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Banking On Rob’s Two Categories Each Month To Be Advertising And Gas With His New Amex Business Gold Card

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Rob has had the American Express Business Gold Rewards card (now called the old version) for years because he has his own law firm and he advertises monthly in various forms of media.  With the old Gold card he earned 3X American Express Membership Rewards Points per dollar. With his new version of the Gold card, that he just converted to, he will earn 4X points on these advertising charges because advertising will definitely be one category that he spends the most on in each billing cycle. You see with the card, you earn 4x Membership Rewards points per $1 on the 2 categories where your business spent the most each billing cycle.  These categories that can earn the 4X points are…

Airfare purchased directly from airlines

Advertising (online, TV, radio)

Restaurants

Gas Stations

Shipping

Computer hardware, software and cloud computing purchases.

You earn 1x Membership Rewards points in the remaining four categories and on all other purchases.

4X points applies to up first $150,000 in combined eligible purchases from these 2 categories each calendar year then earn 1 point per dollar.

Advertising will definitely be a 4X bonus category most months for Rob, and I will use this card for all of my gas purchases and accordingly gas will be our second lucrative category most months.  We don’t spend enough consistently on any other category, EXCEPT RESTAURANTS, and I just got the new Amex Gold Card, and made everyone in my family an additional cardholder (FOR FREE), and we will all use that card from now on at restaurants because that also earns 4X Amex points at restaurants.  So gas is the best category, for now…TBD if it stays like that.

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