Point & Referral Offers

These are the easiest way to get a free iPod online. The basic premise of referrals is that you do a little work, and everyone else does the rest. You benefit, the company offering the iPod benefits, and your referrals benefit of they follow through as well. Unlike a pyramid scheme, everyone contributes something of value to the Point & Referral Method. A company like COMING SOON makes approximately—according to available statistics—an average of $200 per signup. For everyone that sees the Method through, they pay out $250. So they only need 21% of users to not follow through to be profitable.

Since all of these offers are pretty much the same, we'll discuss all of them together. For each site, you must complete one offer and refer five people. Notice I didn't say five “friends.” These sites allow and encourage you to post your referral link on the internet to garner referrals. (I may later refer to these offers as 5+1s.)

When you sign up for a Point & Referral Site, don't use your regular email address as you will get SPAM. Use a Spam Email Address. If you don't have one, you can get one from these sites:

COMING SOON!

Now you must complete one offer. Generally, you want an offer that costs little and is simple to cancel. Unless, of course, you decide to stick past the trial period of many of these products, as people often have. I stuck with NetFlix and Napster Premium for a while; don't be embarrassed about it—such behavior promotes and supports the great free offers on the web.
Here is a list of offers across all sites mentioned above. Not every offer is on every site, but most can be found on at least one site. Each offer can only be done once for ANY program:

Ebay is the best affiliate offer ever. All you have to do is sign up for an account and bid on one product. That's it. If you have a paid email account, or uncommon free account (i.e. not hotmail, yahoo, mail.com, etc…), you don't even need to use a credit card—though I've heard using a credit card will expedite your accreditation. No cost; no canceling.
www.ebay.com
Ancestry.com is one of my favorites. You get a free 14-day trial, which is easy to cancel. The site offers a way to look up all sorts of information about your ancestors. Do a search on the site; if you don't find any information (or any new information) about your family, you have a good, honest reason to cancel.
If you don't cancel, the service costs $99 a year. To cancel, call 1-800-262-3787 or email cancel@ancestry.com . You should do this within the first 12 days of your membership.
www.ancestry.com
AOL 9.0 is also free. You get a free 50 day trial and then a monthly fee of $23.90. You know what AOL is. Cancel by calling 1-800-827-6364
www.aol.com
AOL for Broadband is a free trial for those who already have a Broadband Connection. You may do this offer even if you have already completed AOL 9.0. Same information as above, but the trial only lasts 45 days.
www.aol.com
Video Professor is a tougher offer, and one I would only suggest using if you've already used Ancestry and AOLs. You get a 10-day trial of instructive CD-ROM videos about home PC use. The CDs cost $6.95 for shipping and handling.
Canceling VP is interesting. You get sent 3 CDs, two of which are “yours to keep.” If you cancel within 10 days, you can keep 2 of the three videos, but you still have to return the third. Or you can return all of them for a refund of your shipping and handling fee, so it will only cost you the cost of shipping back to VP, probably about $3 with a padded envelope.
If you don't cancel, the service costs $69.95 a year. To cancel, call 1-800-525-7763.
www.videoprofessor.com
Columbia House DVD is not really a free offer. You must follow all the terms of the offer, which—at the cheapest—will run you at least $100. Only sign up for this if you plan to keep Columbia House. You may want to: you'll end up getting 10 DVDs for $100.
www.columbiahousedvd.com
GM Card. No Annual Fee. All you have to do is get approved. Pretty easy offer if you want another card—and with the 5% cash back toward a GM vehicle, you can get a free car!
www.gmcard.com
White Smile is a fairly simple offer. You get a two week (14 day) trial of a teeth-whitening product. You pay $6.95 for shipping and handling. If you cancel within 14 days, you can keep the sample and are only out the s&h fee. If you don't cancel, it costs $49.95. To cancel, email cservice@gleamingwhitesmile.com.
www.gleamingwhitesmile.com
PetCareRx is also simple. All you have to do is buy $20 worth of products from the PetCareRx web site. No signing up and no canceling.
www.petcarerx.com
BocaJava is similar to Columbia House. Your total cost for the coffee will be between $40 and $55, which is not a bad deal for eight 8-oz. bags of gourmet coffee and a travel tumbler.
www.bocajava.com

Now comes what for most people is the hardest part, but for others, is the most fun. You have to cancel your order (eBay, BocaJava, PetCareRx, GM Card and Columbia House offer users, skip to step 5). Remember that if you call to cancel, the customer service rep will do everything in his/her power to stop you from canceling. So if you are shy, meek or have trouble saying “no,” read my two strategies for canceling below.

Strategy One is the one I've used to cancel myriad offers. It's simple: be firm, curt and uninterested. Simply keep on repeating a single phrase over and over again after each pitch, like “Thanks; I'd still rather cancel.” Ask for your confirmation/cancellation number. If you meet with resistance, ask to speak with a manager. You should have a reason for canceling, which is usually not difficult to find is you use the company's web site for a minimum of five minutes
Strategy Two is to have an irrefutable excuse for canceling. Loss of a job and tightened funds; your computer was taken away be the repo man; you're giving up all earthly possessions and moving to Tibet to live as a monk; etc…

OK. You did what you have to do, now you have to get referrals. Luckily, that step is pretty easy with the 5+1s, as they encourage putting your link online, which is exactly what you will. Here's how

Use Forums: Many forums have sections that discuss hot deals or off-topic discussions. The 5+1s are definitely hot deals, and anything is an off-topic.

Post a message about whatever 5+1 program you are using in the forum. Include your referral link, but hide it within the URL. For example, on a phBBB forum, type: [url=http://www.COMINGSOON.com/referalID]www.COMINGSOON.com[/url]. Try to include as much information as possible about how to complete the offer. If you want, you can include a link to this guide.
Make a Conga Line. Be open about referrals, and explain that anyone who signs up under you, should post their referral link. After there are 5 referral links beneath you, you delete the top posting. You have to update the posting, so it take some more work than a single post, but more people will sign up this way.
See an example here

CraigsList: CraigsLists are located across the world, and offer you the ability to post something, but not to respond to a posting, like a international, online bulletin board. You can't post a referral link directly, so go to www.tinyurl.com , enter in your referral URL, and—poof!—you have a URL you can post to CraigsList.
CraigsList will not stand for these postings, so they will get flagged and removed quickly. In the time they are up, however, you should receive about 10 signups. If you want a longer shelf life, post to the Electronics section, instead of the Free section, and don't include the word “Free” or any exclamation points in your title.

This is the easiest step. Sit back, relax, and wait for your referrals to come in.
Get your prize!!!

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	Point & Referral Offers: These are the easiest way to get a free iPod online. The basic premise of referrals is that you do a little work, and everyone else does the rest. You benefit, the company offering the iPod benefits, and your referrals benefit of they follow through as well. Unlike a pyramid scheme, everyone contributes something of value to the Point & Referral Method. A company like COMING SOON makes approximately—according to available statistics—an average of $200 per signup. For everyone that sees the Method through, they pay out $250. So they only need 21% of users to not follow through to be profitable. Since all of these offers are pretty much the same, we'll discuss all of them together. For each site, you must complete one offer and refer five people. Notice I didn't say five “friends.” These sites allow and encourage you to post your referral link on the internet to garner referrals. (I may later refer to these offers as 5+1s.) What to do—and how to do it: When you sign up for a Point & Referral Site, don't use your regular email address as you will get SPAM. Use a Spam Email Address. If you don't have one, you can get one from these sites: MailBlocks Mail.com Yahoo! Sign up for one of the Point & Referral Sites. They are listed below: COMING SOON! Now you must complete one offer. Generally, you want an offer that costs little and is simple to cancel. Unless, of course, you decide to stick past the trial period of many of these products, as people often have. I stuck with NetFlix and Napster Premium for a while; don't be embarrassed about it—such behavior promotes and supports the great free offers on the web. Here is a list of offers across all sites mentioned above. Not every offer is on every site, but most can be found on at least one site. Each offer can only be done once for ANY program: Ebay is the best affiliate offer ever. All you have to do is sign up for an account and bid on one product. That's it. If you have a paid email account, or uncommon free account (i.e. not hotmail, yahoo, mail.com, etc…), you don't even need to use a credit card—though I've heard using a credit card will expedite your accreditation. No cost; no canceling. www.ebay.com Ancestry.com is one of my favorites. You get a free 14-day trial, which is easy to cancel. The site offers a way to look up all sorts of information about your ancestors. Do a search on the site; if you don't find any information (or any new information) about your family, you have a good, honest reason to cancel. If you don't cancel, the service costs $99 a year. To cancel, call 1-800-262-3787 or email cancel@ancestry.com . You should do this within the first 12 days of your membership. www.ancestry.com AOL 9.0 is also free. You get a free 50 day trial and then a monthly fee of $23.90. You know what AOL is. Cancel by calling 1-800-827-6364 www.aol.com AOL for Broadband is a free trial for those who already have a Broadband Connection. You may do this offer even if you have already completed AOL 9.0. Same information as above, but the trial only lasts 45 days. www.aol.com Video Professor is a tougher offer, and one I would only suggest using if you've already used Ancestry and AOLs. You get a 10-day trial of instructive CD-ROM videos about home PC use. The CDs cost $6.95 for shipping and handling. Canceling VP is interesting. You get sent 3 CDs, two of which are “yours to keep.” If you cancel within 10 days, you can keep 2 of the three videos, but you still have to return the third. Or you can return all of them for a refund of your shipping and handling fee, so it will only cost you the cost of shipping back to VP, probably about $3 with a padded envelope. If you don't cancel, the service costs $69.95 a year. To cancel, call 1-800-525-7763. www.videoprofessor.com Columbia House DVD is not really a free offer. You must follow all the terms of the offer, which—at the cheapest—will run you at least $100. Only sign up for this if you plan to keep Columbia House. You may want to: you'll end up getting 10 DVDs for $100. www.columbiahousedvd.com GM Card. No Annual Fee. All you have to do is get approved. Pretty easy offer if you want another card—and with the 5% cash back toward a GM vehicle, you can get a free car! www.gmcard.com White Smile is a fairly simple offer. You get a two week (14 day) trial of a teeth-whitening product. You pay $6.95 for shipping and handling. If you cancel within 14 days, you can keep the sample and are only out the s&h fee. If you don't cancel, it costs $49.95. To cancel, email cservice@gleamingwhitesmile.com. www.gleamingwhitesmile.com PetCareRx is also simple. All you have to do is buy $20 worth of products from the PetCareRx web site. No signing up and no canceling. www.petcarerx.com BocaJava is similar to Columbia House. Your total cost for the coffee will be between $40 and $55, which is not a bad deal for eight 8-oz. bags of gourmet coffee and a travel tumbler. www.bocajava.com Now comes what for most people is the hardest part, but for others, is the most fun. You have to cancel your order (eBay, BocaJava, PetCareRx, GM Card and Columbia House offer users, skip to step 5). Remember that if you call to cancel, the customer service rep will do everything in his/her power to stop you from canceling. So if you are shy, meek or have trouble saying “no,” read my two strategies for canceling below. Strategy One is the one I've used to cancel myriad offers. It's simple: be firm, curt and uninterested. Simply keep on repeating a single phrase over and over again after each pitch, like “Thanks; I'd still rather cancel.” Ask for your confirmation/cancellation number. If you meet with resistance, ask to speak with a manager. You should have a reason for canceling, which is usually not difficult to find is you use the company's web site for a minimum of five minutes Strategy Two is to have an irrefutable excuse for canceling. Loss of a job and tightened funds; your computer was taken away be the repo man; you're giving up all earthly possessions and moving to Tibet to live as a monk; etc… OK. You did what you have to do, now you have to get referrals. Luckily, that step is pretty easy with the 5+1s, as they encourage putting your link online, which is exactly what you will. Here's how Use Forums: Many forums have sections that discuss hot deals or off-topic discussions. The 5+1s are definitely hot deals, and anything is an off-topic. Post a message about whatever 5+1 program you are using in the forum. Include your referral link, but hide it within the URL. For example, on a phBBB forum, type: [url=http://www.COMINGSOON.com/referalID]www.COMINGSOON.com[/url]. Try to include as much information as possible about how to complete the offer. If you want, you can include a link to this guide. Make a Conga Line. Be open about referrals, and explain that anyone who signs up under you, should post their referral link. After there are 5 referral links beneath you, you delete the top posting. You have to update the posting, so it take some more work than a single post, but more people will sign up this way. See an example here CraigsList: CraigsLists are located across the world, and offer you the ability to post something, but not to respond to a posting, like a international, online bulletin board. You can't post a referral link directly, so go to www.tinyurl.com , enter in your referral URL, and—poof!—you have a URL you can post to CraigsList. CraigsList will not stand for these postings, so they will get flagged and removed quickly. In the time they are up, however, you should receive about 10 signups. If you want a longer shelf life, post to the Electronics section, instead of the Free section, and don't include the word “Free” or any exclamation points in your title. This is the easiest step. Sit back, relax, and wait for your referrals to come in. Get your prize!!!

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