Comments on: Russia left behind, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Tikal, Namib, Orbitz, Milenomics, Bike ride, Donkey, Buzzzzz

By: Andy Shuman @ Lazy Travelers

Andy Shuman @ Lazy Travelers — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 01:59:38 +0000

In reply to ingy. Nope. You're both wrong. The principles of the game stay the same, even as CC offers come and go and even as banks increase spend requirements. E-books are easy to update, and writing a new edition every year can easily do the trick. That's what I'm doing right now anyway:) Now, physical books are tougher, but, interestingly enough, his first book is still selling quite nicely.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 01:15:14 +0000

Good news foilks, Gary is reporting that the 50K Lufthansa offer is back, so now we can get back to MV expounding on the greatness of the card in the form of thesis paper-length posts

“While my link is no longer functional for it, Lufthansa’s Miles&More 50,000 point credit card signup offer is still available”

….. Nevermind

By: Elenor

Elenor — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 01:14:52 +0000

In reply to Paul. Don't like angries, DO like pix!

By: ingy

ingy — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 00:30:36 +0000

In reply to TravelBloggerBuzz. If I updated the book it would all be credit cards and manufactured spend and, are you ready for this: GEORGE IS RIGHT. The game changes too fast for a book. No thanks. Every month the Wounded Warriors get a few bucks from the first one. I'm good with that.

By: TravelBloggerBuzz

TravelBloggerBuzz — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 23:56:27 +0000

@smittytabb: I do not like doing things others do. I like originality. Definitely keeping the pic feature of TBB!

@S&S: I am having enough trouble trying to keep it up in the blog world, I am not expanding into social media! I may not be up on the techie stuff but I was on social media (mainly Twitter) before it caught on. Sadly, I am finding less time I am on it because of TBB!

@ABC: I had no idea Nomadic Matt was into miles! He has made a name for himself in the travel blogger community and always busted his behind to monetize. And, as far as I know, he has stayed away from pitching credit cards.

I thought the price was ridiculously high too!

This stuff gets so outdated so fast it is hard to put in a book format. Blog is better 🙂

By: ABC

ABC — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:47:28 +0000

Perhaps you covered this in a previous post. I noticed that HMT and MMS were promoting NomadicMatt’s new e-book. I would be shocked if newbies buy it at the discounted price of $37. If they do, it opens up a new market. Several books exist in this market, maybe ingy should update his “old” book and give those old military folks some money. At least his book was reasonably priced. This one is a rip off. I would take ingy’s word (anno 2008) over NomadicMatt’s any day of the week. NomadicMatt is pretty lost when it comes to traveling. I was reading about his failed attempt to move to Stockholm for a year. With a little bit of prep work (and having been there before) he could easily have figured out that getting an affordable place to stay is a lost cause (hint, if native college students are struggling tremendously to find places to stay, foreigners are unlikely to fare better (exception, refugee)).

By: R

Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:44:48 +0000

In reply to Dima @ Dima's Corner. I agree - keep the pics! How hard is it to scroll past them? Plus, they help break up the text.

By: ABC

ABC — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:34:29 +0000

In reply to Steve. Good one!

By: Surge and Swell

Surge and Swell — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:19:42 +0000

It’s not just Rene’s posts that are 8 lines long…
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Can you please kindly show/tell DeltaPoints how to Tweet correctly?
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The paragraph-long Tweets are driving me nutty. (I can’t be the only one.)
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I un-followed his account at one point mainly because of it.
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The amount of scrolling that I did dropped considerably as a result.
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While you’re at it, can you give him a refresher on what hashtags are for?
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Adopting irrelevant hashtags does not make his pro-Delta Tweets go farther. #FF #TravelSkills
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Care to expand your mission of holding bloggers accountable into the world of social media, Geroge?

By: Smittytabb

Smittytabb — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:43:52 +0000

Keep the miscellaneous photos. I love ’em. “Keep TBB weird!” The Namib desert is incredible. A must see destination. BTW, I had the same reaction to DWL blog post. Answer to title question is ‘NO’. Done.