This series will teach you all you need to know about points, miles, and free travel.
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Sign up for a New Email Account
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Join Airline and Hotel Loyalty Programs
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Sign up for Point Management Accounts
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Sign up for Survey Sites
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Shopping Portals
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Insurance Quotes and Purchase Bonuses
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Rewards Credit Cards
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Maximizing Credit Card Category Bonuses
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Qualifying and Applying For Business Credit Cards
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Maximizing Household Spending
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Dining Rewards Programs
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Banking Miles
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Financial Products
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Maximizing Large Purchases
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: How to Meet Large Credit Card Spending Requirements
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Airline Elite Status
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Fast Track to Hotel Elite Status
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Airport Club Lounge Access
- Newbie Guide To Manufactured Spending: FAQ
- Newbie Guide To Manufactured Spending: Walmart Money Orders
- Newbie Guide To Manufactured Spending: American Express Gift Cards
- Newbie Guide To Manufactured Spending: American Express For Target
- Newbie Guide To Manufactured Spending: Visa And Mastercard Gift Cards
- Newbie Guide To Manufactured Spending: Green Dot MoneyPak
- Newbie Guide To Manufactured Spending: REloadit Cards
- Newbie Guide To Manufactured Spending: Paypal My Cash Reload Card
- Newbie Guide To Manufactured Spending: Vanilla Reload Cards
- Newbie Guide To Manufactured Spending: Prepaid Cards And How To Cash Them Out
- Newbie Guide To Manufactured Spending: Earning Miles With Debit Cards
- Best Club Carlson Hotels
- Best Hyatt Hotels
- Best Starwood Hotels
- Best IHG Hotels
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Redeeming Hotel Points:
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Point-earning strategies with different programs
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: The In’s and Out’s of the Chase Ultimate Rewards Program
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: The In’s and Out’s of the Amex Membership Rewards program
- Points and Miles Beginner’s Guide: Redeeming miles
- Other ways to travel free or cheap
I would use the gift card from Carlson at the Aruba Radisson, my favorite place to vacation !
This is a great guide. I found myself signing up for many things and managing the digital login info has become a large task. May I suggest an addition to the Beginner’s Guide?
Sign up for a password management account. This way all usernames and passwords are stored in one location and can be accessed anywhere. There are many free sites/services that exist.
Thanks for the tip, Anthony! I don’t use any password management accounts, so I can’t really recommend one. Please feel free to leave your own recommendation in the comment section.
I’ve used securesafe for many years for mostly business and personal passwords. Now that I’m obsessed with chasing mile and points its adds a more complex layer of needs so I’m progressing to google docs which can be accessed via desktop and mobile platforms while utilizing the 2-step authentication for added security
After using securesafe and then google docs to save passwords, I have progressed to 1password. So much faster using this. I manager 5 bluebirds, and multiple miles/point programs/credit cards for more than one individual.
Dashlane is pretty good!!
is there a way to earn points/rewards when paying my mortgage?
There is! Please see this post: https://www.pointchaser.com/earning-miles-on-mortgage-and-rent-payment/
If I apply for 3 credit cards and my credit score lowers by 12-15 points, how long before my score goes back up 12-15 points?
In the next couple of months (as your new credit line gets reported), your score will jump back up.
I have Amex Business Sky Miles Gold and Amex Starwood Preferred Guest cards. I’m thinking of applying for another 1 or 2 Amex cards. What would you suggest?
I’d pick up an SPG Amex Business card, since those points are valuable and hard to come by. I also like the new Amex Everyday cards. It’s all about what you’re trying to use your points for.
Hi, I’ve been reading your posts for a while and find lots of valuable information. This guide is awesome. However, the 20-25 links are not clickable and the resources link gives me error. Do you mind to update that please? Thanks a lot.
Thanks for letting me know Bea. It’s been a while since this page was updated, so I didn’t realize it had so many errors.
Ariana,
Is there a email Id I could email you my question
Yes, you can email me at ariana at pointchaser.com
Ariana,
The best blog with good tips ever.more power to you!!!Anyway,I’m a newbie in CC world esp.with points and millage. With my family getting bigger I think I have to be wise.Well at least I realized it after 36 yrs.lol!.Enough of this.Can you pls recommend the best cc to use to buy tickets to Philippines. I already have chase saphire and freedom card.But as of now I only have 40,000 points.We are planning to travel by June and I want to buy tickets maybe next next week. I hope you can help me.regards!