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Greg The Frequent Miler

Greg The Frequent Miler
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Greg is the owner, founder, and primary author of the Frequent Miler. He earns millions of points and miles each year, mostly without flying, and dedicates this blog to teaching others how to do the same.

Million Mile Madness, Day 1 results

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340,000 points earned.  660,000 left to go. Background: Million Mile Madness is the fun and foolish quest to earn a million points in one month. Throughout March, I’ll do everything I can to earn as...

Million Mile Madness Day 1: Application day!

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Background: Million Mile Madness is the fun and foolish quest to earn a million points in one month. Throughout March, I’ll do everything I can to earn as many points as I can while...

Million Mile Madness Begins!

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Background: Early in January, I introduced the idea of challenging myself (and anyone foolish enough to join me) to earn a million points in one month. So, starting March 1 (tomorrow!), I’ll do everything...

More goodies from Staples

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Starting March 3rd, Staples will be offering a $15 prepaid card via easy rebate when you purchase $150 or more in Visa prepaid cards.  I'll cover this in full next week!  Click here to...

Staples introduces 5% back in rewards on everything

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This just appeared in my email: Last April I reported that Staples was testing this program in select markets (see "Staples ups the ante (targeted)").  I assume that this new email means that...

Why I no longer like the Marriott credit card

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A number of hotel loyalty programs have recently suffered major devaluations.  Here is a summary borrowed from One Mile at a Time: Hilton has literally destroyed their award chart for high end redemptions by adding...

Million Mile Madness, Credit card planning: US Bank and others

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Background: Early in January, I introduced the idea of challenging myself (and anyone foolish enough to join me) to earn a million points in one month. So, starting March 1, I’ll do everything I...

Million Mile Madness, Credit card planning: Barclaycard

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Background: Early in January, I introduced the idea of challenging myself (and anyone foolish enough to join me) to earn a million points in one month. So, starting March 1, I’ll do everything I...

Million Mile Madness, Credit card planning: Citi

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Background: Early in January, I introduced the idea of challenging myself (and anyone foolish enough to join me) to earn a million points in one month. So, starting March 1, I’ll do everything I...

Office DeMax

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Office supply stores and travel hacking are a strange combination, but in the past year or two they've been great together.  Thanks to credit card bonus categories, Easy Rebates, big portal promotions, Vanilla Reload...

The Home Improvement gift card

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Is this the next big thing?  Probably not, but it has its uses…  When Office Depot recently stopped selling $500 Visa cards, the hunt was on to find the next big "5X...

Targeted Amex upgrades

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UPDATE: The process for finding upgrade offers has changed.  Please see the updated instructions here. Note: American Express is a Frequent Miler advertiser Instead of applying for a new credit card, it is sometimes possible to...

ThankYou!

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About four months ago I signed up for the Citi Forward card which offers 5 ThankYou points per dollar for purchases made at restaurants, bookstores, movie theaters, video rental stores, and record stores (although,...

Million Mile Madness, Credit card planning: American Express

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Background: Early in January, I introduced the idea of challenging myself (and anyone foolish enough to join me) to earn a million points in one month. So, starting March 1, I’ll do everything I...

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