar distribution deal with Compaq Computer. Compaq would refurbish a portion of Radio Shacks� stores, controlling the look and merchandising of the space, plus share some of its service revenue with Radio Shack.

�         Likewise, Radio Shack struck a deal with broadband internet service provider Northpoint Communications Group in which Radio Shack stores sell high-speed web-access contracts.

Have you recently asked yourself how you could use what you have, to get what you want? Once you determine that, the next step is to take action. Go out and structure a winning barter agreement!