How I Use Swagbucks

I am new to Swagbucks, but already I am loving it. By doing a few quick searches morning, afternoon and night and making my regular online purchases that I would make anyway, I have already earned more than $20 in amazon gift cards. To me, that's all free money.

So, here's what I do to use Swagbucks:

1. When you sign up for Swagbucks, sign up under my link:

http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/NoMischief

When a friend signs up for Swagbucks under your name, then you get Swagbucks every time they get Swagbucks with their searches (not Swagbucks they earn through other methods) up to 1000 Swagbucks. Of course when you start using Swagbucks, you will recommend it to everyone anyway, even if there was no reward, but how much better that there is this incentive.

2. Download the Swagbucks toolbar. I get 1 Swagbuck daily just for having and using the toolbar (it usually shows up in the middle of the night). Then use the Swagbucks toolbar for searches in the morning, afternoon, and evening.

Swagbucks will award you randomly as you do searches. It usually only takes about 5 searches to earn swagbucks. But, once you win, then you won't win again for hours. So, do like 5 searches with the toolbar in the morning to get your swagbucks, then again in the afternoon, and then you can try again before bed.

You might also try doing a search and then switching to Images or Web (along the left hand side of the page) and back to Web. Sometimes that gets swagbucks.

This is the part my daughter likes to do for me. She loves to put in search terms and try to win me swagbucks. I get 15-30 swagbucks daily with this.

3. Take the daily poll. Go to Earn on the toolbar and select Daily Poll. It takes about 20 seconds to take the poll and vote and it's worth 1 swagbuck daily.

4. Do the daily NOSO. Every day you can go to Earn and then NOSO and go through the offers there. Just hit Skip on each one (there's around 6 or 7) and you get a swagbuck at the end.

5. If you buy ANYTHING online, check first to see if you can go through the swagbucks site to get to the site you're going to purchase from. Go to Earn and then Shop and search for the website you're going to use. You get 2 Swagbucks for every $1 you spend. Walmart and Target are both on there. So's Aeropostale (which often has better quality jeans on sale for cheaper than Walmart jeans so I like to be on the lookout for those for my boys.)

6. If you use Groupon or Living Social deals, purchase them through Swagbucks. Go to Earn and then Daily Deals. Scroll through there to find the deal that you want (if you don't see the one listed that was mentioned in your email, just click on another offer from the same company and then select See Other Offers or something like that when you get to their website). This page will list how many swagbucks each offer is worth to you. How great to get a $20 meal for $10 AND earn a $5 amazon gift card!

If you don't yet use Groupon, please consider signing up under my name:

http://www.groupon.com/r/uu2602234

which will add $10 to my Groupon acct when you make your first Groupon purchase. When you join, your friends will have the same option to add under you and earn you $10 in Groupon credit. This is a great way to get a free date night!

7. Check the SB News tab on the toolbar when there is a little yellow star on it. The blog often has swagcodes in it that are good for a short amount of time to get swagbucks.

8. If you have an email from TSG showing in the toolbar, check it. There are often codes there also for free swagbucks.

9. If you use coupons from coupons.com, print those same coupons through Swagbucks instead. Go to Earn, Coupons and then select and print the coupons you want. When you use them, each is worth 10 Swagbucks. It's worth at least checking there before you do your shopping. Often I find that I bought a name brand item that I wanted and there was a coupon sitting there for it that I could have used.

10. Recently I started watching Swagbucks TV to earn Swagbucks. I'm still figuring it out, but it looks like you can win 1-5 Swagbucks randomly as you watch the little learning videos. I just have been running it in the background while I do other things online. Haven't decided yet if it's worth the fuss or not.

My goal is to pay for Christmas 2011 with Swagbucks. When I get 450 Swagbucks, I go to the Rewards tab and exchange them for a $5 Amazon gift card. When the code for amazon arrives (in about 2 weeks), I add it only my Amazon account and it waits there until I'm ready to use it and it never expires.

I hope this is helpful and encourages you to give Swagbucks a try. My daily routine is pretty quick: 5 searches, NOSO, Daily Poll and then check to see if there are any daily deals I want. Other than that I'll search in the Shop section or Coupon section before I make online purchases or do my grocery shopping. This is how I get Swagbucks.

Thanks for reading!