Chances are you’ve found a website, while surfing the net, that offers you something amazing like a FREE Xbox 360 or a FREE 42” Plasma TV. All you have to do is complete a sponsor offer to claim your free prize. However, by reading the fine print you find that by the time you have completed all the required offers, you will have paid the cost of the “FREE” item if not MORE! I’ve come across many of this type of offer and these are, needless to say, pointless!
BUT, now there exists a similar type of setup, but that doesn’t require you to pay the cost of the “Free” gift. This once obscure method of advertising has now blown up and created an entire world of “Freebie Fans!”
How and why do companies give away free products?
Companies like Blockbuster, Netflix, Video Professor, GameFly, Scholastic, and Stamps.com, just to name a few, will pay these Freebie Companies $30-50 for referring people to their site and signing up for a trial. Even though the customer is only required to sign up for a trial, the companies, like Blockbuster, are happy just to get people to use their service in hopes that they will retain that customer. So, the Freebie site offers in demand products to people for completing a sponsor’s trial offer. In order for the person to get their free gift, they must first complete a sponsor’s offer and then refer other people to do the same thing. You’re probably thinking, “Oh great, how am I supposed to get other people to sign up? I’ve wasted my money!” BUT, don’t fret, because there are tens of thousands of people, just like YOU, who are trying to get these free gifts as well!
Now let’s talk about how you are going to work with others to get your free stuff!
Alright, so you understand that you are going to need to get others to sign up and complete offers in order to get your free stuff. Now, you are going to learn the three things that are going to earn you your Free MacBook Air and that can also make you MONEY!
First: You can complete sponsor offers for other people who are currently earning their free stuff at one of the many Freebie sites, all of which are listed in Appendix B, and they will in turn, pay you for doing so! The cost Of offers range from $1-30 and many are even FREE! Understand that you will be paid adequately for completing an offer for someone. For example, if you sign up at www.YourPS34Free.com for someone, and you complete an offer that cost $5, you would get paid around $30. Basically, YOU WILL be paid a very nice amount for completing offers for people. At any given time, there are thousands of people willing to pay you for completing an offer. As you will come to know, Incentive Marketing is all over the internet and there is an entire online world of Freebie Fanatics who are constantly working to get more and more FREE STUFF!
Second: You can pay people to sign up and complete offers for you and once you have the required number of referrals, you may order your free product, which is worth much more than the total amount you paid to the people to sign up under you. You can also “trade” referrals. This just means that you sign up and complete an offer for someone else and they do the same thing for you. This way, you don’t pay anyone, and it actually costs much less because the offers range in price from $1-30 and many are even entirely FREE!
Now, to get a gift, you need to refer a certain number of people, which depends on the value of your gift. You’ll need anywhere from 1-20 referrals to get your gift. One referral can get you $80, 5 can get you a 40GB Playstation 3 PS3, 10 can get you an 80GB Sony Playstation 3 PS3, or a 16GB Apple iPhone, while 20 can get you a MacBook Pro. Once you complete an offer at one of the various Freebie sites, you are given a “referral link.” This link, when clicked, directs a person to the Freebie site and gives you credit if they sign up and complete an offer.
Third: You can pay $30 to have your referral link posted on the homepage of the freebie forum sites for a month. That will guarantee that you get your free MacBook Air. There sometimes is a waiting line, but you would only have to wait a month or two. During the month that your link is posted, you are guaranteed to get all the referrals you need and usually more. That means that you can get a MacBook Air for only $30!!!
Here are the step-by-step instructions on what you need to do:
1. Visit one of the various Freebie Forum websites where people are trading and paying for referrals. The three BEST Freebie Referral sites are:
2. Once there, sign up and get a username. Now just browse the various offers available, there won’t be any shortage. You will find people who want to trade referrals or that want to pay you for completing an offer for them. You will see how much money a person is willing to pay for a referral and at what Freebie website. When you find one you like, contact the person to confirm that you are interested
3. Once they get your message and see that you are interested, they will make sure you know how much they are going to be paying you and at what site. If you are satisfied with the offer, they will provide you with their referral link. People always pay a fair amount to you for completing offers under them. If you try to bargain with most of them, they will tell you that the pay is fair and they don’t need your help if you are going to be difficult to do business with. Please rest assured that 95% of the people WILL offer to pay you the fair amount. The Freebie Forum sights even have rating systems so that you will know if a person is safe and fair to do business with.
4. Now that you have their referral link, you simply click on it and sign up at the website you are taken to. You should make sure that it says, “you are being referred by 55555.” If it doesn’t say, “you are being referred by 55555” or whatever number, then you or the person you are completing the offer for, may have not copied and pasted the entire link. If this happens, simply talk to the person and let them know so that they can give you the proper link to click on. Once you are at the website and it says, “you are being referred by 55555,” you simply sign up and create an account at that website. You may only create one account per website!
5. Now that you are signed up at that sight, you can check your progress by going to the “progress page.” There you will find a list of usernames, and sometimes email addresses, of the people who have signed up using your referral link. If a person who has signed up using your referral link completes an offer, you will see a green check beside their name. This is known as “Going Green.” At this point, you will not see anyone’s username or email because you haven’t referred using your link. Go to the “Offers” page and select an offer to complete.
Quick note about completing offers:
- A list of some major offers can be found in Appendix C at the bottom of this page. You can only sign up for an offer ONCE! DO NOT try to complete the same offer twice! A lot of Freebie sites offer the same offers but that doesn’t mean you can complete an offer more than once! Once you have completed an offer, you must never attempt to complete it again, even if it is at a different site! If you try to complete an offer more than once, the Freebie site you are doing it for WILL suspend your account indefinitely! So, make sure to keep track of the offers you have completed!
- Also, offers vary in the time it takes for you to receive credit at the Freebie Site. For example, the Stamps.com offer credits instantly while the NetFlix offer can take up to 21 days to credit. The offer will always tell you how long it will take to credit so make sure and take that into consideration.
- Lastly, before you complete an offer, you should make sure to turn off any popup blocker or spam filter. Most systems use “cookies” to track your offer, so it is important to do whatever you can to facilitate this. You should set your “Privacy” setting to the lowest possible right before you complete an offer. For detailed instructions on how to do this, for any browser, visit HERE. I also recommend turning off any anti-spyware and/or anti-virus software you may be using. Once you are done with the offer, you may turn it back on.
- Avoid using a Proxy Server! Freebie sites identify you by your unique IP address. Users on proxy servers do not have a “static” IP address, but actually are using an IP address that is shared by 100s or 1000s of other users. Since you are sharing an IP address with many others, the Freebie site will not be able to identify you and may use the face that they cannot identify your offer completion by IP address as reason for denying your claim. The Freebie companies are usually very friendly and are happy to give away their products because they are making money either way, but since different people, using the same IP address, a proxy server, may try to complete the same offer, the Freebie company assumes they are trying to get SCAMMED. So, they usually will put your account on hold. What all of this means is that you shouldn’t use the Idiot Proof Income system while at work or school or while using any type of public computer, or AOL, which acts as one HUGE Proxy Server. Almost every internet provider will cause no problem as they are not set up with Proxy Servers, however if you aren’t sure, make sure and contact your internet service provider to find out. If you are connected via a proxy server, you can easily change your internet service provider. You could easily pay for any charges occurred as a result of switching internet providers by working with the Idiot Proof Income system for a day or two. Most internet providers will even offer free setup because they are so eager to get your business!
6. Once you have picked an offer to complete, you simply click on the link provided and sign up at the website you are directed to. You will probably need to enter a credit or debit card number to pay for a trial of sorts. For example, the Blockbuster.com offer is for a 2 week trial that you don’t pay a cent for until after your trial, unless you cancel your trial. If you don’t cancel your trial by the end of the 2 weeks, you will be billed $9.95 or so for a monthly membership. Keep in mind that you are signing up for a TRIAL and it is exactly that, a TRIAL! If you aren’t satisfied with the service or product, you can send it back or cancel the trial.
7. Right after you complete the offer, you’ll be shown a confirmation page, which confirms that your registration has been completed or that your order has been placed. I recommend that you do not navigate away from that page for at least 2 minutes. This will allow the page to load completely and also allow any computing or tracking processes to finish completely. You should also save Email confirmation that is sent by the company for whom you completed the offer. You should also try to print or save the confirmation page itself straight from your web browser. Now that you have completed the offer, you can go to your “Progress” page and see if you have received credit. Remember that the time it takes to receive credit varies by offer; some credit instantly, while some take 2 days, and others can take 2 weeks. When you do receive credit, you will receive a confirmation email that tells you that you have received credit! You can also see this by going to the “Progress” page where it will show that you have received credit.
8. Once you receive credit, you can get PAID! Whoever’s link you clicked on to sign up, will most likely contact you and ask for your PayPal email. If you don’t know what PayPal is, go HERE to read a very nice article about the service or you can go HERE to create an account. PayPal is a secure online money transaction system that acts as a third party in online buying and selling. People can put money into yourPayPal account and you can withdrawl it to your bank account or receive a check in the mail. So, the person who hired you to complete an offer for them will deposit the agreed upon amount into your PayPalaccount. Voilà! You have received your first payment using the Idiot Proof Income System! You’re not an idiot after all! Also, you may want to know that PayPal is operated by Ebay and, obviously, is completely superior.
9. Now that you know all the steps to follow to get paid by others, simply repeat this process!
Now we’re going to talk about how to others to sign up under YOU!
1. Go to one of the Freebie Forums (a list of Freebie Forums can be found in Appendix B) and post your offer! This step is pretty self-explanatory but you can view the video HERE.
2. Once you have an offer posted, you simply wait for people whom are interested, to contact you. This won’t take very long and I’m sure you will be surprised at how fast this will happen.
3. Once you get someone who is interested, you should make sure they know how much you are going to pay them and at what site. Once they confirm that they understand, you will send them your referral link, assigned to you by the Freebie Site and that can be found on the “Progress” page. The person will probably give you their PayPal email so that you can pay them as soon as they “Go Green.”
4. Once they “Go Green,” you pay them using PayPal. It IS that easy!
Instead of paying people to complete offers for you, you can “trade” offers with others!
1. There are usually totally separate pages for trades on the Freebie Forum sites. Find where the “Trades” take place and post your offer. You’ll want to include what site you need people to sign up at.
2. Once someone contacts you, the two of you will trade referral links. You will click on the link they give and then sign up and complete the offer at the website you are directed to. You need to understand that when you agree to trade referrals with someone, you MUST complete the offer! Trying to scam someone in this way is extremely frowned upon and will result in a negative feedback from that person and possibly a bad-mouthing campaign by that person. So make sure you complete the offer you are supposed to when you “trade” with someone. If for some reason you are unable to complete the offer for the person you are trading with, and they have already completed the offer, you can offer to pay them instead. I’d say that about 95% of the people who participate in the Freebie Community, are very friendly and compassionate people. They aren’t going to do anything to harm your reputation without getting your side of the story first.
Blame Canada! Canadians MUST read this!
Canadians should complete less offers for money and instead pay others to complete offers for you. There are hundreds of Freebie Sites out there but MOST of them do not cater to Canadians. However, there are plenty that do, to make for a good source of income. You can find a list of some very good Freebie sites in Appendix C.
FREEBIE COMPANY GIFTS!
You should know what prizes are available from the Freebie Sites. Prizes are usually in demand electronics or cash. You must have a PayPal account to get cash and if you don’t have one, you can get one by clicking HERE. The way to make the most money is to opt for the big electronics prize. This is because most Freebie Sites offer a main prize which is the best value. The highest amount of cash offered at Freebie sites is always less money than the main prize is worth and they tend to require the same number of referrals. The reason for this, obviously, is because it requires an additional step to turn the main gift into cash. For example, one Freebie Site offers a 80GB Playstation 3 as its main prize. The 80GB PS3 is currently worth $500 on Ebay. But the highest cash prize offered at the site is only $435. So, obviously, the best choice is to go with the actual prize. The way to convert your prize into cash is with Ebay. Ebay is the most well known and most used online auction site on the net. In order to convert your prizes into cash, you SHOULD use Ebay. However, you could also use Amazon.com, or Craig’s list. I wouldn’t recommend using any method other than Ebay because I don’t know of any others and Ebay is, by far, the easiest.
Which prize should you pick?
You want to choose the prize that has the best value and here’s how you do it: You’ll notice that there are several prizes available at each Freebie Site. Obviously, the prizes that require the most referrals are usually worth more. First, you find out the value of the prize that requires the most referrals. Then, you divide the value by the number of referrals required to find out how much each referral is worth to you. If say a $500 Playstation 3 is worth 10 referrals, then each referral is worth $63. That means that you want to pay each person who completes an offer for you using your link, less than $63 so that you turn a profit, but enough to be fair. I would probably offer $30-35 at that site. If you paid people $30 for their referral, you would be paying only $300, while the prize is worth $500. You just made $200! Lastly, if you aren’t sure how much a prize is worth, simply ask someone on a Freebie Forum or search it on Google.
Now that you know what to do, GET TO IT!
A quick FAQ for you:
If you don’t have money to pay people to complete offers for you, all you have to do is complete offers for others until you have enough money. If you don’t have any money at all to even begin, you can still do it! There are many offers that DO require a credit card but that will not charge you a penny, EVER! Offers like GameFly will require a credit card number but will not charge you AT ALL during your trial! There are other offers that don’t even require a credit card!
If you follow this guide, you WILL make money! It IS Idiot Proof! When I first started doing this, I would find someone who was offering money for me completing an offer and then sign up using their referral link. Then I would request payment from them. I kept doing that until I had made $400, which only took me about 3 hours! Then, I started paying people to sign up at the sites where I had already signed up and completed the offer for. I only payed people to complete offers for ONE site that I had signed up for. I was trying for an 80GB PS3 that required 10 referrals. I paid $30 to each person that completed an offer for me using my link, which means I spent $300 total. The 80GB PS3 was worth $600 at the time. That means I made $300 in profit! It only took me about a month to get all 10 referrals. The trick is to invest in as many as you can at once. You WILL eventually get all of the referrals you need for every site you are doing. Once you do, the payout is fantastic!
That’s it! You know all one needs to ever know about Incentive Advertising and how to benefit from it! This really WILL work for YOU! There are thousands of airs just waiting to be brought home!
Appendix A
Here is an up to date list that includes many of the Freebie Sites available. Don’t be surprised if you find a hundred others by word of mouth or from someone else’s list because they are popping up monthly. Freebie sites make quite a bit of money and it is a great investment, so, lookout for more to appear.
Appendix B
Here is a list of Freebie Forums where you can find people who want to get their free stuff just as bad as you. Keep an eye out for other forums that aren’t listed here. Ask around and see if there are any new ones. These are the forums that I use and I have had great success with these.
