How To Get Greens

OK so by now I hope you've signed up via Free-3GS-iPhone.com and have started your journey towards a free iPhone. If you haven't - what are you waiting for? Check out the important posts (see top left of this page) and then get going. The sooner you start, the sooner you can be playing with your new iPhone.

Once you've completed your offer (I did the Homestead free trial), you're ready to start referring people to build up your quota.

The easiest way to start doing this, and to get a feel for how it works is to simply ask your friends and family.

I've found that if you try to sell them on the idea of getting freebies themselves, most will ignore it or not believe it's possible or think you're trying to scam them.

Instead, I ask them to do me a favour and simply check out the free trial offers that are available. Usually once I tell people they can get a free movie rental trial (LoveFilm in the UK, BlockBuster in the US) they are OK with it.

Or sometimes a friend might be considering switching internet providers, in which case they can move to Sky and as long as they do it through my referral link they'll be helping me out to get my free iPhone.

Always remember to offer to do them a favour in return - don't expect something for nothing.

Once they've agreed to help out, make sure you follow the rules: only one account per website per household, and they must complete the offer properly themselves, without faking any information. It is always possible to opt out of receiving marketing from the companies, so there's no problems there.

Follow up with them regularly, but be careful not to pester. If you pester too much people will get annoyed and are less likely to help out. A gentle reminder every week or so should do it.

Ask everyone you know. You might be surprised who'll help out and who won't. Sometimes your closest friends might think it's all too suspicious, but another friend you perhaps don't know so well might jump to help.

That's a few quick tips on how to get greens for a free iPhone. I've got several this way (and several more are pending and should go green in the next week or so). It really does work! After you've exhausted your friends and family, then you can move on to the wider world. But I'll save that for another post!

Until then, may all your pendings convert :)