Dropbox itself will walk you through the steps to increase your storage for free<\/a>.<\/p>\nSome simple steps are connecting services like Facebook and Twitter, following Dropbox on Twitter and giving Dropbox some feedback. Doing all of that will earn you an extra 250MB of space. You can complete the getting started tour for another easy 250MB.<\/p>\n
Referring others<\/h3>\n
This is the big one. You can earn up to a whopping 16GB of free space just by getting others to signup to Dropbox. Each new user you get will give you another 500MB of space.<\/p>\n
But… I only have 2 friends…<\/h4>\n
Don’t worry! A little known trick is that you can do this all from your own email address.<\/p>\n
Some email providers allow extra characters in their email addresses such as “+<\/em>” and a lot of services will recognise this as a unique email address. The best part is that the emails will still go to your email address. Anything after the extra character is ignored by the email provider.<\/p>\nSimply put, it means that you can do something like this:<\/p>\n
Normal email: BillyNoMates@gmail.com<\/p>\n
Alternate email 1:\u00a0BillyNoMates<\/em>+Dropbox1<\/strong>@gmail.com<\/p>\nAlternate email 2:\u00a0BillyNoMates<\/em>+Dropbox2<\/strong>@gmail.com<\/p>\nAlternate email 3:\u00a0BillyNoMates<\/em>+Dropbox3<\/strong>@gmail.com<\/p>\nAlternate email 4:\u00a0BillyNoMates<\/em>+Dropbox4<\/strong>@gmail.com<\/p>\nAlternate email 5:\u00a0BillyNoMates<\/em>+Dropbox5<\/strong>@gmail.com<\/p>\nAnd so on…<\/p>\n
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I hope this helps and if you have any questions or suggestions, please comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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