The FreebieTrader’s Blog

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.

WHAT IS FREEBIE TRADING

Before you start making money with me, I would like you to understand what it is you will be doing. The way I make money is by being a Freebie Trader, and that is the way you will also be making money.

Freebie Trading is a term used to describe transactions in which people complete offers in exchange for cash or prizes. Many of these offers are free (or inexpensive) trial offers.

A Freebie Trader is someone who pays for referrals, or gets paid to be referred to a Freebie Site.

A Freebie Site, also known as an Incentivized Freebie Website (IFW) is the site that hosts these offers and gives prizes to individuals like you and I for completing trial offers and referring individuals to do the same.

These Freebie Sites then get paid (very well) by the affiliate network use a significant portion of what they receive in order to purchase prizes or to pay you cash. These prizes range anywhere from $40 – $120 per referral and sometimes more.

That’s pretty much it. You GET PAID for completing offers and then referring people. Right now, you will get paid for going green on sites for me. Then I will show you how to move on to getting your own referrals.

THE TWO WAYS TO MAKE MONEY

There are two ways to make money as a Freebie Trader. Both have their individual benefits.

Get Paid to Complete offers: 

In the first method, you will be getting paid completing offer requirements at Freebie Sites. I will be referring you to a few sites and will pay you a specified amount when you have gone green on that site.

To go green is to register at a Freebie site (using someone’s referral link) and complete the offer requirements. On some sites, this means completing one credit worth of offers. On others more, and on others less. What’s great about doing this is that YOU GET PAID to do it.

Get Paid directly from the Freebie Sites:

In the second method, you will be getting paid directly from the Freebie Sites for referring others to complete offers. This is the method that makes you the real money over the longer term.

The beauty of this method is that you no longer have to complete offers. Your main concern is getting referrals, and for every referral you can receive anywhere between $10 and $60, depending on the site.

Method 2 is the goal of every Freebie Trader because that’s where the long term success is. However, Method 1 is Essential to your success in Method 2. For more info on Method two, click on Method 2 Help to the left. However, you will need to go green on Freebie Sites before you can start getting paid directly from the sites. So lets get you started making some money.  Visit the Trading site: http://www.freebietrader.ca