About this episode
Matt discusses advanced credit card strategies that are often overlooked in mainstream travel blogs.
Matt writes the blog "Miles Earn and Burn" which stands alone in the credit card space. He has no ads on the site, and he writes about advanced strategies that don't make it into the mainstream travel blog world. The post that got me interested in having Matt as a guest said basically: go to your local credit union and see if there's anything that you might be able to profit from. In the advantage play world that would be called scouting. In the manufactured spend world it's known as probing....
People in this episode
Guest: Matt
Topics covered
- credit card arbitrage
- advanced strategies
- manufactured spend
- scouting
- probing
Keywords
- credit card
- arbitrage
- travel blog
- credit union
- profit
- scouting
- manufactured spend
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Miles Earn and Burn
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