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Saverocity Observation Deck: Hosted Media Previews

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Joe Cheung discusses Hosted Media Previews with Leslie Harvey of Trips with Tykes on this episode of the Saverocity Observation Deck. 

A few highlights:

Leslie talks about how Trips with Tykes came about, and her style of travel hacking. She offers insight on flying Frontier as well–interestingly enough my folks flew Frontier a few years ago and found it to be nice too!

She also wrote an interesting post about hosted media trips that I found pretty interesting. Joe also shared his thoughts about Blogger Bias.

Apparently disclosure laws were updated in 2009 or so to account for Blogging and Social Media. Laws and guidelines continue to evolve as new methods come about. The FTC is the regulator.

I was also interested to learn that “Mom Bloggers” were a place where this got noticed early on. I know the resident Saverocity Mom Blogger was the person that opened my eyes to the “Mom Blogger” space.

Interestingly, Leslie mentions that some in the Travel / Miles and Points Blogging space also skirt some of these disclosure rules. I think Dia highlighted this one too (can you tell she’s my resource?)

I think its important to know also that some of these hosted media previews do require bloggers to pay–or at least Leslie and Joe have paid. I think that is important because, it shows that, as Leslie says: “they are willing to put their money where their mouth is.”

Overall, this is a space I know very little about. I haven’t figured out how to get “hosted” or “sponsored” myself, obviously Disney wouldn’t be the ideal scenario for me, but I haven’t even figured out how to do that for my 2-3 weekend rentals from National Rental Car per month… I may just not have it in me for this type of gig, but I definitely do see some value in it, if balanced properly.

What were your thoughts on Hosted Media Previews?

Saverocity Observation Deck: A New Game

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This podcast, the Saverocity Observation Deck team borrows the game “Get rid of it, Keep it, or more of it.”

We cover three core topics:

  • Travel Credit Card Benefits
  • Transferable Point Currency Partners
  • Airport Security Policies

There’s also a couple of fun tidbits here as well. For example, Joe Cortez shares his immense appreciation of Delta Air Lines. There’s also a short anecdote from a connection I made through London’s Heathrow Airport. 

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Observation Deck: Frustrating Customers or Frustrating Customer Service?

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It seems like every week we see some new concerning experience reported through social media, whether its a passenger being dragged off a plane, or being removed because someone self upgraded themselves. At some point you have to ask yourself, which is worse: Frustrating customers or frustrating customer service? 

In this edition of the Saverocity Observation Deck, we tackled these very questions, including why the travel experience is changing.

We also cover what appear now to be unsubstantiated rumors of an expanded electronics ban.

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Saverocity Observation Deck 53 – Taxes for Travel Hackers and Resellers

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Its a few days after Tax Day in the United States, and while you may be still getting over it, it never hurts to consider next year. So to, this is the perfect time to talk Taxes for travel hackers and resellers. This podcast features the venerable Matt Hague and Joe Cheung. 

Matt has talked about taxes and accounting a lot over the past few years on Saverocity Finance, including a number of gems that I still reference months later. Here are a few of those posts for your reading pleasure:

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