Learn to speak “Freebie”

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Before you decide to dive headfirst into making money with Freebies, there are some terms you need know and learn the meaning. There are several new words and acronyms relative to the freebie industry that you may not have heard of before. The freebie trading industry has a language of its own, and knowing and understanding these terms will lead to your success. Here is a list of the most popular terms.

IFW Network: Stand for the networks that produces a series of IFW (Incentive Freebie Website).

Affiliate: The middleman between the Offer Company and the IFW site. When you click on an offer it is redirected through the affiliate company and they are who gives us credit for completing the offers and pay the IFW for each credited lead.

Avatar: A user’s representation of himself or herself on a forum and other communities in the form of an icon/picture.

Thread: A page post on a forum.

BUMP: BUMP stands for Bring Up My Post. Anytime someone posts in a thread, that thread goes to the top of the list and is more visible. You are allowed to BUMP your trade thread twice per day, so people take advantage of doing that.

CC: Credit Card. Most offers require the use of a credit card. There are some sites that are no-cc sites. However, these do not count towards your iTrader Rating at the Free Lunch Room Forum

Cookies: Parcels of text sent by a server to a web browser and then sent back unchanged by the browser each time it accesses that server. It is the means of communication between the offer sites and IFWs. They need to be transferred in order for you to get credited. Read more about optimizing your cookies here.

DIY: A “Do it yourself” site. These sites do not require you to refer anyone. You get incentives for just signing up and completing offers on your own. It isn’t as lucrative as referral based sites, but it is a way of making some extra cash.

FLR: Free Lunch Room – A trading forum that used to be sponsored by Project Payday. It is very “newbie friendly”.

CalyStyle 101: A Freebie Trading forum that offers great ressources and video tutorials on how to make money with freebies as well as affiliate earnings.

Forever Green/Repeatable: When a Freebie/IFW site is forever green/repeatable, it means that once you have met the offer requirements (gone green), you no longer have to complete any offers. You can continue to refer individuals and cashout as many times as you like. It’s a beautiful Thing. For a list of Forever Green/Repeatable sites, click here

Gone Red/On Hold: When a referral has gone red, that individual has violated one or more of the IFW’s Terms of Service, and his/her account has been put on hold until the issue is resolved. When this happens, the referrer reserves the right to a refund.

Green: When your referal has gone green, this means that they have signed up at a freebie site and completed the offer requirements of that particular site.

IM: Instant Messaging (IM) is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via computers connected over a network such as the Internet.

ISP: An Internet service provider (abbr. ISP, also called Internet access provider or IAP) is a company or business that provides access to the Internet and related services.

MCR: Manual Credit Request. If you complete an offer and didn’t receive credit, you can sometimes fill out a Manual Credit Request to the IFW and they will investigate it further. However, many sites do not allow this any more.

PM: Private message. When communicating with users via a forum (e.g. FLR), you usually use a built-in messaging system. This is referred to as sending a PM.

Prize: An incentive that freebie sites offer you in exchange for meeting the offer requirements and referring individuals to complete offers. Examples are iPods, computers, laptops, TVs and cash in your PayPal.

Referral Link: A link that is assigned to a particular individual that has their unique user ID so that they can send others as there referral.

TOS: Terms of Service.

TR: iTrader Rating (TR) shows the number of trades an individual has completed with other individuals at a certain forum (i.e. the Free Lunch Room, Anything4Free, Referral Swapper).

I will be upating this post with addition terms over time. If you have some terms you would like to add, or you need additional explanation please leave a comment.

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