Ten things

1. Information Products - ebooks, "how to" videos, cassettes, magazines, newsletters, paid e-zines, courses, etc. These types of products have most of their production costs in the initial content creation, and often there is little to zero cost in each unit distributed. Especially with digital products you'll find sellers quite ready to barter or even give away their product, since one more download will cost them basically nothing and even bring them more website traffic and more brand awareness.

2. Advertising – website links, banner ads, or in e-zines, ebooks, magazines, newspapers, even television or radio ads. Advertising is one of the most bartered for assets in the world, ever. Seriously, it is very common for companies of all shapes and sizes to barter ad space. Imagine if you ran the local radio station and you've got only half of your ad spots for the day sold, when all of the sudden some travel agency calls and wants to trade a trip for two to Bermuda. “Of course we'll trade!”

3. Web Hosting – One thing to remember is that anytime the supply side of a market is up, there is more potential that excess inventory will encourage the suppliers to trade. During the dot com boom of the late nineties web hosting facilities were created in an extreme abundance with the idea that everyone will be needing multiple websites. Keep an eye out for quality of service, but remember, there are many thousands of hosts just wondering what to do with all of that web space.

4. Software - it could be for tax software, web site authoring software, accounting software, newsletter software, graphic design software, etc. Barter for second hand software or for out-dated versions.

5. Copy Writing/Editing - it could be for web site content, promotional articles, press releases, e-zine articles, promotional ebooks, brochures, business cards, classified ads, sales letters, product packages, promotional products, etc. There are many independent