{"id":6,"date":"2020-11-08T23:50:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T23:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.stampede.org\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2024-04-29T12:00:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T18:00:54","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Q:&nbsp;<\/strong>Why are blogs all about selling credit cards and embellishing posts to fill up pages and pages of content?&nbsp;<br><strong>A<\/strong>: Because there\u2019s a lot of money in that. Credit card referrals pay hundreds of dollars a whack and can be a massive income stream, and more content means more space for ads.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q:&nbsp;<\/strong>Why do you have to spend 10 minutes reading an article to get to the point, or get the link for the 500 free miles?&nbsp;<br><strong>A:<\/strong>&nbsp;See prior statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>&nbsp;Is there a better way?&nbsp;<br><strong>A:&nbsp;<\/strong>If you\u2019re a blogger that wants to make a lot of money, then probably not. If you want to help the community, network, and build strong relationships, most definitely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been in the travel hacking community since 2010. In the time since I got started, I\u2019ve dabbled in (sometimes with great success, sometimes just with my toes in the water):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bank bonuses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manufactured spend<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gift card reselling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Retail arbitrage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Private label imports and manufacturing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>My motivation for getting in to the game came when I needed to travel across the US 2-3 times a month for family. Travel hacking helped me do that for a lot less money and helped to travel in more comfort than if I\u2019d just visited Expedia or Travelocity. I also met a few interesting people and made a few long-lasting close friendships along the way, which in the end is the real reward \ud83e\uddc0.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0Please, take my money! I want to support the site!<strong><br>A:<\/strong>\u00a0Sorry, that\u2019s not a question. But I\u2019ve had enough people ask how to support me that I\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/MilesEarnAndBurn\" class=\"ek-link\">set up a Patreon<\/a>\u00a0anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Note: Comments aren\u2019t enabled on the site because they tend to be a dumpster fire filled with burning bad-will and bad-intent. There are other, better mediums for communicating in my very jaded opinion.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:&nbsp;Why are blogs all about selling credit cards and embellishing posts to fill up pages and pages of content?&nbsp;A: Because there\u2019s a lot of money<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9595,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/9595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}