Bentley Commerce Launches New Online Barter Exchange for Members of First Equity Trade; Bentley Commerce Retains First Equity Group for Investor Awareness Program.

SARASOTA, Fla. -- Bentley Commerce Corporation (OTCBB:BLYC), the leader in online and point of purchase barter and trade, has launched an online barter exchange for First Equity Group, an information and media company that provides a Web-based forum to communicate corporate news to the business, financial and investment community through its website, www.stockmarketnewsalert.com. Members of First Equity Trade will now be able to trade with businesses from 88 online exchanges representing about 18,000 companies, with over a billion dollars in product and service offers listed on Bentley Commerce's global online trade marketplace (www.bentleycommerce.com).

By teaming with Bentley Commerce, subscribers to the First Equity Trade website will be able to trade products and services with member businesses across the globe on Bentley's online network. As they experience, first-hand, the benefits of barter for their own businesses, they will also see why Bentley Commerce is a potential investment opportunity.

First Equity will introduce its barter exchange www.firstequity.vbarter.com by issuing Platinum Trade Cards to about 500 brokers, analysts and other investment professionals. Soon after, it expects to provide thousands of investors who have businesses, with online access to trade their products and services in this new marketplace of buyers and sellers. They will be able to manage their trade account online and use the trade they earn from new sales to expand and improve their businesses, reduce cash expenses and enhance their lifestyles.

Bentley Commerce is providing First Equity Group with its VirtualBarter trade exchange management software and global trade marketplace on a revenue share basis. It will host and manage the exchange for First Equity, provide customer service and experienced trade consultants to teach members about trade opportunities. First Equity will provide marketing and promotion for the new barter exchange on their investor website www.stockmarketnewsalert.com, by adding trading information, articles and case studies to its website.

"Bentley Commerce's ability to provide the investment community with a branded online trade exchange," said Bruce Kamm, Bentley Commerce's CEO, "provides new revenue generating opportunities for these companies and for Bentley Commerce, in addition to providing a novel and valuable new service for First Equity's members and subscribers. It will give investment professionals who frequent the website, information about the $650 billion barter industry, and insight into how barter can be used to reduce the cash required to complete financial transactions, mergers and acquisitions."

In Other News: Bentley Commerce Expands its Investor Awareness Program

Bentley Commerce Corporation has retained the services of First Equity Group to provide shareholder information and public relations services. First Equity Group provides consulting services to public companies in areas ranging from corporate finance and dissemination of corporate information. It will provide Bentley Commerce with a marketing campaign focused on new investors.

About Bentley Commerce Corporation:

Bentley Commerce Corp. is a business-to-business, Internet e-commerce Company that launched its seamlessly integrated family of online barter services in 2004 to establish a new global trade marketplace for businesses to easily engage in real-time online barter and trade. Through its proprietary VirtualBarter software, it processes barter transactions over the Internet or at the point of purchase, between member companies, even if they are members of different exchanges. A growing number of independent trade exchanges, currently totaling 88, with about 18,000 companies that trade through them, have access to Bentley Commerce's global trade marketplace and trade exchange network featuring over a billion dollars in product and service offers available for trade. With Bentley Commerce's software and trade exchange management system, independent barter exchanges maintain their own brand, identity and local content, while offering their members the benefits of trading online with thousands of businesses.

Forward-Looking Statements:

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