Since the beginning of time, people exchanged goods and services in lieu of using money. With this brand new bartering platform, you can exchange goods and services without the need for cash. Especially during COVIDian times, people may be low on cash but very often produce value with their limited time on Earth. The goods and services we all produce are the currency, and bartering allows us to trade without the need for monetary transactions.
Why You Should Barter
Save Time
Don’t spend your time doing things you don’t enjoy, trying to learn everything in the world, or doing things that are outside your zone of genius. Instead, stick to what you like doing and do more of that in exchange for someone else doing the thing you don’t know about or don’t enjoy.
When we barter, the most valuable currency is our own time.
Save Money
It doesn’t matter how much you love your business, if you don’t have enough money to hire someone, you don’t have enough money to hire someone. And that’s totally fine. Even if you do have money, you may have it earmarked for something else, and that’s fine too!
Stop Stressing
The beauty of the internet is that you can learn how to do anything. The danger of the internet is that you can learn how to do anything, and you feel like everyone can do it better than you. Even though that’s not necessarily true, it can be stressful looking at an endless to do (or to learn) list or spend hours on something that still doesn’t work outright.
Make Connections
Being available for bartering means you get the chance to network with and create relationships with a lot of awesome people. Sometimes these are people you may never have come across otherwise because they work in a different industry or circle.
My Vision of Bartering
Politics, social instability, the impending collapse of civilization, climate change, and COVID seem to be destroying the global economy. We have all witnessed immense changes to our way of life within the past year alone. Insurmountable amounts of people seeking alternative means to survive. What a better way to help each other out than to trade the invaluable limited time we have in this world.
Anything is barter-able. Tangible or intangible, crafts or knowledge, music or video production, yoga lessons or life mentoring, any kind of consulting or school tutoring. Plants you have grown, produce you harvested, the food you made. It’s all on the table.
Database: Current Bartering Products & Services
The database below first includes all products & services I am willing to trade and barter. Secondly, what people in my network are willing to trade and barter. Lastly, an updated list of products or services we are all willing to accept as forms of payment.
Offering: Digital Products/Services
- Search Engine Optimization Consulting
- SEO Implementation
- SEO Research
- Content Analysis
- Content Research
- Web Design
- Web Development
Offering: Physical Products/Services
- None at the moment.
Offering: Digital Products/Services
- Paid Advertising Consulting – New!
- Graphic Design
- Logo Design
- Branding Design
- Packaging Design
- Tattoo Design
- Cryptocurrency Consulting
- Custom PC Design
- Acrylic, Ink, and Marker-based Traditional Illustrations – New!
- Spanish Tutoring – New!
- Translating and Proofreading English / Spanish – New!
- Skin Care Consulting – New!
Offering: Physical Products/Services
- 3D Printing (shipped)
- Custom Jewelry – Various Medals and Stones (shipped) – New!
- Custom PC Building (Bay Area)
- Wall Ornamentation and Room Decor (San Diego, CA + Tijuana, BC) – New!
- Facials (Phoenix, AZ) – New!
Use the form below to let us know what you can offer. At this time, we are willing to consider most options! However, any physical bartering (following COVID-19 safety protocols) will have to take place in San Jose, California for in-person services or have to be shipped here for physical products.
Looking for: Digital Products/Services
- Anything you have to offer. Everything is barter-able.
Looking for: Physical Products/Services
- Anything you have to offer.
- Dog Walking & sitting (San Jose, CA)
- Dog Training
- Indoor & Outdoor Plants
- Website help for my podcast – New!
- Home Decor (unusual, quirky items) – New!
- Art (paintings, drawings, mixed media, photography, taxidermy, etc.) – New!
- Life/Career Coaching – New!
- Creative Writing (e.g. custom poetry, short stories, copywriting) – New!
Bartering FAQ
Your time is the currency, so it really depends on our society’s standardized form of pricing time & skills. For the sake of simplicity, here is one example: If you offer consulting services for $100/hr and someone makes custom earrings worth $100, that’s a 1 to 1 value.
Yes! For the time being, there is no charge to use this platform. I want to connect friends and individuals of all walks of life to trade value for value, in whatever shape or form.
Once you fill out the form below, I will be providing you access to a database of people like you willing to trade value to value. In this database, you will see what they are looking for, and what they can offer you. If there is a match in interest and value, a barter will take place!
Digital Services Bartering Form
Please fill out the form below. Include details about what products or services you offer and what you are interested in receiving as forms of payment. Working in digital marketing in the US Southwest for so long, I have had the pleasure of working with a diverse group of amazing and creative individuals. Don’t be shy! Please share any relevant info: