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Earning Points With American Express Gift Card Purchases, Plus Free Shipping Promo Codes and Cashback

May 10, 2012

Buying gift cards is a great way to meet your minimum spend requirements, as well as to keep earning points beyond sign-up bonuses. It just takes a little advance planning to figure out what you’re going to buy at what merchant so you can get the gift card first then use that to pay off [...]

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Meeting Credit Card Spend: Free Shipping, No Service Fees and 1.6% Cashback on American Express Gift Cards

October 13, 2011

I’m asked all the time, “How am I supposed to hit the spend requirements on my credit card?” There are a lot of ways to generate credit card spend for every day activities, but most of the big spend items like paying rent and taxes come with fees that can negate the value of the [...]

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Sunday Reader Email Question: Can I Get Points for Booking Corporate Travel?

September 25, 2011

TPG reader Adam writes: “My girlfriend recently got a job as a receptionist. She’ll be doing all of the travel booking for the company … however, individuals will be using their corporate credit cards to book. Are there any rewards programs (hotel, air, or AmEx) that allow assistants to make points for choosing that hotel/air program [...]

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