Frequent Miler origin story: Nick’s story | Coffee Break Ep16 | 6-25-24
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🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On a previous Coffee Break episode, we talked about the Frequent Miler origin story – Greg’s story. This week, we'll learn about Nick's origin story with the Frequent Miler team.
(00:47) -Super quick recap of next 5 years from the start of the blog
Greg posted a "Help Wanted" for full time employee, which you can read here
(02:21) - How Nick got into miles and points
(12:09) - Nick discovers Frequent Miler at an FTU
(13:58) - Greg and Nick meet in person at another FTU
(16:37) - Nick's wife convinces him to apply for the Frequent Miler position
(17:10) - More details about Greg's help wanted post and the hiring process
(20:42) - Greg was hoping to find someone who knew more about redemption than he did
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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 is Frequent Myler's origin story, Nick's story. You may remember that we |
| 0:44.1 | did Greg's story, my story, back in April. That was Coffee Break, Episode 9. And where we left |
| 0:54.1 | off then was how I started the blog and became a full-time |
| 0:59.1 | blogger. And really quick, I'm going to catch you up over five years before Nick got hired, |
| 1:06.3 | which was during that time, I introduced quick deals as a new component to the blog, which were like |
| 1:12.8 | just short little posts about deals. |
| 1:16.0 | And that became really popular. |
| 1:18.4 | I was often speaking at frequent flyer conferences during those five years. |
| 1:23.4 | I even met some really nice people along the way, including I remember a couple that I talked |
| 1:29.0 | to about diving because I had just got my diving certificate, so that was really fun. |
| 1:36.5 | And let's see, during that time I had invited some guest authors to help out because I was |
| 1:41.7 | a little overwhelmed by all the work to do with the blog. |
| 1:45.1 | And I hired Sean Coomer, who you may know as the author of Miles to Memories. |
| 1:51.7 | He worked part-time for me for a few years and was incredible help. |
| 1:57.0 | He handled almost every quick deal that we published. |
| 2:04.6 | Overall, blog was doing well, but not a lot of growth. And at the end of 2016, Sean gave notice. He wanted to work full time on his own blog, |
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