Earning Gift Cards with Swagbucks

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There are a lot of rewards sites out there promising to pay users to give their opinions. This usually turns into an endless cycle of beginning surveys and wasting precious time answering demographics questions only to be disqualified with little to no compensation. Swagbucks is no exception. You complete (or try to complete) surveys in exchange for SB which can be redeemed for various gift cards or via PayPal. The exchange rate is 100 SB per dollar; however, some of the gift cards may be on sale (your first gift card of the month is 12% off ). But unlike most of those other sites, Swagbucks has a ton of other ways to earn. Here are just a few of them:

Swago

When looking for ways to make money online, you might be tempted to go straight to the app store. While Swagbucks does have an app (there are actually multiple apps which I will go into later), some of the best features are only available on the website. If you don’t have a computer, you can access most of these features through the browser on your smartphone.

Swago is one of the features only available on the website. Think of it as a game of Bingo that everyone can win – no need to be the first as long as you complete the board (or one of the other patterns) before the deadline. This is what a Swago board looks like:

The colored squares are the ones I completed; however, I did manage to complete the entire board and collect my reward before the deadline as you can see below.

As you can see, there were other patterns I could have submitted but completing the entire board paid the most. You only get to submit one pattern so choose wisely. If you’re wondering what the deal is with the spins mentioned in the images above, those are for chances to win even more SB.

Daily Goals

While it has since been added to the app, the daily goal was another feature unique to the website. There are two goals each day. If you earn enough SB to complete the goal, then you will receive the bonus listed next to it (Note: you will get bonus for the highest goal completed, not both goals added together). These bonuses will not be credited to your account immediately but will be added together for the entire month and you will need to collect them when they are released, usually around the 5th of the following month. As you can see in the picture below, I made both goals for the day and the previous month’s bonus was ready to be collected.

You might also notice that the picture above has an option to show my winning streaks. If you make at least the first goal every day, there are additional bonuses to be earned. The streaks available come in 7-day, 14-day, 21-day, or full month increments. You will receive the bonus for the for the highest streak completed. This will be added together with your daily bonus so you may see something like this when you collect them the following month:

Offers

Another great thing about Swagbucks is that you can try new products and services and get paid for doing so. For example, I was already thinking of subscribing to Hulu when I came across this offer:

Hulu costs $5.99 a month. Had I not been happy with it, I could have chosen to cancel after the first month and would have made a profit of $14. Keep in mind, however, that Swagbucks’ terms and conditions ask that you only complete objects for which you have a genuine interest.

Here’s an offer that I did profit from as I chose not to make any additional puchases after the first one:

I also made a profit off of the Gillette subscription as I ended up with more razors than I needed within the first three months.

Offers like that result in days like this:

Apps

As I mentioned earlier, there are several apps associated with your Swagbucks account. Here are the ones currently on my phone:

The Swagbucks app is basically the mobile version of the website though, as mentioned previously, it does not have all of the features. The Answer app is dedicated strictly to surveys. The others, with the exception of SB Live, are ways to earn SB by watching videos. SB Live, formerly known as SwagIQ, is a live trivia game through which you can earn SB. Unlike similar apps which only pay if you answer all of the questions correctly, SB Live offers bonus SB on individual questions so you can earn a little bit just for knowing a few answers. Just be sure to stick around until the end of the game when you will be prompted to collect your winnings.

Games

If you like playing games, you should be on the lookout for offers like these which have no purchase requirement and reward you simply for playing a game to the specified level:

Coupons

Another great feature of Swagbucks is the ability to print and redeem coupons. While the official offer changes from time to time, the most common one is 1 SB per coupon printed up to 50 SB per day and 25 SB per coupon redeemed with no maximum amount.

Member Recognition

One of the newest features of Swagbucks is the member recognition program. While this technically isn’t a way to earn SB, there are rewards available for reaching the various levels in the program. The highest level receives a gift of 25,000 SB! (Sadly, I’m not there yet).

Shopping and Gift Cards

One of my favorite ways to earn money is through Mygiftcardsplus. You purchase gift cards and receive cash back in the form of SB. For example, I once purchase a $25 gift card to Krispy Kreme (where I had already been spending money), earned 7% cash back plus a bonus 100 SB due to the promotion at that time. I also love ordering pizza and going to the movies so I take advantage of the Papa John’s and AMC gift cards. You can also get 7% cash back on gift cards for Carnival Cruise Lines.

You can also earn cash back for shopping online by going through Swagbucks (this is really easy if you are using a computer and have the Swagbutton desktop extension installed). Between online shopping and mygiftcardsplus, I usually rake in the SB at Christmastime.

Referrals

In addition to earning SB in all of the fun ways listed above, you can also earn by referring your friends. If they sign up, you get 10% of the earnings for life (to be clear, this bonus is paid by Swagbucks and does not in any way reduce their earnings). Also, if they earn at least 300 SB in their first month, both of you will get a 300 SB bonus.

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