Freebie Gossip

When it comes to doing freebies there will be certain terminology you may not pick up whether you are doing it yourself or trading with others. Today, I will go over the most common acronyms and terms that are commonly used. Some are pretty easy to guess while others may not be as easy.

Green: The term green or going green is used when you or your referrals have signed up and completed an offer and has received credit for the offer. Their sign up status will show as green and you are one step closer to receiving your free gift.

Grey: The term grey is when your referral or yourself have not completed an offer.

Offer: Advertisers pay the freebie site a referral commission when you sign up for the advertiser's product whether it be a trial or not which are called an offer.

GPT: Get Paid To are incentive sites where you are paid to do things yourself rather than referring others under your line. It could be by search, clicks, forum posting, doing offers, and so on. It's the do it yourself of the freebie world.

MCR: Manual credit report is a support ticket that you submit when you do not receive credit for the offer that you or your referral did. Usually you will send a MCR after 2 weeks of not receiving credit. It is important to keep your introductory emails as proof that you did do the said offer.

Approval: Approval is the stage where the site will review your account to make sure there is no fraud among you or your referrals in terms of personal information and offers. If you pass approval then you can order your free gift.

TR: TR is short for trade record. After a successful trade with another trader you are both rewarded with a TR point to show how many successful trades you have accomplished.

Twon is enjoying his $50 from Innovus

Best Freebie Forums

There are a number of freebie forums out there to choose from but in terms of the best is up to the user. Some forums will appeal to your visual tastes while others will appeal to your sense of content and so on. When it comes to using a freebie forum, you should seek out the one that best fits you especially if you are thinking about wanting to swap trades because trading is based on your trade record. Each forum has their own TR system so it would be wise to build your TR on one forum rather than on multiple forums.

Anything4Free is very user friendly and offers many features. A4F has over 44,000 users and is very active.

FreeiPodGuide is not as appealing visually as A4F but boasts a TR and a karma system.

ReferralSwapper is mainly for trades as you can see from their nearly dead forum.

FreeLunchRoom consists of mostly moms at home that loves to rant about how they got screwed or how they tried to screw sites.

These are the major players so now it's only up to you to see which one is best for you. I personally prefer A4F out of the rest for their activeness and visual appeal. Plus, they have a battle system! Along with other add ons that may or may not appeal to you. Pick your poison.

Are Free Stuff For Real? Y E S!

I never ever heard of incentive sites until 4 years ago during the incentive site boom which I guess had to do with the housing boom. A friend of mine sent me a link and told me to sign up as my friend's last referral so she can finally receive her free iPod. I had my doubts but as a friend, I did it anyways. A week later and to my surprise she received her free iPod and a free T-shirt to show off and that was when I knew incentive sites were legit. So I did a little Google and found sites that were created to help people complete their freebie sites by either swapping sites or paying others to be their referrals. It sounds crazy but that's the only real effective way to complete incentive sites because the only other ways would be if you have a site that receives a ton of hits and post your link or if you beg and beg your friends and family to sign up which is not likely going to happen anyways because people are doubtful. It's free but you do have to put work into it but most people don't so they quit and call it a scam.

There are 4 steps to completing an incentive site:

1. Sign up and complete an offer
2. Refer others to do the same
3. Once completed, pick your free gift
4. Receive your free gift

In my first year of swapping incentive sites using one of the sites that I use to swap trades, I have made over $7,000 in freebies and cash. It sounds great but be warned, there are risks so my suggestion to you would be to only do sites that are considered Grade A and trade with other traders that have a long history of being legit traders and have a high trade record. The mistake that most newbie traders do is that they become so excited that someone wants to trade with them that they would accept trades from everyone including other newbies which are most likely scammers with new accounts to scam with. So please proceed with caution.

Here's a list of sites that proves incentive sites are legit and will help you complete your own incentive site so check out their forums:

Anything4Free
FreeiPodGuide
ReferralSwapper

And good luck to you!