Cool graphic featured in Fast Company that highlights the market leaders for helping consumers make the most of things they have to get the hings they want..collaborative consumption!
Swap.com featured for all of your used media…and soon for all of the other goods and services!
Very cool graphic. Thanks FastCompany.
Swap.com has emerged as a leader in this global movement that Rachel Botsman calls “Collaborative Consumption.” We were honored to be featured in Rachel’s book that she released this year titled “What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption.”
An early Christmas present today with Swap.com’s inclusion in Time Magazine’s “The Top Ten Everything Of [...]
Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers released their book, “What’s Mine Is Yours” today. This book is a well research manifesto on a very important economic trend…collaborative consumption.
Today Rachel and Roo got the opportunity for a guest post in the Huffington Post to introduce their book and five companies that are “hot” in the collaborative consumption [...]
Last month I posted that Swaptree had acquired Swap.com. This is a big deal for a young company operating in a developing category. Our goal is to lead this category. What better name and domain for the company other than the category name itself. Today we made the switch of the domain and we updated [...]
Swapping featured in Entrepreneur’s Daily Dose today. As I always say, swapping is a very natural behavior. People have been swapping things for thousands of years. The evolution of the social web and matching technology enables the expansion of swapping on the Internet. Great to see Swaptree front and center in this post on Entrepreneur. [...]
Yesterday we announced to the members of Swaptree that we have acquired Swap.com. This is an important development for a lot of reasons.
First, the essence of what our members do when they are on our site is very simple, they “swap.” We are committed to continuing to grow our platform for books, music, movies and [...]
Swaptree was featured in a segment on saving money this morning. The advent of swapping on the Internet is reinventing this age old way of exchanging things. Check out the video here: Swapping On The Internet
Great web sites are all about the user experience.
Swapping on the web must be all about the user experience. We must strive to add value to that simple and safe swapping opportunity that you have with your family and friends, while adding the scale of Amazon and networking of Facebook. It is a tall [...]
I have to admit that I was not a big reader as a kid. Of course I enjoyed books, but I enjoyed the outdoors, sports and being with friends and family a whole lot more. It’s safe to say that in my earlier years, “summer reading” was not always top of mind.
In truth, I have come [...]
Swapping is a form of commerce that has gone on since the dawn of time. People had needs – other people had things. With no currencies the swap was the exchange. This still exists today across the globe. The root of swapping is to fulfill a need or want. Generally the enabler for swapping is [...]
