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Side Hustle School

#1733 - Q&A: Should I become a “miles and points broker”?

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship,, Careers, Small Business, Business, Side Hustle

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

This listener’s dad has an extra half million Frequent Flyer miles sitting around. The surplus has got them both thinking: is there a way they can get paid by matching discounted miles with budget flyers?

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1:05.0

Is there such a thing as a bad idea? Well, there absolutely is. Of course,

1:10.6

there are bad ideas, and it's not always your fault when you have a bad idea because the way

1:14.4

you find good ideas, the way you discover them and invent them, uncover them under a rock,

1:19.3

is by having a lot of ideas. So I'm a big fan of just putting a lot of stuff out there,

1:24.5

and or at least in brainstorming mode, writing down a bunch of ideas, considering different

1:28.5

possibilities and such. But at a certain point, you want to really ask yourself, is this the right

1:33.1

idea to move forward with? Is it a good idea, a bad idea, etc? And of course, as I've said before,

1:37.7

not just a good idea, but a profitable one. That's what we want. A profitable, sustainable one.

1:42.8

Now you might be wondering at this point, is this all a setup for a listener question

1:46.3

that I might possibly suggest is a bad idea? Well, if so, you are so smart. As you'll hear,

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