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!
I’ve said many times before that the things I write about on this site most likely won’t make you rich. However for people that might need a few extra bucks in between paychecks to help make ends meet, there are a ton of ways to make small chunks of cash on the internet. If you haven’t checked out my paid surveys page, that is a great place to start!
YouData is another site that is great for earning a few bucks at a time. YouData is a site that pays you to simply look at advertisements and visit their webpages. This may sound a lot like those PPC sites (which I can’t stand personally), but there is defintely something different and far less scammy about this site.
First of all, they don’t make you sign up for any special offers. Second, they actually pay pretty well for just a few minutes of work. The best part is that they payout every friday via paypal regardless of your account balance. The only downside is that there is definitely a limited amount that you can earn because you will quickly run out of advertisments to look at. I typically get about $3-$4 dollars per week for about 5-10 minutes of “work”, and I’ve actually found some pretty cool stores and websites through the site.
To sign up click here!
The one other thing to note is that as of now I believe YouData is for the United States only (although I could be wrong!), and that they are specifically looking for people living in certain areas in Texas and Mommy Bloggers (so if that is you, you will probably get more ads to look at!). And also, if you want to get more ads, remember to fill out your user profile so that they can send you better targeted ads.
Try it out! It’s easy and fun!
