It's Free With GPT

GPT sites, which stand for "Get Paid To," have become a big online business over the past several years.

GPT sites were born as a way for advertisers to both get around the "do not call" list and take advantage of the huge internet advertising audience. The advertisers' model was simple: Pay consumers to try your product. By giving people a free product sample and some additional free cash, they hoped to create a whole new class of purchasers.

Over the past several years however, thousands of GPT sites-based on accessible software-sprang up, and began offering consumers a way to get paid for trying products. Some GPT site members began viewing their paychecks as a real work at home opportunity (and some still do).

The advertisers soon caught on, however, and reduced the number of paid offers they were willing to fund. Sites and members became discouraged. They turned to the online survey model, with varying degrees of success.

So is the GPT model dead? Hardly. But both site owners and consumers need to adjust to a new world of more discounts and fewer freebies.

Why, you may ask, am I-the owner of a GPT site which offers free reward points and freebies to members-asking people to lower their expectation of the key word free? The answer is simple. I want those interested in joining GPT sites to view them as a valuable money saving tool (and a way to get great free stuff) rather than an easy paycheck.

Sure, there is still plenty of money to be had. My website's members can easily earn a free mp3 player, free gift cards, and some awesome freebies for spending 15 minutes to an hour completing offers.

But out of approximately 55 pages worth of offers on my site, members tend to focus in on the 15 to 20 pages offering purely free rewards.

Which brings me straight to the point. The other 30 pages of my site have some phenomenal deals. The majority of offers on the website offer discounts ranging from 10% to 90% or more on products people will buy anyway.

If members want quality web hosting, they can get it at 90% off. If they're looking to try diet supplements, several advertisers ask them to pay less than $4 for a trial. I pay members 160 points-the equivalent of $16-for spending the four bucks. Want to try social gaming? For an investment of $5, members get a point benefit equaling $12. Need a credit card? If you're approved, you get 100 to 200 points.

Where else can you get quality, discounted products or services or double your money with no risk?

View GPT sites as awesome loyalty programs which save money and provide great deals for consumers in this never ending recession. You'll enjoy the sites more as well as earn incredible free stuff.

As I mentioned in my earlier article, getting free stuff can be accomplished by completing surveys and free offers. And my site (www.bestrewardsite.com) has many such offers and surveys. By completing these easy free offers, many of which don't require a credit card, members can get free stuff pronto.

But the far quicker path to earning substantial free rewards (worth $40 or more) is by completing trial offers where, for a fee of $0 to $10 per trial, members can get that new $100 iPhone gift card, Wii or Playstation.

In the rush to get freebies by completing free offers without using a credit card, many of our site members let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Don't follow? Okay, I'll spell it out. Instead of getting a free $10 gift card or Sansa 1 GB MP3 player, someone can easily turn those 350 or 400 free points into 650 free points and earn a SanDisk Sansa Connect 4 GB MP3 Player, a $50 Virtual Visa Gift Card, or a $50 Amazon.com gift card by spending a whopping $4.95 for shipping and handling for an Acai diet sample and entering their credit or debit card number for a Netflix 14 day free trial.

And there are many more offers on Best Reward Site which earn members free stuff for a minimal investment. So as I mentioned in an earlier piece, sometimes turning $5 into $50 is much more worthwhile than turning an hour into $20.

Buying Web Hosting is the perfect example of why getting a great deal can be more gratifying than doing free surveys and getting less expensive freebies.

Let's say you want to work from home and start an online business. You'll need quality hosting, and free hosting may not have the bandwidth, control panel, or best hosting features. If you're going to buy web hosting regardless, get rewards! Buying discount, quality web hosting from just one Best Reward Site web hosting advertiser earns you an easy $50 gift card. But that's the subject for a later article.

Stay tuned...

Here's An Experiment. Google "Web Hosting" and "Free web Hosting" sometime. Now look at the staggering volume of free and paid search results. Surprised?

Cheap and Free Web hosting offers have taken over search. And there's a reason for that. Millions of consumers are looking for web hosting, and hosting offers have become a huge business.

Now here's a little secret these fake hosting review websites don't want you to know.

They're pocketing huge commissions from people starting a web business and buying hosting.

And all of those offers for free hosting just prove that you get what you pay for. Want to run Dreamweaver or Expressions Web? You'll need quality hosting.

Enter GPT web hosting offers. On Best Reward Site, for example, we offer quality, discount web hosting for savvy webmasters, and split our sales commission with you. And we spare you the fake affiliate site reviews!

One example company is Pow-Web. When they run specials, a year hosting plan costs less than $47 a year. Best Reward Site gives members rebates to our members that turns Pow Web hosting into free web hosting (or close to it).

On the main site, members get 450 points for buying a year of Pow Web Hosting. Add our free 50 point signup bonus to that, and you can easily get a free mp3 player or a free gift card for Starbucks, Amazon, Blockbuster, or an iPhone.

But we're working on a new site feature that pays better. It's in it's infant, beta form at the moment, but it works.

If, using the last example, you want FREE Pow Web Hosting, we have a secret website section that can be found here:

http://www.bestrewardsite.com/RebateCenter/

If a member signs up separately for the Rebate Center and buys any featured web hosting plan (such as Pow Web Hosting or six other hosting plans), they get a free $50 virtual Visa gift card.

Using Pow Web as an example, a member can be paid $3 to buy a year long web hosting plan. Now that's better than free hosting...