So, I signed up last Thursday and I cashed in for my first $25 yesterday. I am so pleased that it only took one week. And if this is lean times, I am sorry that I missed out when things were really great. Since I saw a couple of other newbie posters feeling a bit dissatisfied, and wondering if they should keep up, I thought I would post my Daily Routine. I set a personal goal of 150-200 SB per day. So far my first goal has been 30 or 40 and my second goal 110-120ish, so I've had no problem meeting both goals.
1. Daily Offers - I saw this on the Reddit Swagbucks page but I never found out how to navigate there directly but go to:
http://www.swagbucks.com/discover/daily-offers . You don't have to fill anything out, just click on the More Offers button, after about 10 offers you get to the end page that has a captcha for
2 SB
2. Daily Task - In the left sidebar of the home page, you have to do 5 of 6. The poll gives you
1 SB, the Daily Crave gives you the points for the crave. Click on the Daily search. The rest seem to happen in the process of doing the other regular tasks. Bonus is
1, 2 or 4 SB.
3. Games. I play the Swagasaurus Run. Unlike someone who said they got bucks after every 2 games, mine show up after 2-4 plays. Sometimes it takes a long time for the applet to load, or for it to finish the game and show me my score.
10SB
4. Surveys. I try for 5 disqualifications for
5 SB. But sometimes you actually qualify and get more pts. I don't devote anymore time on it then getting the few disqualifications, and if I get a survey for more points I don't even try for more disqualifications if I don't want to spend anymore time on it.
5. Mobile Apps. This is my primary bucks maker. After seeing people comment about using an old device, I dug out my old iPhone 4, downloaded the 6 apps and then plug it in, and let it go all day. Yes, sometimes the app crashes or an ad needs to be closed, but I have it sitting next to me and I can notice it. I don't really babysit it, if I walk away for an hour it either runs or it doesn't.
60SB minimum
Throughout the day
6. Swag codes. Sometimes I notice them on the button, but sometimes I just see them here on on the Reddit page.
7. TTG / LTG. I keep my Swagbucks page open and refresh as I do my regular computer surfing. When ngage would credit, I would do an ngage and a LTG at the same time. I could go through 2 LTGs in one ngage, so it was like earning 7 SW every 6 minutes or so. So now, sometimes I do the short nCraves when I am doing LTG. These are the only things I do, when I wouldn't already be on the computer. When they show up, I try to do them until they're gone.
8. Auto-play nCraves. So far I get an Entertainment 5 SB a couple times a day, and there is one for 4 SB. I just open the page, and then walk away. Some of them say they are auto-play, but when you load the page it says it's in "watch mode" (when you have to like it) but there is a slider to slide it to "discovery mode" and then it will auto-play.
9. Swagbutton Watch - I only did this one day, really. I think it takes too much babysitting to click on the next video. But if I was close to cashing out, I would do it more.
10. Offers. Sometimes someone will post one on the Reddit page that credits easily and doesn't take too much time. Otherwise, I don't really do offers.
11. In my email (not my swagbucks inbox) I sometimes get a few points for clicking links or completing offers.
12. Searches. Just my normal searches, I get 1-2 per day that give bucks.
So hope this helps someone. And if I'm missing out on easy points, let me know so I can add them to my list.