Other Ways I Earn: Swagbucks

This post is something I wrote a few years ago on my personal blog, but I thought it was worth sharing. Some things have changed for me since then, so I don't spend nearly the same amount of time on Swagbucks as I used to, but I still earn a gift card or two a year based on online shopping and the daily poll on my iPhone app. 

So, I've been getting some requests to explain how SwagBucks works, and I thought I would put it here so that I only need to explain it once.

WHAT IS SWAGBUCKS?

SwagBucks is a site by which you earn points and in turn redeem those points for prizes, such as coupons, gift cards, trinkets, etc. The prizes for which I am saving are all gift cards because I believe in using SwagBucks to truly save me money.

WAYS TO EARN: this list is by no means exhaustive -- I'm just hitting what I consider to be the high points.

ONE-TIME EARNINGS:

• Go to the survey page and complete your survey profile. It is a series of mini-surveys about your habits so they can better match you up with outside surveys. You will get a minimum of 5 SwagBucks from each profile section.

DAILY EARNINGS:

• Visit SwagBucks Surveys -- 1 SB
• Proceed through the NOSO tab. That's No Obligation Special Offers. By clicking through, you should earn 2 SB.
• Invite a friend
• Take the daily poll. 1 SB

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES:

• I visit the Special Offers section every day (specifically the Peanut Labs tab) because there are often free offers that require only watching an ad video, etc.
• You can also take surveys to earn points. I quickly learned that a survey over about 15 minutes makes me want to die, so I weed out my options by length and then by potential SB earned. 
• You can earn SB by playing games, but my opinion is that the time to SB earned is not worth the effort. 
• You can also earn by watching SwagBucks TV, but again, I believe it takes too long to earn too little. Decide for yourself!

ADVICE:

If you are going to start participating in SwagBucks, ordering freebies, etc., I highly recommend that you go to gmail.com and make an email just for your "frugal" escapades. Mine is frugallagurf@gmail.com. I use this only for savings sites, which means that my REAL email is not tied up in a million offers or updates / day.

Let me know if you have any more questions!

GO HERE TO SIGN UP!