How to Make Money Using Credit Cards
By Miguel Dos Anjos
Lots of people
hate credit cards and avoid them at all costs, and I do not blame them. Credit
cards can ruin a person’s name when wrongly used, but, there is a place for
credit cards, especially once you fully understand the system and can make it work
in your advantage.
When to Use a Credit Card
The secret here
is not to charge your credit card buying things you don’t need because you will
get a small percentage back. You have to use your credit card every time that
it is possible to buy things you were going to buy anyway, like, food, groceries,
house expenses, phone bill, gas, etc. Instead of paying cash for these things
you swipe your credit card. Now you are getting that percentage (usually 1% –
6%) back, small yes, but it’s great since you were going to buy those things
anyway like food or your phone.
Equally extremely
important is to pay the credit card in full at the end of the monthly billing
cycle. This is the only way this strategy can fully work. If you do not make a
full payment and let the credit card bill snow ball into next month’s bill that
1 to 6 percent that you were collecting means nothing, because the credit card
company would then collect 15% to 30% off of you. This is the reason, even
though we are now buying everything with a credit card we still can only buy
things that we could buy cash anyway.
This is the
secret to go around the system. I have not paid one penny to credit card
companies for over 5 years, and I collect about $200 yearly off my credit cards.
This revenue number could be so much higher if it was somebody else, but for me
this number is ok because I have cut most my expenses everywhere, so at this
point there isn’t that many things I buy anyway.
Only Use the Credit Card if You Could Buy It Cash at that Moment
Only buy things
with the credit card if you are able to pay for it with cash as well, because
if you cannot afford it now, you will not be able to afford that bill next
month when it will be piled up with that month’s expenses plus the interest the
credit card company will then; be collecting from you.
Find the Best Credit Card Offer that Fits Your Needs
Now that we know
all these strategies we need to find the best offer out there. Credit cards
collect a fee from merchants on every transaction. Another reason, banks can
afford to offer great cash back deals is because the majority of people do not
simply collect that cash back, but allow banks to instead collect from them,
and even worse, thinking that they will get their money back, go all out and
spend more than they would if they were not offered that cash back reward.
Another point to
take in consideration are the fees that the card may include. If the cash back
percentage is great but the card will charge monthly fees it might not be the
best option, since there are so many fee free cash back credit cards out there
for most people that would be the best way to go.
It is your choice
and option to be the one colleting the benefit or to be the one paying, so
other people can collect these benefits. In reality if the majority of people
followed the steps I suggest, banks would stop these offers.
Let’s Go Over These Steps Again:
1- Only
swipe the credit card for things that you were going to buy anyway.
2- Only
buy things with the credit card if you are able to pay for that item in full
with cash at that moment.
3- Pay
the credit card bill in full every monthly billing cycle.
4- Find
the biggest percentage cash back credit card with $0 fees, or monthly fees.
Besides
collecting some free cash you will also be building up your credit score, and
name as a person that pays on time, and manages money well, which; these days can
help you find a good job, rent a good location, buy a car, a house, or any
other investment that requires financing.
Do you already
follow any of these strategies? Do you have a strategy that works for you that’s
not listed here? Let us know in the comments bellow.
Thanks for coming!
Have fun making free cash!
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