Here are the BEST Credit Card BONUSES - January 2024

hey credit Warriors welcome to the show and we are about to start 2024 it's time for a fresh start and as always going into a new year I am always looking for how I can get value out of my credit cards and my credit card points so here is my best bonuses video for January 2024 and we'll be looking at both welcome bonuses those are the ones you get when you open a new card and also other types of bonuses some even available to current card holders of various cards and this video is brought to you by Kudos but more on that that later so we have reports of some huge bonuses on the AMX gold and AMX Platinum which go Way Beyond what is publicly available I'm going to save that for a little later in the video and show you how to get them because there is a special method but first if you are an IHG hotel member maybe you have the ihd credit card maybe you don't actually it doesn't matter for this one there is currently promotion running where you can earn double points on all of your IHG States all you have to do is register through this website that I'll put a link to in in the description or a pin comment below and any IHG stay that you do in January will earn double points there's also a second part to the offer where you can get an extra 2,000 points if you stay at more than one IHG brand in January 2024 the only thing that makes this not quite as attractive as I initially thought is that it is just double the base points not double any additional points that you get for your level of status or anything like that so IHG just gives the example of earning 10 points per dollar in base points for being an IHG member well then you now earn 20 points per dollar so double that for any IHG spend in January if you have the IHG Rewards Premiere Card you would end up earning 36 points per dollar spent since you earn 10 points for having the card 10 points for being an IHG member that's the one that's going to get doubled to 20 points and then six more points for having Platinum Elite status which is a benefit of the isg rewards premier card so in total it's 36 points per dollar that card currently has 140,000 Point welcome bonus I'll put a link to it below with all the other things that I'm going to talk about in this video all right let's talk about a promotion on another card where you can get some extra IHG points but also extra points with two other Airlines and that is the built card the only credit card that allows you to pay rent to any landlord with no fee it's been very popular throughout 2023 I don't have it personally because I don't pay rent I own where I live but if I was a renter I absolutely would have it anyway they have rent day on the first of every month where all of the points you earn on non-rent purchases with the card are doubled but in addition to that they also offer some promotions normally those promotions are transfer bonuses to Airlines and on January 1st 2024 rent day is no different so let's look at all of the things that are going to be offered you will get a transfer bonus to all of these Partners Flying Blue which is Air France and km's loyalty program IHG hotels and Virgin Atlantic and like with other rent days the bonus you get when you transfer your points point over to these Partners is pretty high so normally all of them are one to one but on January 1st you're going to get a 75% bonus if you are a blue member that's the base level of membership that everyone has so 1,000 points becomes 1,750 either airline miles or hotel points then you get a 100% bonus for silver members 125 for gold and 150 for platinum so if you're a platinum you get 2,500 airline miles of Hotel points for every 1,000 buil points it's going to be a better deal with the airline miles and those Airlines than it is with IHG points cuz IHG points are only worth about half a cent or so to begin with whereas airline miles are worth on average between 1 and 2 cents a piece however isg recently changed how you qualify for the different membership tiers some would say they have ruined it but you know for others not really you might actually find it easier to qualify now I made a video about this it looks like this and if you want to see it I'll put it on the end screen of this video you can click through and check it out but with the built card there is more on January 1st if you use built points on Amazon they will be worth 50% more now they are kind of sneaky like other issuers are too with telling you how much the points are worth when you use it for Amazon for obvious reasons they're not worth that much okay it's just 0.7 cents a piece normally when you use points on Amazon so this 50% extra adds 0.35 cents to that making your points worth 1.05 cents a piece at Amazon for one day only so it's not great but if you really want to use the points for that you know be my guest then there is one more thing and that is that all Card members regardless of status are going to get a $5 lift credit you just need to activate it on January 1st to do that you just follow these steps make sure your lift and build accounts are linked select the button below to link if you haven't already and once linked select activate credits at the button Below on January 1st I'll put a link to this landing page below if you need to activate it if you have to be watching this video on January 1st or you can bookmark it in your browser you'll see your lift ride credit under lift past in the payment section of the Lift app within 72 hours of activating the pass is valued for 90 days from Activation so you don't need to use it on the first actually you probably won't even have it on the first cuz you got to wait 72 hours and this is another one that is kind of like me but hey it's free money so I'll take it if you're interested in the built card there will be a link somewhere in the description or a pin comment below you can learn more about it all right let's now get into some actual welcome bonuses on credit cards but first if you use credit cards to build up points and cash back which if you're watching this you probably do otherwise you wouldn't be watching this video so if you do have several credit cards that you use to earn rewards you'll want to listen to this because I'm about to tell you how you can double your credit card rewards when you shop at over 15,000 websites and that is with today's sponsor Kudos imagine this I'm about to spend $713 on a roundtrip flight to take my wife to Vegas for Valentine day if I use my Chas Inc preferred I get three points per dollar on travel which includes flights and that has a cash value of $214 but if you use Kudos and book through Price Line Kudos will double your points adding an extra three Kudos points per dollar that's another $21 in value on top of that so at least we're talking around 42 or more dollar back on that booking but that's not all Kudos also helps you recommend the best card to use on every purchase which means you no longer have to 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offer ending later in January I'll tell you the exact date that they end in a moment but let's first go through the bonuses so on the Hilton Honors card you can get $ 100,000 points for spending $2,000 in your first 6 months that bonus is worth about $600 if we use a Points Guy valuation of 0.6 cents a piece then we have the Hilton Honors surpass card with a bonus of 170,000 points for spending $3,000 in your first 6 months that is worth $1,020 if we use a Points Guy valuation this card has a $150 annual fee by the way but many of the benefits offset that then we have the Hilton Honors Aspire card this is their top tier card and this has a welcome burnus of 180,000 points for spending $6,000 in your first 6 months that is worth $1,080 using a valuation of 0.6 cents per point and all of these different offers end on January 17th 2024 so you have about 3 weeks to get them if you are interested all right let's now look at the final story of the day and that is two huge welcome bonuses on the MX platinum and MX gold that are way higher than the public offers so the MX gold public offer right now is just 60,000 points the MX Platinum is just 880,000 but there is a way that you can get up to 90,000 on the gold and 150,000 on the platinum and that is through the card match tool I don't think I've actually ever talked about this on the show before now this is a tool on creditcards.com where they attempt to match you to cards that are suitable for you depending on where you live your income and a few other factors actually I tried it just now when I was writing the script for this and I don't really see how it matched me with any cards that were remotely suitable for me at all I mean I even had Credit One showing up in there and the Greenlight kids debit card maybe they figured out I had kids I don't know but anyway there is the possibility of getting these targeted AMX offers through card match right now and I am a partner with creditcards.com so I have put a link to card match on the recommended card page of my website for you guys to check out that link is below and here is a brief demonstration of how to do it click on my credit card guide link below and you may need to click show more to open up the description section to find that okay but it will be down there somewhere that takes you to this page where you can then click through to the card match tool you enter your first and last name your address answer a few questions about employment status income rent or mortgage payment and what types of bank account you have then enter the last four digits of your Social Security number plus your email and they will then perform a soft credit check which doesn't affect your credit score and they'll come up with a load of targeted offers within those offers may be the 90,000 on gold and the 150,000 on Platinum like I said it didn't show for me but then I already do have both of those cards maybe they know that so that's probably why anyway let me know if you have any luck in the comments below I'd love to know how many people got offered it and that is the video guys a big thank you to Kudos for sponsoring don't forget to double your credit card rewards at over 15,000 sites with their free shopping extens mention by using my link below please subscribe to the channel if you're new we'll see you next time bye-bye