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By Jasmine Birtles, financial expert from Moneymagpie.com
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There’s no better publicity than word of mouth. Therefore, companies are willing to pay you as an incentive to refer their products and services to your friends. Earn £100s in cash, vouchers and gifts by getting your friends to sign up for things.
Refer me happy!
Earn money by referring friends for services and products. You need to register – for free – at Refermehappy.com before you can start referring friends for deals, or they can start referring you.
Most companies will only let you refer if you are already a customer. Search for those companies on the website and refer friends. You’ll receive an e-mail when a match is found. With many companies, you can refer as many friends as you like! Also, most of the companies on the website offer a cash reward for the friend as well.
If your company offers a ‘refer-a-friend’ deal but it is not listed on refermehappy.com, you can tell them about it. As a reward you’ll be the first to be notified about new friends for this deal.
If you join any company after being referred, refermehappy.com will give you priority for your own future referrals for that company.
There are currently 32 deals listed on the site, the most popular being SkyTV (£50 M&S vouchers for referrer and friend), Virgin Media (£30 credit for referrer and friend), First Direct (£100 credit for the friend, £50 for the referrer) and 3 Mobile (£30 for referrer and friend).
More ‘tell-a-friend’ deals
Online image library Picturenation [www.picturenation.co.uk] will pay you if you successfully refer buyers. Simply register to the site [https://www.picturenation.co.uk/register], and you will be provided with banners and links that you can paste onto any outgoing emails, your website or blog, or any forums or messageboards you use.
You will make a 5% commission on any purchases your referred friends make for a whole year – paid every two months after your total commission reaches £50.
Make money from the banks
Alliance & Leicester is offering ‘£50 to share’ for all Premier current account holders. If you recommend a friend to the account and the friend opens one, you and your friend will both get £25.
To be a referrer you have to fill in the online form or ask for a form in branch. You can recommend up to 5 friends each time, so if you got 5 friends to join up you’d be making a tidy profit of £125, just for filling in a form!
Breakdown Assistance
Are you an AA customer? Recommend a friend and get £15 Marks & Spencer vouchers for every friend that joins up.
Health and Beauty
- Harpers Fitness – free gift
Harpers Fitness members can choose from a wide range of great free gifts including a yoga fitness set and running shoes when you refer a friend who joins the gym. The friend will also get a complimentary day pass.
- Yogamatters – £5 online voucher
Members get £5 to spend online at Yogamatters.com when they refer a friend who spends over £20 in one order. You’ll receive an e-voucher by e-mail that you can redeem online.
Insurance
- Halifax – £15 vouchers for high street stores
Get £15 of shopping vouchers when you recommend a friend to Halifax Home Insurance. Vouchers are accepted at over 75 of the high street’s top retailers.
- Standard Life Healthcare – £50 M&S voucher
If you’re a Standard Life Healthcare holder you can get a £50 M&S gift voucher when you recommend Standard Life to a friend. There’s no limit to the number of friends you can refer.
- Tesco Insurance – free gift cards and clubcard points
Tell a friend about Tesco Travel Insurance and get a £5 Tesco Gift Card or 500 Clubcard Points when your friend takes out an annual Tesco Travel Insurance policy. The friend will also receive their choice of £5 Gift Card or 500 points.
The Tesco Pet Insurance referral deal is even better – simply get a friend to take out a pet insurance policy with Tesco and they’ll reward you both with a £10 Tesco Gift Card or 1,000 Clubcard Points.
Holidays
- holidaylettings.co.uk – free gifts
If you advertise on home rental website holidaylettings.co.uk and recommend a friend or family member to put up an ad, you’ll get a free gift as a reward, like an iPod Shuffle or £35 worth of Amazon vouchers.
- Expedia.co.uk – holiday voucher
Refer a new customer to Expedia before 31 December 2009 and you’ll receive a £40 voucher once your friend makes their first booking through Expedia. The referred friend will also receive a £20 voucher. You can claim a maximum of 10 £40-off vouchers but you may only use one voucher per booking.
Mobile phones
3 Mobile – share up to £90 with a friend
Recommend a friend to 3 Mobile and as a thank you they’ll credit each of your accounts. If your friend goes for a phone you both get £30. If they go for Mobile Broadband you both get £15. If they choose both, that’s £45 each.
You can recommend a maximum of 3 friends – if they all go for the combined package, that’s £135 for you. Terms and conditions apply.
TV
Sky – £50 M&S vouchers
Get £50 M&S vouchers when you introduce a friend to Sky TV. Your friend has to join Sky TV by 22 October 2009 – once they’ve joined and paid their first monthly subscription, Sky will send you your vouchers. You can refer as many friends as you like to Sky TV.
Jasmine Birtles is from Moneymagpie.com - the website that gives you a richer life.
