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RWRDS Daily Update – September 29 + MORE Sep 30th
Here’s your Rewards Canada update! Your near daily dose of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. We had a really big update to our American Express Cobalt™ Card Confirmed Multiplier Locations feature! Over 25 new locations from Quebec have been added to the e.... More »
Top 5 Small Business Credit Card Sign Up offers for November - These cards provide the best value out of their welcome bonuses + MORE Nov 17th
Here are the Rewards Canada Top 5 Small Business Credit Card Sign Up offers for this month! This is not a 'best' credit card list like our Top Travel Rewards Credit Card rankings but instead a look at cards for small businesses that have very good acquisition (welcome/sign up) offers. As a.... More »
Clash of the Credit Cards! Desjardins Cash Back World Elite®Mastercard® vs. Scotia Momentum® VISA* Infinite card + MORE Sep 27th
Welcome to another Rewards Canada Clash! This time in our Clash of the Credit Cards we pit two very strong cash back cards against each other! Those cards are the Desjardins Cash Back World Elite®Mastercard® and the Scotia Momentum® VISA* Infinite card You will also find this Clash poste.... More »
Last Chance: Earn up to 80,000 points with the HSBC World Elite Mastercard + MORE Aug 26th
The current limited time welcome bonus offer for the HSBC World Elite® Mastercard® of up to 80,000 bonus HSBC Rewards points will end on August 31. It will not be extended after that date and the offer replacing won’t be this good. If you’ve had your eye on the card that Rewards Canada.... More »
Marriott Bonvoy sending out targeted stay bonus offers - check your account to see if you received one Dec 30th
Marriott Bonvoy members check your inbox to see if you have been targeted for some stay bonuses as their next batch of targeted offers are being sent out. Several times per year Marriott does provide these bonuses to select members, and don't ask me how they select them as it seems all over the plac.... More »
AIR MILES and Shell introduce Shell Go+ – an opportunity for all cardholders to earn more AIR MILES Reward Miles
– RewardsCanada.ca
AIR MILES gave us a quick teaser last week that collectors will be able to earn more miles with Shell and details would be revealed this week. Those details are out now with the new initiative being called Shell Go+ and it is described to us by AIR MILES as “provides access to a full suite of member benefits along with special monthly offers and experiences, enabling Collectors to get more Miles and therefore, rewarded quicker.” These are the new reward opportunities with Shell Go+:Up to 100 per cent more Miles on all Shell fuels AND in-store purchases — no longer are you limited to the types of fuel to get MilesGetting topped up to 5X the Miles when using a BMO AIR MILES credit card10 Bonus Miles when using 95 Cash Miles towards a purchase10 Bonus Miles with the purchase of any Shell Ultimate car wash and more!The benefits of Shell Go+ are currently set to run for the remainder of 2020 and are on top of new regular earn rates revealed today for gas and in-store purchases:1 Mile for every 10 L Shell V-Power premium fuels +1 Mile for every 20 L Shell Bronze, Silver and Diesel fuels9 +1 Mile for every $5 in-storeThe new regular earn rates are actually better than the old school rates that were devalued 5 years ago to the very low rate we’ve become accustomed to for this half decade (read about that here) Then you add in the Shell Go+ initiative for the remainder of this year and you have some pretty decent earning potential at Shell…
Top 5 Small Business Credit Card Sign Up offers for July – These cards provide the best value out of their welcome bonuses
– RewardsCanada.ca
Welcome to a new monthly feature here on the Rewards Canada blog – The Top 5 Small Business Credit Card Sign Up offers. This feature is pretty much the same as the Rewards Canada Top 5 Credit Card Sign Up offers that we been posting for travel rewards cards for the better part of four or more years! This is not a ‘best’ credit card list like our Top Travel Rewards Credit Card rankings but instead a look at cards for small businesses that have very good acquisition (welcome/sign up) offers. As always when choosing a card you should always take other factors into account other than the just sign up bonus, but when some of these cards are first year free, they can and do pay off even when you grab them strictly for the sign up rewards. This month we see three first year free cards on the list!Here are our top 5 small business credit card sign up offers for July:BMO Rewards Business Mastercard (Apply here) Minimum value: $357This card had its welcome bonus boosted last week to 50,000 points when you spend $5,000 on the card in the first three months…