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Hilton recently had a spinoff of its real estate and timeshare business and the first quarterly results as a light asset entity were pretty good. Oh, and they are going ahead with five new brands. Whatever…
For newbies: There are many reasons to get bumped from a flight, a flight attendant explains.
America’s most underrated national monuments. Some really nice places! An AFAR list.
70 years of Magnum photos in New York. Incredible body of work!
WolframAlpha. A computational knowledge engine. Pretty cool. I searched “ann arbor vs larissa” and got a nice comparison of the two cities that are almost the same in population! (HT: PFD)
Internet Mail-Order Brides. The latest development, what you see will shock you 🙂
Funniest local interviews of 2016. Yeah, long video 13:12 of non-stop LOLing. Guaranteed! “And everything like that”… I swear, this is pure gold!
Your personal finance fix of the day: Even a genius can get suckered. Yep, even Isaac Newton lost his ass. Don’t get suckered (easy to say!). Every day I come across so many “experts” who think they are true market geniuses…
19 of the most stunning libraries in the US. Stunning indeed. Like my blog #kidding
Mapped: What every country in the world is best at doing. Greece: Cheese Eaters (WTF!), Egypt: Heavy Women (how mean!), Libya: Fat Kids (heartless sobs!)
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Good questions to ponder about high annual fee credit cards. Of course, bloggers who sell them will find myriad ways to sell them to anyone who can get approved! Not me…and it shows #sad.
Isn’t it just amazing when some unimportant piece of news comes out and credit card salesmen bloggers get so excited about it and can’t wait to tell us and sell their shit. You name it: 2 free drinks if you have Amex Delta cards, transfer bonuses to an airline (Jet Blue now!), a targeted deal comes out and Points, Miles & Martinis never says no to ANY affiliate link they can grab (Samsonite too!), stupid Daily Getaway “deals”, etc, etc. Every Day! Don’t get me started on the never ending “Buy miles/points” posts where each time you click on the link the blogger benefits (anyone knows how long the cookie lasts?). And then we have Rene blogging about stuff like “pulling cards”…whatever man. Take a look at a portion of selected “gems” from just yesterday!
The Points Guy has new glitzy offices in New York City. 8,000 square feet. That is a whole lot of credit cards crammed down the throats of “well informed newbies”, wow! Anyway, they invite readers to win a pass to come by to an event, of course only after they link to their favorite TPG post (if I only had one stuff to do SEO here or maybe just take out the garbage). As I don’t have any such post, I did not enter. Just 3 comments as of 8.30 pm last night, sad! And one of them was this below, which made me lol!
are you including a CSP referral in the goodie bag?
Since it has been established by “authorities” I have absolutely no integrity whatsoever, how about again a link reminding you all with the Travel Rewards BEST OFFERS with my links! I may keep this baby here until the monthly minimum is reached or I figure out a way to do this with more integrity 🙂
Went to see the movie “Heat” at the Michigan Theater last night. I LOVE that movie!
And I leave you with this…
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Last late last night
First early this morning
So tired of winning
U bitch!
Early flight equals a tbb silver
Whenever I book a 6am flight…when the time comes…I just curse myself!
First independent comment.
And full of integrity too! Unlike the owner of this blog who is “the biggest hypocrite of the century”!
So unfair.
I am still laughing about the quote above 🙂
TBBManagement: Hit refresh button before you post 🙂
Busy day ahead…will likely get to the comments again late tonight.
So behave!
Bronze from the Hyatt Regency Tsim Sha Tsui lounge. You didn’t love it, but pork dumplings and self pour drinks is a win in my book.
The phone and the drinks were good for me:-)
If you look at random at the TPG home page then you’ll see that, at best, only 20% of the content is core miles and points.
I am struggling to see their core reader now. Almost no-one would be interested in all of their content. I accept that I only read about 5% of, say, The Guardian but for hobby sites you really need the bulk of the content to appeal – especially to newbies. I doubt anyone would look atbthe mash-up of topics on the average TPG home page now and think ‘this place is for me’.
The only other option is that they are creating a content factory purely for Google purposes, but even then the strike rate for a card conversion can’t be great.
They get a lot of traffic by just being referred to in articles at mainstream publications. NY Times, for example, often calls them out as an “information source” about travel credit cards.
Content factory
Expand topics, expand readers as wide as possible, convert tiny % and just keep expanding that market….I think they are trying to be more like a general travel mainstream destinationn. Kind of like another Business Insider…which is reaching way more into other areas now…
But the longer they go with TPG brand….I would not be shocked if they ditch current brand and see Brian take another role, not as the public face of TPG. Or he does make into TV.
I can consult with him about integrity, my rates are low lol!
The map is cracking me up. Don’t really think of Greece as heavy cheese eaters!? Australia is #1 with cybersecurity incidents – so my investment in a server farm there was a bad idea? Though I’m happy to know where to go for my cardamom needs – Guatemala! Croatia is tops for kidney transplants.
Who knew that one needed an 8K square foot, glitzy office just to “help family and friends travel” our of “love for the hobby”. See that’s your problem George, you need move up from the home office and GO BIG! LMAO
Interesting about the changes to the world of mail-order-brides. Somehow I can imagine Renes Points resorting to a mail-order bride. Just seems like that kinda dude.
I still haven’t been to Devil’s Tower – been on my list since I was a kid after watching Close Encounters – I was obsessed with aliens. Wanted to go to Kasha-Katuwe when we were in NM a couple of years ago, but just didn’t have the time.
George, didn’t you post that map before? Don’t forget to HT yourself.
I may have posted this map before, oopsie! I am such a hypocrite for pretending I just found it!
I love science fiction movies!
Close encounters was the first movie me and son watched together staying up late (for him) when he was a kid at the outdoor Ann Arbor summer festival. I think it has been ingrained in his mind.
I will just leave this right here…
http://www.bankrate.com/careers/
Scroll down you will see what they call TPG. And for those that don’t want the hassle of clicking the link: NY CC.com -The Points Guy
They are hiring a senior editor if you are interested, George.
Or Editorial Intern position – Points and Miles.
“….work alongside the social media team to review and respond to reader comments”.
Something for Ingy?
NY CC.com!?!? But…but…it’s not just pumping CCs this is about altruism and sharing!! And anyone who says otherwise is angry! LOL
The name says it all! I love it!
“Ability to write, self-edit and publish a ~300-word news post in 30 minutes” LOLZ
Great find, thanks!
But easier find than the comment uncovering TPG’s sale ro Bankrate some years ago here.
Obviously I don’t qualify as I am not a freaking machine to pump crap out…Maybe it’s because I care what comes out here. With Alexa rankings suffering, sad!
300 words in 30 minutes….Does it include editor reviews? 🙂
Really, Gay porn in Pakistan?
Yeah, I almost posted rhat right after the Egyptian women one but was afraid I may be mistaken for a Trump supporter
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Just got my Altitude card.
IT ARRIVED IN ITS OWN SUITCASE!!!
(I’m exaggerating, but only just a little.)
Saw the pic in a blog post somewhere…
Have no idea what this bank will do next!
Everybody seems concerned about the TPG, However the last 2 TBB gave us great Libraries & before this a selection of bars…Booze and Books that is why I come back to TBB….;)
Just ordered the Great Library book at Amazon. Reasonable discount. Here’s a link
https://www.amazon.com/Library-Book-Alberto-Manguel/dp/1597113743/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1493835109&sr=8-2&keywords=library+book
I need to make a list.
Booze and books and no clicks.
Booze and books and chicks for free
Trying for new TBB tagline…
Today Lucky posts what we’ve all been yearning for…
“The Story Of How I (Accidentally?) Became A Full Time Travel Blogger”
Yes, it’s as vomit-inducing as you’d imagine.
I read it…
in Feedly
Not even a word about credit cards…and then several posts today with content just happened to be about credit cards on sale 🙂
Hope he is happy…because according to someone…more money makes you happy or…successful 🙂
My response to his tweet gave that post all the respect it deserved.
I liked it 🙂
Thanks to the two readers who got credit cards here.
To the reader who applied on April 29 for that Chasey card, you were just approved!
8 more and I go back to blogging without integrity lol.
Not much happening today. But still got some eclectic stuff for you.
Seems like Andy’s site is up and running again (lazytravelers). Maybe a sign for new post coming soon??
Good to hear, thanks!