You’ve likely seen all the deals I’ve been getting by combining coupons and sales. Well recently I’ve decided to branch out a little more and try some other money saving/earning strategies.
About a month ago I joined Ebates to start getting cash back on most of my online purchases. It’s a completely FREE site and since I’m going to be continuing to order online anyway, I figured I might as well be getting some cash back in my pocket.
Ebates is very easy to use. All you have to do is sign up and then choose one of over 1,200 stores and click through to the website and shop as you normally would. Ebates then automatically credits your account, based on your purchase amounts, for the specified percentage of cash back for that particular store.
You also get a $5 sign up bonus. Then once you earn $5 cash back you’ll be eligible to receive either a check in the mail or have your earnings credited to your paypal account. It’s a win-win situation!
The other site I recently signed up for is Swagbucks. Basically with this site you earn Swagbucks for searching the web. In other words, you use Swagbucks as your search engine and you earn Swagbucks for certain searches. The fun part is you won’t know which searches will win you bucks. The best thing to do is just search the web naturally like you would with any other search engine.
The best part is once you get a nice stash of bucks saved up, you can redeem them for prizes. This site is also FREE and since you’re going to be doing internet searches anyway, you might as well earn prizes along the way.
It may take a little while to save up for the better prizes but you’re not losing anything in the process.
Here is one example of what you can do with your swagbucks. One of the prizes is a $5 Amazon E-gift card, which you can redeem bucks for once you have accumulated 450 swagbucks. There are many other prizes requiring more or less swagbucks.
UPDATE: I have been using Swagbucks for two weeks now and have accumulated 470 swagbucks.
Here’s the breakdown that is showing up on my account:
- 30 for signing up
- 50 for referrals (Some friends signed up through my referral link. You can earn up to 1000 swagbucks from each referral – when they win by searching, you win too.)
- 220 for searching (I earned these simply by searching the web as I normally do, just using the Swagbucks search engine.)
- 40 for Swagcodes (You can get at least one of these each week – very easy to do.)
- 130 for special offers (You don’t have to do this. I just do some of the easy free ones to earn some additional bucks.)
One other thing, I recommend downloading the Swagbucks toolbar. This way you’ll have the Swagbucks search box easily accessible no matter where you are on the web.
Have fun shopping, searching and earning!! 
More Money Saving Strategies : Ebates & Swagbucks
You’ve likely seen all the deals I’ve been getting by combining coupons and sales. Well recently I’ve decided to branch out a little more and try some other money saving/earning strategies.
About a month ago I joined Ebates to start getting cash back on most of my online purchases. It’s a completely FREE site and since I’m going to be continuing to order online anyway, I figured I might as well be getting some cash back in my pocket.
Ebates is very easy to use. All you have to do is sign up and then choose one of over 1,200 stores and click through to the website and shop as you normally would. Ebates then automatically credits your account, based on your purchase amounts, for the specified percentage of cash back for that particular store.
You also get a $5 sign up bonus. Then once you earn $5 cash back you’ll be eligible to receive either a check in the mail or have your earnings credited to your paypal account. It’s a win-win situation!
The other site I recently signed up for is Swagbucks. Basically with this site you earn Swagbucks for searching the web. In other words, you use Swagbucks as your search engine and you earn Swagbucks for certain searches. The fun part is you won’t know which searches will win you bucks. The best thing to do is just search the web naturally like you would with any other search engine.
The best part is once you get a nice stash of bucks saved up, you can redeem them for prizes. This site is also FREE and since you’re going to be doing internet searches anyway, you might as well earn prizes along the way.
It may take a little while to save up for the better prizes but you’re not losing anything in the process.
Here is one example of what you can do with your swagbucks. One of the prizes is a $5 Amazon E-gift card, which you can redeem bucks for once you have accumulated 450 swagbucks. There are many other prizes requiring more or less swagbucks.
UPDATE: I have been using Swagbucks for two weeks now and have accumulated 470 swagbucks.
Here’s the breakdown that is showing up on my account:
One other thing, I recommend downloading the Swagbucks toolbar. This way you’ll have the Swagbucks search box easily accessible no matter where you are on the web.
Have fun shopping, searching and earning!!