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There are dozens of coupon sites all over the Internet, which can save your money on almost any purchase you are interested in. Computers and electronics, air travel, website registration, restaurants, and even the purchase of a new car all have premium coupons which are easily searched out. What most people do not look for are the literally “free” stuffs which can be had. Some of these products are very simple as a free sticker; others are really nice items such as a computer bag, pet food, or even vacation time. All you need is a little bit of effort to find all the offers that are available.
First and foremost you need a bit of time to find free products versus ones that have coupons. There are not as many sites dedicated to free stuffs as there are for coupon based purchases. But be realistic – no one will give you a free LCD tv or 5 nights in Hawaii simply for giving them your email address or filling out a short survey. Those types of free products can be also got but there exist different conditions for getting them. More likely, you can get free food samples, free pet food, free software and other less valuable items much easier. Most can be earned either by filling out a short customer survey, or even by giving your valid zip code and email address. The one thing you should take in consideration in mind is that the more valuable the product is the more you will have to do to obtain that product for free.
One more method for free product offers that I would suggest trying if you want to get more expensive stuff is to try to become a product tester. It is not for everyone, and of course there is an application process, but it is a great possibility to get to use products for free, try the latest and greatest. Some of these product testing jobs let you keep the items as payment for your extensive testing and field feedbackon how the item performs, quality feedback, and sometimes posting a review online. It?s a fair trade off, but again do not expect Toshiba to send you an 80 inch LCD TV for testing – its not gonna happen. You can get all kinds of smaller, yet valuable products this way. In the beginning, it might be hard to get bigger companies to let you be a product tester because you have no experience in this field – so start small. Get some experience, give great feedback and then slowly work up to the better stuffs and better companies. If you really enjoy this practice, start a review blog, companies like free press and if you can create good traffic and a decent following, that can become a full time job and pay the bills just from the website. Often times once you have an established site with good reputation, you can effectively write to companies and ask them to send you the products you are interested in for review and they will be glad to do it.
One last area to look for a great number of free product offers in general, is software. There is literally a great number of free software that can be found for particular job or project need solution. I am not talking about pirated software that is 100% illegal I am talking about shareware OR totally free of charge software that is either open source or has been given away by the author free of charge. If you need some software for a specific project but perhaps do not have an steady need to use it, why expend money on software you will use only once? You can find free software that would turn the trick. Of course, you have to deal with whatever features it has, and there is no support if something goes wrong. But on the other hand you did not pay anything for it, so if that software is not doing the job, search another one that does the same thing – download it and go for it.
As you see there a lot of ways to save your money and to get free stuff, simply devote a little time and efforts for searching sites offering all kinds of free stuff and you will enjoy the fact of getting free stuff you are interested in online.
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Posted in Budgeting · January 12th, 2010 · Comments (0)
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