Travel Hacking Tips
Many people interested in making money online do it so they can be free to travel more (not tied to a desk!) Here are some useful resources that help reduce travel costs or increase the enjoyment of travel.
Stay for Less: This site offers a platform for homeowners to rent out rooms, apartments, houses, boats, castles or whatever to travelers. They claim to be in over 180 countries now, with thousands and thousands of accommodation options. You can browse the offerings (referral link) and book your next vacation on the easy to use site.
Make Money With Your Real Estate: I’ve also started using AirBnB to promote some of my own properties with some success. The site is really good because you can set your own price (including different prices for different dates and lengths of stay) and you can upload lots of photos and details. The site deals with collecting the money and sending it to you just as the guest checks in. The guest pays a guest premium, the host covers the credit card fees. All very slick and easy to use. My main beef is that you have to administer each property separately which is a pain if you have a number of units.
Make Money with Your Network: Currently AirBnB is rewarding people with travel credits who invite their friends. They make it easy to invite via Facebook or email address book too. If you have a good friend network you could quickly earn enough to stay free for your next trip. This promo is good for people interested in using Facebook and Twitter to earn some free travel. Please go join via my referral link and than invite your friends with your referral link.
Internet Marketing: For the more sophisticated internet marketer AirBnB also has a more traditional commission based affiliate program. It currently offers reporting on earnings, clicks, and unique clicks over various time periods. Payments are monthly. No third party affiliate marketplace is involved in this direct program.
They offer this interesting widget to use on your site:
as well as various buttons (banners) and handy affiliate link generator.
For those interested in collecting airline miles, FlyerTalk can’t be beat. The forum includes hard core travelers discussing the intimate details of different airline, hotel, car rental and other frequent user programs.
There is extensive discussion on using credit cards to accumulate miles and which cards are best and where to find promos.
There is a whole area devoted to Mileage Runs – taking cheap flights to “who cares where” for the purpose of racking up miles, segments and program status. FlyerTalk defines Mileage Runs or MR as “A series of flights taken in a very short amount of time, solely for the purpose of accumulating frequent flyer miles, with a blatant disregard for the destinations.”
Lots of other interesting discussions as well. The only disconcerting part is that reading some of the discussion is tough for the uninitiated due to all the specialized terminology and abbreviations. Look under Help for the Glossary and the Airport Code Lookup to help make sense of it all. Membership is free and you can even join via Facebook login. Site seems to be advertiser rather than directly user supported.
I intend to update this travel hacking post (click to get to the updated post on InnovativePassiveIncome.com if you are reading on another site) from time to time. Your comments are welcome – what are some great resources you have found?
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