Posts Tagged: Rewards


22
May 12

Donate Your Earndit Points to Charity

Almost everything we do at Earndit can be boiled down to one purpose: to give you reasons to value your Earndit points. In doing so, you’ll continue to exercise in order to get those cherished points, and in turn we can help create a healthier population. So far there have been two primary reasons for you to want Earndit points — so that you can redeem them for rewards, and so you can be eligible for prizes in the sponsored challenges. For most people, these two value propositions are compelling enough to get them to be active. But now we’d like to add a third value proposition: charitable donations! We’re thrilled to announce that you can now spend your points for a social cause.

How does it work? Whenever a community goal is reached for one of the charitable efforts we support, we will make a donation in support of that goal. By redeeming your points for a certain cause, you’ll bring the Earndit community closer to the goal and closer to unlocking a donation. There are currently 6 causes that you can support.

In full transparency, we generate revenue whenever you redeem your points for a reward or whenever you participate in a sponsored challenge; on the contrary, charitable donations will cost us money. It’s our hope that you’ll continue to see value in the rewards we offer & the sponsored challenges we host and continue to use Earndit in those ways. Ultimately though, these charitable donations are an extension of our social mission of making this world a slightly healthier place.

To see which causes you can donate your points to, just go to the tab titled “Redeem” and click the sub-section called “Giving”.

Please let us know what you think of this new dimension of Earndit.

Andres & Your Earndit Crew


13
May 12

Filtering Your Rewards on Earndit

Now that the number of rewards available on Earndit has grown to close to 40 (wow!!), we figured it’d be good to give you a way to easily filter the types of rewards you’d like to see on the page.

When perusing rewards on the “Redeem” page, you can use the filter tool in the top-right of the page (see the red box in the screenshot above this post). This will allow you to filter the rewards by categories such as food, clothing and lifestyle. You can also sort them in order of popularity, or how recently they’ve been added to Earndit, or in order of points needed. Finally, you can check the box to only show rewards that you have enough points for.

This should make finding and redeeming rewards more convenient for you. Please feel free to let us know what you think.

Andres


26
Jan 12

Journey Bar Saved Me In Nepal

We had been climbing uphill for 2 hours and had another 3 hours of uphill climb to go. We were also at an elevation of about 10,000 feet. This is not a good time to run out of stamina!

My wife and I just came back from Nepal where we did a 5-day trek through the foothills of the Himalayas. It was absolutely stunning and I’d be happy to share pictures, but this story is not about that. Rather, this story is about how we were caught a bit by surprise with how strenuous the second day of the trek would be. It was only the night prior that we learned that we’d be climbing steeply uphill for 5 hours straight. We were on our way to Ghorepani – a hilltop village with a gorgeous view of the Himalayan mountains. The food available to us would have been sufficient for routine daily life, but a trek is nothing close to routine.

We set out on that second day around 8:15am. By 8:45am my calves were beginning to cramp and I was breathing quite heavily. While I consider myself to be in decent shape, this was a completely different type of workout than I was used to. We would take short breaks every 15 minutes or so, ensuring to hydrate and stretch our muscles if need be.

Around 10:15am, not even halfway through the day’s physical demands, I began to hit a wall. Keep in mind that we were about 6 hours away from the nearest road, so I had no option but to power through the climb. Fortunately my wife is a great packer and remembered that she had brought a couple Journey Bars along for the trek. Bingo! I ripped open the barbecue flavored bar and smiled with each bite. It was delicious. More importantly, it was like stumbling upon an oasis in the desert. The bar rejuvenated me with the fuel I needed to continue the trek and make it to Ghorepani.

Thank you Journey Bar!! You saved me in Nepal.

Andres


8
Sep 11

New Reward: FitOrbit Training

FitOrbit is the leading and most successful online personal training system. FitOrbit gives you customized workout plans and meal plans created specifically for you by a certified personal trainer. Furthermore, this trainer is accessible to you at any time to give you continuous guidance and support.

Your trainer will learn everything necessary about you and your needs to provide a daily diet and workout plan to help you reach your goals.

The pricing of the program varies depending on how much time you commit to up-front:

  • Week-to-Week:  $120 per month
  • Month-to-Month:  $80 per month
  • 3-Month Package:  $60 per month ($180 total)
  • 6-Month Package:  $40 per month ($240 total)

This reward gives you two months for the low price of $60 (a $100 savings)!

Go get rewarded, you earndit!


21
Jul 11

New reward for your exercise

Blank Label is offering you a $35 gift card for their custom-tailored dress shirts. Ladies, before you roll your eyes and think this isn’t for you, keep in mind all the wonderful men in your life that may love to have a dress shirt that fits them perfectly.

Their shirts start at $60, so this rewards gets you more than halfway there. Plus they have free shipping and free returns.

The company has been featured in The New York Times, Bloomberg, Mashable, Luxist and many other top media brands.


20
Jul 11

Brooks running shoes winners

As always, the Brooks reward drawing was in high demand.  One of you bought as many as 29 entries!  We’d like to thank Brooks for their generous support of the Earndit community and hopefully we can continue this great relationship down the road.

The two winners of a free pair of Brooks running shoes are:

Please join me in congratulating them!  For those of you that didn’t win, be on the lookout for several cool new rewards we’ll soon be announcing.


2
Mar 11

DermStore offers you another reward for exercising

After generously rewarding you with a free jar of anti-aging day cream, DermStore.com wants to continue rewarding your exercise with a $25 gift card (on a purchase of $75 or more).  DermStore has a huge selection of top-quality skin care & beauty products.  You can choose from over 500 different brands, ranging from household names to hard-to-find specialty brands.  They even offer free shipping on all orders!  This past November, InStyle magazine gave DermStore their “Best of the Web” award in the skin care category.

We are very pleased to have DermStore offer Earndit members this new reward after the previous one was gobbled up like hotcakes.   Show them some love!