From the website:
When it comes to earning rewards, it’s all about knowing the right people. With over 100 participating non-airline partners, chances are wherever you are and whatever you’re doing, you can be earning miles. And now, between January 15 and March 15, 2008, you can earn 3,000 bonus miles for doing business with just 3 unique Delta SkyMiles partners—and up to 25,000 bonus miles with 25 unique partners. Here’s how it works:
Unique Partner / Activity Bonus Miles Awarded
3 / 3,000
6 / 6,000
12 / 12,000
20 / 20,000
25 / 25,000
Make sure you sign up through the promotion first and then take part in 25 unique partner activities for 25K bonus skymiles. The hard part is finding the easiest and cheapest activities to join. Here’s a list (let me know if you find something simple and easy):
Unique Partner Activites: (got these ideas from Azurik of fatwallet, Volkswankin of SD, and iCorpRoaddie of Flyertalk)
- Buy one iTunes song through SkymilesShopping
- Transfered 1,000 AMEX Membership Rewards Points for 1,000 Delta SkyMiles
- Opened a kodakgallery acct and got 20 free prints
- Bought fast food using my credit card registered through RewardsNetwork
- Transfered 1,500 Starwood Preferred Guest points for 1,500 Delta SkyMiles
- Converted $25.00 to 500 Skymiles using eRewards
- Free quote from Ameriprise online (no SS# required)
- Made a purchase at 1-800-Flowers (BONUS: one also earns 25 miles per $1 spent, along with 1,000 bonus miles)
- AMEX Delta Gold credit card purchase (any Delta-branded card will do)
- Staples.com purchase (a roll of scotch tape) through SkyMall or Free DVD through Skymall (Search for item 102525820)
- Points.com (point/mile swap for SkyMiles)
- SkyMiles Dining by Rewards Network (one restaurant purchase)
- Purchase minimum amount of SkyMiles through Delta
- Another iTunes from Shop4miles
- Join FastBreak @ Budget (seems to generate a unique activity + an “extra” bonus of 1000 miles)
- Avis
- Hertz
- Omni Hotel
- SkyMall
- Miles Purchase
- deltawebmall (http://skymilesshopping.com)
- Netflix
- e-reward redemption
- shutterfly.com
- Alamo
- i-Dine
- Aero Mexico flight
I’m sure you must go through their promotion website when shopping etc.
Must one do the deals through the promotion website? Or is it enough to simply complete the transaction with the Delta Credit Card after signing up for the initial promotion?