13 ways to increase credit card spend (and get most of it back) | Ep197 | 4-8-23
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Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 8 April 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Big credit card intro bonuses are the fastest way to supercharge your miles and points balances, but how can you meet the minimum spending requirements for multiple new cards per year? Here are 13 ways to increase your spending with no cost or low cost.
1:41 Announcements. Tim Goes Full Time
https://frequentmiler.com/no-joke-tim-goes-full-time-at-frequent-miler/
3:10 Monthly Ask Us Anything
5:42 See Nick live at FTU Washington DC
https://frequentmiler.com/come-see-nick-at-ftu-signature-washington-dc-on-5-6-23/
13:02 Card Talk: Amex Bonvoy Brilliant Card
https://frequentmiler.com/marriott-bonvoy-brilliant-guide-and-review/
23:36 Award Talk
-Marriott now allows online point transfers
25:38 Helping Maisie book a last-minute business class award to Europe
29:03 Using a soon-expiring IHG Free Night Certificate
32:49 Spirit Status Challenge Update
41:23: Main Event: 13 Ways to increase credit card spend (and get most of it back)
41:41 #1: Don't take "No credit cards" at face value
43:50 #2 Pay your taxes
https://frequentmiler.com/pay-taxes-via-credit-card/
45:42 #3 Pay bills that don't ordinarily accept a credit card with services like Plastiq and Melio
https://frequentmiler.com/melio-pay-business-bills-by-credit-card/
48:05 #4 Fund college savings or pay student loans
https://frequentmiler.com/miles-for-college/
50:14 #5 Make loans through Kiva
https://frequentmiler.com/why-i-love-kiva-for-earning-rewards-and-doing-good/
55:08 #6 Coordinate events with friends
55:54 #7 Pay bills for friends or family
57:06 #8 Fund new bank accounts
https://frequentmiler.com/us-bank-up-to-a-600-bonus-when-opening-a-new-checking-account/
1:00:28 #9 Buy and sell merchandise
https://frequentmiler.com/us-bank-up-to-a-600-bonus-when-opening-a-new-checking-account/
1:03:53 #10 Buy and sell gift cards
1:07:27 #11 Buy Visa and Mastercard Gift Cards
https://frequentmiler.com/best-options-for-buying-visa-and-mastercard-gift-cards/
https://frequentmiler.com/manufactured-spending-complete-guide/
1:13:07 #12 Reload reloadable cards
1:16:32 #13 Gambling on riskier business
1:23:31 Question of the Week: How can I use the Hilton Aspire $250 resort credit without staying at a resort?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:10.8 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.7 | Today's main event, 13 ways to increase credit card spend and get most of it back. |
| 0:32.5 | We haven't talked about credit card spend as like a broad topic for a long time on the show. |
| 0:39.3 | Right. |
| 0:40.3 | I looked it up and can you guess when the last show was just roughly that we talked about credit card spend as a general topic. |
| 0:52.3 | We've talked about it a little bit like specific things, like we had a show about |
| 0:57.2 | Kiva loans, for example. |
| 0:59.1 | But when have we done a general topic on credit card spend and increasing it? |
| 1:04.4 | I'm going to say never. |
| 1:07.8 | Have we? |
| 1:08.7 | Okay, two years ago. |
| 1:12.1 | Nope. Okay. November 29th, 2019. |
| 1:17.0 | Wow. So, yeah, almost four years ago. Wow. |
| 1:20.7 | We had a show titled Easy Credit Card Spend, and we listed five easy easy ways to increase credit card spend. And there you go. |
| 1:31.0 | They're actually all still. Still working. |
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