Responsive redesign, StayCay from Sunday, spend your way to status and more
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Subscribe here & at http://thefrequentmiler.com/subscribe. This week, Greg and Nick discuss:
-Frequent Miler site redesign: initial reader outrage, immediate adjustments, and how it is better today.
-Hyatt credit card promo: How much spending will Greg do toward Hyatt Globalist with this promo?
-Southwest: The response to the pandemic and the opportunity that may exist for converting "other" points to Southwest.
-StayCay to Far Away Challenge: This year the newly-expanded Frequent Miler team takes on an at-home set of video challenges. Early polling suggests an unexpected frontrunner.
Timestamps:
1:17 Reader feedback: Our redesign (including our discussion about the redesign)
12:07 World of Hyatt credit card promo: Is it worth spending toward status? How much will Greg do?
23:04 Southwest's response to COVID-19
31:12 Potential opportunity to convert other credit card points to Southwest.
41:38: StayCay to Far Away: What the new challenge is and who the early front-runner is.
57:35 Question of the week: Should you proactively convert Citi Double Cash rewards to ThankYou points?
1:02: Tag question: Is the Double Cash worth a 5/24 slot?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at |
| 0:07.1 | voyescape.com. Welcome to Frequent Myler on the air. How are you doing, Nick, Nick, whoever that is |
| 0:16.5 | that I'm talking to. I'm doing well. I'm doing well. I'm always happy to be here. So I just, |
| 0:20.7 | I just got done trying to |
| 0:23.3 | prep something for our new challenge that we're going to be talking about here today. And, |
| 0:28.3 | and, and I definitely recorded some stuff. So I'm cooking. I'm up first and I have to |
| 0:35.4 | create something. And so I spent, you know, like a good |
| 0:37.7 | hour and change trying to prep something and I have nothing to eat right now. So that's about |
| 0:45.1 | how well it's been going for me so far. So set the bar, I'm setting the bar low for you. |
| 0:51.3 | Yeah. Well, it sounds like, it sounds like you're about as good of a chef as I am. |
| 0:56.5 | I don't think it's going to be better than what people expect in terms of my skill level, |
| 1:00.7 | but hopefully that that translates into better than what people expect in terms of |
| 1:05.2 | entertainment value. Right. I mean, that's really what we need here, because if you just prepared |
| 1:09.8 | something perfectly, that'd be no fun at all. |
| 1:11.9 | Right. No, not fun, not fun, except for the people who eat it. |
| 1:14.8 | Well, we'll explain soon what we're talking about here. We'll come back to this. Today's episode, the main topic for today is about our site redesign. Frequent Miler. It's all new, all fresh. And we're going to get into that in a second. |
| 1:30.1 | But first, feedback time. |
| 1:31.1 | Your feedback. |
| 1:35.5 | And I had to introduce the topic first because... I tried to decide right past it last time. |
| 1:39.5 | No, no, no, not for that reason, but because the feedback's related to the site redesign so on i think it |
| 1:46.8 | was wednesday we put out a post announcing hey we've got a brand new home page come check it out |
| 1:52.8 | and our readers were appalled at least some of them were some of them were appalled. |
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