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How to Get Free Money – These 16 Companies Will Give You $1,935.20
Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch?
Every year
businesses give away thousands of dollars in free money and gift cards
as a way of promoting their websites/products. We’ve put together a list
of 16 of them who will give you a ridiculous $1,935.20 in free cash
right now.
Some of them are as simple as filling out a form and
some of them take a bit more effort, but you can easily knock out all of
them in a couple of hours.
Without further ado, here are the 16 companies giving out free money right now….
1. Download this App & Get Paid $185/year
Media
Research Panel is a smartphone app that helps media companies better
understand how consumers use, view and share TV, social, digital and
mobile media. Their app “measures activities conducted on a device, such
as sharing, viewing, clicking, chatting, downloading and more. The app
also listens for TV shows, and, using technology of Gracenote, Inc.,
identifies which TV shows was captured.”
If you install their app,
they’ll pay you $5/month per device. And you can install the app on up
to 3 devices. Plus they’ll send you a $5 bonus after the 12th week.
(Totals $185/year)
Here’s how to do it:
1. Sign up at Media Insiders Panel
2. Install and activate the MI Mobile app onto your device(s).
3.
Watch your e-mail for important information and instructions on next
steps. Also, at no time is a member’s personally identifiable
information ever shared or released publicly, nor will they ever
interact with you via social media.
Here are the devices that they support:
- Android™ smartphones and tablets that run Android version 4.0 or greater, and are not rooted. We also accept the Kindle Fire HD, but not the first generation Kindle Fire.
- iPhone®5, iPad®, iPad mini®, and iPod touch® devices that run iOS version 5.0 or greater.
***You’ve got be a US resident, 13 years or older, and have a valid email address.
2. Try Banking at Nationwide – FREE $200.00
Update July 2015: This offer has now expired.
The
fine folks over at Nationwide bank are giving every reader of The Penny
Hoarder a free $200 in cash if you open a checking account with them
today!
I love taking advantage of checking
account bonuses, because not only are they an easy way to make a little
extra cash, but they give me a separate place to save for things like
Christmas presents, vacations, and new cars.
And
the Nationwide checking account is pretty awesome. They’re interest
rate is 3x higher than what most banks will give you, plus you can use
any ATM in the world for free (6x a month). Here’s the promo link.
You’ll need to deposit $50 to get started and use the offer code 03110470 (you can withdraw your fifty bucks later)
To
get the $200 bonus, you’ll need to set up an automatic monthly direct
deposit of at least $200 into your E-Checking account. Your monthly
direct deposit of $200 must be received within 60 days of opening the
account. The account must remain open for at least 90 days to receive
the $200 bonus. The $200 bonus will be deposited into your new account
within 2 weeks following the 90 day minimum requirement! You must open
your account by December 31, 2014 in order to get the $200 bonus.
Read more about it here: “Nationwide Bonus”
3. Get Paid to Complete Tasks at InboxDollars.com – FREE $30.00
There
are a number of sites on the web that will pay you to read advertiser’s
emails, sign up for offers, and take surveys. I’ve tried about a
million of them, but there are only a few of them that I would
recommend. Inbox Dollars is one of those companies and I want to show you how I made $30 in a little over an hour completing offers on their site.
It’s
free to join Inbox Dollars and best of all, they give you $5 just for
signing up! Inbox Dollars just requires that you accumulate $30 in
earnings before you can “cash-out” and they pay you by sending a check.
Some
sample offers include one that asks you to sign up for a email
newsletter from AMF Bowling. That pays 50 cents and takes about 15
seconds. Another offer asks you to sign up for a free account at
Turbotax.com to earn $3.50. These are simple and there are nearly a
hundred of them to choose from.
If you are interested in giving Inbox dollars a try, visit the sign-up page here to get started.
Read more about it here: “How to Make $30 Quickly with InboxDollars”
4. Open An Account at TradeKing & Earn $200
The folks over at TradeKing are
offering new, USA customers a $200 bonus when you open an Individual or
Joint account and make three trades in the stock market. I love signup
bonuses like this because they take very little time and are usually
pretty profitable. This one took me about 10 minutes to complete.
Now,
TradeKing charges $4.95 for each trade you make, so after making 3
trades, I still netted $185.15 in extra cash. If you want to do it,
here’s the step-by-step…
1. Open a new Individual or Joint account (IRAs, other tax-exempt, linked, or shared accounts are excluded from this offer).
3.
Make at least 3 trades within 90 days of account opening. I’m not going
to be trading any risky stocks here, because I don’t want to lose any
money. This isn’t a stock recommendation, but I chose the most
conservative Vanguard mutual fund that I could find (VWINX). It’s traded
between $24.50-$25.50 for the better part of a year, so it’s pretty
steady and I know I’m not going to be taking a big risk.
4. The
$200 bonus will be deposited into my account within 90 days. Sweet! It’s
not instant cash, but I don’t really care. It’s all going into the
long-term savings account.
5. Do Your Shopping via Ebates.com – FREE $10.00
The folks over at Ebates.com,
the cash-back shopping site, are giving away $10 gift cards when you
sign-up as a new member. You can choose either a $10 Target, Walmart,
Macy’s, or Kohl’s gift card. You need to make a $25 purchase at any of
the stores on their shopping list in order to qualify for the free gift
card.
I certainly don’t recommend spending $25 just to get a $10
gift card, but if you have plans to buy something online anyway, I would
definitely cash in on this… Especially if you’ve got a gift card from a
birthday or Christmas that needs to be spent. Look at this as a way to
get a little bit extra back on your purchase.
Some of the
cash-back offers I use frequently include the 3% back on iTunes
purchases, 1% back on Apple store purchases, and 3% back on Target
purchases. But there are a ton of stores to pick from as well.
Read more about it here: “Get a FREE $10 Target Gift Card from Ebates.com”
6. Open a Netspend.com Account – FREE $20.00
This
is another easy $20 just for requesting a prepaid, reloadable card from
Netspend. I’ve tested this one and over 200 hundred readers have cashed
in on this, so you know it’s a good one.
1. Click HERE and ”Open a NetSpend account” for FREE.
2. You will receive your NetSpend “Visa” Debit card within 10 business days. Mine made it here in 4 days.
3. Once you receive the card, simply log into NetSpend and activate it.
4. In order to get the FREE $20, you’ll need to load the card with
a minimum of $40.00 using PayPal, a bank account or one of the other
many options.
5. Once you load the $40.00, NetSpend will add
$20.00 to your available balance on the card. I confirmed this myself
with my own card.
6. Go to the ATM and withdraw the $60.00 total
from your card or spend the funds at your local store, online, or
wherever you can use a credit card. Yes, if you withdraw the money via
ATM or cash back, you’ll be hit with the $2.00 fee for a PIN transaction
or a $2.50 ATM Fee (would only be $17.50 – $18.00 bonus in this case).
But, you can avoid the fee by ACH transferring it for free back to your
bank
Read more it here: “Free $20 Cash for Signing Up at Netspend”
7 – 11. Sign Up for a New Credit Card – FREE $1,425.00
One
of the best ways for a Penny Hoarder to make some serious extra cash is
to take advantage of credit card sign up bonuses. Of course, to get
the most benefit, you should have excellent credit, and you should
routinely pay off your credit card in full each month so you’re not
paying interest. (After all, every time you pay interest, you’re losing
some of the positive effects of the bonuses.)
Just recently I
received over $1,300+ in credit card bonuses by selectively choosing new
cards to apply for and use. All I had to do was put my regular
spending on the credit card over the course of a few months.
The US Airways Premier World MasterCard® – $400 Signup Bonus
American Express Gold – $250 Signup Bonus
US Bank FlexPerks Card – $175 Signup Bonus
Chase Sapphire Preferred Card – $400 Signup Bonus
Citi ThankYou Preferred Card – $200 Signup Bonus
For those of you wondering, here’s a great article on how to do this without hurting your credit score: How Opening and Closing Credit Cards Affects Your Credit Score
Read more about it here: “5 Credit Card Promotions That Made me $1,375”
12. Take 5 Minutes and Open a Betterment.com Account – FREE $25.00
Betterment is
a simple, online tool that allows anyone to invest in stocks &
bonds without incurring transaction fees. It’s become pretty popular
with small investors who want to start saving, but can’t afford the
expensive fees you find at places like Etrade.com and Merrill Lynch.
Plus, they’ll give you a free $25 just to signup!
1.) Open a free account at Betterment.com.
The form takes about 90 seconds to fill out, so can literally do this
while sitting in the doctor’s office or while watching television.
2.)
You need to make an opening deposit of $250 or more within 60 days of
opening your account. If you’re not ready to make a deposit right now,
my advice is that you go ahead and fill out the Betterment promotion form today. You can always make the deposit later, but this way you’ll have the promotion locked in, just in case the promotion ends.
3.)
Once you’ve deposited $250 (and waited 60 days), Betterment.com will
deposit a FREE $25 bonus into your account. How easy is that? You can
then withdraw your entire account balance or you can keep the $275
invested and earning interest with Betterment.
Right now this is USA only.
Read more about it here: “How to Make $25 While Sitting in a Waiting Room”
13. Open an Account at Serve.com – FREE $50.00
Serve is
American Express’s version of a prepaid, reloadable card and they are
offering $50 when you open a free account, sign up for direct deposit
and have two direct deposits put in your account. That’s a FREE $50 for
about 5 minutes of work. Sweet!
And here’s a tip: You can direct
deposit a number of things besides your regular paycheck. I like to keep
my paycheck going to my primary bank account, but for bank bonuses, I
use other sources of income to fund it. Try to think of another place
that you get monthly income from. Do you get a social security check?
Insurance check? Second job income? Mystery shopping payouts? A number
of the “paid-to-email” sites also offer direct deposit. I know that Fusion Cash does, because I get a nice cash-out from them on the 20th of every month.
Here’s a link to the promo page: Serve.com $50 Bonus
Read more about Serve.com here: “How to Get a Free $50 from Serve.com”
14. Transfer Your Prescription to a New Drug Store – $25.00
If you have a monthly prescription from your doctor, I’ve got an easy way for you to make $25 bucks a month…
Several
of the national grocery and drug store chains have been know to run
promotions where they will give you free cash or a gift card when you
transfer a prescription to their store. For example, this month
Walgreens is running a promotion where they will give you a $25 gift
card for transferring a prescription to your local Walgreens.
You can usually find these coupons in your Sunday newspaper circulars or on coupon blogs like DealSeekingMom.com and MoneySavingMom.com.
If
you can’t find a coupon for a specific location, ask your store manager
if they’ll accept a competitor coupon. You can then take the Walgreens
coupon (or another one that you find) and have your store match it. Lots
of stores will do this including Publix and some Walmarts, CVS’s, and
Rite Aids.
Read more about this trick here: “Here’s a neat trick to make $25/month if you have a prescription…“
15. Take a Few Surveys with MySurvey.com – $15
Most of you know that I hate survey companies.
There are so many scammy sites out there and often times taking a survey is little pay for a lot of work. However, one of the exceptions I make is with MySurvey.
They’re one of the oldest online survey companies and they have an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.
The
reason I like MySurvey so much is that they pay you for even the
surveys you don’t qualify for. You see, most survey companies make you
take a “qualifying survey” before you are given access to the paid
survey. And if you don’t meet the qualifications for that particular
survey, you earn nothing (despite the fact that you spent 5 annoying
minutes answering questions).
MySurvey is different – even if you
aren’t given access to the full survey, they will still pay you for
answering the questions in the qualifying survey. Pretty cool, huh? Now,
you’re not going to get rich answering surveys, but it can be a fun way
to make an extra couple hundred dollars a year. Heck, I do them as I’m
watching TV. Each survey pays differently, but on average I earn an
extra $15/month for taking a few surveys.
Signup for MySurvey.com here. (USA only)
Read more about it here: “The 9 Best Survey Sites to Make Extra Money”
16. Trade Stocks at MotifInvesting.com – FREE $100.25
Motif Investing is
unique among online brokers, because instead of picking individual
stocks, you invest in a cluster of stocks (usually 20 to 30) from a
similar field. Sort of like a mutual fund, but the motifs range from
Clean Energy, to Republican Companies, to Healthy and Tasty, to
Obamacare. Basically any interest you have or trend you’d like to
invest in can be found on Motif…
Even, better they’re giving away a
ton of cash right now. If you open a new account and make one trade,
you’ll earn $50. Make 3 trades, and you’ll earn $75. Make 5 trades, and
you’ll earn $150!
Now Motif charges $9.95 for each trade you make,
so after making 5 trades, you’ll still be netting $100.25 in extra
cash. That’s like getting all of your transaction fees free AND earning
$100 extra. Sweet! Signup here.
Read more about it here: “How to Make $100 This Week with Motif Investing”
There you have it. If you’ve finished the list, you’ve just made $1,935.20 in FREE money.
Feel free to take the weekend off.
Good luck Penny Hoarders!
Note:
we want to be up front with you on this – we may have a relationship
with some of these companies. While we genuinely recommend them, we do
want you to be aware that they’re a sponsor and are helping to grow The
Penny Hoarder as a community.
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