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$10 Off Uber and $5 Off Seamless Food Orders With Amex Sync

May 11, 2013

Amex Sync is an ongoing promotion where you sync your American Express cards to your various social media accounts including Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter, and when you either enter Tweets with particular hashtags in them or you check in at various locations, you get discounts at participating merchants. Though it doesn’t explicitly state it in [...]

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Announcing Our 20 Winners for Reaching Over 20,000 Twitter Followers!

May 10, 2013

Yesterday I held a Twitter giveaway to help me reach 20,000 followers. We had over 800 retweets and @thepointsguy now has 20,317 followers! For the prizes, I mentioned there would be 20 winners in total: 19 who will each get a $20 retailer e-gift cards of their choice from Staples.com and one very lucky winner will get 20,000 Chase Ultimate [...]

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Twitter Giveaway to Celebrate 20,000 Followers: Win 20k Chase Points!

May 9, 2013

As of today I have 19,965 Twitter followers and need you to help me reach 20,000! Prizes This time I’ve upped the ante on giveaways. There will be 20 winners in total: 19 who will each get a choice of $20 retailer e-gift cards of their choice from Staples.com (so I can max out the [...]

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Free Admirals Club One-Day Passes From Klout

May 7, 2013

The social media firm Klout and American Airlines have teamed up to offer “influencers” with high enough Klout scores free prizes including One-Day Passes to the Admirals Club and a free one-year Admirals Club Membership. Klout measures a person’s “influence” based on their Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, FourSquare and Google+ profiles and activity, and then [...]

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ExpertFlyer Travel Giveaway Sweepstakes On Facebook

May 4, 2013

ExpertFlyer is one of my favorite travel websites because it lets you search for award availability on dozens of airlines, routing options, fare information and seat availability. It also has extremely useful functions like setting flight alerts which will automatically email you when airlines release award seats on flights you want, so you can book [...]

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Which Airlines Respond To Tweets Fastest?

February 22, 2013

A social media benchmark company called Unmetric, which monitors the daily activity of over 6,000 big brands on social media released an infographic yesterday with the relative Twitter reply times of the major airlines and it turns out that American Airlines is the fastest to respond to Tweets, with an average reply time (ART) of [...]

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Amex Sync: Get a $25 Amex Gift Card for $15

February 12, 2013

Update: This offer was pulled in advance, but stay tuned for more American Express/Twitter deals. Right now, you can essentially get $10 for free by purchasing a $25 American Express Gift Card for only $15 by March 3, 2013. Here’s how: You must have an American Express Card that is synced with Twitter (see sync.americanexpress.com/twitter [...]

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My Delta Nonstop NYC Experience

January 19, 2013

A while back, I wrote about a promotion Delta was having called Delta Nonstop NYC, where you could complete online missions and search for Delta Red Coats in NYC to win a trip to Los Angeles. As it turns out, I was a winner in their online game, and at first I was excited about [...]

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And the Winner of the 16k Amex Points Twitter Giveaway Is.. @stevengrady!

January 11, 2013

Yesterday I was on the verge of hitting 16,000 Twitter followers so I decided to hold another Twitter Giveaway. In order to participate you had to be sure to follow me on Twitter, and then retweet my special 16,000-point giveaway tweet: “About to hit 16k followers, which means a giveaway! Follow and retweet by 11:59pm ET today [...]

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Twitter Giveaway: 16,000 Amex Points to Celebrate 16,000 Followers

January 10, 2013

I currently have a grand total of 15,973 followers on Twitter, so to celebrate getting to 16,000 soon, I will be giving away 16,000 Amex points today (transferred to the Membership Rewards partner of your choice) to a lucky follower to say thanks for listening to what I have to say on the social networking [...]

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1,000 Free United Miles for Joining BCKSTGR

December 20, 2012

Right now when you join a social media marketing platform called Bckstgr.com, you can earn up to 1,000 free United miles. Initially, I thought the site looked a little bit sketchy and I was hesitant to enter my United login information, it is legitimate and I’ve received my 1,000 United miles, so I feel comfortable [...]

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Amex Link Like Love Facebook App Rebates – $25 at Costco, $50 at Henri Bendel, $10 at California Pizza Kitchen

November 3, 2012

Amex’s Link Like Love Facebook app is offering new rebates at various merchants including Costco, Henri Bendel, the Container Store and California Pizza Kitchen. When you go to the app Facebook page and sync your Amex card, it automatically scours your Facebook “likes” and puts together a customized package of rebates. So before you start, [...]

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Giving Away 14,000 Amex points on Twitter for 14k Followers!

October 24, 2012

Today I hit 14,000 followers on Twitter! To show my appreciation for all of your support, I’ll be giving away 1,000 Amex points to 14 random followers today and tomorrow. All you have to do for a chance to win is follow me on Twitter, @thepointsguy, and retweet my special 14,000-point giveaway tweet using the [...]

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Travel Tuesday Top 10: Hotel Apps

October 16, 2012

TPG contributor Jen Jones Donatelli downloaded, plugged in and played with dozens of hotel apps to bring us today’s Travel Tuesday Top 10. When it comes to booking travel and checking points on the go, you can take it with you. Available for a range of devices, apps are now offered by just about every [...]

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100 Free Amtrak Points For Linking With Facebook

October 15, 2012

Update: The current sign-up bonus for the Amtrak Guest Rewards World MasterCard is 12,000 points after spending $500 in the first 3 months, 2 points per dollar spent on Amtrak, and one point per dollar on everything else. Amtrak Guest Rewards launched a little promo where members who link their Facebook accounts to their Amtrak Guest Rewards accounts [...]

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Star Alliance Megado #GreatSeatMate Finalists – Vote Today!

October 15, 2012

People submitted a lot of great entries for my great seatmate giveaway for a free seat and hotels on the sold-out Star Mega Do 4, coming up in a few weeks. The competition was so fierce, it was extremely difficult to narrow the list down to the top five. However, after a ton of laughs and [...]

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Join Us For The Chicago Frequent Flyer Seminars

October 12, 2012

This weekend the entire TPG team will be heading to Illinois for the 2012 Chicago Seminars which I am co-hosting along with The Frugal Travel Guy, Rick Ingersoll. There will be about 500 frequent flyer enthusiasts in attendance and several informative sessions for both beginner and advanced mileage junkies, as well as some fun cocktail [...]

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250 SPG Points for Foursquare Check Ins

October 11, 2012

In addition to Starwood Preferred Guest’s Fall “Better By The Night” promo, SPG is also offering members an additional 250 bonus Starpoints when they check in on foursquare during eligible stays at any hotel or resort now through December 20, 2012. First, link your SPG account to your Foursquare account. Then, when you check in [...]

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20% Off Virgin America Flights and Double Points On West Coast Flights

October 11, 2012

Virgin America is currently holding a Facebook promotion to win a four-night stay at a Waldorf Astoria hotel or resort of your choice plus a flight for you and one other passenger for a long weekend anywhere Virgin flies. But more interestingly, when you like Virgin on the offer page, you’ll get a promo code [...]

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Photo Contest to Be My Seatmate on the Star Alliance Megado!

October 8, 2012

The fourth Star Alliance Megado is coming up in November, and even though it sold out within minutes, as a sponsor of the event I managed to snag an extra ticket for the domestic portion – and I want to take a lucky reader along with me for the ride like I’ve done in the [...]

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13,000 Amex Points Giveaway on Twitter

September 26, 2012

I’m approaching 13,000 Twitter followers today, so to celebrate, I’ll give 13 lucky followers 1,000 Amex points each. All you have to do to enter is be sure you follow me on Twitter, and then retweet my special 13,000-point giveaway tweet with the hashtag #TPG13K within the next 3 hours for a chance to win. [...]

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$50 off $250 Travelocity Hotel Purchase With #Amex Twitter Enrollment

July 17, 2012

American Express is probably the savviest credit card company when it comes to social media, offering lots of discounts and promotions to cardmembers who sync their cards to Foursquare and Twitter. This week they launched a new deal that caught my eye: a $50 statement credit when you spend $250 or more on a Travelocity [...]

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Travel Tuesday Top 10: Airline Apps

June 26, 2012

As more people begin to carry smartphones and PDA’s such as iPhones and iPads as well as Blackberries and Androids, more and more airlines have created apps that allow their passengers to do everything from check flight status and check in to tracking checked bags, downloading city guides and finding the nearest airport lounge. Here [...]

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TPG Twitter 10,000 Point Giveaway Bonanza

June 1, 2012

I’ll be honest, when I first joined Twitter over three years ago I thought it was really stupid. Why would someone need to write mini messages for the world to see? Why do people need to Tweet that they are eating or going to the bathroom? Newsflash: No one cares. However, I quickly realized there [...]

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