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Freebie Love

You probably all know by now that I love to get freebies. Mostly through couponing. Granted, not everyone likes to clip coupons and whip out coupon policies at the check out register to prove to the cashier that you're the one who is correct. Katie mostly disappears and acts like she doesn't know me when I pull one of those! I don't blame her. 
So today I wanted to share two easy and fast ways to get some freebies and even earn a little money on the side. 

I was introduced to Bzzagent.com through another Blog. They basically want your opinion on products and in exchange, they will send you a full size sample. 
It's super easy. Your initial time investment is about an hour, signing up and answering a bunch of random questions about things you like. But after that's done, it's smooth sailing, I promise. 
Within a week of signing up, they sent me an invitation for my first campaign. Once I signed on, they sent me the product. I have at least a month to try it out and I review it on different sites they tell me. 
That usually doesn't take longer than 10 minutes. And the campaigns just kept coming, once I completed my first one!
I love getting freebies in the mail! I got all of the things below within the last month.


Ihr wisst mittlerweile vermutlich alle, dass ich “Freebies” liebe. Den groessten Teil bekomme ich durch Coupons. Zugegeben, nicht jeder liebt es, Coupons auszuschneiden und beim Bezahlen mit der Kassiererin diskutieren zu muessen, dass du in der Tat im Recht bist und falls noetig, die Vorgesetzte dazuzuholen. Katie verschwindet in solchen Situationen immer ganz schnell und tut so, als wuerde sie mich nicht kennen! :) Ich nehme es ihr auch nicht uebel.
Heute wollte ich euch zwei einfache und schnelle Wege zeigen, wie man auch ohne Coupons ein paar Dinge umsonst bekommen und sogar ein wenig Geld verdienen kann.

Ich habe von Bzzagent.com durch einen anderen Blog gehoert. Die Firma schickt dir umsonst Produkte und im Gegenzug wollen sie deine Meinung zu den Produkten, die sie dir geschickt haben. 
Es ist super einfach. Es dauert etwa eine Stunde um sich anzumelden und um einen Haufen von Fragen zu beantworten. Aber nachdem das erledigt ist, geht der Rest ganz schnell, versprochen!
Innerhalb einer Woche nachdem ich mich angemeldet hatte, schickten sie mir eine Einladung für meine erste Kampagne. Ich bestaetigte, dass ich mitmachen wollte und sie schickten mir das Produkt. Ich hatte mindestens einen Monat Zeit, um es auszuprobieren und musste es dann auf verschiedenen Seiten im Internet bewerten.
Das  dauert in der Regel nicht länger als 10 Minuten. Und nachdem ich meine erste Kampagne erfolgreich absolviert hatte, bekam ich immer mehr Einladungen zu anderen Kampagnen. 
Ich liebe es, Freebies in der Post zu bekommen! Ich hab all dies im letzten Monat erhalten!









And what's better than freebies? Free money of course! I don't remember how I stumbled across Plaza Research (if you put it into google, you will find it!), but it's pretty awesome. They have it for other cities too, if you don't live in Phoenix. Every once in a while they send you emails with surveys that you can fill out. If your answers match what they are looking for they will contact you via phone to sign you up for a research study.
That's how Katie and I spent 2 hours talking about scents and laundry detergents, telling them all about our likes and dislikes when it comes to laundry (which is funny, because Katie doesn't do laundry!) and we each got $200 after those 2 hours. 
Let's just say, if I could do this full time, making $100 per hour, I would! 

Und was ist besser als Freebies? Schnell verdientes Geld natürlich! Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, wer mir von Plaza Research erzaehlte (ihr koennt es googeln und werdet die Seite schnell finden), aber es ist ziemlich genial. Sie haben es auch für andere Städte in den USA, falls ihr nicht in Phoenix lebt. Ab und an bekomme ich E-Mails von der Firma mit Umfragen, die man ausfüllen kann. Wenn deine Antworten mit dem, was sie suchen, übereinstimmen, rufen sie dich an, um dich fuer die Studie einzuladen.
So verbrachten Katie und ich 2 Stunden damit, ueber Düfte und Waschmittel zu reden, und erzaehlten der Firma alles über unsere Vorlieben und Abneigungen, wenn es ums Wäsche waschen geht (was lustig ist, weil Katie gar keine Waesche waescht!) Nach den zwei Stunden bekamen wir jeder $200 fuer unsere Zeit!
Wenn ich dies zu meinem Hauptberuf machen koennte und $100 pro Stunde verdienen koennte, wuerd ich es sofort tun!



But of course, I still coupon too! How could I not, if I can walk out of the store with all of this for $25.20, saving over $150?

Aber natürlich liebe ich meine Coupons immer noch! Wie kann man es nicht lieben, wenn man all dies fuer $25,20 bekommt und über $150 spart?



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  1. Auch in Deutschland ist inzwischen Couponing am kommen. Hier in der USA coupone ich auch gerne und nutze auch Seiten wie BZZAgent um kostenlose Proben zu erhalten und mache Gift Cards mit anderen Seiten. So kann man seine Lebensmittelkosten sehr reduzieren und manchmal sogar ganz den Geldbeutel an der Kasse stecken lassen. Unbegrenzte Moeglichkeiten, wenn man weiss wie es geht.

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