Blogging is profitable if you can attract readers and if you have followed boarding area you would see the explosion of new bloggers. Only a few have original content and most others recycle the same info. I do think Rick @ FTG has good intentions and wants to help others. Infact I do think other bloggers like FrequentMiler etc fall in to the same category. However each of them also have a business to run. As FTG pointed earlier each of them benefit from these deals as well and they dont want to share all the info to card companies either. From time to time things might slip through and its only natural. I don't think there are any sinister intentions on their part.

As Jeanie mentioned earlier in big companies often one hand (should i say finger) doesn't know what the other hand does and often they work towards opposite goals. The sole aim of a marketing guy is to gain new accounts. Whether those accounts are profitable or not is not his main concern. So don't worry about things getting revealed too much. FT community is a small portion of their overall target audience and deals will keep coming to attract new accounts. The last couple of years have been dreadful for bank profits, so budgets for marketing depts do get cut and so does the beanies for us. But its a cycle and eventually they will go up again before going down. Just be patient.

Whats good for FT community is most likely not good for Card companies. Don't anticipate a card with everything you ask for .