107. Skill Stacking Your Way to Better Points Redemptions
Point Me To First Class
Devon Gimbel MD
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Do you feel confident in your points redemption skills, or do you suspect you might be missing out on better deals? With a little knowledge and practice, you can learn to stack the key skills needed to get incredible value from your points, and I'm showing you how this week.
Tune in as I break down the six key levels of points redemption skill stacking. I explain how to know which level you're at currently, the specific skills to focus on building, and how to reach the next level so you can unlock incredible travel opportunities!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Point Me to First Class, the only show for employed professionals, entrepreneurs, and business owners who are looking to optimize their higher than average expenses to travel the world. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm your host, Devin Gimble, and I believe that your expenses are your greatest untapped asset, if you know how to leverage them. |
| 0:17.8 | Ready to dive into the world of credit card points and miles so you can travel more, travel better, and travel often. Let's get started. Hello, everyone, and welcome |
| 0:31.3 | back to the podcast. I have a question for you all today. How good are you at using your credit |
| 0:37.4 | card points for travel? |
| 0:39.2 | On a scale of one to four, where would you rate your points redemption skills and confidence |
| 0:44.5 | with one being the lowest and four being the highest? Now, I'm intentionally picking a scale of |
| 0:50.0 | one to four and not one to five because I don't want you have the opportunity to be completely |
| 0:54.3 | neutral about this. You have to ultimately choose whether you feel like you're not yet quite |
| 1:00.0 | at an average level with your skills and confidence or you've passed the completely subjective |
| 1:06.0 | and arbitrary halfway mark and feel more confident and skilled at using points than just neutral. So where do you |
| 1:13.0 | fall on that spectrum? And I think more interestingly, why do you think you fall there? What are you |
| 1:19.0 | basing your answer on? When it comes to evaluating your skills, using your points to book travel, |
| 1:24.8 | you could look at some concrete piece of data, like the average |
| 1:28.8 | redemption value you tend to get from your points and if it exceeds a certain threshold, |
| 1:33.6 | or whether you've booked $10,000, $100,000 or more in travel using your points. |
| 1:40.5 | Or you could be basing your answer on more intangible metrics like when you sit down to plan a |
| 1:46.5 | points trip do you know where to start do you feel like you know what you're doing do you have a |
| 1:52.3 | process for booking award trips that actually yields results or do you instead have the feeling that |
| 1:58.5 | whatever your points redemption attempts have looked like, |
| 2:01.9 | you're somehow missing something important, or not using your points well, or even just |
| 2:07.6 | completely doing it wrong? |
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