Let’s Swap a Skill

Do you ever happen to be under unnecessary additional work pressure just to earn a few hundred bucks to pay for a plumbing job? Don't you just wish you could do it yourself and save those money for other expenses? Well, I have some good news for you. I have come across Swapaskill recently, and I have to tell you how excited I was to know that they encourage their members living in the same neighbourhood to swap their skills to get jobs done. For me, it's a really brilliant idea. Not only I can save money, I can even meet new people and make new friends in the same time - by getting help and helping people myself. That alone is even more valuable than what money can buy for me.

Swapaskill has been launched quite recently and is intended to help people to swap their skills. What I found interesting about the concept is that their members would not have to pay any money to get another member to do any job that requires a skill that they don't have. Instead, they will have to return the favor by doing something else that the other party wants them to do (if they can, of course).

I can imagine how good it is to trade a skill to get someone help us do something. Perhaps this can eliminate the gap between you and your own neighbors. And this might also help build trust and friendship in our local communities. The scope of skills that can be swaped at Swapaskill is virtually endless. Maybe you want to impress your mother-in-law with a very special dish but don't have any idea how to cook it? Swapping skills with someone who has the idea is an obvious choice here.

Swapping is not a new concept, and there're a lot of sites intended to swap items among their members. Among them, the highly notable one is Swapz.co.uk - it allows its members to swap items among them. The competition for user base is stiff. Yesterday we even covered Cellswapper at Profy - the website for people to swap their cell phone contracts. So this concept is obviously not new. 

It seems that swapping is becoming a trend in the Web 2.0 conscious community and it is slowly changing the way we are getting the things we want. Hopefully, this will even change attitude towards money. After all, it's not the money we want, it's the things that money can buy. It should stay that way.