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Ralph Johnson is the Head FOD. He cracks the whip over a merry band of internet marketers at FreeOfferDetective.com. They research "Free" Offer sites around the web. Then they write informative and (hopefully) entertaining articles about what to expect from these sites and what options internet bargain hunters may have on them.

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And Now, On A Completely Different Subject

Does Your Dog Hate It When You Leave Him By Himself? Reprinted with permission from www.OnlineShoppingBargains.net. Here’s What I Do . . . When my dog was a puppy, I was very concerned about him every time I had to leave him alone. He had the saddest look on his cute little face as I [...]

5Aug2010 | Head FOD | 0 comments | Continued
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Reviewing the Nomenclature – Part III

Lest we forget . . . Free offers on the internet are like free money from the government, neither is ever really free and someone somewhere is going to have to pay something. Stop us if you’ve heard this before (hopefully here) but the main incentive (giveaway) item that attracted you to the free offer [...]

8Jun2010 | Head FOD | 0 comments | Continued
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Reviewing the Nomenclature – Part II

Alright class, let’s go over some of the things we may have forgotten about Free Offer (Participation Required) sites.        ” This is a good book.” – Emily Litella Every offer on the pages of an FO site is a banner (ad image) that links you to the web site of the brand name company making their [...]

5Jun2010 | Head FOD | 0 comments | Continued
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Is it Time to Review the Nomenclature?

. Just to reduce confusion, the FO esoterica needs to be addressed from time to time. All of the terms are found in the FOD Glossary next door in the main FreeOfferDetective.com website, but a quick review is always helpful. The Free Offer (FO) sites are web pages owned and maintained by internet marketers who [...]

7May2010 | Head FOD | 4 comments | Continued
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Genesis: Free Offer Detective .com

The whole idea behind the creation of www.FreeOfferDetective.com was to provide solid, actionable information to the consumer so they would be in control of the decision to participate in a particular site or not.

30Apr2010 | Head FOD | 0 comments | Continued
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What a scary word that is: “free”

Like beauty, “free” may only show up in the eye of the beholder. But, learn how the investigators at FreeOfferDetective.com are looking out (and around) for you.

25Aug2009 | Head FOD | 0 comments | Continued
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Free Offer, New Wrinkle

Some offer sites are trying to ply you with enticements to continue on to the Second Tier of offers for another incentive prize (or two).

21Aug2009 | Head FOD | 0 comments | Continued
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Layout of the Typical Free Offer Site

Although incentive items provided by individual free offer sites vary in type and value, the three-part layout of their web pages seem to be a fairly standard design.

17Aug2009 | Head FOD | 0 comments | Continued
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Categories of Free Offers

There are two types of offers you must select from in order to qualify for the main inecentive item headlining those Free Offer Sites. The subtle distinctions are spelled out here.

11Jul2009 | Head FOD | 0 comments | Continued
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Is That “Free” Offer Really Free?

Interesting word: free. It has a couple of meanings that the researchers at FreeOfferDetective.com base their reveiw articles on. Their blog site expands the topic.

6Jul2009 | Head FOD | 0 comments | Continued