Thank you Alex, I don’t take offense to anything George says. We are friends and communicate often about “the interesting world of blogging.” I can see how my list upsets George. If you look passed the credit card posts, they do a great service to the travel community. I owe Gary a lot for linking to some of my posts when I was first getting started. As always, I appreciate your feedback.

PS it’s gunna be a rainy day in Seattle for my Amtrak train ride :/

Who are you? Are you Grant’s mother or something?

I love Grant and he does not need your defending. What bugged me was he put the two Titans FIRST and then the others…if he had only reversed the sequence we would be just peachy!

There is SO much “original” content out there someone has to report on it & critique it and put some funny spin to it, this is my schtick. You don’t have to read it you know.

You sound angry amigo. To reiterate, I love Grant! I ‘ve been around and can judge character and talent. I really want to hire him myself but that would mean I may have to sell out to Chase so I am again having a mental block. My therapist Suzy Q. is on it…thank you for your support.

I believe you told me that story before, but I honestly think that that type of person is in the minority. There are a lot of very smart, up-to-date people at the conferences. They read many blogs and various forums. There are also many bloggers (big and small, mostly small) in the audience. I have met some app developers as well, the guys from Lounge Buddy and Stay Angel. It is a great way to become beta testers and try out new programs. Lots of networking goes on. It is still probably not worth the cost, but hey, its fun and you can’t put a price tag on fun!

Thank you 🙂

Cant wait to go to BACon15. See old friends, my buddy Delta Points, and get all the swag!

I went to one FTU and I attended the “credit card session”. MMS and VFTW and FM. Asked a newbie a question after it “So, do you know how these bloggers make their money”…They said “Ummm, advertising? Maybe they make some money from the credit cards readers apply?” I said take a guess how much this would be “They said $5, maybe $10”. And THIS is why these are held primarily, to make a lasting impression on these people because the have LOTS of cards to apply for!

Think about all of the traffic you could generate with the “Fly Southwest and Avoid Ebola!!” headline. Heard the flock baby. All they need is a little nudge.

Thank you Jed, since I completed my first dream of making it to the BA home page, my next dream is to make it to TBB’s Blogs I Like page. We can all dream, right?

As someone who has gone to several FTUs and travel conferences, I can’t remember the last time there was credit card pimping going on. It is hard to pimp to people that pretty much have every credit card. Other than the cost of the ticket (which has slowly gone up and up over the years), it is a good excuse to travel for a weekend and catch up with “close” friends who live all over the country/world.

P.S. Congrats on making it to BA, too bad you did not make it to #BACon14, you would have had fun 🙂

I saw this come in Feedly and I tweeted it. And said watch what happens….

It exploded and never got an HT!

This happened many times…of course I can not prove it but Feedly don’t lie 🙂

I guess I should stop and make a separate blog post and do a click bait “armed gunmen storm plane” type headline but I just can’t. Maybe that is why I will never be a Titan 🙂