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[Marilyn]

There are three essential resources and tools that will make your requesting freebies faster and more efficient. Follow these simple steps and you will be on your way to the wonderful world of freebies and have your mail box overflowing in no time.

Warning: Following these instructions may cause you to feel the need to purchase a larger mail box to hold all of your stuff! That isn’t free and I haven’t found an offer for a free mail box yet, so you’ve been warned…lol!

First: Get an Email Address Just for Freebies.

Free email services are nothing new but it’s a good idea to get a separate account just for your freebies. Free email addresses are available through Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail, IncrediMail, in addition to the many other smaller players. Always use this email address when completing forms for free offers.

Here are links to some of the free email service providers:

Yahoo! Email: http://www.yahoo.com
Hotmail: http://www.hotmail.com
Google GMail: http://www.gmail.com

Second: Get a Free Phone Number & Voice Mail.

You don’t want to start getting unsolicited phone calls to your personal numbers from signing up for freebies, but some offers do require you to list your phone number. Forget about the “Rejection Hotline” and all the other fake numbers you have heard about using. This is the real thing and you’re going to love using it.

Get a Free Phone Number and Voice Mail at GrandCentral and you’ll be able to personalize your voicemail greetings, hear voicemails online or from your phones and receive voicemail notifications via email or SMS. GrandCentral is currently inviting a limited number of users to beta test their service and you can sign up for an invitation here:
http://www.grandcentral.com/home/reserve

IMPORTANT TIP!!!

After you have activated your GrandCentral account, be sure to go to the “Settings Tab” and uncheck all the boxes to the right of “All Callers” and right under the “Home, Cell and Work Telephone Numbers” to enable your voicemail message to automatically pick up when someone calls your GrandCentral Number. Otherwise, they will get the recorded GrandCentral computer message first with your recorded name, and then it will try calling all the numbers you have checked, trying to reach you before it will go to your recorded voicemail message.

To find out more about GrandCentral, you can review this GrandCentral DEMO Fall 2006 at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd5gHKU-qnQ


Third: Use RoboForm to Enter Information.

Forms will usually ask for your name, address, telephone number and email address along with other personal information such as your date of birth. Some will also want you to sign up with them to receive newsletters or other future promotions and request a user name and password. It gets repetitive to enter the same information for different freebies not to mention time consuming. RoboForm completely automates password entering and form filling so that you don’t have to, and does not contain any adware or spyware. Using it, I can very often spend just 5 or 10 seconds on a freebie page, and the next thing I know, it’s "in the mail". I have it set to automatically fill out my name, address, phone number, freebie email address, date of birth, user name and password.

RoboForm was named PC Magazine “Editor's Choice” and CNET Download.com's “Software of the Year” and is the top-rated Password Manager and Web Form Filler you can find. You can download the Free version of RoboForm or purchase the professional version, which offers more features such as unlimited passcards, free updates, toll-free technical support and more.

Download Free RoboForm or purchase RoboForm Pro here:
http://www.roboform.com/php/land.php?affid=mdg55

Some Final Notes:

Never, ever, ever, say you heard about a free offer from a freebie site. Tell them a friend told you, or you did a search, something.

Free offers sometimes go quick so when you find an offer, don’t procrastinate! Sign up for it right away. Check our “Forum” frequently to take advantage of the great offers posted there.

And last, but not least, don’t forget to share what you find with us too! Come on over to the forum and register with us there and become a part of our little community. We would love to have you join us and look forward to posting with all of you

I personally check out each and every offer before I list it on our site to make sure the link is working properly, the offer is 100% Free, and the offer is not a hassle to sign up for. I follow the offer through to the very end. Then I just wait for it to come to me I have no control over when an offer may expire, change or start charging a fee, so please let me know if you come across one of these offers that have changed, and I will remove or note the change accordingly.

I guess that’s it. If I think of something else, I’ll add it or let you know.

Happy freebie hunting!

~ Marilyn

revised 6/06/08

[rubycrab]

What wonderful information! Thanks marilyn
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[Lisa]

Thank you so much!
I have learned so much from this site. I did all the things you mentioned.
Thanks
Lisa

[mymommy2]

Thank you so much for all of the info...I knew about 2 of them, though I was not using them...I am not too bright some days...but I had no idea the free phone thing existed...I now have the phone and a new email just for freebies...but I may move my regular email over to gmail...it looks really cool!!!

Thanks again for taking the time to make our times as easy as you can...sure makes it a little more enjoyable!

Angela
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Woo Hoo...Freebies everywhere...my mailbox is overflowing almost every day!!! What a way to live!

[Bonniesboy]

Great info! I wish I would have had it yesterday! lol I tried to find one of those free number sites. But, the one I found had just been taken over by Google so I couldn't sign up then. So, I ended up giving out my real number(like an idiot!) & needless to say, my phone hasn't stopped ringing since then!!! For some reason, the Privatephone page won't load up for me. I guess there's some sort of control or something that my computer is having trouble with. Anybody know what the problem is and/or how to fix it?
Thanks again guys!!!

**I guess it was a quicktime issue. I have an online number now. YEA!!!

[Marilyn]

It loaded right up for me. Try to copy and paste the URL into your browser and see if that will work.

[Bonniesboy]

Thank you...you guys are wonderful

[sybercat]

Bonniesboy, sometimes I have trouble with the PrivatePhone site too. Usually I have to reload it once or twice to get it to work. But it's worth it - I LOVE my PrivatePhone number!

Also, just so everyone knows, the Yahoo mail storage is now unlimited, and Gmail is at something like 2600 MB and counting. I don't know about Hotmail.

Thanks for the great info Marilyn!

[beforethedawn]

Hi Marilyn,

Since privatephone is ending, maybe you can change the phone number info to Grand Central?

[Marilyn]

Thanks for the reminder. I've been meaning to do that.
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[ittookmydarnname]

do u know of any other free phone number sites?

[Marilyn]

I haven't had a chance to rewrite my article, but here is the information on the new Free Phone and Voicemail you can use. If you need an invite, just go to our Freebies Forum and sign up here:

http://www.twistedbranches.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16742

[ittookmydarnname]

amazing!!!
thanks for the help. if anyone needs an invite i'll try to figure out how to do it and pass it on

THEN: right after you sent your email to me, I FINALLY GOT MY INVITE TO PINECONE

[caeyla]

I signed up for Grandcentral thinking it would be months before I heard from them, but I got the invite the next day. If anyone needs an invite, feel free to PM me.

[simplegirl]

thanks for the info.
I opened a new email addy but I use my trakphone as my contact number. I have never heard of that free phone before. is it complicated to get???