It happened only once, recalls Dan Candura, president of PennyTree Advisers in Braintree, Mass. The singular instance: a prospective client, a practicing architect, offered Candura a bartered exchange ...

OAKLAND, Calif. — When Henry Vortriede needs to buy bread for his restaurant, he doesn’t have to spend cash. Instead, he turns to barter, an ancient form of commerce that is attracting new converts ...

Business is down at Advance Graphics in Grandview Heights, but owner Frank Hoster hasn't laid off any of his 13 employees. Instead, Hoster has bartered with companies that are willing to accept his ...

Valerie Gates will work for food. She does it all the time. Standing in her Wellesley kitchen, the marketing expert, who doesn't cook much, reaps the harvest of a barter system she devised five months ...

At first, Burk Pinkus comes across as an average Joe offering testimony on a late-night infomercial. But Pinkus isn't pitching a product. Nor is his testimony solicited. He is just a small Las Vegas ...

With many businesses struggling under the economic ravages of the pandemic, some are finding relief in bartering – a trade practice that’s been around for millennia but could prove to be a very old ...

Bartering reaches back to 6000 BC with the Mesopotamian people that traded goods before currencies were invented. Bartering is defined as “the process of obtaining goods or services by direct exchange ...

Something didn’t feel quite right, and Amber Tande knew it. For a long time, she’d considered hiring a feng-shui adviser to help streamline the energy in her Wallingford home, but she wasn’t prepared ...

LEGS, or Lancaster Exchange of Goods and Services, offers businesses the opportunity to barter within a network of businesses. "I find it a great form of networking both locally and nationally," said ...

How’d you like to stay in a 13th century Scottish castle, play golf and go fly-fishing with the guy who makes fly-fishing rods for Prince Charles – and not pay a penny? Or lounge by the pool of a nine ...

Nick Savastano, D.M.D., leads a busy orthodontics practice in Longwood, FL, often running at more than 85% capacity. But he still isn't satisfied with his productivity. "I don't like having empty ...

It happened only once, recalls Dan Candura, president of PennyTree Advisors in Braintree, Mass. The singular instance: a prospective client, a practicing architect, offered Candura a bartered exchange ...