Since 1975 there has existed on the west coast of the United States a community whose sole function is to facilitate sharing of services among the members. This community is not a barter club, in that services are freely shared, not...
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Since 1975 there has existed on the west coast of the United States a community whose sole function is to facilitate sharing of services among the members. This community is not a barter club, in that services are freely shared, not traded. That is to say, there's no balancing out between services given and services received. This portal will explore the structure of this community, and provide a model for creating similar communities in other locales.
As I have mentioned before, the most important base for SEO ing any site or blog is site structure. It actually can also help you get the most contextual links, without even trying. Here is a real life example. We are just in the process of helping to SEO a very popular small business cashless marketplace . It’s a Barter network of 24,00 small businesses with many more thousands of barter items in it’s trading community . It’s a trading community where cash is not required, but it’s a secure... Read Full Story
We have been promoting our online marketplace to help online businesses promote them selves. Our marketplace has built in SEO and is the only marketplace that we know of that allows people to BUY SELL or Trade, via our Barter Exchange relationship of ITEX. Yes we are 15% owned by this b2b marketplace company. It has over 24,000 businesses as clients, not bad, for a company that most people have not heard of. Maybe by the time they hear of Itex it will be with the association of MyTypes... Read Full Story
I wrote this blog on our SEO Blog templates blogging area, that is my favorite site where most of SEO tips and SEO’ed Wordpress blog templates are down loaded. I would like to say that is our most visited website, but it is now surpassed by some of our not so well known sites such as the better than Edenpure Heaters site @ Greenisbetter.org , and our Cross Ring site at MyTypes.com/Jewelry . As you know I take all of my most important blogs and publish them on all of our blogging sites... Read Full Story
B2B stands for Business to Business, but you already knew that. What it is, does not concern us in this blog post. What does, is the fact that many businesses are starting to utilize B2B marketplaces and b2b hubs as they were called to Buy, Sell, and Trade. In contrast to the amazing reception of online marketplaces such as eBay and Amazon, the b2b world is quiet, maybe even boring? Well how do I say this, less exciting maybe, but Go B2B, kind of has a lack of tone to it doesn’t it... Read Full Story
Remember just because you are techy, doesn’t mean every one else is. A lot, I would say the majority of the business about 60% or more happens without any online interaction or websites at all. How can that be? I am not going to sit here an explain that, but my friend Steve who we quote below mentioned to me today that 15% of all transaction of Walmart are all Cash only, and did you know that 20% of American’s don’t have bank accounts? I am willing to bet that 60% of all small business don’t... Read Full Story
Why do small businesses barter ? That is the ultimate question, and which we got the answer from Steve White the CEO of ITEX , the Bartering site, barter network and trade exchange with 24,000 small businesses as it members. The first reason he said is that they join a professional trading community, which is interested in growing their business. Second is that they instantly get exposure to the members via the online marketplace of members barter items listings and membership directory... Read Full Story
You have heard this from so many SEO experts, blog often, blog this and blog that. They are constantly talking about blogging , but the average person, well even I don’t know what to write about. And trust me, you need to write meaningful content or people won’t read it, and if they don’t, you won’t get high rankings on Google either. So how should we blog , how often and long, on what platform and Why? I am going to keep this post short, as I blogged earlier about our Marketplace and... Read Full Story
How can a Barter Network and a trade exchange help small business achieve success? Bartering has been around for a long time, and a Barter Network such as ITEX with thousands of Barter Items and a Trade Exchange community can help any small business by Increasing sales and increasing cash flow. How? Read on, as you already know we have been talking about Barter and online marketplaces such as ITEX barter network for a couple of weeks. We want to hear from you about your small business... Read Full Story
If you have noticed, we have been working on the online marketplace to help online businesses sell/promote their products and services for free. We did this as we started to learn about the Barter Exchange business of ITEX and how it really is one of the biggest b2b marketplace for businesses. We of course wanted to make a non-barter online businesses marketplace as that would help with b2b and b2c traffic. We have actually been moving forward in the rankings for our major keywords which... Read Full Story
I wanted to promote this Barter blog post on our SEO blog templates blog, I hope you don’t mind. Small business marketing and small business is at the core of my focus. In the next few months, we will be focusing with our friends at ITEX to help them enhance their small business barter network , and grow MyTypes.com. I still want to write and promote the Internet marketing 2.0, SEO, and SEO blog strategies, but we will be focusing quite a bit on the small business as a core focus so enjoy... Read Full Story
