Instant Cash Sweepstakes

Write up of AskYourTargetMarket.com on The Social Commerce blog!!

AskYourTargetMarket – Surveys of Targeted Market Panels for $30

Submitted by Craig Agranoff on Wednesday, 17 February 2010

There are a lot of survey tools out there and the Internet has made conducting and getting survey results easier than ever.  Market research aimed at specific markets or demographics, however, aren’t as easy.  This valuable information usually requires a lot of know-how and money to get.

Not anymore.  AskYourTargetMarket.com has publicly launched after having been in private beta since appearing at the TechCrunch50 in 2009.  This tool allows you to quickly and easily build surveys and narrow a target market of focused responders.

The entire app narrows down to a fairly straight-forward dashboard from which you can build your survey and desired demographics/market.  You start with a page of simple selections to be made, using sliders and drop-down boxes.  Age and income ranges are on sliders, for instance, while race, education, and so forth are drop-downs.

You then use a slider to choose the number of responses you’d like (starting at 50 and going up to 400).  Then you’re ready to write your survey.

AskYourTargetMarket can do both straight surveys (a list of questions that everyone is asked) or a Branched Logic survey, for which different answers move to different questions.  This allows for some real depth to your survey.

Finally, you can choose to have your survey DoubleCheckd.  With this, AskYourTargetMarket will wait for three or more hours after your survey has been given to the panelists and then give it to them again (they won’t know it’s coming a second time).  Only those surveys which have like answers on both sessions will be considered valid.  This can increase accuracy in many scenarios.

Overall, the AskYourTargetMarket tool is extremely useful for most businesses.  The results can be valuable and the price tag at $29.95, to start, is definitely affordable.

http://www.scommerce.com/askyourtargetmarket-surveys-of-targeted-market-panels-for-30/

Instant Cash Sweepstakes - Play and Win Giveaway - Ends Feb 28th

Are you kidding me right now????

Check this out, from Chris, one of our esteemed ICS members and blogger extraordinaire/webmaster of www.freebiesandmuchmore.com :

A few months ago, I ran across this really cool site called Instant Cash Sweepstakes. It’s a really neat concept and it’s 100% free. All you do is sign-up, answer 3 question surveys 5 times every 3 hours, and watch the tickets, coins, and money pile up. The best part is that for every time a friend you invite wins, you get the same prize. Imagine, if you have 100 friends and they all play and win 10 cents a day, you’ll have earned $10 for doing nothing. Pretty cool if you ask me…so sign-up today and let’s all start winning some money!!!

How to Enter the May Giveaway? Sign-up by clicking here and then come back and submit your information in the Google form below
How to EARN EXTRA Giveaway Entries? Complete any of the below items and be sure you leave a Comment for each extra item you complete

(5 Entries) Subscribe to Freebies and Much More by email (Click Here)

(5 Entries) Tweet about this contest with the following: @FreebiesGalore Instant Cash Sweepstakes - Play and Win Giveaway - http://ow.ly/17gyU and leave a comment with the twitter link ~ You may tweet (2 times per day - 10 entries per day!)

(5 Entries) Follow me on Twitter and leave a comment telling me your twitter username

(10 entries) Do you have a Blog? If so, Blog about this giveaway and leave a comment with the link

(10 entries) Comment on any other post at Freebies and Much More and Comment in this post that you did. (1 per day!)

(25 Entries) Put my Logo ~ Chicklet ~ Banner on your blog/site and leave the link to where you put it

(25 Entries) Sign-up for a survey site and leave a comment! - Click here for list of survey sites

What is included in this Giveaway? The winner of the Instant Cash Sweepstakes - Play, and Win Giveaway will win a $50 Gift Card to ANY store of their choosing (Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, etc)
When does this Giveaway end? February 28th at 11:59PM (EST)

Restrictions: You must be 18 years old, you must live in the US, and they only pay via PayPal

How will you choose the winner(s)? I will use Random.org to draw the name of the winner. I will announce the first name of the winner in a new post during the first week of March. I will also contact the winner by email (be sure to give me one you check daily). If I do not hear back from the winner after 48 hours, I will draw a replacement winner by using the same method as above.


Go to this URL to get in on this cool give-away!

http://www.freebiesandmuchmore.com/2010/02/instant-cash-sweepstakes-play-and-win.html


Thanks, Chris, you completely and totally rock!

Your blogs and tweets!

We’ve listed some of these before, the newest ones are at the bottom. I want to draw special attention to 3 bloggers in particular:

http://www.swagcodes.com/

Very professional, well done, easy to read and understand, and you don’t have to scroll down 5 miles to read something! Well done!

Take a look at what we got from one of you, OUTSTANDING!!!

Hi ICS!
I am following you on Twitter (@Tracy_Iglesias)
My Blog Link is: http://ascendingbutterfly.blogspot.com
My ICS referral link is: http://instantcashsweepstakes.com/invitations/ref_link/53393
Sent ICS some twitter love here: http://twitter.com/Tracy_Iglesias/status/8921324130

—
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Tracy Iglesias
The Ascending Butterfly - Not just a blog, not just a destination, but an upwards journey!
http://ascendingbutterfly.blogspot.com/
Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ascending-Butterfly/55906234945
Email: tiglesias625@gmail.com
Twitter: @Tracy_Iglesias

You rock, sista!

And last, but by no means least, check out this FANTASTIC blog, and the UNREAL post about ICS:

http://tattooastronomy.blogspot.com/2010/02/another-chance-to-make.html

The attention to detail and excellent workmanship is nothing short of excellence.








http://dealiciousmom.com/2010/01/need-a-little-more-change-in-your-pocket/

http://athriftygeek.com/daily-deals-1-8-10/

http://workathomemafia.com/2010/01/want-to-make-some-extra-change/

http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/freebie-trading-much-more/e24f6f05a98350588c800fe8fe31c3e5

http://kristinloper.blogspot.com/2010/01/surf-laundry-sample.html

http://contestsandgiveaways.blogspot.com/2010/01/progresso-souper-you-and-giveaway-ends.html

http://debs1967.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-crochet-today_11.html

http://jewelicide08.blogspot.com/2010/01/instant-cash-sweepstakes.html

http://sassy8722.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-won-50.html

http://www.blogcatalog.com/search.frame.php?term=instantcashsweepstakes.com&id=c1cfb70b4b350aeddcf0ee3abe24bf80

http://www.blogcatalog.com/search.frame.php?term=instantcashsweepstakes.com&id=0c36aef8668a017d17fe22acb648d8c5

http://newstuff.iblogger.org/wp-content/plugins/wp-noexternallinks/goto.php?mom2anutball.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fsomething-new-to-me-anyway.html

http://www.swagcodes.com/rewards/ordered-another-ics-prize/221

Check them all out to get ideas for YOUR blog, so you can promote your referral link and make more money!

ICSers who we are following on Twitter:

@Tracy_Iglesias 
@swagcodes_com 
@ducktape1
@MandyCatz 
@nunna3rd 
@mygoodcents 
@Sweepstake4u 
@Facetwit17 
@Cangri787 
@sweepstaking 
@idahojill 

So let us know, we will follow you, retweet your tweets about ICS!

If you have a blog or a twitter account and i don’t have you listed here, contact me at support@instantcashsweepstakes.com

Keep up the great work, you are all very talented and resourceful!

The New and Improved TrustScore Has Launched

Hey gang,
We spent the last few weeks studying all of your suggestions. We have re-engineered the TS system to make it more fun for you while still motivating the few members who could be doing a better job adding value to ICS. True demographics and candid opinions is all we ask.

We’ve added a game-like quality to ICS. The TS ranks all have special bonuses and it will be fun to advance your TS and more to higher and more valuable ranks. Also, remember that you can increase your odds of winning any daily sweepstakes drawing by converting some of your coins into lottery tickets. So, if you feel lucky or if it’s your birthday, go ahead and make your day.

FYI:The highest anyone has ranked in the TrustScore relaunch is actually a 4. Please give the system some time to realign itself before becoming concerned about a score.

Also: under the new system you are really competing against yourself. So, keep up the good work!!

More Bonus Store purchases…the close-out sale!

Post from ICS user Kimberly in her blog, My Good Cents:

My ICS Bonus Store Prize Arrived!

A few days ago I wrote a post about the ICS Bonus Store closing. I had a load of coins and was excited to be able to snag three prizes! However, with that excitement I apparently forgot how to read and missed the one prize only rule. In the end I chose to go with the Kodak EasyShare Digital Camera…

Click here to read more and see a great example of blogging to make money online!

http://mygoodcents.net/2010/01/my-ics-bonus-store-prize-arrived/

Follow us on Twitter (InstantCashSwps) and we will follow you back and retweet your tweets about us and your blog posts. Just write to us at

support@instantcashsweepstakes.com and give us your blog link, twitter, etc., and we will help you spread the word and get referrals!

Happy playing!

Our first 2 Bonus Store purchases!

We thought you’d like to know that we shipped your gift, and that this
completes your order.

Apple iPod shuffle 4 GB

Shipped via USPS

It was shipped out today to prolific player, referrer and WINNER Gregory F!

He earned enough Bonus Coins to cash them in for this sweet little iPod!

Also, you can go here to see one ICSer blog about what he bought from the Bonus Store with his coins:

http://www.swagcodes.com/featured/ics-prize-arrived/203

“On January 6th I posted about ordering my first Instant Cash Sweepstakes prize. A 8GB USB pen drive. I’m glad to inform you that it got here today, January 12th. And for the skeptical out there, here’s the pic.”

Ok, let us count the ways that YOU can win more cash and coins and tickets…

1) Play as often as you can!

2) Answer thoughtfully and honestly so that you can win triple tickets for answering the same way each time, and so that your TrustScore keeps you in the highest percentile, and you win more tickets and coins!!

3) Get your friends and family to sign up under your referral link.

4) Post your referral link in your blog and talk up ICS as a great place to win cash and prizes!

5) Go to forums that talk about ways to make money online and talk up ICS as a great place to win cash and prizes, and post your referral link (read and adhere to forum rules!)

See older posts to read about some forums to check out and some great examples of ICSers blogs. Once you take a look around the different sites online, you will see that this is the fastest, easiest and best way to add referrals to your list and pile up cash and tickets and coins!

Announcing an important milestone for InstantCashSweepstakes.com

Hi ICS’er,

ICS gives away cash all day long like no other site on the web. We are able to do this because we are a legitimate business. ICS is owned by AskYourTargetMarket.com, a new startup and exciting online market research service.  We built and launched ICS more than a year ago and now AYTM is about to be fully launched into the world.  We’re hoping that AYTM will be wildly successful so that we can share the rewards with you.

Market research surveys ordered on AYTM are sent to ICS, mixed in among the usual fun surveys, to be answered by ICS’ers.  In order for AYTM to be a valuable service, it is critical that ICS’ers be truthful about the demographics in their account profiles. It is also important that all answers given in surveys be candid and sincere. 

In order to encourage the very best from all our members, ICS developed and has just launched a patent pending technology we call TrustScore^SM. TS is a system that evaluates all survey answers and predicts if a member’s demographics are likely to be truthful and if their survey answers are sincere.  We use TS to give special perks to those who earn high scores:  more surveys allowed per session, additional lottery tickets and extra Bonus Store coins. In other words, having a higher TS gives you a winning edge. How do you earn a higher TS? Be yourself. Be candid. “The truth is easier to remember than a lie.” As a great start, go to your account profile and double check that your demographics are correct. Your honesty and candor helps us succeed, lets us put more prize money into the ICS ecosystem, and rewards you with increased odds of winning.

Read the benefits: http://www.instantcashsweepstakes.com/pages/trust_score

Thanks for your support. Have a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year,
Team AYTM/ICS

BTW - Thank for your continued support and votes at Vator.tv. It’s not too late to vote. This is a major big deal for us.

We appreciate you!

The advent of this new year has gotten us thinking around here at InstantCashSweepstakes.com…As we all know, the economy is struggling to rebound. As Americans, we are all struggling to rebound, too, and our fighting, never-say-die spirit is evident.

InstantCashSweepstakes.com is not built to make you rich, and we never claim to do that. All we want to do is provide you with a fun, engaging, thought-provoking form of entertainment that also gives you a chance to win some unexpected and much appreciated free cash!

We see you out there, posting your referral links and talking up our site, and we want you to know we both appreciate and applaud your efforts! We have seen some really creative and excellent blogs, frequent Tweeters, and forum posters! We are happy to have all of you on board and look forward to adding to our ICS community through your referral efforts and Internet word-of-mouth that is starting to build. Through your efforts, you are also helping us build a serious market research biz!

Just think…you will be able to say…I was a member of InstantCashSweepstakes.com back in the early days!

Thanks again, and continuing good luck!

More way$ to win CA$H!

Ok, more ideas about how to increase your referrals on ICS! There are so many enterprising people out there, and ICS has our share!

Blogs are free and easy to do…right? Right. People search the Internet all day long, every single day, for ways to make money online…right? Right!

Well, if you do a search on instantcashsweepstakes blog you will see a ton of hits. People write blogs on what they do to win/earn money online. They post their own referral links for people to click through. When said Internet searcher finds the blog and likes the concept of ICS, they click on the referral link, sign up, and start playing and winning. The blogger then wins everything they win!

So, here are some links to some blogs that feature InstantCashSweepstakes.com and some more forum links. Hopefully you will get some good ideas about what YOU can do to win more money from ICS!

By the way, kudos to you ICSweepers with blogs, and who diligently post on forums!

Don’t forget: always read and follow the Terms of Service on the forums. If you break their rules, they won’t display your post and they might ban you.

Blogs:

http://www.freebiesandmuchmore.com/

http://mygoodcents.net/page/2/

http://freebieprofessor.com/blog/2009/instant-cash-sweepstakes

http://jonvex-onlinemoneymaker.blogspot.com/2009/03/instant-cash-sweepstakes_12.html

http://movies-tv-entertainment.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html

Forums:

http://www.talkprizes.com/

http://forums.about.com/

http://www.clubhabboforum.net/

http://www.mybargainbuddy.com/forums/

http://www.freeadvertisingforum.com/

http://www.advertising-forum.net/

http://www.conqueryourniche.com/forum/

Let’s put the CASH in InstantCASHsweepstakes in 2010!

Hello ICSweepers!

As we usher in the New Year, our thoughts turn to…making more money, of course! Here at ICS, we want to help you all to do that. Yes, we want to give away MORE money in 2010 than we did in 2009!

We have been trolling the Internet, looking for forums and message boards where you can register (for free), and post your referral link to ICS. You can write a short blurb about why someone should join our great site, and encourage them to click through YOUR referral link to join. They will be added as your ‘friend’, and you will win when they win!

What could be easier?

Well, how about we share the links to those forums with you so you can get started? (see below)

Want some ideas about what to write in your blurb?

Let people know we are 100% legit and never use your email for SPAM purposes!

We give away cash daily and have a drawing for $50 every day.

Tell then to invite their friends because when their friends win, they get a matching prize.

We pay by PayPal really quick!

We will continue to crawl the Web looking for more places for you to post. In the meantime, feel free to post your ideas and links here about how you get referrals, and we can all, as a community, pool our ideas so all of ICSdom can make more money in 2010!

http://www.wahm.com/forum/

http://slickdeals.net/forums/

http://forums.gottadeal.com/

http://www.work-at-home-forum.com/

http://www.momblognetwork.com/

http://www.dealtaker.com/

http://www.earnmoneyspace.com/

http://www.money-talk.org/

http://www.sweepsadvantage.com/

http://getpaidforum.com/

http://www.moneyfanclub.com/

http://www.freesamplesite.com/

http://www.yourfreesurveys.com/forum/

http://forums.linkbucks.com/

http://www.bigbigforums.com/

http://forums.online-sweepstakes.com/

http://www.whydowork.com/forums/

Good luck and happy playing and winning!