Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Happy Birthday Swagbucks!

Yesterday was Swagbucks 3rd Birthday and boy did they do it up!  They gave away codes GALORE and had a lot of fun teasing us with the Cryptogram.  I was busy working yesterday and was only able to cash in on two codes for a total 65 SB's.  However, I know several people were able to cash in well over 100 SB's.

They also added a new way to earn SB's via a Facebook App, which can be found here.  For the details check out this entry on the Swagbucks Official Blog.

Here's a brief summary I copied from the SB's blog.

The trivia itself is a 10 question, timed round. Users will have 5 minutes to complete all 10 answers correctly, and to help you arrive at the right answer, we’re including a Swagbucks.com search box right underneath the questions. Note, this is going to help you maximize your searching Swag Bucks as you play trivia! Answer any question incorrectly, and the round is over. Each user has a total of 5 available rounds per day, and once completed, you must wait till the next day before having another chance to earn. Assuming that you complete all 10 questions correctly, you will either earn Swag Bucks on the spot, or be awarded with your Token. You may then chose whether to keep playing trivia, or to press your luck on the Spin&Win

That's all for now, I'm anxious to check it out and start winning more SB's!

Monday, February 14, 2011

Today's Earnings

Today's total:  209 SB's!

Just a few summary's for today's points:

Under Special Offers I watched a 15 second Gambit commercial for 2 SB's.

Found a Swag Code (thanks Swag Facebook Friends for the heads up) on the SB Blog for 5 SB's.  (now expired)

Found Swag Code #2 on SB TV thanks to more clues on Facebook for 5 SB's. (now expired)

I took the daily Trial Pay Survey (long version) under Special Offers for 90 SB's.

I completed a survey under Trusted Surveys for 75 SB's.  This was an easy one that I actually found interesting and learned something from.

17 SB's for two web searches.

Today I received emails confirming that three of my gift cards had processed.  It looks like it's taking about 7-10 days for verified gift cards to get fulfilled.  That's not too shabby, and good to know.

35 more SB's to go for another $5.00 AGC!  My goal is to hit 35 more points by 10:00am.


Code Alert

There's a code out that's good for 5 SB's until 10am pst.
Hint:  Find it where SG would post news.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Swag Code Alert

The code is good until 9:30am PST.  Hurry!


Here's your tip:  



Wednesday, February 9, 2011

149 Swagbucks for me

Today was a good day, 149 SwagBucks isn't too shabby!  I was busy with a lot around the house today and didn't spend a whole lot of time at the computer.  I did snag a code on the Facebook page.  One of the tabs at the top of the screen said Pr1zes. (Notice the 1 instead of an i)  I have cashed in on several of these codes but only because of reading the Swagbucks Facebook page.  I try to check out the FB page several times a day.  It takes very little time and I've not only scored some wins, but also learned a lot.

Tip of the day:  Check the Facebook Fan Page regularly!

Some of todays wins:

  • 90 SB's for Trial Pay was an Ampario Survey found under Special Offers
  • 26 SB's for the Survey of the Day found at the top of the list on Payment Wall.  
  • I watched two videos on Trial Pay found in Special Offers for 2 SB's each.  Each video was about 15-30 seconds. 
Today I earned enough SB's to cash in for another $5.00 Amazon Gift Card.  Yahoo!  

Total Prizes to Date:  $20 in Amazon Gift Cards
Weeks Swaggin:  2 weeks 1 day


Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Today's Ledger


180 SwagBucks for the day!

The top three items are all surveys done within a one hour period of time starting at about 10:30PM.  
 The Trial Pay survey can be found here.  The survey I took was Samlicious.us and took about 15 minutes. 
The other two surveys were from the regular Trusted Surveys section.  

I'm not sure what the "Other: 2 Point Conversion Promo" is...but I read something about it on the Facebook page and it seems that most everyone has this today.  I think it's back points for something I'm unaware of.  


SwagBucks 101

So you've heard about all of your friends earning free Amazon gift cards and you want in on the action?  You're still confused about how it all works, and if they REALLY are getting free money, right?  You've come to the right place.  I have had so many friends ask me to explain how this works, so I thought I'd save my breath and break it down for you Swagger Newbies and help you on your way to becoming a Swaggernaut.  All you have to do is follow each of these steps everyday (or when ever you feel like it) and you'll be bringing in the SwagBucks.  In my first two weeks I earned enough SwagBucks to redeem three $5.00 Amazon Gift Cards (also referred to as AGC) and was half way to earning my fourth.  That's $17.50 in my first two weeks!!  Amazon Gift Cards are just ONE of many prizes to choose from.  This page will show you exactly how I did it.



What is SwagBucks?
Swag bucks is a search and earn website that awards you for your time and effort with virtual currency (Swagbucks) that can be traded in for prizes such as, my favorite, Amazon Gift Cards.  They also offer gift cards from Pay Pal, Starbucks, iTunes, Barnes & Noble, Lowes...and the list goes on. 


How do I Earn SwagBucks?

1.    REGISTER  get 30 free points for completing this step.  No worries, they don't ask for anything crazy, just the basic contact information.  NO Credit Card #'s or Bank Acct. info. PROMISE!

2.    TOOLBAR -  (optional, but highly recommended by me)
       Install the toolbar by clicking the purple button in the upper left hand corner.


3.    FAITHFUL FOUR - I call these the Faithful Four (FF) because no matter what, everyday, if you go to these 4 areas, you will get your points.  Easy schmeezy!          

  • (1) Daily Poll - answer and receive 1 SB
  • (2) Toolbar Use - If you installed the toolbar, use it!  You will earn 1 SW everyday.
  • (3) NOSO - This stands for "No Obligation Special Offers".  Click the orange button, view offers (less than 30 seconds if you're not interested in the offers), fill out anything you're interested in, or just click "skip this offer" a few times and when you're done fill in the blank with whatever it asks for to receive 2 SW per day.
  •  (4)  Surveys - Just by going to this Surveys page each day, you will be rewarded with 1SB.  I check the Surveys area multiple times each day.  This is where I have earned the most SB's.  If there isn't a survey available, or you end up not qualifying for a few, don't give up, it will happen.  In my first two weeks I earned  439 SB just from participating in survey's!  If there are no survey's available to you, click "Profiles" just below where it says "Welcome back (your name here)"to earn SB by answering questions about yourself to help them find survey's to match up to you. You can do this anytime.

4.    SEARCHING - Either use your SB Toolbar, or search from the SB home page for your normal everyday searches.  This is a search engine just like the ones you're use to, except here, your searches can earn you SwagBucks!  Not every search will win you SwagBucks, and there's no rhyme or reason to when you'll earn, but if you use it daily, you will earn!  I usually get SB on one or two of my searches each day.  Don't get search happy though.  It will know when you're repeatedly putting in searches just to win SB and will temporarily suspend you from searching.  Just use it when you would normally do a search of the internet.

5.    GAMES -  Just play!  There are areas where you spend a few SB's to enter tournaments to win SB, or just play the free games and win up to 10 SB's per day.  If you're not in to the games, get those kiddos to help you out a bit.

6.  SB TV -  Earn 5 SB's for every 20 videos you watch.  The videos vary in length from less than a minute to around 4 minutes.  There are multiple categories that actually have some interesting info.   You can win up to 11 times per day for a total of 55 SB's.   I don't always have the time to do this, but when you do, you'll see how fast those videos roll on by.   


7.  SHOP & EARN - Don't ever shop online without coming here first!  If you have a store you want to buy from online, I can almost guarantee you will find it here.  You can access all of your favorite shopping sites, just go through this link first.  Want Target?  No problem, go to the link, select Target, and you'll be taken to their website where you'll shop as you normally would, EXCEPT, you will earn SB's for all of your purchases.  Earn 2 SW's for every dollar spent.  So easy!

Ok, I have to breathe.  I'll update with more information later.  This should get you started!