Pages

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Swagbucks - What YOU Need to Know!

Do you use Swagbucks?

 

I just learned about a new app that earns you more Swagbucks!  If you have an Android phone or tablet, search the Google Play Store for EntertaiNow.  It's similar to SBTV Mobile.  

How much can you earn with this app?  Up to 90 Swagbucks a day, if you earn 90 a day, in months with 30 days you will earn 2700 extra Swagbucks.  If you enjoy the Amazon Gift Cards, it's the equivalent of $25 plus an extra 200 swagbucks.  Not a bad deal!

How do I know this?  Of course, I left my tablet running playing over and over again until I reached the Daily Limit.  In your account, it's listed as SBTV Mobile: EntertaiNow.  Since I use SBTV Mobile every day for 50 points, I'll get 140 just for Mobile viewing.

To earn more points, go to the GAMES link on Swagbucks and play "Ball Rain".  After the usual ads, click play, then click to start, you don't have to do anything else.  In under 10 minutes, opposed to 20+ minutes, you'll have your 10 swagbucks from games.

Also you might be interested in the "Encrave" activities.  The AOL YellowPages is my favorite to earn 2 swagbucks for putting in a word, press enter, go about your business (I usually refill my coffee cup) but stay on that page.  Wha-la = 2 swagbucks and you can do this several times.

There are other easy ways to reach your daily goal - ask me!

This month I have $75 in Amazon Gift Cards from Swagbucks, $10 in Amazon Gift Cards from Crowdtap and $10 from a rewards program.  The month isn't over yet and neither is my "earning potential"!   Not familiar with Crowdtap, ask me!  For only a few minutes a day you can "earn" Amazon Gift Cards and more.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

The savings are heating up! 

Head on over to Saving With Elaine's facebook page.

Check out the posts from the past few days.  Want savings tips and tricks on how to save money as a way of life - Check out Saving With Elaine!  Reasonable rates!  Local or Nationwide!

Spots for assistance are going fast! 

Don't miss out!

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Pay Less for Social Media

Some social media sites and services try to nickel and dime you for "extras." Watch out for those unnecessary upgrades, and be frugal about how you handle your social media.

Hootsuite is a free consolidation tool where you can post your announcements for Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn all in one place. Stick with the free version unless you have multiple people on your marketing team and want to control permissions and passwords. If you only have your spouse, or a trusted other person helping you, then just share your password with him/her for Hootsuite.


Facebook Ad Campaign. I've tried this, myself, while running an ad campaign for a chiropractor. I've found that for this type of campaign, there are pros and cons:
Pros:
  1. You can control your budget, and on a daily basis. You can spend $7 or $3 or $300/day.
  2. There is allowance to get pretty hyper-local in terms of geographic demographics.
  3. You can choose which type of post/ad to create.
Cons:
  1. While they claim that you can target demographics, this is an imperfect science (especially for the non-aficionado of marketing and advertising).
  2. Go big or go home applies to this, in my opinion. Don't throw spaghetti against the wall when it comes to running ad campaigns online (either Pay Per Click on Google or the Facebook Ad Campagins). If you can't go big, then maybe hire a Facebook guru to run the ad campaigns for you. Of course, this adds to your expense (paying the guru), but will ensure that you are not dabbling and wasting your money.
Meetup.com sponsorhips, perks, and advertising. If you go to Meetup.com and are not an active participant (you should be! It's free and it's fun), then you might be tempted to go through the official Meetup.com business sponsor program and pay for your listings. See link above. Don't.

I recommend that you contact group organizers to present them with your offer. Contact them one at a time, be sincere, and be RELEVANT. This should go without saying, but common sense needs used, here. This will cost you a little more time, but save you a lot more money. The time is worth it, however, as you might begin to build relationships with these groups and evolve into other collaboration and growth opportunities.

UBL.org. While Universal Business Listing (UBL) has multiple packages to choose from for syndicating your business listing online in search directories, just choose the Premium Package. In this case, going for Essential is not enough. If you are going to sign up for UBL, which is mandatory for all brick and mortar businesses, in my opinion, then get the Premium Package or don't do it at all.

Please note: UBL is mandatory, not optional. This is even more important than the yellow pages was in the old days. UBL's listing is the old-fashioned yellow pages on steroids. This is not optional.

This is not a complete list of how to pay less for social media, but should give you an idea of how to get started and what to watch out for when making a budget for your internet marketing activities. For more information or coaching around online marketing for your business (either just brand new and wanting to jump in the game, or an intermediate who wants to "step up" her game), contact Angela Schnaubelt or visit the Coach Angela website.



Saving With Elaine

It has been a LONG time since I've posted here.  There is a good reason.

I've been in the process of starting my own business!  This is good news, right?  Are your dollars stretching less and less lately?  Whose hasn't?  Let me help you!  

How can I help, you ask?  Are you unemployed, have no income, or just enjoy saving money?  

Visit my new website: Saving With Elaine



This is my new laptop - ask me how it only cost $12.79 out of pocket!

Please share my link with your friends!  I can help anyone, anywhere, anytime!