Frequent Miler origin story - Greg's story | Coffee Break Ep09 | 4-30-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Today's Coffee Break episode was inspired by a recent email we got asking... how did Frequent Miler get started? Since our Coffee Break episodes are 20 minutes or less, we started but telling Greg's side of the Frequent Miler origin story.
(01:47) - in 2011 Greg first learned about this points and miles hobby when his current employer at the time issued a "no travel" decree...
(04:22) - Greg started a blog for his friends...because it was easier then emailing everyone about what he'd learned.
(05:29) - Greg almost immediately became intrigued with stacking opportunities.
(07:06) - Greg was also very focused on increasing spend on his credit card which he later learned was called "manufactured spending."
(08:17) - Before long, Randy of Boarding Area discovered Greg and invited him to join.
(10:38) - Greg meets some other Boarding Area bloggers and learns how to monetize his blog.
(14:15) - In early 2012 Greg's "real job" restructures and he gets laid off, inspiring him to set an earnings goal for the blog.
(16:02) - Greg discovers Vanilla Reload cards...
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:16.4 | This is not your typical frequent mile on the air episode. This is a standalone segment we're calling Coffee Break. |
| 0:23.6 | Each coffee break segment will cover a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:29.6 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or your money back. Enjoy. |
| 0:34.6 | Today's coffee break episode is the Frequent Myler Origin Story. |
| 0:42.0 | So this was inspired by an email we received from Tracy. |
| 0:45.2 | Tracy said, I've been following the FM team for a few years, and I'm curious about |
| 0:49.7 | the history from Greg's perspective. I'm assuming he's the founder. Yes, Tracy, he is. Did you start with a blog? What was your vision when you started? How did you grow? Where does one take out a help wanted ad for a smart, articulate, adventurous, points of miles enthusiast who's into hats? Your check is in the mail, Tracey. FM team is the best. I love the points of miles hobby and couldn't do it without you. |
| 1:11.7 | I also love to be entertained and you provide plenty of that as well. Thank you for the ego boost, Tracy. |
| 1:16.6 | So Tracy's questions, though, I thought were really good because I know some of the frequent Miler origin story, but I don't know all of it. |
| 1:23.3 | So Greg, what's up? How did this all get started? |
| 1:26.8 | Yeah, I'll dive into that a second, but first I have to explain in case people don't know. |
| 1:32.0 | Nick is famous for wearing fedoras. |
| 1:34.8 | And so when she mentioned a points in miles specialist who's into hats, she may have been talking about. |
| 1:42.8 | Maybe. |
| 1:43.5 | I mean, Tim wears some cool hats too I mean |
| 1:45.6 | Terry he wore hats even wore hats even a hat on our party of five trip he did so she |
| 1:51.7 | could have been referring to anyone but my bet is is it might have been neck anyway yeah so |
| 1:57.6 | frequent myler back in 2011 is when I learned about the hobby at all. |
| 2:04.7 | So I used to be a software developer. |
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