So your question now is probably, “why do so many businesses give away free stuff and why are there so many of them doing this?” There are many reasons why businesses give away free stuff. One of main reasons why businesses give away free stuff is so that they can promote their business. When these businesses give away free things, they normally imprint their business details on free stuff. This is so they can promote their business, which will in return give their business more exposure not only from World Wide Web, but also from offline world.

Other than finding free stuff from using free stuff directories, you can also find free stuff from using other sites on Web. These include individual sites that offer free stuff, but also offer other services other than free stuff. For example, you can get free reprint able articles from http://www.simplysearch4it.com/article/articledir.php where you can use them on your site for free.

If you wonder where free money comes from, here is answer - incentive companies are affiliated with top online merchants (advertisers), and merchants pay a commission for advertising their products and services. Rewards companies pass majority of commission they make on to YOU, customer, when you accept their offers!

And here is my promise to you...

A Proof You Can Earn Free Money Online Please open or download following excel file to your computer: http://www.cash4offers.com/offers_rewards.xls

As you can see I have selected only offers that interested me from first 3 pages of all available offers at Cash4Offers. And look what my earnings potential is -- I can make $65.40 after completing only 13 offers (approximately $5.00 for each offer), and receive a bunch of great merchandise too! Remember there were 111 offers available. Imagine how much I could earn if I completed all of offers?!

It doesn't matter if you have already signed up with a rewards program or not, I advise you to explore all available offers and use above excel file as a template in order to evaluate your earnings potential. Just click on each offer that interests you and make notes of all offer details - how much you earn, how much you have to invest, your profit, merchandise you receive, and your total profit. Use template every time you decide to complete offers online.

It really helps to decide which offers are best choice for you and what you will receive by completing each of them. Of course, although there are well over one hundred offers available, you should complete only ones that really interest you. You are not going to apply for all available credit card offers, or get a free trial of all ISPs, are you? My guess is that you should be able to make about $200 - $500 by completing all of offers that interest you.

---------------SIDEBAR--------------- How long does it take to receive cash for completing offers? Well, some offers pay instantly! And some may take up to 30 days (e.g. some credit card applications) before you receive your cash to your reward program's account. -------------------------------------

If you don't receive cash from offer within 30 days of accepting it, you should contact rewards program and send them all of details related to offer:

The date of offer completion The confirmation email Your contact info: name, email address, phone number etc. Usually rewards company will do investigation for you and if you really completed offer (offers) they will credit your account with offer cash amount within about 3 weeks.

Got your cash in your account? Great! What's next? Now, last step...

Request Payment & Verify Your Account Why do reward programs ask you to verify your account by phone or mail? The answer is simply this - they are trying to protect their advertisers and themselves from fraud. So, request your payment either by check or another method if available, and expect a phone call several days before your payment is processed. You should receive your payment in about a week or two!

Well, it was easy making free cash on internet, wasn't it? But your earning potential doesn't stop there, you could make even more by receiving cash-back for shopping or referring your friends. But that's another story for next article.

P.S. FYI, you can choose to receive great free stuff like computers, TVs, gift cards and much more instead of free cash, again, by completing offers. Visit http://www.1st-in-rewards.com for more information about all available online rewards that you can take advantage of.

Gerardas Norkus is a successful author and publisher of http://www.1st-in-rewards.com. Great tips on receiving free merchandise and money from top online rewards programs.

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