Earn Miles

What’s The Point?
How Loyalty Programs Work
Credit Cards and Credit Scores
Types of Miles & Points
Identifying Your Travel Goals
How Alliances Work
Credit Card Strategy For Beginners
Earning Miles & Points
Hotels Matter Too
What’s Next?

You can earn miles several ways through purchasing, through flying or through hotel stays and promotions. So generally the strategy is as follows.

•  Sign up for travel programs.
• Try to get more than one point for every dollars spent.
• If you can shop through Portals and Dining Programs.
• Maximize promotions and bonuses when they come.

 1.      Loyalty Programs 

So to begin with a good strategy is to sign up for loyalty programs and keep track of the points you have. Compile a list of all the major loyalty programs that you are a member (see link) of plus keep track of the airline and hotel programs that you are member of.

 A helpful site that can help you keep track of points and balances is awardwallet (https://awardwallet.com/register), the site is free to use, but if you want you can pay for more features. It also keeps track of your account numbers and passwords.

 2.      Maximize your points for every dollar spent

 The best strategy is to try to earn more than one point for every dollar that you are spending. There are many ways to do this, but one good strategy is to use a credit card that offers bonus points on a certain category, another strategy is to shop online through a portal to earn extra miles.

 Another option is to purchase gift cards from retailer A to use them at retailer B. For example you could purchase Starbucks gift cards and use them at office stores, this allows you to earn 5x points at the office supply stores using an  Ink Business Cashâ„  Credit Card  link (https://creditcards.chase.com/a1/olainkcash/th?CELL=6H8X) which is better than the points per dollar which is available on the  Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card link (https://creditcards.chase.com/a1/sapphire/compare?CELL=6H8X&AFFID=3u7aBCzOyIw-pW0HFvSwrMaxrlhIhzmohg&pvid=7104a6b100514809aff0d084437f599f&jp_cmp=cc/307156/aff/3-10002570/na)

 3.    Make use of Shopping Portals and Dining Programs.

 If you shop online, many airlines and banks offer shopping portals for cardholders that will give you more than one point per dollar when you use them. These can be a good way to increase the number of points you earn for your purchases. In addition many retailers off the ability to make the purchase online and pick it up at the store, or free shipping meaning you can earn thousands of additional points per year.

Make sure you register your cards with dining programs. Every point counts, and these are good way to earn bonus miles for eating out.

 4.      Pay Attention to Promotions and Bonuses

 Hotel and Airline Programs can offer bonuses by staying a certain number of nights in a given period or flying certain routes. We will try to highlight these promotions and bonus opportunities on heavyhitter.co, so try to keep abreast of them.

 Remember that you are trying to earn miles and points on your everyday activities.