FreeSamplesDirect | Free Product Samples » Misc Posts http://freesamplesdirect.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:05:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Tips on Being and Saving Green http://freesamplesdirect.com/blog/tips-on-being-and-saving-green/ http://freesamplesdirect.com/blog/tips-on-being-and-saving-green/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:01:18 +0000 Josh http://freesamplesdirect.com/?p=1448 Occasionally I come across some great site content I like to share with you, which although is beyond free samples, I think you will find useful.

Dawn, an avid frugal fan from Frugal for Life posted some great tips recently on how to be both green, as well as save the green (of the monetary kind).

Amongst Dawn’s great tips in part 1 and part 2 of her saving green in multiple ways posts I particularly like the tips on going without bags, making better use of a broom, borrow before you buy, forgo the receipt, drink more tap water and forget the straw!

Got any frugal tips you swear by?

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The mobile version of FSD provides a cut down version of the site to improve your experience with a more usable, fast loading mobile site.

Just surf to freesamplesdirect.com on your phone and check it out!

Let us know what you think

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Please take a moment to share the love…

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With the site recently hacked, it has given me renewed focus to improve the site.

Apart from the obvious of you all wanting to see more freebies, what are your thoughts on how we can improve?

Examples:
I would like to see a link to facebook so I can share freebies with my friends
I would like to see the most popular posts in the side bar rather then just the latest posts
I want to be able to rate posts via a star rating out of 5
I have some thoughts on how you can improve the site design such as X, Y, Z

Please leave your feedback! :)

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I have gone on to use a few fragrances and shaving products I’ve received.

Andrea has a draw full of freebies and Holly likes a personal hygiene product or two.

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How about you?

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Want a chance to go to Mars? Well your name anyway! NASA are now taking submissions for your name to be included along with others on a microchip on the Mars Science Laboratory Rover heading to Mars in 2011.

You can view participation maps of people from the USA and Internationally.

Click here to submit your name

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It has now been rectified and subscribers can now receive freebie updates again. Not an email subscriber? Register here.

If you find any other site issues that don’t seem right let us know :)

Enjoy your weekend.

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Please update your bookmarks and links to reflect these changes by linking to http://www.freesamplesdirect.com

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In order to do so I need your feedback on what you would like to see that maybe another site is offering that we don’t, that we offer but it could be improved, etc.

Please leave a comment to give us some feedback.

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We stumbled across a great plug-in which now seems to be doing the trick with blocking the spam and allowing real messages through, so you can now comment with others directly on freebie posts without having to wait for your post to be approved. Hopefully it works out alright.

Happy commenting! :)

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