December 29, 2024
End the Year Like a Points Pro: Your Step-by-Step Points Review Guide
Episode Description
Have you ever taken a step back and reviewed your full year in points? As another year comes to a close, I have a tradition of looking back and taking stock of how many points I earned, how I earned them, and the value I got from redeeming them. It’s an enlightening and even surprising exercise that I believe every points and miles enthusiast should do.
Next week, I’ll be bringing back my annual Points Year in Review. But before we do that, I invite you to conduct your own points year in review and even give you a process for getting clear on what went right and what maybe went wrong in 2024 for you.
Tune in this week to discover why you should consider doing a points year in review, what you can learn from it, and how to go about putting together your own annual points audit. I walk you through my process step-by-step and share some of my own key takeaways from this year’s analysis. By the end, you’ll be equipped to evaluate your own points performance and make data-driven decisions for your 2025 points strategy.
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What You’ll Learn from this Episode
- Why conducting a year-end points review is a worthwhile exercise for every points and miles collector.
- How to evaluate your total points earning for the year across all rewards programs and credit cards.
- The most impactful points-earning methods and how to identify trends and patterns in your earning.
- How to calculate the total value you obtained from your points redemptions for the year.
- How to use your points year in review data to inform your points strategy for the coming year.
- My key takeaways and surprises from conducting my own 2024 points year in review.
- How one credit card had an outsized impact on my points earning this year.
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- 45. 2023 Points Earning Review with the Points and Miles Doc (Part 1)
- 46. 2023 Points Spending Review with the Points and Miles Doc (Part 2)
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Point Me to First Class is the show for professionals and business owners with higher-than-average personal or business expenses, who want to learn to leverage these expenses into credit card points they can spend on travel.
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