My Name is Ardell Taykowski and I'm the president of a locally owned barter company in St. Louis called Absolute Barter Company. I have been in the barter industry since 1999, helping business owners save thousands of dollars per year by trading what they have for what they need and want. After working for another barter company here in St. Louis, I knew I could "do it better". My dream was to offer St. Louis business owners the best barter company in town. I listened, I learned and then finally, I reacted. My only problem was, I was living paycheck to paycheck and had no savings. Sound familiar? Well, that didn't stop me because I already knew...there was barter! I started my business from home the morning I walked away from my job! I called some of the trading clients I had business r