How do I Get Free Stuff?

Everybody loves free stuff but as the old saying goes - "there are no free lunches." Don't get me wrong, many of these sites are legitimate. They are run by advertising firms trying to attract visitors to promotional sites and they are paid by the sponsors with listed sites. Some people actually earn a part time income by working these promotions but that is not what the sites are intended for. The promotions are meant to increase the public awareness and visibility of the products and services contained in the underlying offers. Understand that these promotions do have requirements you must meet in order to earn the rewards they offer.

The way you use these promotions is to visit the site, choose your reward and register with the promotion company. You then complete a number of sponsor-offers to qualify, normally one or two. Finally you refer other people to the site and if enough of your referrals complete their offers then you can claim your reward.

The rewards can range from gift cards to computers, wide-screen-LCD TV's, or cash. The number of referrals you need to send to the sites depend on the value of the rewards you choose.

For the reward to be free, however, you should not have to pay to complete the offers. Most of the sites I have looked at do have some free offers for participants to complete and some of them list over 100 offers. However, most of these sites require you to register with your credit card information to participate. Many of the free offers are free trials, the advertising company will bill your credit card on a monthly basis for any recurring membership offers you join, so be careful.

Complete offers for products or services that you will actually use if you participate in these promotions. You may obtain something you are looking for anyway for a reduced price and receive a free reward or even some extra cash for your trouble.

If you are wandering how the promotion companies make any money from these promotions, the answer is simple: most people who complete the required number of offers will fail to generate enough referals to actually receive the reward for a particular promotion. The promotion company is paid by the sponsors of the offers whether any rewards are given out or not, so the promotion company counts on the probability that there will be many more participants who will drop out of the promotion after completing a few offers than there will be participants who actually qualify for the rewards.

Project Payday is an alleged opportunity to make extra money in your spare time advertised by Monica St. John. They do not divulged on the site what exactly you are signing up for until you sign up.. What you do if you accept is participate in an offer program similar to what is described above, then they will point you to an offer swapping site like Free iPod Guide. This type of site is a sort of trading post for these types of offers. If you are interested in this type of opportunity, save yourself the extra work and go to the Free iPod Guide site directly.