Get Money Back on Your Holiday Shopping!

If you're going to do your holiday shopping online anyway, why not get some CASH back? Every month, without fail, without minimums, without having to request it, Big Crumbs automatically pays rebates back to customers.

Sign up for a free account, then go to your shopping page before you do any online shopping. Chances are the store you want is there! Here a few:

- Barnes & Noble
- Best Buy
- DisneyStore.com
- eBay
- Gap
- Target
- Wal-Mart
- and HUNDREDS more!

There are similar programs out there that charge you an arm and a leg for basically the same thing. Why not sign up for free?

You have the option to sign up as a Crumb Saver, or a Crumb Earner. A CrumbSaver earns cash back on their shopping through BigCrumbs, PLUS commissions on the shopping of any friends they have directly referred to BigCrumbs.com. CrumbSavers earn the maximum amount possible as rebates on their own shopping (listed beside each retailer).

CrumbEarners earn cash back on their shopping through BigCrumbs, although at a bit lower rate than CrumbSavers. However, CrumbEarners earn when their referrals shop AND when the referrals of their referrals shop, and so on, up to 5 generations.

This dramatically multiplies the amount a CrumbEarner can earn. In fact, CrumbEarners can suddenly find themselves earning additional income from the shopping of thousands of members, many they don't even know!

Containing the Chaos!

I have to admit, I have been a program jumper and it has gotten a little chaotic. I am finally narrowing down my focus to the opportunities I am seeing result with.

Avon: I mostly work this offline right now. I joined at a bad time for me because I'd just had my baby and still didn't quite know which way was up. I nearly gave up, but then I decided that since I still had quite a few brochure/catalogs laying around, I would at least get those out to people and see what happened.

I put the brochures in a plastic bag provided by the company and enclosed a letter introducing myself and offering a discount on the first order. I then tossed the packets onto my neighbors' driveways and porches. The phone started to ring! I started getting orders! I kept tossing brochures, and every time I've gotten 1-2 new customers.

I continue to order more brochures every campaign (new brochures come out every 2 weeks and they call them campaigns). And get them out into the public.

As far as online, I am working with an incredible team with Global Domains International. The Fasttrack Team Truly believes in the "no man left behind" concept. Everyone pitches in and helps the other members build their teams. It's a win-win situation and my downline is finally growing after many attempts with GDI. I am going to be ordering "sizzle cards" soon to include with the Avon brochures I distribute to add some offline advertising to my efforts.

I have decided that Revenue Sharing isn't really for me. It's a little too high of a risk for me right now. I do, however, join these programs and upgrade for the minimum so I can get a 1:1 ratio for my surfing. I do not promote the programs themselves or use them for income, but just for advertising. I also use Paid to Click (PTC) & PTR (Paid to Read) programs to earn free advertising.

In addition to a full time telecommuting job, a husband, a baby girl, and a mentally disabled man we care for, I have my hands full.

The 4-1-1 on Revenue Share Programs

It's the next best thing to MLM! Revenue Sharing requires NO referrals required to make money (though you can reach your financial goals even quicker if you do bring a few friends along).

My take on Revenue Sharing: it's an awesome, easy way to add to your portfolio of online earning programs. You never know when one stream of income may suddenly dry up for one reason or another. Therefore, I prefer and advise not to keep all of one's proverbial eggs in one virtual basket! In a nutshell, you purchase advertising packs,according to your budget, surf the minimum required sites each day/week, and earn a percentage of the revenue earned by the site.

Here are a few pointers to keep you in good shape, should you decide to give Revenue Sharing a try.

1. Start out as a free member and learn the ropes. Every site has different requirements.

2. Check out the FAQs section and make sure you're familiar with how things work before upgrading.

3. Before upgrading, make sure the surf requirements match up with your availability for surfing.

4. This is actually the GOLDEN RULE: NEVER EVER buy more in advertising than you can afford. Income is not guaranteed. You are purchasing advertising and any revenue is a "perk," not a "given."

5. Diversify! Join multiple Revenue Share programs(see above reference to proverbial eggs and virtual baskets!)

6. Purchase the minimum amount of Ad Packs required to upgrade at first. Only withdraw half your earnings, or the value of the Ad Pack is reduced. Recover your money and then buy further Ad Packs from earnings (ideally from another Rev Share site until you have a good portfolio built up).

7. Join multiple sites, but not more than you have time to surf (BTW, let me know if you don't know what TABBED BROWSING is and how to use it for efficient surfing!).

That being said, here are my favorite Revenue Sharing programs:

What Do You Care About? A dNeero Discussion

Exciting New Stuff!

I recently posted about evaluating what is working and what isn't and doing some weeding. Well, due to trying to buy a house, I have had to get WAY serious about that all of a sudden! My "allowance" has come to a screeching hault recently as we try to stockpile all we can right now. Upon self reflection, online business has been more of a hobby than a business. One might even look at it from the outside and say it looks more like gambling!

When I realized that, I determined I need to really scale back on anything that has a monthly commitment if it isn't paying for itself or otherwise extremely useful, and either find a way to fund the programs I'm keeping or cut 'em loose.

Well, during my reflection and evaluating process, I discovered freebie trading. I have started a new blog about it...it's under construction while I work out the kinks in the template, but feel free to check out the content in the meantime!

The bottom line is, freebie trading is an excellent way to fund any online endeavors without risking anything out of your own pocket. Now, when I say that, recognize that in some cases you may spend a few bucks here or there for a trial offer of something, but if you don't like it, you can cancel at any time. You also may find a product or service that you were thinking of using anyway and freebie trading gives you a way to get rewarded for trying it out. That's the case with me and Netflix anyway.

Go check out my freebie trading blog. Feel free to follow me over there, too. You can also come back here and see how I mesh the two together!

Whole Lotta Clickin' Goin' On!

I last updated my stats on April 14. At that time, my LinkGrand balance was $0.32 with 7 referrals. I recently got an email from them as an advertiser (I usually roll my credits into free advertising) that they were having a special. I think you got 10% more views if you used one of their filters or something. I didn't pay much attention.

What DID get my attention though was how many more ads are available to read since that email came out! Evidently many advertisers took advantage of the offer, which means more ads for members to click on! As of today, my balance there is $1.14. I still have only 7 referrals, so that is purely from my own effort! Obviously, I need more referrals to really make some money with it, but this is without hardly promoting it at ALL, just by my own efforts.

I have seen some referral exchange programs that I remember signing up for a long time ago. I am going to look into those again and will let you know what I find out!

My goal is to post a new stats update this week, so stay tuned!

Another "Hair-Raising" Discussion from dNeero!