Win prizes with Star Alliance’s ‘Picture your Upgrade’ App
Star Alliance has announced a contest anyone can enter using their new ‘Publish your upgrade’ app. Prizes range from Around the world trip for 2…
Promotions
44,000 Hyatt Gold Passport Points giveaway!
Hyatt has been very generous. They have an absolutely great promotion running (details later in this post), but they have also made points available to…
Free ‘Loney Planet’ iBook from Starbucks
Starbucks, has a great program in conjunction with Apple called ‘Pick of the Week’. The program started with Starbucks offerring a free song for download…
Last Day for American Express Gift Chain Program
Today (Dec. 21st.) is the last day to make a purchase using your American Express Card and get a Gift in return! Few more hours…
Earn United Miles for ‘Checking In’ at Airports
United has joined the bandwagon of going ‘Local, Social and Mobile’ by partnering up with TopGuest. I have written before about how TopGuest works (be…
Excellent American Express Gift Chain offer (from Mommy Points)
American Express has been very creative off late. Last weekend they had the Small Business $25 offer, that they participated in. Now they have their…
Missed opportunities
These come for me in two favors: one where I never even knew I could have earned extra miles (or extra EQM) till it was too late and second where I did what I needed to do to earn the miles, but the miles never posted and I lost track, till it was too late. … I use a spreadsheet to track all activity that has taken place which I think should earn miles – eating out, filling out surveys, customer service events, signing up for promos, etc.
Last day to get free 500 Mileage Plus Miles
Through today (Nov. 11th, 2011), United is offering 500 Mileage Plus miles for downloading and using their new Mileage Plus shopping assistant. You can also…
Buy Starpoints at for 2.8c (20% off)
If you had taken advantage of earlier promotions and had bought all 48K points, your out of pocket cost would have been ~$1350 compared to $2k if you had bought the rooms with cash. Now that Starwood award stays count towards elite status, there is no reason to pay them out of your pocket.
Gear up for American Express Small Business Saturday Promotion
Small Business Saturday was a great promotion that many of us took advantage of last year. All you had to do was register your card…
