Tip #2: Try Out e-rewards.com

It's 2012! Happy New Year!

For today's post (and for the first of the year!), I have found a great website which will get you earning hotel points and airline miles even faster. In yesterday's post I talked about how you can get points by signing up for the rewards programs and seeing how you can apply them to other purchases than travel. But I also found the e-rewards website which can get you a good amount of points, too. How it works is that you have to fill out surveys on the website that ask questions about topics such as movies you watch and restaurants you eat at. For every survey, you will get some amount of money. If you qualify to fully complete the survey, you can get often $4 or $5. But if you don't qualify to fully complete the survey, which may happen often, you will get $0.50 or $0.25. But what is great about this website is the money you recieve you can use to buy hotel points and miles for flights. While the money is not actual money you can use in the real world, you can buy things from the e-rewards shop. For example, when you have $75 in e-rewards money, you can buy 4,500 Hilton HHonors points to be used at Hilton hotels. Or, for $50 you can buy 1,000 JetBlue TrueBlue miles. While this may seem like alot of money to have to earn by taking surveys, I earned $20 in about a month. You can choose how often you want surveys emailed to you; so, depending on your frequency of using it, you could be earning free nights in just a few months.

Now the one thing about the program that is a downside is that, while it is free, you can only join it if you get an invitation. To get an invitation, you have to be invited from one of their sponsors. I believe that you will get an invitation if you are signed up on the email lists of the sponsor companies. The sponsors include:

Carlson
Hertz
La Quinta
Priority Club Rewards (InterContinental)
Hilton
JetBlue

I got my invitation from JetBlue because I was signed up on their email list. While I don't know this for a fact, I am assuming if you join one or two of the companie's email lists from above (especially JetBlue), you will soon get an invitation to join e-rewards. (I will also be talking about in a future post other advantages of having your name in a brand's email list.) It is free to join, and you just have to give some information about yourself (email, phone number, etc.), then you can start filling out surveys and earning rewards! If you have any questions, please leave a comment below. Happy travels!

Here is their website: http://www.e-rewards.com/home.do