TravelBloggerBuzz

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TBB Is Not Dead Yet!

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I am not dead yet, I am not dead yet!

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Are you all trying to bury me and put me away in the bins of history? Bins??? No idea how I came up with that, I am thinking of another expression right now but can’t remember, maybe it’s the wine. Or the Feedly detox! I must admit life is…strange without obsessing with all the blogs in Feedly on my phone constantly. And I like it! It feels like a huge burden has lifted. Yet again, here I am late at night needing to throw just a few things out just because, you know, TBB can’t die yet, this will be a long slow process to bolivion oblivion lol.

First, I am incredibly appreciative and frankly blushing reading all the epitaphs about TBB. Wow. I think I produced a quality entertaining product here but reading all the comments via email and feedback I had to scratch my head and wonder if it was me you were talking about! What can I say? Thank you from the bins bottom of my heart, they mean so much to me. Make me feel all the effort was worth it because it did change some practices and helped a lot of people. Anyways, here are the few epitaphs (Mozart playing in the background):

 

RIP TravelBloggerBuzz – Personal Finance Digest     I repeat. I am not dead yet!

An Homage to TravelBloggerBuzz: Good Luck to You, George  –  The Gate     Brian had written a TBB parody a long time ago and reading it again brought back so many memories. I think I was descending into madness lol.

Free Flight For Youngsters, 25,000 United Miles, Fair Trading Prices, RIP TBB & More  –  Doctor of Credit     Referring to the PFD post: “Gonna keep this short and sweet as I’ll write a dedicated post at some stage, but George has probably been the most influential person in my short blogging career and if you enjoy the site in its current format you have him to thank.” WOW, get out, u serious? Thanks!

These are the best pics you will see from Maldives. The best!

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A list of Citibank rewards credit cards: which ones are worth applying for?  –  Personal Finance Digest     Excellent summary of the Citibank credit cards!

Different Flavors Of The American Express Platinum Card  –  Doctor of Credit     Excellent table listing all the different flavors of the Amex Platinum. Sadly, some versions you never see being sold by your favorite Titan bloggers because they do not compensate them #douchebaggie

I love Uber, but they are seriously terrible  –  The Free-quent Flyer     Excellent feedback on this company…

South America by Drone  –  The Adventure Blog     Timelapse.Video.SoTBBLike.Wow!

I have way too many awesome personal finance links in my other twitter account and trying to cut down my time here so no copying…

I deleted theCHIVE so there will not be many funny pics or gifs #booooooooooooooo!!!!

Aiming to reduce the blogs in Feedly to under 150. Maybe try over the long term to get it below 100.

Therefore, TBB will focus on the tagline more, you know, being really eclectic! What I think is quality based on my experience and my incredible BS meter capabilities. Ranting may happen but only if time permits. Will be posting at least weekly but knowing me maybe more. I have a bunch of trip reports I never managed to even start, let alone complete!

Here I was thinking to just bang a quick post and…amazing how time flies when you start a blog post…just amazing!

 

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Comments

  2. Icd says

    Not sure if I clicked on TBB at 12:15 out of habit, or because I didn’t really believe yesterday’s post. Good to know you’re still out there.

    • anonymous says

      Agreed! Part of me was thinking “Im so glad everyone is calling ‘Time of Death’! Maybe he will get the hint!” Seriously, I love this blog but the constant whining was so phreakin tiresome.

      George, can we get you a new therapist so that you don’t need to let it all out anymore? And when you say something, like “Im going to post once a week from now on”, DO it for Chrissakes. No walking back on it. Stop acting like the Greek government!

      • TravelBloggerBuzz says

        I prefer to be constantly laughing instead of whining because I do it when I read said whining #BOOM

        I never said I am going to post once a week! I said AT LEAST once a week. And I will do it 🙂

        >>>>>>>Stop acting like the Greek government!

        LOL! Now THAT was awesome….can’t stop laughing and whining on Twitter about more FTG posts about pumping plastic 🙂

        Thanks for taking the time to comment and the feedback, I really do appreciate it. This is my mental escape from seeing dollar signs all day (but not here lol).

  4. Haley says

    So what I’m hearing is that rumors of your death have been greatly exaggerated.
    Good. LY/MI
    (Love ya, mean it)

  5. Nobody says

    Welcome back from the couple days off!!! Also, are you actuallly going to ignore the blogs on your ignore list? An easy 10 or so right there.

    • TravelBloggerBuzz says

      YES! Down to just three in there. And it feels so great! Just VFTW, OMAAT and FTG (for sentimental purposes obviously)

      I am going to miss the others…NOT! I may gain weight as the barfing will definitely go down!

  7. Vinay says

    Never been happier to see a bloggers email in my mailbox like I was today..welcome back!

    • TravelBloggerBuzz says

      Never been better zipping through the Feedly blogs so much faster! Getting down to some really eclectic stuff and reduced number of posts to keep my sanity…

      I never said I was going away, don’t listen to the Personal Finance Digest dude, he wants me out so he can steal all my credit card clickers…

      bwahahahahhaahahaha

  8. TravelBloggerBuzz says

    Well, as you can tell, addictions are so hard to break. I never intended to stop cold turkey! I am enjoying less time spent on Feedly a great deal! That Nick tried to bury me with a RIP which made me shake my head as much as back when I used to read Delta Points for entertainment purposes lol. Especially after I was told at the end of my Monday night soccer game that I run like a 20 year old…come on, too young to die lol.

    Having said that, I need to get it through my stubborn thick head that it is A okay to have shorter posts…working on that!

    Intention was to evolve and post less. I intend to stick to that. At the very minimum, it will be once a week!

    We shall see.

    As far as the Ignore list goes, yes I have deleted all of them except five. In the next Evolve phase I will likely delete them too as I find myself getting pissed off when I read some of them still…Like I said, it’s a process.

    The lists will continue. Next one to update is the Like list. Some have folded…it happens a lot with blogs. It should happen here too.

    Just had a Titanic thought! I should make a post: “You want to see the next TBB post? Get me 5 cc apps and/or go nuts on Amazon link”. WOWWWWWWWWWW. Monetizing or death! Wooohoooo!

    • TravelBloggerBuzz says

      Looks like you are still mad we here at TBB have not been able to sell not even one of your cards. Let me break it to you…YOU are not helping!!! Come on, increase the bonus, lower the fee, institute First Thursday or start 2x on sex toys…Just DO something exciting so we can push it out the door. Oh, you know, raising the commission will be nice too #wink

  12. Ramsey......WTF IS GOING ON HERE? says

    WTF, YOUR BACK???……….. It’s a good thing they pumped out my stomach of all the sleeping pills I swallowed and Dr. Kervorkian got lost trying to find my house………………..This reminds of the time you told us that you were stopping TBB because you were dying of a terrible disease…………..and it turned out your eyebrow hairs were falling out from drinking too much Ouzo.

    • TravelBloggerBuzz says

      I remember the eyebrows post and just reread and it made me laugh a lot! I almost never read former posts so I may repost it because many readers have not seen it. so thanks for the idea!

      Had this coffee at 7 pm so I am wide awake at 1.1 5 am and no Feedly blogs in the unread pile. I am digging this…

  15. Neil says

    Just signed up and was approved for Amex through your links. Feel free to email me if you need details to track (I’m guessing you are suspicious you don’t credit for some of your signups).

    In any case, as someone who has read 98% of your blog posts and been steered to many interesting links, glad you will continue to share. Obviously you are an all or none personality trying to find your way to something appropriate in the middle – that’s hard, I wish you luck.

    • TravelBloggerBuzz says

      Yep, I see it. It is back to back the same card, a person I know very well got the same card earlier this month 😉

      Thank you very much, when i see this happens, in a bizarre way my therapist still has not been able to explain, is encouraging to keep going. It makes no sense, sometimes I think my mind is warped lol.

      Yeah, that is exactly right about trying to find something appropriate in the middle and it is indeed so hard…

      Hope my wife does not give me an ultimatum soon lol.

      Thanks again.

      I will be posting less, that is for real. Needed to declutter my Feedly which will reduce the interesting links for sure so whatever makes it in here will be truly eclectic.

      I hope so anyway…

      • Neil says

        “Thank you very much, when i see this happens, in a bizarre way my therapist still has not been able to explain, is encouraging to keep going. It makes no sense, sometimes I think my mind is warped lol.”

        It’s called dopamine – of course you love it. Exact same rush you get when you book a mistake fare or find a stash of Reloadits at the one store that will still sell them to you.

        I’m going to go through your credit card tabs to see if there is anything else I could possibly need. I can get one more card this cycle ….

        • TravelBloggerBuzz says

          We all suckers for diz thing called dopamine 🙂

          Never found a Reloadit card. So so sad!

          Thanks. You may need some Avios points, Chase BA visa perhaps? 🙂

          Thanks!

  17. Sam says

    Buzz-

    I am relieved, especially since I am just wrapping up a five part series for the comments section that describes which bloggers are most like charecters in the Wizard of Oz. I want to add audio-you know, so we can hear songs like “If I Only had a Brain”.

    • rick I says

      “If I Only Had a Brain” would fit Mr. George Pumpsatlotatus perfectly. Begs in the beginning of the post and then again after the copy and paste job. Plus all those tweets, tweets, tweets asking for readers to use his links. I remember when he said he would only “pump” once per month 🙂 And all for one card sign up in February and maybe 2 in March.

      BTW I did an analysis of this blog’s market value as Pumpsalotatus seems to want to unload it. Here you go George:

      27 cents per day income (as reported) times 365 days per year = $98.50 times about 3X only if you agree to keep writing posts and complying with the credit card company mandates for a couple of years.

      All that could be yours George just under $300 IF you can find a buyer.

      Congrats on building such an Empire

      • Neil says

        Come on Rick, he’s easily grossing tens of thousands. For crying out loud, he’s GREEK. He’s reporting 1/400th of his actual income – that’s what Greeks do. Don’t you follow the news?

        • TravelBloggerBuzz says

          That’s what Greeks do…in Greece 🙂

          Darn it, I did not get an update on the Alexa ranking numbers LOL.

          Whining about my pumping from the blogger who has defined it…I mean, is this entertainment or what?

          See you at the most recent post everyone!

          #BOOM!

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