6 Ways to Get Around a Lack of Airline Award Space
One of the biggest challenges with collecting airline miles and points is redeeming them. Airlines intentionally make it difficult for people to redeem miles. Never did that become more clear to me...
View ArticleManufactured Spending As a Full Time Job?
Manufactured spending can be very lucrative if you do it right. Aside from the many ways to off-set manufactured spending fees, there are also ways to make a profit from gift card churning. At one...
View ArticleEarning Miles vs. Cash Back: Which Makes More Sense?
A while back, I wrote about the merits of using cash back rewards to cover manufactured spending fees vs. travel expenses. An interesting question came up: “Why not just use a travel rewards credit...
View ArticleLife Lessons I’ve Learned From Travel Hacking
It’s been over 5 years since I launched this blog on September 2, 2012. In that time, I’ve quit my job (twice), got hired running one of my favorite points and miles blogs, grew this blog with zero...
View ArticleHow to Meet the $7,000 Spending Requirement on the SPG Business Card
Reader Lindsey sent me a question that I get quite a lot from people who haven’t made the leap into manufactured spending. I thought it was worth addressing in a post, since it’s such a common question...
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