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Brian Kelly

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first: 2020-01-02
most recent: 2020-01-02
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“Disasters followed. I took my pill. And then, of course, I'm putting my overhead bag and I'm starting to get woozy, and I turn around and it's freaking Madonna boarding the plane. Oh,”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think she was kind of joking. Here's some one tip you should never do. I took my sleeping, and this is my rookie days. This is like 20 years.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You could use africails Altitude And I'm She had a story. She flew on a regional carrier. She has stories for days. But it kind of reminds me, I flew with Madonna once, and she were delayed leaving JFK, and the pilot comes out. I'm so sorry. It's raining. And she just goes, step on it while we're in the air. I need to make up time. And the pilot's like, okay, it was like, so.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I felt a little bit bad because I've been in first class before and sometimes the flight attendants go MIA and you're like, right, come on. And a lot of times I do pay for my ticket. And I'm like, okay, I kind of want a cocktail. I had no idea. And then Sean Kathleen's like, never use the overhead for cocktails. I'm like.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think all of the. I think my contrarian view to that is that things are actually way better than they've ever been because there are more ways to earn credit cards today. Even the Amex Gold now offers 4x on dining. They won up the Sapphire Reserve. So the Amex Gold is 4X on dining and in several other categories. There's actually so many categories to earn. You just got to pick and choose and choose the ones that give you the most value back. Now on the flip side, because there's so many miles in the ecosystem, the airlines have been raising the amount of miles needed for a flight. But considering you can still get 800,000 points for signup bonuses, then you're earning two, three, four, five, 10x on spend. The smart points maximizers are still coming out ahead.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“City has been pulling back a lot of the perks. So now they limit it to two a year and the rates are not as low as they watered it down.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“25% off. Any hotel in the world. That's amazing. And I saw over the years, I've gotten thousands and thousands of dollars. Do they still?”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is pretty much on, they may extend it. I haven't heard yet, but that has been the go to. The other card I'll say is if you're actually, you know what? City prestige used to be the card for they'd give you fourth night free. Fourth night.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, the sad thing about that partnership ends in January 2020. So Capital One Venture and Hotels.com has been my go-to. The partnership ends in January 2020.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hotels.com is great in that it gives you one free night for every 10. So they take the price of the 10 nights that you stayed and they give you the average price. Non-consecutive trips. Yeah, multiple trips. So you're basically getting 10% back through the hotels.com program. It's a solid return with the capital on venture card they give you 10 points per dollar on all hotels.com. So that's another 10%. So you're basically getting 20% back on your hotel. And this is pretty much any hotel in the world.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well Get to the Caribbean, get You use to get that hotels. I mean, so I use so it's sad though because Capital One Venture Is an awesome all around card because they team up with hotels.com. So hotels.com is a pretty cool program in that if you're not loyal to any one chain, like getting low-level hotel elite status isn't really that valid.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, then supermarket, there are some cards that give pretty good spend. But in general, I think you got your Amex for the perks. You've got the reserve for the points. And then if you got like a Freedom Unlimited for everyday Spencer, you're earning that one and a half points per dollar.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And this is what the TPG app is going to help people is put everyday spend. Like if you're going to go to a store and buy a sweater, go to the store.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For everyday spend, you'd be earning 1.5 points. You'd be earning 50% more. And then on travel and dining is what you put on your reserve, and you can combine those points. So we call it.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Plus no FX on either no foreign transaction fees. So, yeah, you're good. The one area where I might recommend is this. This is like an advance. You could get a chase or Freedom Unlimited card, which is no annual fee. And that card gives one and a half points on everything you spend. So both of these cards only give you one point per dollar. So this is how you pair up to a power combo. So if you got the free Chase Freedom Unlimited, you would use that for.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, this is what I like about your strategy. So, you got the Sapphire Reserve, which is great for points. That 3X on travel and dining. So that's what you put all your travel and dining on. On the Sapphire Reserve. I mean, yeah, because that's 3x. And that travel also includes tolls, parking, subways. It's a really broad travel.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Blue is the other airline. You have to jet blue mint. And even JetBlue, I'm 6'7, so even flying JetBlue regular, I flew into Costa Rica. It's not bad. It's not terrible. I love JetBlue”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You mostly get the same prices once in a while. Actually, a lot of times Amex has cheaper prices and more flexible fares. We book all of our travel at the Point Sky through Amex travel. That's what you do in my office. Yeah, they have special, especially with American Airlines and some others. So what mostly”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't know that either. And the business platinum gives you 35%. So if you want to buy a thousand dollar flight, Amex, on most cards, it's 100,000 points. The business platinum gives you 35% back. So it's only 65,000 points.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. Yeah. So the platinum is the best card, and the business platinum actually last year at our TPG Awards won Best Business Credit Card. Really? This card is good too. Any purchase over $5,000, you get a 50% bonus.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Isn't that part of our mindset? You know, I think in traveling and just being able to see the world and seeing how most people live, even a bad flight, only 1% of the world will ever be on a plane or some crazy statistic like that.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And everything in life, it's just your mindset. Right. You know, if you walk into the airport aggrieved and mad, guess what? Your travel experience is going to suck. Like just have a better attitude, aren't you? I am.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Dish anywhere. Always have mine. I have hours. That's the big thing with travel. Control your own destiny. Same thing with noise canceling headphones. Yes. There will always be babies. Babies exist. They're not going anywhere, people. And guess what? We all were crying babies once. So get your own Bose headphones, you know, get ones that... Know, and of course, sometimes you can still hear through the bows headphone, but even then”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Or the whole system. We need to reset the system for everyone else in the plane. It'll take 30 minutes. I'm like, it's a two hour flight.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But Google Phi is also really good too as the backup. So Google Phi works around the world. I forget what it's not very expensive.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Really not. So now in the United In general, I think. You know, T Mobile is great with their plans, but it's slow. I need some quick, well, I'll pay whatever it takes to have fast Wi-Fi.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I always have the best iPhone with the most storage. I actually have, they now have the dual sim, so I have a Google Fi card.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't roll. Nope. So I will take, and I start with the heaviest item first. So I'll take like a blaze, I'll do my two blazers, and then I'll do long sleeve shirts and then some t-shirts fold the arms on and then fold them in half, smooth it out. Tell you what, I can't tell you. No wrinkles. I can't tell you the last time I've used a hotel. And same thing with the hotel iron. Stack all the pants, fold it in half, fold it in half again, you know, and the more you have, the less wrinkled it'll be. If you've got two pants, they'll wrinkle.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, Safari. I love animals in Mother Nature. Safari is just spectacular. You really only need three days of Safari because you go out. And if you go into a real African safari, you're out for like five hours in the morning, five hours in the afternoon. By the end of like two to three days, you know, you've seen it all. Right. But that's why I like South Africa because you can do Cape Town in the stunning coastlines and the animals and wine country. Safari. So that to me is like the ultimate trip.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love my parents just retired. My parents are like my best friends. I took them to Ghana. I do a good amount of charity work with PeaceJam there. So we went to Ghana. And then I took him to Tanzania on a Serengeti Safari. And the images.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Two minutes max most of the time. And I see people waiting hours in line in the normal animal. I don't understand it. How do people not value their time? Five years of precheck for $85?”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You get I was shocked that everybody wasn't using TSA preach. Pre-checking, you still go to airports in there. The precheck lane, I mean, I'm empty.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, but you have to go through Newark and that kills me. You know what? I used to hate Newark. I live downtown. Newark I can get to in 20 minutes. JFK took me two hours the other day and Newark now has clear. The terminals are nicer. I would push you to give it a second thought.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I love South Africa. We do a ton of charity work. A lot of my travel is for the organizations we support. But South Africa is just so beautiful if you've never been the wine country. It's a long flight. It's a long flight, but starting in December of 2019, United Airlines is going to start finding newer Cape Town nonstop.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This year I Really enjoyed going to well, does it have to be a new place? Because no Cape Town, South Africa. Really? I've been seven times”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're giving me a little bit of anxiety here, though, because using chase points for like merchandise, like there are all these different currencies. Like if you want to buy grills and merchandise and gift cards, there are cards for that, you know, city double cash that gives you 2% back. But to use those chase points where you're getting less than a cent or less in value when you could tell you getting 3x at. Can I tell you I'm dying a little bit inside.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Use that. This app is going to track your points. We'll be able to instantly, we're building these algorithms and tools that look at what you're spending in the different categories. And then we'll actually slap your wrists and say, Barry, you should have been using this card for that purchase because you actually would have gotten a ton more value back based on where you want to use your point. So it's going to be, I already have coming out in early 2020, but it's going to change the game because as of today, it's too confused. I mean, it is really confusing.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then you're going to be able to set trip goals. We're going to be able to get live award availability to tell you hey, you've got Amics points and Delta miles. You should actually use these points on these days.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But you know what? The video got millions of you. People still come up to me today. So back to the whole point about how we use social media. Yes, we do it for conversions, but also the brand awareness that as we speak right now, people are viewing our videos being like, wow, I want to fly Emirates or this airline. They come to the site, they get hooked in. And so we're now, you know, our parent company Red Ventures is all about analytics and using data science to serve different experiences to people. So yes, we get a bunch of visitors to the website, but we are now using social media, podcasts to reach all different audiences that come back to the site. And in 2020, the big thing will be the app.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, because with the residents, it would be millions and millions of points. So we paid cash. I earned points, expensed it to the parent company. Right. They must have been.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Totally. At Emirates. So there's two airlines with showers commercially. It's Emirates and then Etihad. So Etihad not only has the showers, they have what's called the residence. And I flew it. It was my first vlog that in 2015, I was their first passenger to fly JFK to Abu Dhabi. It was $33,000.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you keep time on the ground and JFK kills. Bundon, I've done under six hours, yeah. But, anyway, so. Yeah, so Norwegian premium is a great product, but I'm actually about to etsihod. The Middle Eastern carriers are still. So Qatar Airlines, they're Q Suites business class is top-notch.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Totally. Especially when you're going to Europe, it's like just under six hours these days to spend, you know, well, JFK.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no screens. It was, and the food for some reason, I think I was in first class, and I think the food, the food was rancid. I mean, I'll eat anything on a plane. I mean, even an economy, this food was truly bad. So my friend who's a comedian, we filmed the vlog episode, you know, flying from From Tel Aviv to JFK on the 747, and it actually went viral on and actually made the news in Israel. I kept getting all these Google alerts for like weeks later that”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The security is amazing. Shocking, right? It is amazing. So they're new planes. They have 787s as well, which are really nice and get great reviews. But I love the 747, the Queen of the Sky. So I flew one of their last 747, and this thing was like flying in the 80s. I mean, there were ashtrays in the seats.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's great. Great way to fly. They actually fly from New York to San Francisco, which is awesome. And I flew LL back. And LL has a sketchy history as an airline.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So it's called Being the Point Sky. I went to Israel for the first time and it was amazing. So we flew United's new 787. I like the 77.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's interesting. And just like Snapchat, I'm a little wary because Snapchat I used to love doing, but then there was no follow-up. There's no tracking. The campaigns are all very high funnel like, oh, awareness amongst a really young group about credit cards. I'm like, meanwhile, I can go on Facebook and Target the exact people I want with the right content and serve them different experiences. But yeah, so we, you know, Facebook, you know, social media marketing, yes, we actually, you know, we spend a ton of money every month in getting our content in front of the right people and those people get credit cards. But a large portion of it is also just building out our brand. And we send people around the world. I did a vlog this year on YouTube.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Those channels, yes. So we still get about 20% of our traffic from social media from all the different channels. It's funny you mentioned TikTok because it's one of our new platforms that we're just testing around with. And the power is wild. We had one of our editors giant.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, you know, we leaned heavily into social media. Twitter was actually my first. I thought Facebook was going to be a one-time thing and it wasn't going to really be a big business driver, which actually ended up being the opposite because in 2013, 14, 15, we were investing heavily in Facebook. We wanted to build our likes up. And even though Facebook likes today don't mean anything, we were the first real travel blog to get over a million likes. And that was right before Chase engaged us to help with the launch of the Sapphire Reserve.”
2020-01-02 · Masters in Business · ‘The Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source