Let’s get something straight…
March 19, 2010
Sigh…
Part and parcel of running a blog that thousands of people read every day is the fact that you are going to get some mental midgets flaming you in the comment areas. We understand this, and the warm happy glow that our wonderfully cool visitors leave us with is more than enough to offset the head-shake inducing idiocy of this vast minority.
We want to make sure though that these angry little people don’t actually have anything legitimate to gripe about.
We’ve been very successful with Swag Bucks. Just look at our Proof section. Now we don’t put this stuff up to gloat, but rather to inspire people that they can do the same thing. If you actually read our site you’ll see that time and again this is what we’re saying:
Anyone can do what we’ve done.
We’re not scamming you. We’re not keeping a secret formula to ourselves. We’re not trying to “trick” you into using our referral link. We’re not saying you can get thousands of dollars in Amazon gift cards in a short period of time without doing any work.
If you’d like it put more simply, here’s our story…
We joined Swag Bucks in January of 2009. We searched every day and got about 2 or 3 Swag Bucks for our efforts (remember, this is the old Swag Bucks). We thought to ourselves, “Gee selves, 2 Swag Bucks a day times 30 days in a month… That’s enough to get an Amazon gift card (45 Swag Bucks) once a month! That’s $60 in free stuff in a year… just for using Swag Bucks.”
Then we realized that Swag Codes existed. That meant an extra Swag Buck just about every day, so long as we kept our eyes open and acted fast. that would add up to a few more gift cards over the course of a year.
Once we were signed up for a month, and received absolutely no junk mail, and realized how simple (and kind of fun) it was, and had some proof that it worked (a nice shiny $5 Amazon gift card), we told some friends and family about Swag Bucks. In our second month we signed up 13 people. Some of them became frequent users like us, others tried it out and found it to not really be their cup of tea. Our new referrals gave us about 10 Swag Bucks a day, including our original 2 or 3. That meant we could, conceivably, in a good month, get $25 worth of Amazon gift cards!
We were so pleased that people signed up under us, that we started a Facebook group so we could pass around hints when Swag Codes appeared. Everybody was happy 
Around this time we realized what every Swag Bucks user eventually comes to realize. That is, if you really want to get a LOT of Swag Bucks, the only guaranteed method is through REFERRALS.
This is no secret. We’ve mentioned it many many times here on the WLSB site.
We scratched our heads and thought of ways to get more referrals. One method that we used for a few months was to go on popular sites like Yahoo Answers and give advice to people who had questions about Swag Bucks. For our troubles, we popped our referral link in there, and we got a few referrals that way. It was a lot of work however, answering dozens of questions every day, and posting emails to friends when Swag Codes came out.
So we decided to start WeLoveSwagBucks, and do it all under one roof. We started off giving advice and tutorials, and notifying people when we found a Swag Code. We put our referral link in every post, and over many months of daily effort, our referrals slowly increased. (Pay particular note to the words in italics 
)
Once we received our first Amazon order with our free gift cards we made an unboxing video and put it on Youtube. This opened our site, and our referral link, to a whole new group of people. Our referrals continued to slowly increase.
With each new purchase we added another unboxing video, and each and every day, whenever we found a Swag Code, we would pass it on to all the friends we’d made since we started. This includes you
Today we have over 700 referrals, and referrals make up about 93% of the Swag Bucks we get every day. (Just as a side note, Swag Codes make up about 1%). Our referral link is all over our site, and our Youtube videos.
We are very thankful to everyone who signed up using our link, and we want to give something back. Something like this site. We hope you get a lot more Swag Bucks and Swag Codes as a result of visiting us.
Another thing we’d like to give you, and this is where we come full circle, is the knowledge that any Swag Bucks user can do the exact things we’ve done if they simply have the determination to stick with it.
Lots of users have done it.
Every user can do it.
So if you choose not to do it, and want to be angry at us folks who choose to make the effort, that’s perfectly fine. We’ll continue to delete your silly, angry, whiny comments.
For the rest of you, enjoy the ride, good luck, have fun, and we LOVE the company we keep.
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1. Chi | March 19, 2010 at 5:10 pm
I just want to say that WLSB has been wonderful!!! For those with negative comments… please, don’t participate!! We would be more than happy to take the prizes you won’t be claiming!!! I am one of those who gets little points each day because I don’t do referrals… but that was my choice and I’m not complaining about it!!! I’m happy just getting my little points when I can and getting whatever prize I can get from it!! I’ve already claimed 2 prizes (though they may not be HUGE prizes) and I’m content!! I do most of my own work to read blogs and twitter posts, etc. to get codes but it’s nice to have this page to fall back on in case I forget something!! And plus, i like being able to gripe about missing a code here because it’s my way of venting and it makes me feel better!! LOL!! Thanks WLSB!! Hope you continue doing a wonderful job and hope you win lots of great prizes!!!!!
2. We Love Swag Bucks | March 19, 2010 at 10:28 pm
Thanks Chi,
You’re one of the wonderfully cool visitors we mentioned
3. Maria @ Oh Lovely Coupons | March 19, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Well said! i did not join swagbucks through your link by i am subscribed to your feed for the code alerts. you do a good job and dont get the jealous people get to you. The only one that hold the real secret is the owner of swagbucks Lol but everyone that makes an effort can get a few giftcards.
4. We Love Swag Bucks | March 19, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Thanks Maria,
You brought up an interesting point. We have over 700 referrals, many who joined at places other than here. We receive over four thousand unique hits a day. That means a lot more people are benefiting from WLSB that the other way around. Just the way we like it
5. Jamie | March 19, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Well said, yes, every user can do it, some quicker than others but it just taks time.
Can i ask though…why are you so lucky to get so many swag bucs when you search?
6. We Love Swag Bucks | March 19, 2010 at 10:27 pm
I think everybody gets 2-3 Swag Bucks a day if they are using the search engine all day.
7. derek hofeling | March 19, 2010 at 11:38 pm
dont listen too em, keep hitten us up with sweet codes man!! rock on
8. Rosemarie | March 20, 2010 at 9:19 am
I’d love to refer friends and family, but I’ve always felt funny doing that. I’ve belonged to many online reward, survey and loyalty programs over the years that offered incentives to members who referred others. Yet when I saw the canned email spiel they recommended (Hey! I’ve found this great site…) it just seemed so artificial that I couldn’t send it. Nor could I think of a better wording myself.
I’ve always hated getting telemarketer calls or dealing with high-powered sales people, so I guess that’s part of it. I don’t want to sound so phony or craven. Maybe there’s a way of doing it that doesn’t come across as pushy or desperate? Like I said, I’d really like to start telling family and friends about it, I just have to get past my “issues,” I guess.
9. We Love Swag Bucks | March 20, 2010 at 10:15 am
You took the words right out of our mouths Rosemarie.
We HATE chain emails and referral grabbing sites. We struggled for a long time with how to tell people that Swag Bucks rocked.
The main thing we wanted to tell them was
“Hey, we found this site, that gives you rewards for searching like you do every day. We got no junk mail or spam. We didn’t have to use a credit card or give them any sensitive information. The search results are great since they are basically a front end for google. And look: we got a free $5 Amazon card in a month. All for doing what we would have been doing every day anyway.”
Then we took ourselves out of the equation so that it wouldn’t look like we were just trying to scam them for our own benefit (which of course we really weren’t).
We said
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“We think this site is great, and we thought you would be into getting free Amazon cards too considering that it’s risk free and takes practically no change in your daily routine. There’s a link you can sign up with that gives us a little bonus, but, so you know that it’s not about us, only use it if you want. We really just want all of our friends to be able to get free stuff too
That seemed to work. We told them it had no risks, we told them there was no effort, we told them that there were real life rewards, and we took away the conflict of interest. Offering the benefit to us as an option they could decide on seemed to seal the deal and convince them that we really did just want everybody in the world to be getting free stuff too. Which in the end is really the truth.
Hope this helps.
10. Rosemarie | March 22, 2010 at 6:55 pm
I think I”m going to try something like that. Thank you!
11. Amolia | March 20, 2010 at 3:53 pm
I love this site!
Thanks for all the help in getting me swagcodes!