The following excerpt is from Entrepreneur's book Finance Your Business. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes

Jarrett Joyce is an American entrepreneur. He is the owner of Southern Shipping LLC, a company specializing in hauling and shipping equipment.; He is also a TV personality and has appeared on the A&E show Shipping Wars.
Unforgettable is an American police procedural crime drama television series that premiered on CBS on September 20, 2011. Unforgettable was developed by Ed Redlich and John Bellucci, and stars Poppy Montgomery as Detective Carrie Wells, a police detective with an unusually detailed and photographic memory.

The new original real-life series Barter Kings features a skilled pair of entrepreneurs as they trade up from low-value items to items worth thousands more. Cash is never exchanged and value is subjective, but these guys know the current market well and they will trade multiple times over to get to the objects of their desire.

When money’s tight, how can you grow your business? Trade for the items you need, say trading professionals and the hosts of A&E’s 2012-2014 original trading show Barter Kings. Traders Steve McHugh and Antonio Palazzola have their own approach to trading up to get what they want -- on the premiere episode, the pair worked their way up in a series of six trades from a framed gold Elvis record to a powerboat.

While we might not all have the skills to trade up for more valuable items, barter is definitely a useful tool for business owners looking to stretch their budget. In this tough economy, barter has boomed, and online barter exchanges that help you find items to barter for are mushrooming.

How can entrepreneurs barter for what they want without spending a dime, even if they don’t have an item of equal value to trade? Here are seven tips from McHugh and Palazzola:

1. Don’t bring cash. Palazzola has a strict policy of leaving his wallet at home when he goes to a trade. That way, when a trader wants to “even out” a trade by having you add in a few hundred dollars in cash, you can simply say you have no cash available. It’s a straight trade or nothing.

2. Look for the soft spot. The pair chat up traders to find out why they’re selling. Command 2.0 dx update cd download free. For instance, one trader needed to get rid of his son’s dirt bike because the boy had broken his leg, and his wife was mad. Another had made a vow to his wife not to ride motorcycles as long as they had kids at home, so the bike had to go. When you know the trader has to ditch their item, you’re in a stronger position to negotiate and trade them a slightly less valuable item.

3. Be stoic. Never let a trader see you’re crazy hot to get an item. Stay impassive, and act like you don’t care to make the best deal.

4. Leave some mystery. When you’re listing an item to trade, don’t advertise all the details. Post a good photo, and leave it with a basic description so the prospect has to call you to find out more.

5. Craigslist rules. Both hosts recommend the popular site as the top place to scan for trades. Not everyone posting on there will be savvy about how much their item is really worth, giving you an opening to potentially trade an item.

6. Know your item’s value. You can’t come out on top in a deal if you’re not sure what both the item you’re trading and the one you’re getting are really worth. Often, traders will price items with sentimental value in mind or still have the original retail price in their heads, both of which are irrelevant to the resale market. Bring an experienced trader with you, or have a smartphone handy for checking eBay to establish what this item is selling for today, in its current condition.

7. Watch out for scams. There are plenty of shady traders out there, Palazzola says. If you smell something fishy, run the other way.

A fish story

What if the product you bring to the table is wild Alaska salmon, halibut and lingcod? How do you find a web designer who’s willing to take payment in fish?

This was the issue faced by Mack Chaffin, co-owner with his wife, Diane, of The Elfish Co., a fish distributor. Although he did a decent business selling fish through his website, at farmers markets and to a handful of restaurants and grocery stores, Chaffin wanted to expand.

But marketing requires capital that the Dewey, Arizona-based businessman didn’t have. So at the end of 2011, when he discovered The Barter Group, a trade exchange of 450 small businesses in Greater Phoenix, he leapt at the chance to join. Entrepreneur cast a line to Chaffin to find out more, and the following is an excerpt from that interview.

Powered by the same core technology as Antares' professional standard Auto-Tune 8, Auto-Tune EFX 3 is the quickest, easiest-to-use tool for real-time pitch correction and creating the iconic Auto-Tune Vocal Effect.Auto-Tune EFX 3’s new variable Retune Speed and Humanize controls provide an entirely new level of natural, realistic pitch correction. And with our unique Auto. Antares Autotune 9.1.1 Crack + Serial Key Full Download. Antares Autotune Crack VST software is an advanced plugin for fixing a multitude of pitch-related problems. More, Antares Autotune EV6 Final Release analyzes the key and the pitch commonly associated with the given input and identifies the perfect pitch for that input. Auto Tune Efx Crack Torrent Antares Autotune 9 is available in the native version that supports different formats. Specifically, the Autotune 7 supports VST, AU and RTAS formats. Auto Tune Efx 64 Bit Crack Mac Torrent. Autotune efx vst mac torrent.

Entrepreneur: Why join a bartering organization?

Mack Chaffin: Until now, the farmers market in Phoenix had been my primary source of revenue. I’ve been looking for ways to expand, to get the word out that we’re here. But we don’t have the kind of capital needed for advertising. Most of our capital has been used to purchase the freezers where we store our fish and other items to get the business established.

With the current economy, we can’t exactly go to a bank for a loan. They’re looking for somebody who’s been in business a whole lot longer and has collateral. So when I learned about The Barter Group, it was perfect. You don’t have to make a huge capital outlay every time you need services. You just swap something.

Entrepreneur: How does the group work?

Chaffin: When an individual wants to purchase some fish from us, what I get in return are “barter dollars,” which are kept in my Barter Group “bank account.” And then when I need to purchase a product or service, that credit will be there for me to use. It’s much easier to do this than having to purchase the fish and still come up with other capital to pay a marketing company for their services.

Entrepreneur: What are the fees involved?

Chaffin: The Barter Group charges 6 percent cash on each transaction as well as a monthly maintenance fee of $10 in cash and $10 in trade. We were lucky enough to get a free membership due to a promotion going on when we joined.

Entrepreneur: What services do you plan to barter for?

Chaffin: We’re hoping to do web design, branding, printing, promotional items like T-shirts and hats, print and radio advertising, and strategic marketing, and to expand our social media reach.

It’s almost tripling what our marketing budget was before. All you’re spending is inventory. If we were to spend $12,000 on marketing, we’d be taking that in cash out of our pocket.

Barter Kings Cast Girl

Entrepreneur: Why not just barter with other businesses on your own?

Chaffin: Going through The Barter Group is much easier than calling somebody out of the phone book and saying, “I need you to do this, and by the way, would you like to take some salmon as partial payment?” You don’t know whether that would insult them, or they don’t like fish, or they just don’t want to barter.

Be aware of labor and tax rules

When Rebeca Mojica, owner and “creative guru” of Chicago jewelry company Blue Buddha Boutique, announced on Facebook that her shop was moving in 2011, customers responded, “How can we