Swagbucks video

Ok, so we talked about SwagBucks on Monday night and many of you seemed interested (and several have signed up). They have been giving lots of codes away the past few days....but are you wondering how to find them?

First...put their blog on your feed reader. Sometimes there is a code in their blog or they give a hint of where to find a code.

Second...if you twitter...follow them. If not...you can check Both their blog and twitter on their site. It's on the left vertical menu bar.

Third...become their friend on facebook. They'll often post codes there or you can read chatter about a code that is out (sometimes someone posts the code, but that is not "legal" NEVER post a code...give hints, but don't post, you can be deactivated).

Fourth...download their search bar. You will not get points every time you search, but you should get them every once in a while. Again my personal "goal" is to get 30 points a day...which would be enough for 2 $5 Amazon gift cards a month...but you can do better.

Check out this short video on their blog from a swag user. Since last January (09) they have cashed in over $1000 in Amazon gift cards, books, a HP mini book (I think) and now a Wii. That's a lot in one year! They must Swag all the time! hahaha. AND...they probably get a lot of referals.

Oh yeah...#5...refer people. You get a points for every point your referal earns, up to 1000 I believe. (That's two gift cards if your thinking like I'm thinking)

You do have to sort of "work" for the bucks. You've got to check out their site, blog, twitter, facebook, every once in a while. You have to search on their engine (which is run by google and ask). You can earn by shopping through them, turning in old cell phones....doing special offers...there's all kinds of ways. Anyway, I thought the video would be encouraging to you.

If you haven't sign up, use this link.

OH...WOOHOO....I just click the sign up link and if you sign up today, they'll give you 30 free Swag bucks! YES! You have to use my link though....

SwagBucks

If you are a follower of all the great couponing and deal blogs, you have no doubt heard about Swagbucks. I signed up a while ago, but I didn't really do much in the way of trying to earn them. In fact, I did nothing. Recently though I decided to put a little more effort into it, and I just "cashed out" last night for my first $5.00 Amazon gift card. My "goal" is to earn 2 $5.00 gift cards per month, which would be $100 in gift cards by Christmas (since I sort of missed the month of January). That's not a bad little start to my Christmas shopping budget for doing nothing but searching.

What is Swagbucks some of you are asking? I'm not a great expert on it, but I'll try to explain. You earn Swagbucks in several different ways by

a) using their search engine instead of google. You randomly earn between 1 and 5 swagbucks (or more), just for typing in a search (this is how I earned almost all of mine) You can install a toolbar to make it easier to search.

b)You earn them by finding Swagcodes that are released. I just put a widget on our side bar. You can check for random Swagcodes on that widget. If a code is published, type it into your account and earn a Swagbuck

c) Earn them by signing up for offers....you earn lots of Swagbucks for that

d)OR earn them by viewing offers and saying no thanks. You may only earn one...but you don't have to worry about canceling offers later (this is the only thing I've done so far)

e) Earn them by having people sign up under you.
This is the part I feel weird about because I don't usually ask people to do things like that. BUT....if you've been wanting to try Swagbucks out and haven't yet, click the little icon to the right and you would sign up under me. Basically, for the referral, I would earn 1 Swagbuck for every Swagbuck you earn up to 100 Swagbucks. So, there is a real benefit in having people sign up under you. So...if your going to do it, do it under someone from our group and not a random coupon blogger I guess. Or...sign up on your own, whichever you please.

f)You can also find Swagcodes by following them on their blog, on facebook, on twitter and all those other social network things. I don't do those, so I don't know how many codes are out there.

g) There are other ways to earn too like being a random hourly winner, giving them your old cell phone...etc....

I kind of thought Swagbucks would be to hard to earn to be worth by time, but I read a comment somewhere recently that said they try to earn 3 Swagbucks a day, either by searching or by looking at no obligation offers. They should get to the 45 Swagbucks needed to earn a $5 Amazon gift card in 15 days....so that equals 2 cards a month. That sounded do-able to me...and it even took less than 15 days to get to my 45 Swagbucks for my gift card.

I guess I've jumped on the wagon. If you want to jump on too...then click the box to the right or above this paragraph that says Swagbucks and join today. Don't forget to use your "junk/coupon" email address! And...let us know when you earn a gift card (or there are A TON of other things you can win if you want. I just like money for Christmas)