Bank account bonuses can be a little bit intimidating, especially if you’ve never done them before. Check out my Ultimate Guide to Bank Account Bonuses page where I’ll walk you through all of the information you need to know about bank account bonuses so that you can take advantage of them and start making some real money off your idle cash.
Bank account bonuses are a great way to earn extra income. I’ve been using this strategy for years, regularly earning between $5,000 and $10,000 per year in bank account bonuses. Check out my Current Money Making Bonuses page which contains what I think are easy bank account bonuses and is an excellent starting point for beginners.
Each month, I recap the best credit card offers currently available. There are a lot of credit cards out there offering generous signup bonuses. Some bonuses are better than others. Check out my Best Credit Card Offers page which will give you some ideas if you’re looking for your next credit card.
Bank Account and Credit Card Bonus Articles
Check out all the posts I’ve written on Bank Account and Credit Card Bonuses.
At the start of each year, I like to do a post recapping all of the credit card points and bank bonuses I earned in the previous year. Both topics can be intimidating to new readers – I know that’s how I felt when I started getting into this world. But once you figure it … Read more
With the start of a new year, I thought it’d be a good time to provide a recap of all the bank account bonuses I earned in 2020. This past year was a big year for me on the bank account bonus front. All told, I earned over $10,000 in bank account bonuses (the exact … Read more
Ever since I discovered the world of credit card points and travel hacking, I’ve been obsessed with learning everything I can about this hobby. With a little bit of knowledge, it’s possible to accumulate hundreds of thousands of points and miles just by opening up new cards and putting your normal, everyday spending … Read more
I’ve been getting really into the world of credit cards and travel hacking over the past few months. For people like me, opening up new cards is an easy way to optimize my spending and snag some free flights in the process. If you’ve got a good handle on your finances, adding even just a little … Read more
At the start of each year, I like to do a post recapping all of the credit card points and bank bonuses I earned in the previous year. Both topics can be intimidating to new readers – I know that’s how I felt when I started getting into this world. But once you figure it … Read more
One of the things that initially held me back with the whole credit card and travel hacking game is that I didn’t really understand where to begin. There was a lot of information that I needed to know if I wanted to play the game right and when you come in with no knowledge, it … Read more
Sometime not too long ago, my sister-in-law was over at my house and noticed a huge stack of credit and debit cards on my dining room table – probably 75 of them at least. It’s an admittedly laughable amount of cards for anyone to have. “You have a problem,” she opined. That’s a fair assessment … Read more
Over the past year and a half, my wife and I have accumulated hundreds of thousands of points and miles from the strategic opening and use of credit cards. These points and miles have served us well, allowing us to do a ton of traveling over the past year that we otherwise wouldn’t have been … Read more
It’s been a while since I wrote about credit cards, but I thought now would be a good time to talk about them because of a recent rule change that Chase made that’ll likely change up your travel hacking strategy. For sure, it’ll change up the Chase 5/24 Strategy that I laid out in a … Read more
The great thing about getting into the world of credit cards and travel hacking is just how much it opens up the world to you, not just with where you can travel, but also with how often you can do it. Inspired by traveling attorneys like MVMT blog and Jen on a Jet Plane, I’ve … Read more
I sometimes find it hard to believe that just a year ago, I only had two credit cards to my name – a Citi Forward Card that I got in 2006 during my sophomore year of college, and a Target credit card that I got in 2013. My credit card life was pretty simple back … Read more
A reader recently asked me a question that I thought was worth answering in a full post. His question – how do I keep earning so many bank account bonuses each year? It’s a question that I hadn’t really thought about, but indeed, over the past five years, I’ve earned more from bank account bonuses … Read more
One of the things about moving towards self-employment and full-time side hustling (admittedly an oxymoron) is that I’m on the hook for paying all of my taxes. When you’re employed in a regular job, taxes often seem like an afterthought – they just get taken out of your paycheck by your employer without … Read more
I’ve always been wary when it comes to credit cards. Even though I’ve never been shy about trying out new fintech apps or opening up new bank accounts, for some reason, credit cards have always scared me. Maybe it’s the fact that a credit card goes on your credit report. Signing up for a new card just … Read more
Ever since I started travel hacking, I’ve kept hearing about the Southwest Companion Pass and how beneficial it is to have. Many people consider it one of the best travel hacking perks you can earn, allowing you and a partner to travel for free for as long as two years. If Southwest flies out of … Read more
A few weeks ago, I opened up a Bank of America Business Advantage Cash Rewards Card. This is a business credit card from Bank of America that offers cash back on my everyday purchases and has a cash signup bonus after I hit the minimum spend requirement. When it comes to credit cards and travel … Read more
A few days ago, my wife and I earned our first ever Southwest Companion Pass. We’d set out to earn this perk last year when a deal came up that gave us the opportunity to earn the Companion Pass in the first few weeks of January. By timing it just right, we now have essentially free … Read more
A few months ago, I woke up to a strange transaction in my checking account – a $3,000 withdrawal from my Ally checking account to a bank account I have with a fintech company called Douugh. I didn’t realize it yet, but I was about to become – or perhaps more accurately, I was … Read more
Before I got into the world of credit cards and travel rewards, I only had one credit card – and importantly, it had no annual fee. Credit cards with annual fees didn’t make much sense to me. Why, after all, would I pay a bank in order to have the privilege of spending my own … Read more
I haven’t talked about credit cards and travel hacking in a while, but I recently opened a bunch of new cards and thought that an update might be worthwhile. Given the current state of the world, it does seem a little silly to talk about this topic, especially since it’s looking more … Read more
One of the things that travel hacking has allowed me to do is to travel a lot more – and to do so in ways that I wasn’t able to do before. Back in December, I wrote about a spontaneous trip I took to Indianapolis to watch the Big Ten Championship and how I was … Read more
