The FreebieTrader’s Blog

If you have been following the freebie business in the lasts weeks, you probably noticed some major changes in some of most important sites like the Project Payday.  This site was one the major traffic builder for one of the most important freebie forum on the web The Free Lunch Room also known as FLR. 

The Project Payday have decided the stop advertising FLR to advertise another freebie trading forum called Anything 4 free usualy called A4F .

The decisionof Project Payday  to change the forum they are suggesting is part of a bigger changement in their philosophy since the are also offering to join a NEW freebie forum own by Zollie M. Ferrell, Jr. (aka Zman) wich is call Net Income Solution or NIS . 

That change was known by The Free Lunch Room administrator since last summer and they have been preparing for it.  Even if it will be a big challenge to continue being the No.1 freebie forum on the web, the have presented today, March 18yh 2009,  some major and interesting changes to their forum.  Changement like partnerships with other forums to multiply the sources of traffic,  active threads, FLR congress, payment for FLR referrals and a new design.

See all the changes information annouced by the FLR admin below:

 1) Active Thread – whenever a thread has more than two people posting within a minute of each other, a topic becomes “Active”. When a thread is “Active” you don’t need to refresh your page and new posts stream in live as you are on that page. It’s hard to articulate the effect so I’ll let you guys discover it for yourselves. I’m sure you’ll witness the technology on this thread. If you want to go back to a previous page, you are still able to without the page constantly updating with the new posts. It’ll save all of the new posts for you in the bottom right corner with a link to take you to the most recent posts. If you’re viewing a subforum, all threads that are considered “Active” will have a little quotation icon next to the title of the thread. This functionality will be forum-wide except trading threads won’t have the icons next to them but will still function the same.

2) FLR Congress – I encourage many of you veterans that are passionate about FLR to run for a congressional spot. Being a part of the FLR Congress won’t affect your daily workload at all. You’ll be discussing and voting on major FLR decisions and I would guess that to be a once a month or deal. Most of the time you’ll just be listening to the people you represent and bringing those issues to me. FreeLunchRoom isn’t just my forum, I want it to be everyone’s forum and I think having everyone’s input will help make that feeling a reality not just for me but for you guys as well.

3) FLR Referrals – You’ll soon be able to refer people to FLR and get paid for it. There will be a minimum requirement of 10 posts and 1 TR for the user to count. But wait there is more. You’ll be able to see all of the members that you bring in and you’ll have the right to first contact with those referrals. So not only will you be able to make some easy change with bringing in referrals, you’ll also boost your TR while you’re doing it as well. Payouts will occur once a week for the previous weeks earnings. I anticipate this to change to daily payouts towards the end of April once we are able to gauge it and test it with the new traffic.

4) New Design – You’ll notice that many of the shortcuts have been moved into the drop down menu called “Forum Tools”. From there you’ll be able to access pretty much everything. You’ll also notice five color blocks in the header. We wanted to give you all the ability to customize FLR a bit so you can change the header and footer color schemes. I included the orange look for all of you members that were around when FLR was just white and orange! I’ve also got the old school green for those of you that liked the green. And of course I had to include hot pink for you ladies out there. There will be several minor layout changes with new subforums being introduced as well.

All these changes are pretty exicting and I encourage to discover it for yourself  here: The Free Lunch Room.com

Today I want to share with you a great experience I’ve learned and this is all about creation.  I realized that who ever we are we all have the abilities to create, therefore to change our reality for the better as well as the reality of the people we care about.  See what I’m talking about in the video here:

What freebie trading has to do with this statement?

Well, it is a tool available to anyone that wishes to add a stream of income to make the reality of his lovely ones better.  Of course it takes a certain amount of dedication, patience as well as abilities to learn and apply an easy step by step process. 

Even if Freebie trading isn’t the only way to earn an income online,  it is certainly a REAL and LEGITIME business that can earn you a great additional stream  of income.

Welcome to the wonderful world of FREEBIES and FREEBIE trading!

I compiled a list of things I have found most helpful in this business as well as ‘must do‘ things in the freebie trading world. 

Things to do PRIOR to starting…

1. Create a new email account: Use this new email account solely for this business. Yahoo and Google (gmail) both offer free email accounts. Once you start signing up on freebie websites, you may start getting more email than usual. If you have an account specifically for this purpose, personal email won’t get lost in the shuffle.

2. Single out one credit card: To complete most offers you will need a credit card. I have one credit card that I use exclusively for this business. It makes it easier to keep track of charges. You CAN use a debit card as long as it has a visa/mc logo. You CANNOT use any sort of prepaid credit or debit card. You CANNOT use a gift card. You also CANNOT use paypal plugin.

3. Paypal Verified: If you don’t already have one, sign up for a paypal account and get verified. Not all trade partners will require you to be verified but some do!

4. Use FIREFOX: Firefox seems to be the best browser to use to insure receiving credit for offers.

5. READ READ READ: Read as much as you can about the freebie business,  the FLR forum is a great ressource. There is lots and lots of very helpful information.

YOU ARE NOW READY TO TRADE!!!  

It is time to find a trade partner. You can find a trade partner in a few ways on the Free Lunch Room forum; 

Creating a new thread in the LOOKING TO COMPLETE OFFERS section and choose someone who responds to your thread.

Search the PAYING FOR REFERRALS section and find someone you are comfortable with.
Read all over the forum and click on the signature of someone you respect to view his/her trade thread.

Once you and your trade partner have agreed on a trade follow the next steps…

1. Proxy: Make sure you are not using a proxy server.

5. Review offers: Take your time and look at the offers on the freebie site. Make a list of ones you are interested in.

Keep in mind when reviewing offers, there are many offers from the PACIFIC WEBWORKS company;

Amazon Amazing Web Stores,
Chuck Mullaney eBay,
eAuction Expert,
eAuction Tutor,
eBay Toolkit,
Google Home Business Kit,
Google SEO Supervisor,
Increase My Margin,
QuickBooks,
Quick Start Business Kit,
Yahoo Search Success Center,
Yahoo Tool Kit

You are only allowed to complete 1 offer from this company.

OR download COOKIE CLEANER

6. LOGOUT: Logout of the freebie website.

7. CLEAR YOUR COOKIES:

8. LOG IN: Log back in to the freebie site and complete an offer.

9. COMPLETE OFFERS: After you complete an offer make sure you wait on the confirmation page for a few minutes before closing it.

10. As long as you have not gone to any other site, you can continue to complete offers without clearing cookies again. If you have gone to another site follow directions 6 – 9 again to clear cookies.

Things to remember…

Make sure you keep DETAILED NOTES of everything. I created a spreadsheet that lists the following information;

Name of freebie site you are completing:
Name of trader you are working with:
Name of offer completed:
Phone number affiliated with offer:
Date offer completed:
Offer terms:
Cost of offer:
Date to cancel by if you are not pleased with offer:

Even if an offer says ‘INSTANT’ most of the time it will not be instant. Just sit tight and wait it out!!

Feel free to ask any and all questions or leave a comment.

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