Here's a post, a mini-blueprint for how to gain 100 SB a day over at Swagbucks.
First off - you grabbed the Swagbucks apps, right?
If you don't have a Swagbucks account, get one using the link below:
Join Swagbucks
After you confirm your account and have your login details working properly, sign in to your Swagbucks account, use the left-hand side bar navigation, scroll down quite far to get to the Mobile Apps link. Go get the Swagbucks TV app. Play vids on the app and head to the Swagbucks site for site activities if you're comfortable enough to manage the app directly after install.
BE SURE TO USE YOUR ORIGINAL SWAGBUCKS SITE LOGIN DETAILS FOR THE APP(s)!
Now here's how to gain 100 SB a day using a combination of Swagbucks site activities and the Swagbucks mobile apps:
Log in on the Swagbucks site.
Find the DAILY POLL and the DAILY OFFERS (NOSO) - do them both. They should each take less than a minute.
Daily Poll - 1SB
Daily Offers - 1 SB
Then go to PLAY and do Swagasaurus Run. It's a side-scroller game. You may have to play 10-20 rounds until you gain the maximum SB allowed for the game - however, it usually takes me less than 5 minutes (frankly, I'm not that great at side-scroller games). If you can figure out the other two games and like those, do those. (I am worse at the other games than at Swagasaurus Run... hanging my head in shame).
Swagasaurus Run - 10 SB
Go back to main Swagbucks menu and select "Answer." You'll be taken to the surveys. The page should display GOLD Surveys first... it is possible that if a good survey is available and you qualify, finishing the survey to the end, you'll have 100 SB. Some GOLD surveys are worth more than 150 SB!!!
If you do not qualify for Gold surveys, click down to "Partner" surveys and try those... again, you may complete your goal to gain 100SB this day if the Partner survey(s) work out.
If those do not gain you enough SB, move on to the Peanut Labs surveys
*NOTE: If you are NOT qualifying, you should still be gaining 1SB per survey started but not completed, so you should have quite a few SB by now!
If you are still short your 100 SB at this point, go back to Swagbucks main page/menu and this time, click "Discover."
Discover section will be Featured Offers and Partner's offers - mainly offer walls.
There are often click-through articles worth 2-12SB in the Discover offer walls. These are articles where you have to read and click past at least 10 pages, then do a captcha properly on the last page. After completing the captcha, SB will be sent to your SB balance.
Now, you may have had an unlucky time on the site but should be at least half-way to gaining 100SB. If you already gained 100SB (easily possible but not always written in stone), and if so, any points made via SB apps today will be a nice addition to your Swagbucks SB/points balance!
If you're still trying to reach 100SB, the Swagbucks apps should get you there! If you didn't grab the additional apps, now is the time!
SB TV app = 10SB max
LifeStylez app = 10SB max
Movieclips app = 10SB max
EntertaiNow app = 10SB max
Sportly TV app = 10SB max
IndyMusic app = 10SB max
So really
Swag apps = 60SB
Swag game = 10 SB
Daily Poll = 1 SB
Daily Offers = 1SB
Really, you're only needing to gain less than 30 SB via any other activities on Swagbucks site.
*Note: if you gain 90 SB, the points system will automatically give you bonus SB, too - 9SB for reaching 90 SB through site and app activities.
Something I almost forgot - Swagbucks Search! From the main menu, find "Search" and use the Swagbucks search window to gain SB. Do legitimate searches. The SB rewards vary greatly for searches - anyway from 6 - 50 SB, sometimes a bit more if Swagbucks is running an extra special promotion involving the search feature.
If, for some reason, you're still not at 100SB, get to the main menu and click on "Watch." Just watch some videos 'til the SB accumulate. Some play lists on the video/watch pages have more videos than others, but Swagbucks shows the details, per list.
Actually, I'm impressed with how many videos Swagbucks has now! I grabbed a couple good recipes from the Food and Cooking play lists and enjoy many of the vids.
Good luck gaining 100 SB per day - try to keep it up for at least 7 days. There is an additional bonus at 7 (25SB extra), 14 (100SB extra), 21 (200SB extra), and 30 days (300 SB extra).
When in doubt - and when short on SB: Watch videos - you'll get there!
Saturday, 30 January 2016
Sunday, 3 January 2016
After half a year of testing
I have not posted regularly since Summer 2015 but I am going to keep my apology short and just explain that I decided to fall off on the posting because I really needed to give some phone apps a good test run before posting more about any of them.
Since the fall months, as I tried to promote a few app programs, I found that most people above the age of 24 or 25 were not only not interested - they also really had a mistrust (dislike?) of making money from phone apps! Almost everyone - including my real life physical friends - thinks there is no way in hell I can be making money via any kind of phone apps.
Well, at the half-year mark of testing (spring to fall), I had a good, thorough look at what was making me money and what was not making money. Phone app funds started looking pretty good and in November and December, when I gained some reward conversions and cashouts, the contest on what kind of activities were most lucrative to earn from became really clear. Marketing or apps?
The winner is...
PHONE APPS made me the most money in 2015, hands down! And - I couldn't even begin to start collecting any funds from phone apps until I collected credits, points, rewards, etc., for several months. Basically since the fall, apps have brought in more funds than all other marketing and money-making methods combined.
Now the big trick will be in how I approach training referrals...
Teens and young adults who really "get" phone apps and use them more comfortably than 30-somethings and up - well, these young ones seem to like their phones and computer tablets so darn much that they don't really want to get online and use a computer to learn marketing basics.
By contrast...
By contrast...
People already involved in marketing just don't believe phone apps are here to stay and won't integrate money making phone apps programs into their array of money makers. (*ahem* if any of those people are reading... these phone apps have been out for several years already and they just keep getting more plentiful in number, more sophisticated in nature - hello - did you know I get paid for the swipe phone lock that keeps a person from butt-dialing on their cell phone?).
I'll spend a few months in 2016 trying to figure out if there is any way to mesh phone app money and standard (TEs, PTCs, affiliate programs, downline builders, email marketing, safelists, etc) marketing online together and while I do that, the great thing is - my phones will continue to allow me to bring in almost passive income!
Basically all the income earned from apps has been earned without any referrals, anyway, so after my time in 2015 of testing apps, I have a good idea on how much a person will earn based solely on the activity and engagement of 1 person. If I happen to gain some referrals along the way, it will just be a big bonus.
For regular marketing activities in 2014 and early 2015 (and the years prior), I mostly had to figure out how on earth to afford the cost of online marketing tools - like autoresponder, web domain, web hosting, a few upgraded money-maker program accounts. Often, I was sending $40 or $50 from my bank account to an online processor to make payments for my marketing tools.
THAT ALL STOPPED in the fall months of 2015! I have not transfered any money from my own pocket or bank account to pay for any online activities in many, many months!
I have purchased more tools, upgraded accounts, and rev-share earning shares late in 2015 that I never had the kind of funds for prior to this phone app testing and use!
Let 2016 roll on, 'cos I am feeling super positive that I will have a more financially stable year - for the first time in, well - since I was a kid under the care of parents.
Friday, 31 July 2015
First Milestone on Video Rewards
Video Rewards is a cell phone application that I'm using on iOS (iPhone4). It's one of the simplest to use apps EVER! Like the name implies, you watch Videos then get Rewarded.
Now the credit/point conversion to dollars structure isn't as great with Video Rewards as with many other apps but this program is paying out steadily and that's important in my books. I'm thinking that with a lower conversion of points to the dollar, this program is going to remain very stable. That's GOOD NEWS for me, 'cos I LIKE watching videos and getting rewarded to do so!
The milestone I reached is the first minimum payment amount. I can cash out if I want, however, I'm looking for something a little more substantial as a cash out, so I'll keep my credits in place and wait 'til I hit the next milestone for a Paypal cashout or a gift card.
I have over 6700 points saved up (a few more ads were viewed after I did this screenshot and the screenshot below), and now I can redeem the points for an Amazon gift card. Like I said above, however, I want a more substantial payout, so I'm going to be patient, keep viewing, and cash out in a few days at a higher redemption.
My CODE for Video Rewards: za1iVsUSLHObT
Typically videos viewed gain 5 points each, so it takes viewing about 1000 videos to gain 5000 points. 5000 points will allow you to redeem and get a $2.50 Amazon (US site) gift card. Waiting to gain 10,000 points will allow you to gain $5 Paypal or a $5 Wal-Mart, BestBuy, Startucks, or Target gift card.
As you can see, the conversion of points to gain Paypal cash (or other rewards) isn't too great. What keeps me doing these activities is what I've said in other posts and on most of the app pages on the site/blog... I don't have to do anything else after I gain the points. I just convert to cash or redeem for a gift card.
With traditional online marketing methods, people do very similar things online but with an extra, risky step. They surf/view vids, collect credits (and here's the extra, risky step), and then they promote something else with those credits - something they hope will convert to cash or sign-ups or whatever they're after - and THEN they might get rewards (the sign up) or cash (a sale).
I have found most of the phone apps I use to be a better use of my time and to generate income/rewards with much less risk than for my marketing activities. The income/rewards appear, on the surface, to be very little, but I'm telling you - things add up and rewards are stable - more stable than trying to count on surfing in a Traffic Exchange, exchanging my credits to promote a capture page and hope someone signs up on the capture page... (that's not even the end of the marketing steps there, even if someone enters their details in my capture page - I still have to "pitch" a product, service, share knowledge or freebies via email, hope the subscriber reads those emails and responds to my emails in a way that is beneficial for both of us).
Yeah, man - I'm going to surf on cell phones a while longer and keep letting some pretty reliable funds come in while I work on honing my capture pages and marketing emails.
Now the credit/point conversion to dollars structure isn't as great with Video Rewards as with many other apps but this program is paying out steadily and that's important in my books. I'm thinking that with a lower conversion of points to the dollar, this program is going to remain very stable. That's GOOD NEWS for me, 'cos I LIKE watching videos and getting rewarded to do so!
The milestone I reached is the first minimum payment amount. I can cash out if I want, however, I'm looking for something a little more substantial as a cash out, so I'll keep my credits in place and wait 'til I hit the next milestone for a Paypal cashout or a gift card.
I have over 6700 points saved up (a few more ads were viewed after I did this screenshot and the screenshot below), and now I can redeem the points for an Amazon gift card. Like I said above, however, I want a more substantial payout, so I'm going to be patient, keep viewing, and cash out in a few days at a higher redemption.
My CODE for Video Rewards: za1iVsUSLHObT
Typically videos viewed gain 5 points each, so it takes viewing about 1000 videos to gain 5000 points. 5000 points will allow you to redeem and get a $2.50 Amazon (US site) gift card. Waiting to gain 10,000 points will allow you to gain $5 Paypal or a $5 Wal-Mart, BestBuy, Startucks, or Target gift card.
As you can see, the conversion of points to gain Paypal cash (or other rewards) isn't too great. What keeps me doing these activities is what I've said in other posts and on most of the app pages on the site/blog... I don't have to do anything else after I gain the points. I just convert to cash or redeem for a gift card.
With traditional online marketing methods, people do very similar things online but with an extra, risky step. They surf/view vids, collect credits (and here's the extra, risky step), and then they promote something else with those credits - something they hope will convert to cash or sign-ups or whatever they're after - and THEN they might get rewards (the sign up) or cash (a sale).
I have found most of the phone apps I use to be a better use of my time and to generate income/rewards with much less risk than for my marketing activities. The income/rewards appear, on the surface, to be very little, but I'm telling you - things add up and rewards are stable - more stable than trying to count on surfing in a Traffic Exchange, exchanging my credits to promote a capture page and hope someone signs up on the capture page... (that's not even the end of the marketing steps there, even if someone enters their details in my capture page - I still have to "pitch" a product, service, share knowledge or freebies via email, hope the subscriber reads those emails and responds to my emails in a way that is beneficial for both of us).
Yeah, man - I'm going to surf on cell phones a while longer and keep letting some pretty reliable funds come in while I work on honing my capture pages and marketing emails.
Monday, 15 June 2015
Earn a Lot of Swagbucks
These methods for earning Swagbucks are primarily for earning on-site and not with the SB Apps. Using the online site is just the beginning of starting to earn significant amounts of SB currency, so it will be awesome for you to get into the routine of logging in at Swagbucks and doing daily activities at least 5-7 days per week.
Get the Swagbutton installed into your browser - for Firefox, Chrome (linux, windows and mac users). You can get points daily just for using the SB Button to start your daily earning routine.
Get into your account dashboard, click around on everything to learn what earning pages and areas are most useful to you. Find the surveys area, offers, tasks, store lists, coupon pages, etc. More importantly, get to the site Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest pages and the Swagbucks blog to get familiar with these. Swagbucks staff will post codes and sometimes special offers at all of these other places, so it will be good for you to figure out how to get to other pages quickly. SB Codes "time-out" !!! They expire - sometimes quickly, so if you find one, enter it in the side codes area to gain your SB currency.
The first couple of days of being a new "Swaggernaut" might seem pointless. You might think you are not going to ever get enough points/SB to do anthing with them, but I am strongly advising that you do take the time to look around, read any rules posted on-site, and know your way around within a day or two. After that, trust me, the earning/gathering of SB will add up quickly and you will be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is for people ages 13 and up to earn gifts, gift cards, and cash on this site! (For example, I can get 10 SB in a couple of minutes every day when I first log into my SB account). 10SB times 5 days is 50 SB - and that's just from a quick basic set of tasks upon logging in only 5 days per week. 9 times of earning 50 SB will get you an Amazon card. (9 weeks if you are doing this absolute minimum suggested activity but you can very easily earn more than 50 SB a week).
I know you will want to make more than 50 SB per week, so here is the starting point of getting SBs after you get familiar with the site pages, navigation, your dashboard, etc.
Daily Routine: log in, use your SB Button to check your account, then click the SB Icon on the site header, left-hand side at the top. This will bring up your 3 basic daily routine bonus SB list in the left sidebar - Button use, Daily Poll, NOSO. These will not add up to a lot of SB but are the right place to start!
GO ahead and get your Button, Daily Poll and NOSO Swagbucks currency, then open the search function and be sure to search for legitimate things you are interested in.
Start watching Swagbucks TV. You'll get a couple or few SB after ten videos. There's a meter, "SB Meter" that will fill - when the dots go green and fill to 10 green dots, you will gain SB credits! If you have the time, you can earn a LOT of Swag TV credits. If you don't have a lot of time, try to view 50 vids (that is 5 rounds/cycles) just to make sure you are building up some dedication to using the site.
Check your on site emails - they may contain special offers and most of the offers are extremely time-sensitive, so if the "sale" or offer time runs out, the special becomes non-negotiable. A lot of sweepstakes offers are in the emails and I tend to IGNORE those because trading SB in for a sweepstakes game of chance can really put a giant hole in my SB collection!
Play Games for SB rewards. As of summer 2015, I have noticed a decrease in the games and I never did play the games much but if you are awesome at browser based games, play them and have a good time!
Check for available surveys. Check for available tasks. Check to see if there is anything you can shop for - and check to see if there are online store coupons you can use for your purchases (CAUTION HERE: Do not shop just to get your SB balance up higher. If there is something you need that you want to buy online, anyway, see if the intended store happens to be a Swagbucks partner/peer, then sign in and start your shopping selections from Swagbucks instea of going directly to, say, Wal-mart online or Sears online or Banana Republic online). If you are going to shop online, you may as well get points for doing it!
That's it. EASY stuff!
Once you get into a regular routine of earning some steady SB currency while logged in at the Swagbucks site, and your SB counts are increasing, you can dramatically BOOST your SB currency by using the phone apps: Swagbucks account app, SBTV, MovieCli.cks, Lifestylz.tv, Sportly.tv, IndyMusic.tv, and EntertaiNOW.
For more info on the apps, see the "Swagbucks Apps" page.
Get the Swagbutton installed into your browser - for Firefox, Chrome (linux, windows and mac users). You can get points daily just for using the SB Button to start your daily earning routine.
Get into your account dashboard, click around on everything to learn what earning pages and areas are most useful to you. Find the surveys area, offers, tasks, store lists, coupon pages, etc. More importantly, get to the site Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest pages and the Swagbucks blog to get familiar with these. Swagbucks staff will post codes and sometimes special offers at all of these other places, so it will be good for you to figure out how to get to other pages quickly. SB Codes "time-out" !!! They expire - sometimes quickly, so if you find one, enter it in the side codes area to gain your SB currency.
The first couple of days of being a new "Swaggernaut" might seem pointless. You might think you are not going to ever get enough points/SB to do anthing with them, but I am strongly advising that you do take the time to look around, read any rules posted on-site, and know your way around within a day or two. After that, trust me, the earning/gathering of SB will add up quickly and you will be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is for people ages 13 and up to earn gifts, gift cards, and cash on this site! (For example, I can get 10 SB in a couple of minutes every day when I first log into my SB account). 10SB times 5 days is 50 SB - and that's just from a quick basic set of tasks upon logging in only 5 days per week. 9 times of earning 50 SB will get you an Amazon card. (9 weeks if you are doing this absolute minimum suggested activity but you can very easily earn more than 50 SB a week).
I know you will want to make more than 50 SB per week, so here is the starting point of getting SBs after you get familiar with the site pages, navigation, your dashboard, etc.
Daily Routine: log in, use your SB Button to check your account, then click the SB Icon on the site header, left-hand side at the top. This will bring up your 3 basic daily routine bonus SB list in the left sidebar - Button use, Daily Poll, NOSO. These will not add up to a lot of SB but are the right place to start!
GO ahead and get your Button, Daily Poll and NOSO Swagbucks currency, then open the search function and be sure to search for legitimate things you are interested in.
Start watching Swagbucks TV. You'll get a couple or few SB after ten videos. There's a meter, "SB Meter" that will fill - when the dots go green and fill to 10 green dots, you will gain SB credits! If you have the time, you can earn a LOT of Swag TV credits. If you don't have a lot of time, try to view 50 vids (that is 5 rounds/cycles) just to make sure you are building up some dedication to using the site.
Check your on site emails - they may contain special offers and most of the offers are extremely time-sensitive, so if the "sale" or offer time runs out, the special becomes non-negotiable. A lot of sweepstakes offers are in the emails and I tend to IGNORE those because trading SB in for a sweepstakes game of chance can really put a giant hole in my SB collection!
Play Games for SB rewards. As of summer 2015, I have noticed a decrease in the games and I never did play the games much but if you are awesome at browser based games, play them and have a good time!
Check for available surveys. Check for available tasks. Check to see if there is anything you can shop for - and check to see if there are online store coupons you can use for your purchases (CAUTION HERE: Do not shop just to get your SB balance up higher. If there is something you need that you want to buy online, anyway, see if the intended store happens to be a Swagbucks partner/peer, then sign in and start your shopping selections from Swagbucks instea of going directly to, say, Wal-mart online or Sears online or Banana Republic online). If you are going to shop online, you may as well get points for doing it!
That's it. EASY stuff!
Once you get into a regular routine of earning some steady SB currency while logged in at the Swagbucks site, and your SB counts are increasing, you can dramatically BOOST your SB currency by using the phone apps: Swagbucks account app, SBTV, MovieCli.cks, Lifestylz.tv, Sportly.tv, IndyMusic.tv, and EntertaiNOW.
For more info on the apps, see the "Swagbucks Apps" page.
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