15 Tricks to Earn More Points WITHOUT Opening More Credit Cards (Maximize Rewards!)

if you want to earn more points and other travel perks with loyalty programs there are a ton of ways to do that without opening more and more cards so in today's video we have 15 different techniques for you to try let's jump right in number one optimize cards you already have you can use a tool like card pointers which is free to download to know which of your cards gets the most points on the thing that you are trying to purchase number two if you have chase cards check out chase.com slash my bonus you just need to enter in your last name zip code and last four digits of your card number and it can unlock some bonus categories that you didn't know you had on your card number three you can earn extra points through shopping portals if you're looking for the best portal to use i recommend using a free website like cashback monitor or getsavewise.com to find the best deal for the store you want the fan favorite portal is usually rakuten because instead of earning cashback you can cash out your points as american express membership rewards points you just need to make sure that you have a card that earns membership rewards think about cards like amex platinum or amex blue business plus also there is a rumor that you'll soon be able to cash out your rakuten points as built points which would be even more valuable number four if you want more american airlines miles they have a special portal called simply miles it has a lot of boosted offers for earning american airlines miles and also loyalty points and some of the offers can be really lucrative like this one where you get 2300 miles and 2300 loyalty points for a purchase of 65 or more with at&t which is like getting 35 points per dollar number five you can link up whichever cards you use for dining up to your favorite dining portals just google whatever airline you want plus dining portal or my favorite is actually the built app you don't need the built card to do this trick by the way just download the free app and link in whichever cards you use for dining i've linked in my city strata elite which gets 6x on dining on friday and saturday nights i've linked in my amex gold which gets four points per dollar on restaurants my marriott bonvoy boundless which has a 25 dining credit every month and my amex platinum card which comes with a hundred dollars in resi credits every quarter all of them are linked into my built app and it's just like extra passive points on top of the credit card points that i earn whenever i happen to dine at a built partnered restaurant if you're new to points and miles and you like this style of lists of ways to earn more points using different apps and tools we have a free live training for you for how to optimize your points that you don't want to miss out on you can sign up at geobreeze travel.com webinar the training is completely free but it's not recorded and if you miss it you miss out and we talk about some really juicy stuff that's not posted anywhere else number six if you tend to stay at airbnbs you can earn extra miles with delta british airways or qantas just google delta airbnb or whichever of those three programs you want and then link from there number seven if you do ride shares you can earn extra points by linking up your account there or if you're more of an uber person link it with marriott bonvoy and also remember to use your amex platinum and amex gold cards and use your uber eats credits every month if you're more of a lift person you can link your lift account with alaska airlines hilton or built to earn extra points each time you take a lift number eight for hotels there are tons of different ways to earn extra points whether through booking with hotels directly or through a special portal last week we did a video all about rove miles where you can actually have the best of both worlds you can book through rove it will code as a direct booking with the hotel so you still get all of your elite benefits plus you earn rove miles on top of that which can transfer to a variety of airline partners number nine if you order flowers we had betsy from become travel rich on the podcast a few weeks ago and she mentions that you can often get 25 points per dollar with alaska on 1-800-Flowers if you book through the alaska portal and it looks like southwest and united partner with them as well though the alaska miles are definitely more valuable number 10 you can always just buy points and miles i like checking one mile at a time.com deals to see what kind of points are on sale every week but always remember to only buy points if number one you know how you're going to redeem them and you physically see the availability already and number two check that the purchase price of the points is less than just buying the flight with cash number 11 is hyatt bingo technically it's called brand explorer but if you stay at five different hyatt brands you get a free category one through four free night certificate the brands you filled out carry over year after year so you don't need five in one year however once you've gotten five the board doesn't clear or reset you just need to get a different five brands for the next free night certificate number 12 is credit card referrals you can oftentimes earn tens of thousands of points with just one referral if you have a play or two you should be referring each other to cards to get double sign up bonuses as well as referral bonuses but just make sure you're not self-referring like if you have business one referring to business two if they're both under your social security number don't do that because that is how you're going to get shut down if you self-refer and if you have no friends or family members who would be interested in using your referral links i've got you on geobreeze travel.com cards we send out referral links for our clients and students in the points accelerator program to help them earn more referral points enrollment is currently closed but you can sign up for the waitlist at geobreeze travel.com waitlist to be notified as soon as we reopen number 13 is bask bank i personally use the mileage savings account as my emergency fund account i just park some money in there once and every month instead of earning interest on that money i earn american airlines miles you get two american airlines miles per dollar per year and it credits monthly obviously please only do this if you are in a good financial spot if you are still working towards financial independence or whatever this is not investing advice but probably look into some low-cost index funds or something else that compounds instead of just earning some american airlines p.s you unfortunately also do not earn loyalty points through this method just the miles that you can redeem for flights number 14 this one's more niche but if you are a resident of washington state go to 12status.com link up your delta account and then get one delta mile for every passing yard that the seahawks make during regular and post season and the last one number 15 make a friend this is probably the most important one sometimes i'm at a conference hotel where i don't have high enough status to get free breakfast usually this happens at ihg hotels because i have platinum but you need diamond for breakfast so i will make a friend with somebody at that conference who has diamond status and they can guest me in for breakfast in return i do this for people all the time at hyatt and marriott hotels since i get complimentary breakfast there i also used to plus one people into lounges at the airport all the time but unfortunately amex and capital one have made it a bit more restrictive with the plus ones also if you don't have hyatt globalist just make friends with a globalist because they can get you a guest of honor certificate so you are treated like you have globalist status which includes complimentary breakfast late checkout free parking if you're paying with points and so many other perks and if you're like i don't have any globalist friends just a reminder join geobreeze travel.com waitlist to join the points accelerator because we have a ton of people in there who just give out their certificates if they are about to expire i hope you found this list useful and if you like this video i think you will enjoy this video next