Earn Free Stuff Online Using SwagBucks

This "tip" is a deviation from my usual tips. Today's tip is just a bit down the page or you can read it here.

Pretty much anybody who uses the internet has looked for a way to make some easy money online. Unfortunately, most of the ways to do this are either scams or not very lucrative. As an example, my mom signed up for something that required about 15 minutes of work a day and only earned her $25 in one year. I have found a way to earn free stuff online using the search engine SwagBucks.



What kind of free stuff?
Well, in my case, anything on Amazon. I have been earning $5 Amazon gift cards which means that I can buy pretty much anything I want off Amazon. If I needed to purchase the item anyway - for example: socks - then the $5 is pretty much cash in my pocket. (Budget the socks with cash, buy the socks with Amazon gift cards, use the budgeted cash for something else.)
Alternatively, if I wanted something pricey - like an iPod - I could earn one over a period of time with just a bit of effort everyday on my part.

How does it work?
When you do a search with SwagBucks, you have a chance of winning any number of SwagBucks. If you win a SwagBuck it gets added to your account. When you have enough SwagBucks, you can purchase something from the SwagStore. (Such as $5 Amazon gift cards or a $15 iTunes gift card.) I have earned enough SwagBucks in the last two weeks to get a $5 Amazon gift card.

Why would they do this?
When you search with their search engine, they get money from sponsored links and ads. They pass a bit of this money onto you through free SwagBucks.

How do you know this works?
Like I said, I've already earned a $5 Amazon gift card. My sister, who told me about this, has earned several gift cards. To make sure this was legit, I used the gift card I earned to buy something small off Amazon. The gift card worked like a charm. From everything I have read, seen, heard, and experienced, this is perfectly legit.

Why are you telling us, your Mac loving blog readers?
Two reasons.
Reason number one: to find something like this - that is totally legit - and not share it, would be a crime. It is super-easy to use and does what it claims.
Reason number two: if you sign up under my reference link I get a SwagBuck for every SwagBuck you earn (up to 100). If this sounds like something for you, and you haven't signed up already, this is a way you can say "Thank you" that not only helps me, but helps you as well.

Sounds good, how do I sign-up?
Just use this URL. As per their privacy policy they will not sell your info. In my experience, they only use your email address for contacting your for legitimate reasons (confirming email address, notifying you your prize has processed, etc.)

I've signed up; any tips for getting more SwagBucks?
1: Follow the twitter feed.
I've found that by subscribing to their Twitter feed via RSS I can get most of the SwagCodes they offer.

2: Don't search too much.
Theoretically, the more you search, the more you earn. I have found this to not be true. Instead, searching five times a day - every day - has earned me a decent amount of SwagBucks.

3: For big-ticket items: get them through Amazon.
If you're going to go for something big, like an iPod, you can save some serious SwagBucks. Getting Amazon gift cards versus getting an iPod Touch will save you 1,000 SwagBucks!


To sum up: SwagBucks is a perfectly legit way of earning free stuff online. Sign up today!