Join Nicole’s Savings Advantage and get a $25 Target gift card!

How It Works:

To join, you pay a $1.95 fee for the 30-trial period, after which point you are billed $9.95 monthly. But you still get the $25 Target Gift Card even if you cancel within the trial period. In other words, you pay just $1.95 for a $25 gift card. Go here to sign up! (Just don’t forget to cancel within the trial period.)

I do recommend setting up another e-mail account (other than your main personal/family account), because that e-mail address will probably be sent many e-mails regarding the great deals you can get through Nicole’s Savings Advantage.

Their guarantee: Our promise: If you’re not satisfied with Nicole’s Savings Advantage during your $1.95 30-day trial, let us know and we’ll never bill you for the membership. As a trial member, if you continue after your 30-day trial period, you will be charged $9.95 monthly for your Nicole’s Savings Advantage membership. Nicole’s Savings Advantage works all year to bring you the best in every-day savings! Welcome!

Concerned it might be a scam? This offer is listed with an affiliate company that I’ve worked with for some time. Getting a scam through with would be almost impossible. Although this is a new deal, my husband and I have done many offers similar to this and have not had trouble receiving our promised gift card or payment.

Works for Me!

Several weeks ago, I signed up with YouData. While I haven’t earned hundreds, I have earned an average of $2 or $3 a week. The great things is that YouData pays every Friday, and they pay by Paypal.

How It Works

• Register for YouData

• After an e-mail confirmation, fill out the information and complete the surveys for what is called your MeFile.

• Based on your answers, you will be given the option to view ads. Click on the adget, and then click on “reveal ads.” After the ads are revealed, you can click on each individual ad and you will be taken to the advertiser’s website. You will also be paid for each website you visit.

• You will be paid via Paypal. YouData pays every Friday afternoon and there is no certain amount you must reach before getting paid. Check back every week or so to see if there are new ads to view.

• Although you won’t make hundreds, you can earn a few dollars every few weeks, depending on the ads available.

If you like to shop online at places that accept Paypal, this is a great way to “save up” for those things without having to put money from your regular bank account towards purchases. Of course, you can always transfer you Paypal funds to your normal bank account, as well.

I like YouData, because unlike some avenues of earning online, it doesn’t take much time once you get your account set up, and there is no minimal amount required to be reached in order to be paid.

Get a $15 Papa John’s pizza e-certificate when you complete an offer from Trial Pay.

There are multiple offers, but what appears to be the best offer (least out of pocket) is to make a purchase through ShoeBuy. With ShoeBuy, shipping is free both ways, so if you don’t like the product you ordered, you can ship it back for free!

Once you check out with Shoebuy, an offer to sign up for a free trial membership of Great Fun and get a $20 refund should appear.  By signing up with Great Fun, you can get a $20 refund for your ShoeBuy order. Cancel your membership after sending in the rebate form (which will be e-mailed to you after your order is processed).  (In case you are wondering if this is legitimate, my husband has joined Great Fun and then canceled and gotten several items free-after-rebate through various sites this way.)

If you are planning to spend over $50 at Shoebuy, you can go here to get a $10 off $50 coupon e-mailed to you, and you should be able to use the coupon in conjunction with the deal.

Need that in a nice, bulleted format?  Here ya go:

• Go to TrialPay
  • Click on the ShoeBuy Offer
  • Sign up with your name and e-mail address in the window that appears.
• Purchase shoes through ShoeBuy
  • If you spend over $50, you can get a $10 off coupon here.
• Sign up for Great Fun membership once you’ve completed your order.
• Return to TrialPay window, and say that you have completed the offer.
• You should received your $15 Papa John’s gift card via e-mail within a few days.
  • It does say it will be immediate, but this seems to take a few days.
• Print your receipt from Shoebuy (you’ll receive this via e-mail) and mail it in with the rebate form from Great Fun (you’ll also receive this via e-mail)
• Wait for your shoes!
• Cancel Great Fun Membership by the end of your free trial month.

If for any reason, the deals don’t work for you (they should!), remember that you can return the shoes to Shoebuy at no charge.

My husband  has been downloading monthly Christian audio books for almost 2 years now, after a friend shared that Christian Audio offers a free audio book download every month. I was super excited to see that this month’s free download is Donald Whitney’s book, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, a book that has been instrumental in our walk with God.

This particular audio book is downloaded as 7 audio files.  To download:

• Go to Christian Audio’s free download section here.
• Add to cart and head to checkout (and register if you’re new).
• use code MAR2009
• download your files!

Check back monthly with Christian Audio to see what their free monthly download is.

Want more free Christian audio resources?

• Behemoth has at least 2 free audio downloads a day. You have to join and enter your credit card info, but the process if pretty simple!  (Plus, I really love their user interface!)
• Desiring God Ministries has over 20 biographical sketches that John Piper has preached/taught on godly men and women throughout history, including John Paton, John Calvin, and John Bunyan.  Plus lots of people whose names aren’t John. Just click on download or listen–a transcript is also available for each biography. (Desiring God, of course, has thousands of other free audio downloads.)
• It goes without saying that their are countless sermons, sessions, lessons, music, and other Christian audio resources available online.  But I thought I’d just highlight a few of my favorites!  Feel free to comment with resources you’ve found helpful.

UPDATE (3/4/09): The payout from Cashpaq is now only $6, making the book cost a total of $1.50 after rebates.

I’ve been periodically checking the price of the 2009 Entertainment Book (a coupon book), anticipating that at some point the price would drop!  Well, it finally has!  It’s now $12.50, and if you sign up for Cashbaq for the first time and order through them, you can, yes, get paid $2.50 to order this book!

The Entertainment Book is a book of coupons for eating out, plays, bowling, and more!  Each book is divided by region.  You can search by zip code, and it will show whether or not there is a book for your area.  The book for our area includes Greenville and Spartanburg.

(If you’d like more info, I wrote about it here, back when you could get the 2009 Entertainment Book for free–a super deal, but nothing like getting paid for it!)  Since then, we’ve received our book and have been paid through Cashbaq–yes, it really works!

Here’s how to do it:

1. Sign up for Cashbaq.com

You will receive a $5 bonus for signing up.  Cashbaq.com is similar to Ebates, in that you earn money through shopping online through their site.

2. After signing up, you will see a section on the left side of the Cashbaq site called “Shop by Store.”  There, select Entertainment Book.

This will bring up an online coupon that says:

Use this coupon in addition to the $10 cash back rebate

$10 off and Free shipping on 2009 Entertainment Books

(You will receive $10 for purchasing through Cashbaq)

3. On the right side, select “use this coupon”

This will direct you to the Entertainment Book website.

4. Enter your zip code and purchase the book (it should come up as $12.50, with free shipping.)

So, you’ll be getting $5 back for joining Cashbaq, then $10 for purchasing the Entertainment Book through Cashbaq!  Giving you $2.50!  (Or, if you’ve previously joince Cashbaq, you’ll simply be paying $2.50, which is still a discount of 90% off cover price!)

Some great coupons in this book?

• 10% off any Bi-Lo purchase of $100 (can be used as a competitor’s coupon)
• Lots of Buy One Get One Free meal items to almost every locally owned (and several large franchise) restaurants
• Free admission (when another ticket is purchased) to many local museums and historical sites
• hundreds of online coupon codes and much, much more!