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IMS Reports Third Quarter & Nine Months Financial Results � Trend Toward Operating Profitability Continues

International Monetary Systems (OTCBB:ITNM), has posted its financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2010.

Financial highlights include:

�         Revenue increased 1.2% compared to the third quarter of 2009.

�         Year-to-date employee costs were reduced by 1.7% compared to the first nine months of 2009.

�         Total liabilities have been reduced by more than $900,000 since December 31, 2009.

�         Absent extraordinary legal fees and the cost of settling income tax audits, year-to-date net income would have been approximately $350,000.

For the third quarter ended September 30, 2010 International Monetary Systems generated gross revenues of $3,760,487, an increase of $46,040 or 1.2%, compared to the third quarter of 2009. Much of this increase in gross revenue resulted from a significant transaction in its corporate barter division. The company continues to develop and grow this division, with the anticipation that this division will become an increasingly important part of its business model.

Operating expenses in the quarter were $3,318,451, an increase of $149,325 or 4.7% compared to the third quarter of 2009. This increase is primarily due to increased legal and investor relations costs. The net operating profit was $197,278 for the quarter, compared to a net operating profit of $357,666 in the third quarter of 2009. After adjusting for interest and income taxes, the net loss for the current period is $37,642, compared to net income of $214,180 in the third quarter of 2009.

EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) for the present quarter ended September 30 was $602,901, compared with $748,792 in the prior year's third quarter.

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Is Your Trade Exchange Missing Out On Valuable New Business?

If your barter company�s listing on BarterNews.com isn�t current, you are definitely missing out on new business. The web site BarterNews.com receives heavy traffic � with over 150,000 page-views every month. Entrepreneurs and corporate executives check the thousands of articles, the weekly �Tuesday Report,� and the �Contacts Section� of our site. They use the latter to find barter companies with which to do business.

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To keep your listing current is very easy. See the links below to (A) update any changes to your company�s listing, such as new location, phone number, web site or other information, and (B) if your company has not been listed.

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ITEX Boosts Cash Dividend By 60%

ITEX, the largest trade exchange in the U.S., announced that its Board of Directors has approved a 60% increase in the quarterly cash dividend to 4-cents per share (16-cents per share on an annual basis). The next quarterly dividend will be paid on December 20, 2010, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on that date.

�We continue to generate positive cashflow providing us the ability to return more cash to stockholders, without jeopardizing future strategic opportunities,� explained Steven White, ITEX Chairman and CEO. �We have confidence in our operational performance going forward, and we will manage available and future cash resources wisely in order to deliver a consistent dividend that current and future shareholders can rely upon.�

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Entrepreneurs Must Continually Be Alert For Con Artists!!

We�re seeing an amazing growth of new businesses nationwide, propelled by an entrepreneurial desire held by many Americans.

But this eager class of risk-takers is discovering that the challenges can be greater than they ever imagined.

To all the normal bedevilments of small business � tight financing, uncertain markets, strong rivals � add another: a new breed of unscrupulous moneymen who prey on entrepreneurs.

Con artists have been around for ages, of course. But the fatal combination of entrepreneurial fervor, financial need, and naivet� makes fledgling business owners these days easy marks for a new variety of scamsters. Filled with enthusiasm for their own ideas, they can be startlingly inexperienced in finance.

�Technical entrepreneurs, especially, think what they do is important, but that the business side is trivial,� revealed Brad Bertash, director of a Salt Lake City nonprofit venture-capital consulting firm. Above all, what makes emerging companies ripe for scammers is their often desperate thirst for capital, and the historical difficulty in obtaining funding for start-ups.

So entrepreneurs are left to swim in shark-infested waters. Well intentioned efforts by the government to make it easier for small businesses to raise capital have paradoxically created hotbeds of abuse. Indeed, many of the schemes used to squeeze money from unsuspecting entrepreneurs are technically legal. Operating just this side of the law, many sophisticated promoters take advantage of loose regulation.

�These guys are like tax attorneys � always looking out for a new loophole,� explained Howard Sirota a former securities dealer investigator. �They know exactly how far they can go, and still avoid trouble.�