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Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Episode 256: TMBA256: Making Sense of Awards Points and Business Class Upgrades

Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen

Digital Nomad, Business, Ecommerce, Society & Culture, Amazon, Founders, Cash Flow, Places & Travel, Founder, Business Owner, Cashflow, Management, Entrepreneurship, Million, Operator, Operations, Profits, Distributed Team

4.9527 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

http://www.tropicalmba.com/mileage/ Bossman is on vacation this week, so I've invited my friend Erik Paquet from Abroaders.com on to the show to talk all about mileage, point redemption, how to fly business class as often as possible and much more. In the Dynamite Circle, Erik is widely regarded as the go-to guy for travel hacking. We are also going to be discussing how he has been able to use his unique set of skills to launch a productized service business.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, podcast, listener.

0:05.1

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0:09.7

you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better,

0:14.8

more profitable, location independent businesses.

0:17.8

If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, check out tropical MBA.com.

0:29.6

Yeah, buddy, happy Thursday morning. It's the Tropical MBA podcast. Hey, boss man's, he's out of the house. He's on vacation. So it's like the parents are away

0:39.1

and we are going to have a house party. Today we are going to talk about travel. And I've invited

0:45.6

my friend Eric from the abroaders.com podcast to talk about something that I'm fascinated by and infuriated by, which is mileage, points,

0:57.6

redemptions, how to fly business class as often as possible, something I think most of us are

1:02.6

interested in, how to get lounge access, but also I want you to hear a little bit of inside

1:06.9

baseball here. We're here to talk about product ties services as well. I met it Eric a couple

1:12.1

times and he has a web development agency. In the DC crowd, he sort of became famous as like he's like

1:19.0

the guy who knows all about how to get great airline tickets, how to fly business class, how to hack all

1:24.5

this stuff. Gradually just sort of got this reputation. And he started

1:28.1

occasionally helping people book tickets and sort of turn it into a business. And now it's a really

1:33.1

great site at broaders.com resource. So we're going to talk a little bit about how that business is

1:37.5

progressing. And I'm sure he'd appreciate any input you have if you want to become his client or

1:42.5

maybe what it would take for him to do in order for you to become his client. The business is still in very early stages. So I think it's kind of an interesting time to see what's going to happen here, see if this thing can take off. We talk a lot about product-tized services on this podcast. So I like to try to catch these things as they happen on the ground so we can all sort of watch it in real time.

2:01.7

Anyway, Eric was incredibly generous with information and he knows a lot of this stuff.

2:06.0

If you have any questions for them, all the show notes, links, resources for this one's at tropicalmBA.com slash mileage.

2:13.9

Let's just jump right into that conversation.

2:22.8

Okay. mileage. Let's just jump right into that conversation. Let's just start in them with why this whole thing exists. I'm so confused by these points,

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