How is that?

Simple…

Whenever you refer a friend who

1. Signs up
2. Downloads and installs the Dropbox software

Both YOU and THEY receive an extra 250 MB for life!

So for every 4 friends you invite to Dropbox (who join), you get an extra 1 GB of lifetime storage.

It’s a pretty good deal.

Now, here’s my thinking on it…

1. I think you should have MULTIPLE FREE “cloud storage” accounts.

2. I have iCloud for my iPhone, iPad apps and such. I have Google Docs for documents I write online. Now I have Dropbox for other storage I may want to do, usually short term… what would go in a USB drive. Research items go in a free Evernote account.

3. Personally I wouldn’t keep things on the cloud like personal financial information… I don’t trust them. Here’s why. But otherwise they are extremely helpful.

4. And personally I don’t trust any one of these cloud storage providers with all my stuff… I divide it up.

Maybe you will want to adopt this strategy too… or maybe not. Your decision.

If you would like to get up to 8GB of free lifetime storage, would you help me out too and use my link to sign up for Dropbox?

If you do, we’ll both get an extra 250 MB of storage. With just a little bit of effort, I’m up to several more GB! I’d like the whole 8 GB if you’d care to help!

Thank you… getting 8GB of free Dropbox storage is easier than you think… just SIGN UP!

TechMission has received a grant where for our TechMission Youth Academy program where we will be providing free Websites for nonprofits and churches.  Below is a summary of how the program works:

1. Apply. Your organization applies to get a free website though TechMission.  This will include the cost of designing the site, domain name registration (if needed) and one year of free Web hosting.  This sub-grant is limited to organizations that are primarily focused on serving at-risk or low-income communities.
2. Get a Free Website. If selected, we will work to design a website for your organization based around one of our existing site templates atwww.cityvision.edu, www.urbanministry.org or www.techmission.org.  You pick which template you want, and we can modify the colors to fit your need, but we will use the basic layout from one of these sites. The websites will be designed by urban youth staff supervised by technology professionals and TechMissions staff. You can see sites we completed last year at http://test.urbansermons.net
3. Provide Content.  You will need to provide three things 1) All the text for each page for your website 2) The menu outline for your site 3) Any logos or pictures you want included.
4. Support. Once the initial website is set up, we will create an account where you can edit all your web pages through a regular web browser.  We will provide free hosting for one year, but we will not provide additional work on the website or support after the Summer, 2011.

All websites, will be completed during the Summer of 2011, so significant priority will be given to organizations that apply quickly and can quickly provide content needed for the website.    If you are interested in applying for a free Website, please reply to this message answering the following questions.

1. Please describe what your organization does and how you are serving at-risk communities.
2. Do you have an existing Website?  If so what is the Web address.
   a. If so, why do you need a new website?
   b.    If not, please explain how a website would benefit your organization
   c.    Why do you need a free website?
3. By what date could you provide all the content needed for the website?  Including: 1) All the text for each page for your website 2) The menu outline for your site 3) Any logos or pictures you want included.

We will approve applications on a first-come first served basis, and expect to have most of the “slots” for free websites filled soon, so apply by July 11.  Send your application (reply to the above questions) to me at evan@techmission.org. If you have any questions, you can call me at the number below.

Evan Donovan
p: 617-282-9798 ext. 120

NO START UP COSTS.

Areas:

North: Hurley, Houghton, Crystal Falls, Kingford, Menominee

West: Manitee, Ludington, Big Rapids

East: Tawas City, West Branch, Rocommon, Gaylord, Port Austin Bad Axis, Bay Port

South: Adrian, Hillsdale

For more information visit: FingerprintUSA.com

You can help me with my test. This is a site geared towards just city, but since it’s free, and your ad is searchable by the major search engines and FREE, then you may want to post your classified add here too.

Place your ad here!

You’ll be able to add 6 photos and up to 750 words of description… so make it good! Each ad will be approved manually to eliminate spam.

Individuals and dealers are welcome to place their ads for free during this test period.

As a member of the Marketing Junkies Inner Circle myself, and as someone who has never earned a cent referring people there, I’d like to offer you a free 17 day trial membership to this site. Note: If you do continue after 17 days I will receive a referral fee, but until then download to your heart’s content for absolutely free!

Most people HATE pennies. Some even throw ‘em away.

But one Amish retailer I know is making a fortune by selling expensive products for just 1 cent.

This strategy is working so well he’s turned it into a never-ending, monthly promotion.

And by the way — this retailer is regularly attracting new customers from up to 300 miles away with this strategy.

“Markus… this promotion idea you gave me is just unbelievable” cried Ivan (the owner). I’m not kidding. He was virtually tearing up
when giving me last month’s update. He’s so happy.

While most retailers are starving for new business, Ivan is hiring new employees and raising prices to keep up with this rush of new demand.

Would you like to know about this great retail sales idea? Get 17 Days Instant Free Access and visit the “Retail” section of this unique membership site.

Here’s the concept this retailer uses:

Expensive items are stacked on a table at the front of the store. There’s a hand-written sign saying, “Everything on this table is just a penny.”

When customers ask about it, the cashiers are trained to invite ‘em to register on their mailing list.

Each month’s newsletter contains a coupon to receive anything on the table for just one cent (limit one per coupon).

Even better, the promotion doesn’t even cost Ivan a single penny… he recruited sponsors to pay for everything including the printing and postage.

Ivan even makes money on the penny items since he convinces his suppliers to give him the items free (to get exposure).

As you may have guessed, there’s a bit more to it than that, but you get the idea. If you want to see some photos of this
trick in action and the additional details that “make it hum” you can check it out when you get 17 Days Instant Free Access and visit the “Retail” section of this unique membership site.

This tip, plus hundreds more, plus new information added weekly make Markus Allen’s site  a top destination for learning work at home marketing tips. It’s all free for 17 days! Then their normal price kicks in! But in 17 days you could learn alot!

Want more info on how to get improve your Work At Home business results? Click here: 17 Days Instant Free Access

Note: Work At Home Business Opportunities is an affiliate for this website should you decide to purchase after the free offer expires.

One of the great things about the Free ebook (Free to read online anyway) are the SIDEBARS that tell you how so many Free Promotions were structured.

You can see and read the list here: Sidebars

This wasn’t in the sidebar, though.

It’s how FreeConferenceCalling.com makes money.

Personally I’ve used the service, and I’ve liked it. There were no ads or other discernable ways they made money.

I thought “some idiot is wasting a lot of venture capital on this one”. But it turns out they do have an ingenious way to make money!  The book Free, which is “Free” tells how. You can download it for Kindle, Iphone, at Google Books and even a free audio book at ITunes!

Free: The Future of a Radical Price

One of the great things about the Free ebook (Free to read online anyway) are the SIDEBARS that tell you how so many Free Promotions were structured.

You can see and read the list here: Sidebars

You’ll see

How Can Air Travel Be Free?

How Can A DVR Be Free?

How Can Trading Stocks Be Free?

How Can Something Be “FREE” In One Format But Sell In Another?

You can click through Sidebars and see them all.

So what could you be doing with “FREE”?

Here’s the Google Books download link.

I just downloaded the FREE audio book through ITunes. You can find the link to that here at TheLongTail.com It’s  a big audio book. Took quite a while to download to my iphone.  I can’t wait to listen to it.

Here’s the free KINDLE EDITION

How can you be using “Free” in your marketing?

As I roll out the revised ebook “Money By Friday”, for instance, I’ll be offering a free report on how any small business that does business with the public could enter the market to provide virtually “exclusive” services for a national company that could create an extra $500, $1000 or even $2000 per month depending on the traffic by utlizing currently “underutilized” space and employee time and turn that underutilization into a big gain.

Boy, just reading this makes me wonder… what else could I be adding “Free” to this ebook launch? Hmm….

Here’s the gist of it from the book’s overview:

In his New York Times bestseller, The Long Tail, Wired magazine’s editor in chief provided a glimpse of the business future that’s already here. And now, in Free, he does it again. As the cost of doing business online drops closer and closer to zero, giving things away is not just becoming an option–it’s inevitable. But if the product is free, where’s the revenue? In Free, Anderson breaks down the priceless economy into six broad categories, demonstrating how to make money in each:

- “Freemium”: Free Web software and services, and some content, to users of the basic version. (Think Flickr and the $25-a-year Flickr Pro.)
- Advertising: Free content, services, and software to an audience that advertisers will pay to reach.
- Cross-subsidies: Give away any product that entices customers to pay for something else. Example: It’s a free second-gen Wii! But only if you buy the deluxe version of Rock Band.
- Zero marginal cost: Anything that can be distributed without an appreciable cost to anyone, like online music.
- Labor exchange: Performing tasks to gain access to “free” sites and services.
- Gift economy: From Freecycle (free secondhand goods) to Wikipedia, money isn’t the only motivator.

In Free, Anderson uses the fundamentals of economics, a long view of the history of business, analysis of today’s rapidly changing landscape, and fascinating predictions to create a book that, like The Long Tail, will be essential reading in the years to come.
- In hardcover, The Long Tail had lengthy runs on the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Book Sense, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, and Los Angeles Times bestseller lists, and has sold200,000 copies.
- Like The Long Tail, Free began as an article in Wired–in this case, as a controversial cover story. Anderson has also been discussing the book’s progress on his widely read blog thelongtail.com.
- As editor in chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail, Chris Anderson is one of America’s most sought-after commentators on tech trends.

Warning: you may be confused with people trying to keep the signals out of their head!