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Who doesn’t absolutely love getting free stuff? An age old question that never seems to tire of the same answer! With money as tight as it has been over the past year for everyone not just in the US but globally, now is an even better period to see what offers are currently out there. What many don’t realize is that free stuff are occurring at a more rapid rate than ever before. Businesses are realizing the true value of offering free samples to their customers. The value is not only tangible in seeing an increase in deals, but the real value is the alteration of potential customers towards their brands and buyer behaviour. Psychologically, free stuff plays a large role in determining a person’s preference towards a brand and its products.
So the question then becomes, where do you get these freebies from? Well with the Net continuing to experience growth and not having even tapped properly into markets like China and India, the Net is the most logical place to begin.
Using the key words ‘free samples’, ‘free stuff’ or ‘freebies’ and you’ll come up with a whole ranges of search results. Unfortunately search engines can’t read your mind and a lot of these results will be useless. Every day there is a new sample released somewhere online. The idea is to find a site that specialize in and categorize freebies that you’re comfortable with. My recommendations from the top search results of the above search words include the following sites:
Shop4freebies.com
Thunderfap.com
FreeStuff4Free.com
Freestufftimes.com
These 4 sites are updated regularly and therefore your search for freebies can be limited to these sites because inevitably they will have the latest free stuff available collectively between them. Be on the lookout for forums as well because they generally will be up to date if it’s a popular site with people contributing regularly throughout the day.
Be on the lookout for money saving blogs on the Net. Many people are starting blogs about saving money at the moment as it is a hot topic and therefore often contain up to date information about freebies. Many of these blogs have sections on where you can find freebies and samples of new products, and often link you directly to a request form for ordering the samples. With these kind of samples, there are usually conditions that limit 1 sample per household to restrict abuse. What’s also good about blogs is that you are able to leave comments allowing for interaction and “real time” feedback on samples that are available. Also this gives the reader the ability to let other readers know when and if a sample expires.
Armed with this information, start your free stuff journey today towards significant money savings and answering the question posed at the beginning of this article with a resounding ‘YES’!
Tags: cheabies, Coupons, Free Samples, Free Stuff, Freebies
Posted in Tips · March 20th, 2010 · Comments (0)
When I lost my job approximately 18 months ago, I was a complete disaster. No job meant there was high stress within my family even with a payout. A mortgage on hand and the payout was only going to last 3 months before we would have the bank knocking on our door asking for their money. Down and depressed and unable to foresee where the next paycheck was to come from, meant that there was uncertain times ahead.
Armed with only my laptop, I began searching for jobs but to no avail. Thousands of other people were in the same boat and were also applying for the limited number of vacancies available. The economy was down, consumer confidence was even lower and dragging the market along with it for this rollercoaster ride.
However whilst searching for jobs, I also had plenty of time on my hands and began searching for prospects online to either make money or save money.
And that’s when a life revelation happened. I managed to stumble across a couple of websites that indicated that a living could be made from the Net. Of course I was a little sceptical, what with Nigerian scams and plenty of spam mail telling me I could make millions from doing basically nothing. But after reading some of these websites, I realized that it was real and that I could participate in the burgeoning industry of online blogs.
But what was I passionate about? What actually could I continually write about? Well given the current circumstances, anything that would help save me money was on top of the list. So whilst I was using the Net to help save myself money, I then was able to share my experiences and thoughts on saving money through my own site. I stumbled across sites that specialized in freebies and considered that this would a niche market that I could excel in. Given that I had recently begun to take advantage of freebies, I felt that I could make a unique and solid contribution that would differentiate itself from other websites.
Starting the site was easy but how was I to make money through it? Having done some research, Google AdSense was a product that continually was mentioned with some sites making extraordinary daily amounts. So I signed up with Google AdSense and was on my way. Sticking within their guidelines and setting up their code within my website was not difficult. The difficulty then was how to drive people to my website. The more traffic, the greater chance of people clicking through and hence more money. I discovered that the most effective methods to do this was to advertise on other websites that were about freebies or saving money. So over the past 2 years I have managed to steadily build the site and have noticed that my Adsense income has also steadily increased.
Now I am able to make a side income that compliments my new office job and know with certainty that if I was to lose my job I would still have this site to keep things afloat.
So for you out there who are struggling, it is possible to make money to survive on. I am a living example!
Tags: cheabies, Coupons, Free Samples, Free Stuff, Freebies
Posted in Adsense · March 18th, 2010 · Comments (0)