We learn of some uniquely weird Hyatt Gold Passport Tiers, learn about bumpage & choppage, warnings about FlexPerks, read about how we can book inclusive resorts with points, visit Burma, marvel at goats and introduce a mini section titled “Buzzing It Up” with blog developments.
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Hyatt Gold Passport Specialty Tiers: Lifetime Diamond, Diamond Premier & Courtesy Card Explained – Loyalty Lobby Very interesting tiers! Let’s just say I won’t be spending $200k on Hyatt in many many lifetimes!
Evaluating 2015 Q1 hotel promotions with $1000 spend – Loyalty Traveler Excellent analysis of the First Quarter 2015 hotel promos!
An Introduction To B* (Bumpage) & C* (Choppage) – Doctor of Credit On a roll, very helpful information!
Guest post: the case AGAINST FlexPerks — because US Bank is just too hard – The Free-Quent Flyer I agree, dealing with US Bank and Flexperks requires a special kind of patience. I miss the Northwest Worldperks Visa!
The 25 all inclusive resorts you can book with points – Mile Cards Another excellent post. Nothing wrong with affiliate links if you offer something useful and not pump them 24/7 ok?
California Man Sentenced to Ten Years for Defrauding Delta and Northwest Air Lines of more than $36 Million Not too surprising this airline attracts people of this caliber!
Cloud Symphony – A Timelapse Journey Through England, Scotland, and the Himalaya – The Adventure Blog Ok, we are back with the timelapse video fix!
17 incredible photos of the spirit of Burma – Matador Network Incredible photos indeed!
The Opposite of a Role Model – Motley Fool Please take some time to read this, there is a lot of wisdom in it. You are welcome. I could be posting the 5% categories of the Freedom card repeatedly but I don’t 🙂
Map: Literally every goat in the United States – The Washington Post As a Greek, we have a special affinity to goats and here are all of them in the US…YES!
BUZZING IT UP
I am adding again this section with interesting developments in the blogosphere. Please note that this section will generally NOT be for new readers in the hobby! So far the main “negative” rant will appear in the Blog Buzz once a week.
Miles to Memories Has Moved to the BoardingArea Homepage – This Is How We Got There! – Miles To Memories We get a little history of the blog and how it graduated from the minors to the Major League in front of the Boarding Area page. Obviously, the blogger is very happy and proud for achieving this so congrats. He reveals how he had applied for the full time job at Million Mile Secrets. What just stands out at me and can’t believe it is this: “As you may have guessed, Daraius didn’t hire me, although the experience of meeting both him and Emily inspired me. They were so gracious...” Whaaaaaat? Inspired, seriously? I just absolutely despise that blog and what he has done in my hobby (don’t get me started now, I leave it for Blog Buzz please!). I mean, look at the Blog Buzz and the crap that blog is unleashing every day and he was inspired? I feel sick…I also wonder who were the “fantastic bloggers” he met in Bacon14. Pleeeease. Is kissing ass a requirement to be in Boarding Area or…just a business decision? Sooooo, who was hired? 🙂 Congrats on the birth of your daughter by the way, must be exciting. Not done yet…
Blog changes, an introduction and the flu – Frequent Miler Well, at press time the site was down. Apparently, several BA sites were down. So I am adding the link here and hopefully by the time you read it it will be up! Main development is that the Miles To Memories blogger was hired by Frequent Miler to help out to free up FM to concentrate on better writing. I scratch my head, I think it has a lot to do with the fact that I am not blogging full time and certainly my blog is not a meaningful revenue source by any stretch of imagination. So I don’t get the business side of this at all, never really tried in a meaningful way, my life is busy enough and fulfilling as it is. But I still don’t get why a blogger will NOT work on his own brand now that he made it to the BA front page and instead focus energies on improving another blog brand? Oh, it is the money I guess. I guess I am just too wild and original to be part of any network. Or I just like to bitch how my site brought in $1.32 all day Sunday 🙂 Or how I still can’t get over the mental hurdle that this hobby is a game to me still…When the banks stop paying and you need to get back to the business world will these skills writing about travel and deals and stuff like that help you keep up? Is this whole thing a bubble? Ok, don’t answer that….before you see all the blogs in my Feedly list lol.
Forward Cabin plagiarism scandal: a second accusation surfaces! – Personal Finance Digest So, you know, a pretty serious event has occurred…I tried to stay away from it but it continues so I thought you should be aware of it. I mean, you come here for the Buzz right? Also, read the comment by Marathon Man.
Please complain to management to give the writer here a raise he so deserves!
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Oregon!
Oh, wait. I meant Ohio State 🙂
I want a third string Quarterback like that, wow!
The Ann Arbor Panera in this morning has some pissed off football fans 🙂
National Championship 1st
Or, like Oregon, 2nd
So much wrong here George. I never commented on the content of any specific blog and I stand by my assertion that Daraius and Emily are gracious and friendly people.
As I wrote in my post, THEIR INTEREST IN ME is what inspired me to begin writing again. That was in September of 2013. My content and work since that point speaks for itself as to who I am and what I believe in. After all, my content is what led me to be listed on your “Blogs I Like” list.
BTW I don’t need to “kiss ass”. I earned my way on to the BoardingArea home page and I did meet many fantastic bloggers at BACon. It is the truth. Nothing else I can say.
I stand behind my words in that post 100% and feel you have misunderstood most of them. That is unfortunate, but this has been a great week and I am proud of my accomplishments. I have worked very hard and I continue to respect your work along with the work of others.
Thanks again for everything you do!
This one hurt!
“So much wrong here George.”….. ending with “Thanks again for everything you do!”
That ending makes sense!
My drug dealer is friendly and so gracious he provides me with some good stuff on credit too!
I review blogs. I read them and then blog here what comes into my mind. I almost fell of my chair reading that you were inspired by anything revolving around MMS. Blogging is personal, we pour ourselves out to readers. We make judgments about how they may resemble who they are by what they blog about. So, I make my own judgments and I can’t see how anyone on Planet Earth can be inspired by the product on MMS. For example, this morning one of the blog posts there appears to sell a link to a Marriott card for 70k but the links to that card lead to the “Hot Deals” page of credit cards that is full of the merchandize he so graciously sells. And no 70k card there, just the crappy 50k Marriott affiliate offer. So, excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me for falling off my chair when I read you were inspired by MMS. I met him once, he told me he does “content marketing”. That is when I was starting my blog and I just did not know much. Not that I know much more now but I digress.
I think there is so much ass kissing in the blogosphere that is insane. Everyone not speaking their mind not to shut off future prospects. Makes sense. I speak my mind. I think the ass kissing, especially in Boarding Area,is so high it is ridiculous!
Who were the fantastic bloggers you met in BA? Name names. Was PM&M one of them? Delta Cards? AffiliateLinksWeLike? Since they were there I stretched and assumed they were included in your ‘fantastic” comment. That’s all. Relax. I stretch things here. You know I blog for myself, not like GL who blogs about himself and his pocket.
I stand behind my words too and I may have misunderstood them and it will not be the last time this happens.
Congrats again on your accomplishments!
You could have been the MMS ghost writer 😉 So, who is it?
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What really matters is that Miles To Memories is one of few good blogs worth checking everyday for something that is fresh and helpful. Plus he is not arrogant or egotistical like this blogger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EorqjoWwSRw
His site gives me a headache. Way too busy and to me too flashy. Too much of everything. Went there today and saw all I needed. There are many better to go to.
Darius and Emily are sleazes. And being nice won’t change that – not while they whore themselves for that affiliate income and produce interminable credit card shilling reports thinly disguised as trip reports.
That anyone was so desperate to want to be associated with those two is disgraceful and shameful..
Check out how quick Delta Points comes out to voice his support for anyone who thinks I am angry 🙂 Post #61
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/external-miles-points-resources/1627396-boycott-click-bait-blog-entries-5.html
I do not like these mega marketing pumpers selling plastic non stop pretending they are experts. If that was not very clear by now!
Ramsey: It is still in the Like list. Latest stuff is just a collection of little deals. I guess FM put him to work already 🙂
Not to mention that their writing could be helped by a thesaurus.
Just to be clear, the above post is referring to MMS
“I earned my way on the Boarding Area Homepage”
LOL. This guy’s comment made me laugh out loud. Congratulations on the “accomplishment.” Boarding Area is already a joke but people like this make it even more of one.
maybe he meant to write “pumped” instead of “earned”?
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I am still laughing at the latest Blog Buzz, so funny!
Thanks for all you do for the community!
Wow, thank you very much for the help! Come on TBB reader, you can be FIRST this week to click on a plastic card!
I don’t do Marriott, is this the best offer out there? I think I have seen an 80k offer but am not sure, I don’t keep up with them.
Wife got another 50k offer from Chase on Ink Plus even though she has the card, hmmm. And I have another targeted offer for her from Citi for a 60k AA Gold World Mastercard…need to look at the archives, not sure if we had this one before or how long it has been.
Award trip to Greece on hold….looks like son may be going into a summer camp at UofM entering Engineering school freshmen…hmm, good thing I did not pull the trigger!
So hard to keep up with the blogs today. This Points Miles & Linguinis blog is totally out of control in selling, I am sure if they can get their hands on them, everything in sight, WOW!
Buzz just take your son to Greece with you and have him skip the camp. As an engineering student, he’ll probably be doing internships and/or research projects in the summers at least I did). This may be his last truly free summer!
Hmmm, we are having discussions over that right now. By the time we decide the UA seats won’t be there. This one really sounds good, they will even pay him $3k for it and as he discovered he is done with flipping burgers 🙂 Need to make a decision in the next few days.
Frankly, I like your response to comments much more than your blog buzz section. I think you should dump blog buzz, not necessarily because of you but because the posts from the credit card blogs are the same over and over and over again. Due to the lack of any sort of creativity or originality by the credit card blogs the blog buzz posts consequently are equally boring. I think you should post a rant or thought as a starting point for discussions.
Such as is MMS a marketing genius or just a crack dealer? Discuss.
>>>>>>>>the posts from the credit card blogs are the same over and over and over again.
Yes they are but my commentary is NOT! Sometimes I go back and reread and shake my head how I came up with that 🙂
I think he is a marketing genius…and I am still not inspired lol
Buzz, I think you are a bit harsh on Shawn even though I agree that MMS is a sleezebag.
You, yourself fell for MommyPoints’ bullshit and gave her many pass because she is such a “nice person.” Now, she would put MMS to shame.
Miles to Memories is in the Like list.
Mommy Points is in the Ignore list.
I think I got it right.
We all evolve and we all make mistakes from time to time.
And we move on.
Just checked the dough I made yesterday, $1.24 man! On track for one of the worst months in Amazon and nobody has clicked on a credit card all week! So keeping this baby up is just totally insane. I did not even win an award at Travel Summary’s Annual Awards. Probably because Delta Points photo shopped the ballots again 🙂
Going to take my car to the UofM place where they mess with it while i drink their awesome coffee & use their free wifi and then they pay me cash..all for science.
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