Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Swap.com Featured On CNN For Leading $12 Billion Swap/Barter Market

Swap.com played a feature role in today’s story on CNN Money that is dedicated to the over $12 Billion barter market in North America.  Swap.com has combined the category moniker Swap.com domain to be the brand umbrella on the largest online and offline swap market.  Like Amazon, we started with books, games and movies…great swapping [...]

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Spring Cleaning Is Great Way To Prepare For Swapping

It is Spring!
Based on the harsh winter that we have endured in Boston, it is great to see the sun higher in the sky and for longer hours each day.  Despite the fact that it is still kind of cold here you can tell that the good weather is right around the corner.
Spring has many [...]

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Swapping on “The Office”

If you caught last night’s episode of The Office, you may have noticed Dwight Shrute enacting his  latest Machiavellian scheme: Turn his work-sponsored garage sale at Dunder Mifflin into a master class on the “art of the swap“…at the expense of his more gullible colleagues, of course.
Read the full post from the Swapping Ideas Blog [...]

Saturday, February 26th, 2011

Fox Business Features Top Ways To Get Rid Of Something: eBay, CraigsList, Facebook, Swap.com..

Thanks to FoxBusiness for the shout out in a post about the top ways to get rid of something.  I am a bit biased but I think Swap.com is surely right up there…we help people get rid of things… but they can get something back that they want as part of that effort.  Now with Swap4Schools getting [...]

Saturday, February 26th, 2011

Talking Sustainability On Radio Green Talk

Thanks to hosts Chrissy Coughlin and Diana Dean for the invitation to come onto their Radio Green Talk. The mission for their show is to get at the nexus of economic and environmental sustainability. It is a big mission. They have some great guests on their show to share their views and [...]

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Boston Is “Swapping” For Fashion Week

The Swapaholics are hosting a super cool fashion swap on September 30 as part of Boston Fashion Week.  Swap.com is pleased to sponsor this event.  We hope all of the Swapaholics in the Boston area come out to swap some fashion that night.

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Swapping Featured In Entrepreneur

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.  [...]

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Swaptree Featured On CBS “The Morning Show”

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

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Swap Post On “Swapping Ideas” Blog

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 [...]

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Social Shopping: The Emotional Side Of Swapping

eCommerce on the Internet has changed the world.  The ease of access to goods.  Integration of product info, reviews and ratings.  With the web now enabling social connections through Facebook, Twitter and other sites, we are at the advent of another wave of growth through Social Commerce (shopping).
Social Commerce is going to unite the best [...]