Welcome to this week’s ten minute lesson. This is $10 a week with Troy Price and I am Troy Price. I am scouring the internet for free or low cost offers that make you money. This podcast has a strong following of over 1000 downloads a week and growing. If you are a long time listener to the show, you know that I love Mypoints and have for some time. For instance, right now I have a $25 gift card for Gamestop that I have received in the mail this week from Mypoints. I do love it. Anyway, there are a few websites out there that have copied the Mypoints formula that are worth mentioning, So this episode can best be titled, ‘Making money online with free offers.” And as an extra bonus this week, I’m going to tell you about a blog that offers tips, tricks, and warnings about the reward programs out there. So sit back relax and enjoy the show.
OK first things first, If you are a new listener to the podcast, welcome and go back to one of my first episodes. I titled it “Making Money with Mypoints.” Well, that was a while ago, but the offers are still as fresh and active as if they were picked off the salmonella free tomato vine just today. So if you have not checked my points out do so first.
But since that episode there are two sites that closely resemble the Mypoints model that I wanted to share with you. Each have their own particular slant to them, but do offer benefits if you are willing to spend time online – and who is not willing to do that???
So fire up your web browser and go to www.boomertowne.com. This really is an impressive community. Their target audience are the baby boomers out there the however many million strong WWII babies. The generation that is completely going to obliterate my social security savings from my retirement future. But I digress. Boomertowne does have a large community that is growing everyday, but the rewards and incentives on boomertowne are not limited to those aging Americans who are facing retirement and dementia. Anyone can sign up and start collecting giftcards right away! At boomertowne, you get credit for participating in the boomertowne community. So playing their games online with other boomertowne members, gets you points. Commenting on someone’s boomertowne blog, get’s you points, adding to your blog, get’s you points. And on and on it could go! The rewards are relatively easy to get and it will be fun doing it. SO do check out boomertowne.com.
A second Mypoints want to be that is mostly off target is www.bondrewards.com I say off target because going to the website and looking around doesn’t give you the feeling of community like Mypoints or boomertowne. It portrays itself for what it mostly is, a site where if you buy something through their referral links, you get money back. There are several sites like that. However, what makes this site of interest is the ‘Surveys’ section of the website. There is always an active list of surveys that you can fill out and receive the bondrewards for your time. The strength of the bondrewards program is the rewards. You don’t earn points towards something, you actually earn bond dollars. And you buy things with your dollars, for instance, at $100 bond dollars which is easy to get in about a month and a half, you can get a $100 US savings bond. It’s that easy, so do check that out…
Now these are just two of the best examples of Mypoints want to be sites. There are several out there, many I would not recommend. But to save me the emails, I am going to give you a site that reviews and comments on many, many of the make money online sites. Go to www.comparerewards.com and read some of the past few blog posts. You might find out about a new program you want to join, and several programs you should not take part in. One example of that is actually a site I mentioned a while ago. Remember Netwinner. Well it turned out that while they did pay out many of their little prizes (like 20-50 dollars) they never had a major cash prize winner, especially well after the time that statistically a million dollar prize should have been won. As an example, if you have a 1 in 25 chance of winning something and you play a game 100 times, you should have one at least one prize. However with Netwinner, while the odds were way higher than 1 in 25, they were well over 4 times the number when a grand prize winner should have won by chance… SO watch out netwinner, we’re on to you…
And that brings us to a close of another titillating episode. If you have any money making or saving websites you would like to share on the podcast, please email me at troystory3(at)aol.com. Good night!
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June 14, 2008 at 1:55 pm |
A great blog post
Thanks for sharing