I know I talk on this site a lot about Swagbucks and search and win sites. One of these days I’ll get back to figuring out new ways to earn money that involve a little more effort, but the truth is, right now I don’t have time for much more than Search and Win and maybe a few surveys here and there.
For people that have very busy lives and just need a few bucks to help make ends meet, I think there are really not a whole lot of better ways to make money online than surveys and search and win.
That being said, I have another Search and Win site to share with you. Blingo.
Blingo is from the people at Publishers Clearing House. Each day they give away prizes that could range from movie tickets to a new car to a whole bunch of cash! They also have a great referral program where anytime one of your friends wins something, you win the same prize… even if it is a car!
I use Blingo in between winning from Swagbucks. It is well known that Swagbucks won’t let you win more than a few times a day and never right after you win. So what I do is use Swagbucks in the morning until I win, then switch to Blingo until the afternoon when I will likely win on Swagbucks again.
Check out Blingo and let me know what you think.
If you haven’t gotten around to trying Swagbucks yet, here is another great opportunity to do so!
This week Swagbucks is unveiling some exciting new features and changes to their search engine and the prizes that they give away. To celebrate these changes, Swagbucks has offered all Earnontheside readers who are new to Swagbucks a special code for extra Swagbucks when you sign up!
To use the special code, simply click here to sign up for Swagbucks, then enther the code “EARNONTHESIDECODE” at the bottom of the registration page in the “Swag Code” box. The code is good until 6/16 and only works for new sign ups, so make sure you use it today!
Swagbucks is great! I’ve literally earned hundreds of dollars in prizes over the last year and it is super easy to do. To learn more check out our Swagbucks tips page.
I’m a huge Swagbucks fan. But one of the things I don’t really like about Swagbucks is the huge variation in value of prizes in the Swagstore compared to other prizes and what they are really worth. For example, a $5 Amazon gift card is 45 Swagbucks, but a $10 Barns and Noble gift card is 115 Swagbucks.
In order to help sort which prizes are actually worth buying, I’ve created this table of all the gift cards in the Swagbucks store. I’ve started with gift cards since they are the easiest to value and since that is what most people tend to use their Swagbucks on, although if this becomes popular I will create tables for all the sections within the Swagstore. This table and any others I create will all be in the Swagbucks Prizes section of my Homepage
To value prizes, I decided to use a value of 10 cents per Swagbucks. I think this makes sense since it is an easy number to calculate and since 45 Swagbucks can get you $5 to Amazon (and you can buy almost anything on Amazon.
There are four fields on the table
- Prize – The name of the prize.
- Swagbucks Cost – Number of Swagbucks required to redeem the prize.
- Dollar Value – Actual US dollar value of the prize
- Real Cost – Actual cost of the prize using 10 cents per Swagbuck rate
- Value – Cost – Shows the value of the prize, higher numbers are a good deal, negative numbers are a bad deal
- Notes – Any notes about the prize
If you like this list or you have any suggestions, please let me know in the comments. And don’t forget you can sort the list by any field!
