One EPT (expense pro tip?) -- usually the dining programs associated with airlines work by registering existing cards with your account (and thus FF#). You can register corporate cards under your name so that if you dine at participating restaurants you earn anywhere from 1-to-10 miles per dollar.

Depends. Many employers allow their employees to accrue Amex points off corporate cards. Paid for most of a vacation with those a few jobs ago.

Yep - I work at a large consulting company, and everyone has their own Amex. It's a corporate issued Amex, but it's your name on the card and you're responsible for paying it off. The benefit is, you get a listing of transactions in our expense software, and I can link specific transactions to specific clients or jobs. Then the reimbursed expense shows up in your bank account. Or, I can mark them as personal and pay for them myself.

I used to work for one of the big consulting firms. We were required to use a corporate Amex but our expense software wasn't integrated, so we still had to copy over every single transaction manually.

At least they let us keep the points.

@saryant see new evolutions in merchant rewards such as http://www.paymentsleader.com/pointopia-rewards/.... these concepts will still evolve off of this new technology..