Some Terminology

A quick bit of terminology when using incentive marketing and referral websites to get free gifts like a free iPhone.

Incentive marketing website - this is the website that manages the whole process for you. I use FreebieJeebies, but others are KudosNetwork, XPango, Free4Me and so on. These websites manage everyone signing up and completing offers, then they collect the money, buy the gifts and post them out to you.

Your referral link is the link that the incentive marketing website gives you. You share your link with your friends and family (and the wider world on the internet). They click the link, visit the incentive marketing website and sign up.

A referral is someone you've referred under your special referral link. This could be a friend or a family member, or someone you've never met. As long as they sign up to the incentive marketing website through your referral link, they count as a referral.

In order for a referral to become valuable to you, they have to actually complete an offer. Until they complete an offer, they are often known as a red referral, or just reds.

Once they start an offer, they'll change to purple or yellow and are then known as pending.

When the offer is completed, they'll go green, and that's when you get credit. The whole process from your point of view is collecting greens - once you've got enough greens you qualify for your free iPhone 3G (or whatPublish Postever other gift you're having) and the incentive marketing website will post it out to you.