They also earn points by checking in at town halls and voting stations via Foursquare.
It lets you set goals, commit and track, get email reminders and earn points.
Members earn points that can be used for social good, travel, or almost anything else people would want.
Players earn points through daily login incentives and gameplay to purchase boosters, participate in tournaments, and craft cards.
Sure you can earn points for other things, like activating Sky or Netflix or buying something on the marketplace.
It becomes a defensive placement that you want to hold to earn points.
In the Korean sport Tae Kwon Do, competitors earn points for landing blows to certain areas of an opponent's body.
Your goal is probably not to get people to earn points or to get people to show up at your website.
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As companies like Reddit and Foursquare have shown, Internet users will work irrationally hard to earn points in arbitrary social games.
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Head banging, hopping around and Pete Townsend windmills don't earn points, but as contestant Ellis Sanchez(ph) discovers, such moves go over big.
Many credit cards and frequent flier programs allow you to earn points for good causes or convert your miles into charitable donations.
You earn points by exercising, buying healthy food or hitting certain targets.
You answer questions and you earn points if you get everything right.
Some of the services like Foursquare provide a gaming element that enables one to earn points and become the "Mayor" of a certain place.
You can set goals and monitor your progress, share results, create competitions with friends, and earn points that you can redeem for other actual health-related add-ons.
When someone checks in with the app, they earn points.
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With Recyclebank, you earn points for taking everyday green action.
Working with mobile agency PhoneValley (which has offices across Asia), the site lets users download a Puma branded racing game and submit their scores by text to earn points.
Target is offering a new credit card loyalty program that offers a 5% discount on almost anything that Target sells, replacing an existing program in which shoppers earn points toward discounts.
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Broadie and his co-researcher, Dick Rendleman of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, are the ones who determined that the World Golf Rankings favor players who earn points primarily outside the PGA Tour.
The Ospreys started brightly, taking only a minute to gain their first opportunity to earn points, but the normally reliant boot of outside-half James Hook misfired as he sent his penalty wide.
Frequent travelers should stick to legacy carriers, because their programs offer more opportunities to earn points through credit cards, such as American Airlines' AAdavantage Citi Mastercard or Delta's Gold Delta SkyMiles American Express.
Nintendo today revealed details about the Deluxe Digital Promotion, which lets consumers who buy the Wii U Deluxe Set earn points when they purchase downloadable games and redeem those points for even more fun digital content in the online Nintendo eShop.
Applied Marketing Science of Waltham, Massachusetts is working with MIT's Sloan School of Management on a Web tool that turns idea-generation into a challenging game, where players are rewarded for building on the suggestions of others and earn points that translate into cash or prizes.
All Wii U Deluxe Set owners who purchase digital content for Wii U, including downloadable games in the Nintendo eShop for Wii U and download codes sold at select retail stores, will earn points with a value equivalent to approximately 10 percent of the Nintendo eShop list price of each purchase.
"You can easily rack up enough points in just a few stays to earn enough points for a free night, " she said.
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Instead of a bank-issued card with the Visa or MasterCard logo, customers will earn loyalty points and discounts.
You earn three points for the first three pieces linked, and one more for each piece added on after that.
Both sides had chances to earn three points as the game turned into an end-to-end affair before finishing on equal terms.
Customers can also earn rewards points with other Citigroup products, such as checking and savings accounts, that they can use as currency.
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