The Complete Idiot's Guide to Barter and Trade Exchanges

by Jerry Howell, Tom Chmielewski

Overview

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With money tight, bartering is growing in popularity. Over 70,000 businesses make cashless transactions throughout America. Here is the only complete, step-by-step guide to how this potentially lucrative process works, including:

• The advantages of direct versus national barter networks
• How to save and increase profitability
• How to increase sales and revenue
• How to start a trade exchange.
• From a national expert and bareter entrepreneur
• Detailed resource section exchanges and business associations

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101152010
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	12/01/2009
Series:	COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE Series
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	954 KB

About the Author

Jerry Howell has been the president of Midwest Business Exchange since 1980. He earned a BA in political science from Michigan State University in 1975 and then managed the sales staff at WBUK Radio for the next five years. Howell is an expert on bartering and exchanges between different businesses.

Tom Chmielewski is a freelance writer, editor, and journalist for TEC Publishing LLC, Encore magazine, and The Atlantic. He has covered subjects such as higher eductation, the arts, politics, the environment, and business. In addition to his nonfiction writing, Chmielewski is the author of the science-fiction novel Lunar Dust, Martian Sands and the audio science-fiction drama Shalbatana Solstice.