The Official Guide To FLR Success! (Explained)

Terminology

Advertiser - Any company who pays an affiliate to market their products using freebie sites

Approval - Refers to someone completing all site requirements and approved to claim their final prize

Avatar - An image that represents you on the forum

Banned - A temporary ban for spamming means you cannot use the FLR forum for a short time, usually a few days. A permanent ban means you can never use the FLR forum again.

Buyer - The one who pays cash for a referral

Bump - To cause your thread or post to rise to the top of the list (Bring Up My Post)

Cash out - Refers to receiving your prize or cash from a freebie site

CC - Credit card required; or "no CC" means no credit card required

Clear cache or clear cookies - Mainly refers to erasing old cookies, so the wrong site does not receive credit when you do an offer

Cookie - A small bit of electronic tracking information stored on your computer. A site cookie is stored when you log into a site and click on the offer page. An offer cookie is stored after you are redirected to a specific offer page. Both cookies help you receive credit for doing the offer

Crediting - The process of getting your completed offer credited to your account on the freebie site

DIY site - Do It Yourself or Points site. Instead of getting referrals, you complete all the offers yourself

Forever green - A term used on some repeatable sites, meaning that you keep your own green status forever

FLR - FreeLunchRoom

Free green - Sometimes a network will grant you green status on a site without requiring you to do an offer yourself. Then all you have to do is get referrals.

Freebie site - Any online marketing site that will give you free cash, products, or gifts for obtaining referrals who try advertising offers. They provide companies with a method of advertising and getting their products to customers.

G4G - Green for green (otherwise known as Referral for Referral)

Green - Means you have completed the basic offer requirements for a specific freebie site and all offers have credited to your account. People will say you have gone green or given them a green.

IFW - Incentivized Freebie Site (the same as a freebie site)

IP - Internet Protocol address, tells freebie sites your geographic location

Jump the fence - Start seeking referrals instead of just doing sites for cash

Locked thread - Means nobody can reply to or edit the thread. Your trading thread can be temporarily locked if you violate a rule.

MCR - Manual Credit Request. You sign into your freebie site and look for the MCR area. Then ask for your missing credit on the offer you did.

Mentor - A teacher, advisor, counselor. A mentee would be the person receiving advice or assistance.

Chapter 1 - The beginner stage. You sign up on a site, complete the offer requirements for that site, wait for your offers to be credited to your account and then get paid.

Chapter 2 - The buyer's stage. You get your own referrals and collect a prize directly from the freebie site. This may be cash or it may be a physical prize. Before beginning Method 2, you must be fully prepared to train others, pay referrals and guard against scammers. A mentor can help you learn.

Mods - Same as Moderators, people who enforce the rules on FLR

Network - Name of the company or parent site, like FreeForAllManKind. Each network may offer many freebie sites and you can sign up for each site once. Networks are rated by several agencies according to quality, customer service and how long they have been active.

Offer - The advertising offer for a specific product or service on the freebie site. You can only complete each offer once, no matter how many freebie sites carry that offer.

Offer Requirement - The amount of offers or credits needed to qualify on a specific freebie site before you collect your own referrals. Some 1 credit sites only require 1 offer. Some 1 credit sites require 5 or more offers.

Offer weight - The same offer can be worth a full credit on one site and only half a credit on another even though the final prize on both sites is the same.

Order - Refers to ordering your prize from a site, which can sometimes be a separate step after approval

Payout - Refers to the actual value that a site pays for a referral. Anytime you are paid by another trader for going green, you will normally receive about half of the payout or full referral value.

PFR - Paying for referrals

Piggyback offer - An additional trial offer that comes with the offer you want to complete. Don't worry if you've already done the piggyback part before, as that will not affect the main offer. If you accept the piggyback, make sure you read and abide by its additional terms.

Points site - Do It Yourself or Points site. Instead of getting referrals, you do all the offers yourself.

PM - Private Message Click on someone's avatar to the left of their message to access their profile or send them a message.

Post - Type of forum message that is contained within a thread

Prize - The final reward you receive after completing the offer requirement on a freebie site and collecting all required referrals. Most sites have a choice of various prizes or cash and you can usually change your prize after you sign up.

Red status - Refers to revoked credits on a freebie site, offers which are no longer green. If someone pays you for going green and you revert to red, you will owe them a refund.

Referral or ref - Someone who has been referred by another trader (who would be the referrer or sponsor member)

Referral link - The link which gives the referring party credit for the referral

Referral value - The amount each referral is worth on a freebie site. Take the prize value and divide by the number of referrals. So if the site pays out a $400 prize based on 10 referrals, the referral value would be $40.

Repeatable - Will let you collect prizes more than once. Most repeatable sites are also evergreen. Some will make you do an offer again and re-green before you can collect more referrals.

Scamming - Committing fraud, against another trader, a forum, a freebie site or an advertiser. Usually involves refusing to refund if you go red or obtaining money under false pretenses.

Seller - The one who goes green or becomes a referral to earn cash. In a referral for referral trade, neither one is the Buyer or Seller. Both are just "traders."

Site - Each freebie site in a network will have it's own website like cash.freeforallmankind.com or ipods.freeforallmankind.com. You can sign up for each site once.

Spamming - Contacting someone about trading without them initiating the contact. This is against the forum rules.

Sticky - A thread or post that constantly stays at the top of a subforum. They are often used by moderators for important announcements. You can also pay for a sticky trading thread, so that more people will see what you are advertising.

Support ticket - You sign into the freebie site, look for the help or support area, and leave a message about your problem or question on the site.

Thread - A new topic within a subforum

TOS - Terms of Service. These are the terms of an offer or the fine print.

TM - Trade Manager, where trades are tracked on FLR

TR - or iTR means Trade Rating, shows how many trades someone has completed on FreeLunchRoom.

Trade - Any deal you make with another trader

Trading thread - Where you can advertise what sites you need referrals on and what sites you want to sign up on

Verified by FLR - Means you have signed up and completed the VerifyME process and are now eligible to purchase a sticky

Verified green - Means you have passed an initial check and the freebie site says you appear to be ok

VM - Visitor's Message. Refers to the message posting area on your Profile page.

Walk through - When someone stands next to you and tells you what to do for every step. A walk through is illegal, because you can NOT supposed to tell others which offers to choose.

Yellow status - Means you have signed up for a site and now have your own referral link, but you do not have enough offers credited to your account yet to be green.