Tentmaking Tips

If you’re paying a lot to travel, you don’t have to anymore!

Our family has been traveling for several years now for nearly free. I took our family of 4 to NYC for Christmas free! Then the next year I took my wife to Charleston free! Then the following year we had trips to Chicago, London, Paris, and Seaside booked free (but COVID interfered). And we just booked a 2-week trip to Hawaii for our family of 4 free as well! We’ve done this over and over again. I know it seems too good to be true, but it really isn't - ha!

How do we do this? We use credit card rewards earned from welcome bonuses that we apply for in a strategic order.

Welcome bonuses are the key. An example of a welcome bonus is a card that advertises 50,000 free points if you spend $3,000 on the card in 3 months. Typically you'd have to put $50,000 in spend on that card to earn the 50,000 free points, but they are incentivizing you to apply for the card by giving you that many points with far less

Needed: ~$5,000

Here are some ideas to earn an extra $5k:

1. Teach English Online - many opportunities to teach English online to people wanting to learn from and practice with native English speakers

2. Instacart/Door Dash/Uber Eats - food and grocery delivery has become even more popular with the pandemic

3. Tutoring (pick a subject) - online or in your city, there are opportunities to tutor hourly in subjects you are proficient in

4. Flip products on Facebook Marketplace/eBay/Craigslist - guitars, purses, couches, or other high value items that you can look for good deals on and sell for a bit more

5. Couponing - if you are diligent about finding and using coupons, you can save/make quite a bit of money

6. Referrals - connect with your friends in sales and offer to bring them leads for a referral fe
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