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Aug 11
We just released a couple enhancements to the dashboard that we thought you might like to know about.
Previously the leaderboard on the dashboard showed this months leaders across all users, but now it shows “Your Crew” which is comprised of people you are following. Don’t fear, the Earndit wide leaderboard is still available by clicking the “All of Earndit” link right above the leaderboard, or by going to the Rankings tab.
In addition we made it easier to find friends to add them to your crew by putting a people search box right below the leaderboard.
Enjoy!
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Jul 11
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.
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Jul 11
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.
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Jun 11
In the fall of 2009, well before launching Earndit, we spent quite a bit of time studying the different fitness app communities because we knew we’d be partnering with them at some point down the road. It became readily clear to us that RunKeeper was going to become a leader in this space. We were impressed by the way the company engaged its users; we were impressed by how it made product decisions; and we were impressed by the way the company was managed. So we reached out to Jason and Mike in April of 2010 (the month we launched) to see if they’d like to integrate with Earndit. It turns out that conversation was a bit premature, yet we remained in touch with each other from that point forward.
Fast forward 14 months: RunKeeper is now the largest fitness tracking community with over 6 million users. The company recently raised $1.1 million from one of the best venture capital funds in the country – OATV – and may not need to raise another dime. RunKeeper is on a tear and it’s been really fun to watch.
It goes without saying that we’re ecstatic to announce the official integration of RunKeeper with Earndit. Now RunKeeper’s 6 million users can benefit from Earndit’s rewards program and get free goodies just by breaking a sweat with the RunKeeper app. Of course we have to thank all of our amazing reward partners for making these rewards available to you.
Welcome aboard!!
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Jun 11
The past couple of weeks have seen a boom in the number of Fitbit users signing up with Earndit. In fact, today Fitbit surpassed Garmin as the #3 most popular tracking method (behind Nike+ and Foursquare). Let’s keep it going!
Many people have been asking about the timing of when we award points for Fitbit. Because the Fitbit monitor collects data all day long, we have to wait until the following morning to award points for the day’s activities. This differs from the other tracking methods whose activities have specific start and end times which allow us to give credit for them shortly after they’re completed.
An important thing for Fitbit users to keep in mind is that if they’ve already received points for an activity with Nike+, Garmin or Everytrail on a given day, they won’t receive points for Fitbit activities monitored that day when we try to import them the following morning. This is currently the only way for us to ensure people aren’t “double dipping” by running with both a Nike+ and their Fitbit, for example. We know this isn’t an ideal solution but it’s the best we can do at the moment. We’ll be working to improve how these conflicts are handled.
In conclusion, we give a warm welcome to all you Fitbit users out there and congratulate you for surpassing Garmin as the third most popular device on Earndit!
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May 11
Esther Dyson has been a very well respected investor for many years. Forbes even named her as one of the most influential figures in American business. Recently she gave an interview with Digiday to chat about data and digital advertising. She mentioned Earndit as a site where “relevant offers are welcome rather than intrusive.” A screenshot of that interview is below, and you can click here to be taken to it directly.
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Apr 11
Please join me in congratulating the winner of the drawing for a Month of Oikos Yogurt:
Benjamin Haavik – You can view his profile here.
Also please join us in thanking Stonyfield Farm for offering up a free month-supply of their premium Oikos Organic Greek Yogurt. You can find them on Facebook and as @Stonyfield on Twitter if you want to toss some love their way.
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Apr 11
Hello fellow Earndit members! I just wanted to introduce myself as a new contributor here on the Earndit blog before you start seeing my posts pop up on a more regular basis. My name is Ernesto Ramirez and I’m a doctoral student in Public Health at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. I study how technology can be used to help measure, track, and change health behaviors. If you want to know more about me or my research please visit my website.
Here at Earndit we focus on providing you an innovate way to get rewarded for all the hard work you do out there while you run, cycle, swim and work out at the gym. Why do we think this is such a great idea? It comes down to a really simple concept that we’ve decided to use to help you (and everyone you know) lead a more healthy life: immediacy.
What is immediacy? Glad you asked! I’ll get to it in a bit, but first talks about health. When we think about the behaviors we engage in on a daily basis, most of what we do doesn’t immediately change our health. Think about it. The last time you went for an early morning run, could you see the change when you looked in the mirror afterwards? What about the last time you splurged for lunch and ordered that delicious Double Double with cheese (or whatever hamburger delicacy you enjoy). After you licked your fingers clean, did you feel your cholesterol rise? Did you suddenly stop fitting into your jeans? Obviously the answer to each of these questions is “no”. We all understand, although many of us forget, that health is a long-term process. The journey toward poor health and chronic disease takes time, usually years and years or making unhealthy choices. It also turns out that our awesome human brains have a hard time linking behaviors we do today with things that may or may not happen years from now. When it comes down to it, our behaviors are simply determined: we do things that make us feel good and avoid things that make us feel bad. Layer on our hectic lifestyles, daily anxiety and stress and we’re lucky people even think about exercising!
This is nothing new, so why are we talking about it now? I’ll tell you why, because we think that over here at Earndit we’ve developed a system that can help solve the behavior-consequence time gap. We do this by rewarding you for doing things that make you a healthier person. Did you run 3 miles in the morning with your Garmin? Awesome! Here’s 3o points. Did you get an hour of “very active” time when you wore your FitBit? Great! Why don’t you take 45 points! This is where immediacy comes in. You take those points you’ve earned and you can immediately turn them into amazing deals on products and services that we all enjoy. Think about it, you may not see much of a change in your body or weight after only 9 days of running 6 miles each day, but when you use Earndit those runs can be turned into a $50 gift card to Bonobos!
We think this system is an amazing tool to help you keep exercising and staying healthy. Positive, immediate, tangible reinforcement is the cornerstone of Earndit. You’re making your life better and you deserve to be rewarded!
What do you think? How has our reward system helped you lead a healthier life? Share your stories in the comments!
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Apr 11
We’re delighted to announce two new rewards for all your exercise.
The first is from Stonyfield Farm. They are offering a free month-supply of their premium Oikos Organic Greek Yogurt. Made with only a handful of ingredients, this yogurt is packed with protein and calcium.
The reward will be given away in a drawing on Tuesday, April 26th. You can gain an entry to the drawing by redeeming 50 points, and you can buy as many entries as you’d like. As always, you’ll get a bonus entry for bragging about the reward. As an extra treat, all entrants into the drawing will receive a $1.00 downloadable coupon for Oikos yogurt (limit of one coupon per person). We’ll be conducting a total of six (6) of these Oikos drawings over the next couple months.
The second reward is actually from a previous reward partner: TheClymb. This private retail site offers premium outdoor apparel at discounts of up to 70% off. Their previous offering was one of the most popular rewards we’ve ever offered on Earndit. This time around they’re offering a high-level reward of $50 credit for 500 points, and a more attainable reward (for new members) of $10 credit for 100 points.
Please join us in thanking these reward partners for encouraging healthy lifestyles and rewarding your exercise!
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Mar 11
Whenever we see that you’ve done a new activity, we automatically give you points for it and send you an email notifying you of those points. We think of that email kinda like a receipt – it’s sent to say “We got you covered”. However, some people may not want that confirmation sent to them each time they workout. Hence we’ve now given you the ability to turn off those notifications. All you have to do is go to your Profile page and click the button to “Off”. See the screenshot below:
We just released a couple enhancements to the dashboard that we thought you might like to know about.
