The Business Gold Card will offer its small business customer base the ability to earn rewards through the ever-wider area of social media and online advertising in general.

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Work in this area could reap useful rewards.

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Residents in this area pay for a scheme which rewards people with eggs for every bit of rubbish delivered to a collection point.

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Zions Bank has one of the most successful cash rewards card programs around, with hundreds of merchants participating in the Utah area.

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For the smaller fry in the oil industry, the area represents their best chance to get in on the ground floor and reap potentially huge rewards in the future.

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