{"id":1420,"date":"2011-11-25T15:12:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T22:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2012-11-18T13:45:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T20:45:04","slug":"american-express-small-business-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"American Express Small Business Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t let this easy offer pass you by.\u00a0 Last year I was the owner of one measly American Express credit card and my wife didn&#8217;t even have one.\u00a0 Last year American Express wanted to thank all of the small businesses who accept their credit cards.\u00a0 Their idea&#8230;&#8230;Give every American Express cardholders a $25 statement credit for anyone who spends over $25 at a merchant who accepts American Express credit cards.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/sync.americanexpress.com\/sbs2011\">(You have to register using their registration link too)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday the 26th of November 2011 is the next Small Business Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I saw this as a great marketing event for American Express.\u00a0 My brother and I got on the phone to call a few local companies to ask them if they accept American Express before we went in for dinner.\u00a0 We tried a couple of locations and I can only imagine that everyone else who registered for the promotion did the same.\u00a0 All of the sudden local companies get a ton of phone calls asking them if they accept American Express.\u00a0 (Cha-Ching)<\/p>\n<p>At the time my brother invited me to dinner (As it wasn&#8217;t going to cost him anything) to a local restaurant.\u00a0 Later that night my wife and I went shopping and she picked up a shirt and a bracelet that put the total purchase over $25.\u00a0 Within a week Amex had already credited our account the $25.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year is going to be different.\u00a0 Now my wife and I both have a Starwood Preferred Guest\u00ae Credit Card from American Express and I have my Blue Sky from American Express(R). This means that we will be scoring $25 per credit card, for a grand total of $75!! Thank you Mr. American Express!<\/p>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t lined out our purchases quite yet, but I&#8217;m sure we will eat at a local restaurant next Saturday night, and then go shopping for some Christmas gifts, or we might even treat ourselves to a massage. Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>Prepare for the American Express Small Business Saturday by scoring your own American Express Credit Card. I recommend the Starwood Preferred Guest from American Express.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t let this easy offer pass you by.\u00a0 Last year I was the owner of one measly American Express credit card and my wife didn&#8217;t even have one.\u00a0 Last year American Express wanted to thank all of the small businesses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=1420\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[33,380,73],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DhXV-mU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}