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The Net Fool’s Outrageous Blog Contest 2008-04-20 13:39:27 The Net Fool has a great contest that only takes a few minute to enter. Here's a recap of the prize list that should motivate you to go visit his site and enter the contest yourself: Cash$250 Cash from PepperJam Network$50 Paypal Cash from Ades Blog$25 Paypal Cash from Sohaib ThiabWeb Hosting1 Year Web Hosting from Young Online MillionaireWordPress Themes & Design$500 Custom Premium Blog Design from Pixel Jig2 Copies of the Revolution WordPress Theme from Brian Gardner MediaWordPress Scripts & Software2 Copies of the FruitfulTime TaskManager from FruitfulTimeLicenced Copy of OIO Publisher from OIOpublisherWP Auctions Gold Version from WP AuctionsBlog AdvertisingFeatured Listing on Aviva Directory from Aviva DirectoryBlog Listing and Bundle Pack 2 from 1 Cool File125x125 Ad Spot from BlogTr Read more:Outrageous
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The Hochstadt.com Party Contest! 2008-04-20 13:39:14 The Hochstadt.com PartyContest
features prizes from a broad range of industries and categories. Meaning, there is something for EVERYONE:Consultations, Products & ServicesMax from SiteHoppin gives 10 Beer Stock Pages worth $20-$100 each = $200-$1,000 PLUS 50 One Buck Wiki pages worth $20 each = $1,000, altogether making it to a whopping $2,000!Martin Russell from Word of Mouth Marketing gives 50 (!) accounts of 10 cards each at SendOutCards.com worth $25 each = $1,250!Gary Evans from Law of Attraction Secrets gives 10 (!) of his Manifest A Miracle systems worth $97 each = $970!Marcus Hochstadt from Internet Business Guide For First Class Progress gives respectively 1 of each of his 4 DVD products worth $100 each = $400 PLUS one 2-hour Multimedia Coaching Session worth $300, altogether
Poll Results: Number of Entrecard Accounts 2008-04-20 13:38:50 Here are the poll results from last week regarding the number of Entrecard accounts that voters have:1 account........32 (43%) 2 accounts.......17 (23%) 3 accounts.......12 (16%) 4 accounts.......6 (8%) 5 accounts or More...6 (8%)Thanks to all who voted last week. Please take the time to vote in this week's poll!
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Entrecarder Profile: Joliber Mapiles 2008-04-20 13:38:20 Mapiles.com, Your Partner Online, is written by Joliber Mapiles, a 23 year-old blogger from Candaba, Pampanga, Philippines. Joliber is a Software Engineer by profession and also a licensed Electronics and Communication Engineer, and Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer, too. He loves basketball and chess, but loves internet marketing more. He also loves to problem solve, something I can easily relate to. Reading through some of Mapiles' recent posts, I noticed that he's running a contest that easy to enter. Register in his new Forum and write something about YOUR blog. Now that's a nice twist for a contest entry! I found his content to be so interesting that I signed up for his feed by email so I wouldn't miss anything whilst card dropping.Other than his obvious expertise with IT and th
Entrecarder Profile: Fantasy Baseball 2008-04-20 13:37:55 Fantasy sports leagues have been around for some time now and I think I joined one for all of about 2 weeks. That doesn't stop me from appreciating the passion that surrounds this digital pastime and the real sense of competition that it can evoke. Hardly anyone who has posted in the Entrecard Forums has escaped bumping into Fantasy Baseball
, so I decided to take a closer look at the site that currently is advertising on my widget. Writers for the site are Rudy Gamble and Grey Albright and you can almost smell the pine tar as you click from page to page of detailed notes on today's major leaguers. I grew up in Los Angeles during the Koufax and Drysdale era and stopped followed baseball shortly after Fernandomania. However, wandering through this site (which is located at Razzball.com) remi
Entrecarder Profile: FeeFiFoto 2008-04-20 13:37:19 Today's highlighted Entrecarder is FeeFiFoto, one of those folks who has a blog that supports their main website. In this case, FeeFiFoto's blog is a great example of how to draw attention to one's main business without distracting from the main purpose of the blog and also not feeling constrained to keep all of the blog posts focused on the business. FeeFiFoto's blog includes blog reviews, memes, contests, Wordless Wednesdays, and is rich in photos and graphics, which one would expect from a Foto-driven author. In fact, if there is a downside to the blog, it's that it stands on its own two feet so well that one might forget that there is an associated business that merits a visit.Also easy to miss is the About button on the left hand side of the page. It leads to one of the most informati
Entrecarder Profile: ClickDTalk 2008-04-20 13:36:53 Today I am highlighting Iris of Clickdtalk, "A sister, a daughter and a mother of two gorgeous kids and most of all a wife of a wonderful and loving man from New Zealand." I didn't realize until I wandered through her site, but Iris is also the author of TheBuzzNutter, another very popular and familiar Entrecard blog. Spending so much time writing about Entrecard, I enjoyed reading Iris' posts about buying a new vacuum cleaner or who should be in charge of the money, husband or wife? From her About page we get an idea of what her blog is intended to cover:About clickdtalkClickdtalk is about womens interest, fashion, styles, beauty tips and tricks. Every now and then i am posting funny stuff. This is sort of personal diary for me but have included some stuff that have interests me being a
The Entrecarder? Poll Results 2008-04-20 13:36:30 This poll was a bit tongue in cheek and I suspect that a few folks might not have responded for fear of offending me or somehow my being able to track their vote. My purpose was to get a feel for whether or not I was being perceived as a "spammer" for my 20+ Entrecard accounts. I didn't feel that I deserved that pejorative, yet I wasn't going to fool myself any longer if that's how others perceived me. The choices were a tad disingenuous in that one had few choices that might have accurately reflected their feelings. Nonetheless, my intent was to get a read on the spammer question and as only 1 out of 32 respondents chose that option, I can view the rest of the answers as "non-spammer" votes. It was funny the number of people who chose "who?".54% chose Creative Guy 34% chose Who?9% chose M
Entrecard: Is the Honeymoon Over? 2008-04-19 17:26:37 The Entrecard community has steadily grown over the past 6 months and there are hundreds of near-addicts who find themselves spending too much time every day dropping cards, blogging, reading others' blogs, and posting in the forums. As is true of many new businesses (and marriages), there comes a time when the honeymoon is over and the real work of making the venture successful sets in. Recent events, both internal and external, suggest that Entrecard's honeymoon is over and that it's time to decide whether or not this thing's going to work. Here's a list of 10 challenges that Entrecard has to deal with that could make or break it:1) Alexa - Ouch! Many Entrecarders (and other bloggers) got spanked hard this past week when Alexa changed their ranking algorithm and there were few left in th Read more:Honeymoon
Entrecard Drop Masters are Misguided Souls 2008-04-17 10:32:17 Yeah, I'm one of them...my name is Kent and I'm a Drop Master. I've lost my way and I'm having a hard time breaking the habit. Some days I'll drop just a little when I first wake up and think I've got it under control. By mid-afternoon my fingers start to twitch and if I don't feed my addiction I know what I'll be doing right before the magic moment (midnight ET), after which I can relax and become a real person again. How did this happen? Why did I think that dropping 300 cards a day, mostly on the same people who I dropped on the day before, was a good thing? What is this self-loathing I feel for only dropping 293 cards the other day? What kind of monster has Entrecard turned me into? Thank goodness for Alexa sending most of the Entrecard community a nasty wake-up call yesterday. Ha! Yo Read more:Masters
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Entrecard Myth: Spammers & Credit Farmers Making Big Money 2008-04-16 10:45:13 I've watched with a bemused detachment as the myth that Spammers and Credit Farmers are destroying Entrecard crops up here and there in the community. There's no denying that it's irritating to arrive on an Entrecarder's site that is just one big ad or is clearly a "made ya look" site. What's boggles my mind is why some folks keep harping on Credit Farmers with such vigor, even after the Entrecard security system closed down the ability for bots to hunt and drop, and limitations were put into place that restricted the number of drops that were allowable per IP address. I've asked the question in the Forums and I'll ask it again here: Where's the proof that Credit Farmers are a threat to Entrecard? I suppose that if the threat is a theoretical one, based on the idea that shrewd entrepreneu Read more:Money
11 Entrecarders You Need To Check Out 2008-04-15 09:21:38 Doesn't everyone wake up with an itch to grind numbers and analyze what's happening in the Entrecard community? I started off by verifying that there's a sucker born every day, as evidenced by the fact there were no ads available for purchase this morning for less then 16 ECs. Wake up Entrecarders! Your brilliant strategy of bottom feeding is just a waste of ECs. A glance at the stats of many of the sites available at 16 ECs shows that most have less than 30 drops on them in the past 5 days, which means fewer than 6 Entrecarders are dropping a card on them each day. But hey, cheap thrills and all, don't worry about me competing with you for the cheap ads. I also verified that many of the Entrecarders with the highest Popularity numbers are still advertising like crazy. 4 of the top 15 most Read more:Check
My 20 Entrecard Accounts...What Was I Thinking? 2008-04-13 13:44:38 The party's over for most of my 20 Entrecard accounts. Entrecard changed the rules and it's now difficult to try and work more than a couple of Entrecard accounts at most. The decision was made to prevent "spammers", both current and future, from profiteering from the sale of Entrecard credits earned from dropping cards from multiple accounts. What's that you say? You don't understand what the problem is? I'll try and explain. It's ok to Powerdrop 300 cards a day on other Entrecarders in as short a time frame as possible. It's also ok to sell any Entrecard Credits (ECs) earned along the way, both from dropping cards and having cards dropped on the Entrecard widget on your site. Assuming that you earned 400 ECs a day and the selling price was $5/1000 ECs, you'd earn a whopping $2 a day for Read more:Accounts
Results of 600 Drops Per IP address Survey 2008-04-13 11:22:22 Here's the results of the "600 per IP?" survey:40% chose Don't Care 32% chose Hate It15% chose What?13% chose Love It *Total number of respondents was 58.
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Entrecard's New Pricing - Recap of My Forum Posts 2008-04-12 10:17:16 "It was awful" was Phirate's comment about the transition to a new Entrecard pricing system that launched at 11 PM (ET) April 7th. While a few of us had been prepped by what we heard in the Developer Chat sessions last Saturday, most Entrecarders were caught unawares and the forums were full of angry and confused folks trying to figure out the new system. I've compiled some of my forum posts from the past few days, just in case you missed them. Seems quiet... almost too quiet...Do you mean like the new Ad Pricing
system?ANDTwitter had this answer for us:Graham Langdon: Looks like today is the day for new Entrecard pricing 39 minutes ago from webNew Pricing of Ads2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512...If I'm getting this right, most active Entrecarders will have 6 ads in their queue at a mini Read more:Recap
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Devaluation of Entrecard Credits 2008-04-12 09:07:46 The following is a long response that I posted in the Entrecard Community Forum (in a thread entitled "Devaluation of EC currency") that I felt would be useful to post here, too:"There's really no way to accurately compare the two price systems as the changes were accompanied by changes in market behavior. Prior to the change there were dozens--if not hundreds--of sites that were displaying their own Entrecard because people could tell that it was a "stale" account and wouldn't advertise on it. This fact hampers any comparative analysis of system average prices because today there are virtually no accounts with less than 3 ads on them, even if they are "dead" accounts. I have a bunch of these dead accounts and prior to the change I switched the advert status to "not accepting ads" so that Read more:Credits
How Did The Entrecarder Make it onto the Popular Page? 2008-04-12 07:34:45 I suppose my title is a bit misleading in that there isn't an Entrecard Popular page anymore. (Nothing like putting 6 hours into an extensive post last Friday, only to have the powers that be turn the system upside down 4 days later!) Nevertheless, should someone go to the Browser page of the Campaign section at this very moment, this is what they'd see:Patting myself on the back, am I? Well...maybe a little bit, but for the most part I am presenting this information to illustrate how I made it to the Popular page. It took time and effort, but if I could do it, so can you...regardless of how many ECs you have. In last week's Popular page Analysis, I suggested that the formula to "success" was card dropping and advertising. I still believe that's the case, but I wanted to see if I could mak
Finding A Reason To Twitter & Tweet 2008-04-08 02:57:40 I first joined Twitter
in April 2007 and quickly lost interest in the blah blah blah of inane stranger conversation. My social circle is the size of a dot and I couldn't imagine why anyone would be interested in what I was doing at any given time. Graham Langdon recently put himself out there with a prediction that Twitter would be "bigger than Facebook." After I got done rolling on the floor and wondering if maybe the EntreGuru had missed April Fools by a few days, I got around to actually thinking about the points he made in his article.Well, I'm not looking to hobnob with TechCrunch or other A listers, and to my knowledge the only "celebrity" I would be interested in following (Tiger Woods) isn't all a Twitter about the service just yet. And while I haven't changed my mind about the Fac Read more:Reason
Entrecard Popular Page Analysis 2008-04-08 02:54:41 Entrecard lists the 30 blogs in its community with the highest Ad Price on the Popular page. Being recognized on the Popular page usually entails receiving additional visitors from the Entrecard community as there is a presumed credibility or worth that attends being ranked as a top blog. And while there is some controversy about the use of Ad Prices to determine the rankings, many Entrecarders seek to make it to the Popular page, for a variety of reasons. I decided to take a closer look at the 30 blogs that were listed on the Popular page as of 6AM Friday, April 4, 2008. I've specified the time and date due to the fact that there is usually some change each day in the rankings and as such the following table should be viewed as an example and not the current rankings: RankImageURLLocation Read more:Analysis
Results of "Blogging For?" Survey 2008-04-07 08:46:48 The numbers* were a lower than last week's poll, but here's the results of the "Blogging
For?" survey:60% chose Fun 23% chose Fortune17% chose Fame I'll recycle this survey in the future and allow respondents to choose more than one answer. I suspect that many bloggers who chose Fun wouldn't mind some Fame if it also brought some Fortune.*Total number of respondents was 35.
Entrecard's Disconnect with Reality 2008-03-30 07:03:15 I want to say that "Hey, we're all adults, here!", but that's not the case, as there are minors who have Entrecard accounts, too. Instead I'll just say that the Elephant in the Entreroom has a roommate...an ostrich who apparently has its head in the sand. I'm talking about the idea that Entrecarders "read" other blogs while they are dropping cards. Yes, it does happen...but someone should look at the category rankings and do the math. Evelyn would be proud of all those Entrecard speedreaders who can drop 300 cards a day and read every new entry on the sites they visit. And let's not forget to comment, stumble, and send love notes while you're at it. Talk about a full-time job! This entry is a result of a thread in the Entrecard Marketing Forum wherein an Entrecard member, Sci-Fi Herald, is
If I Were Joining Entrecard Today... 2008-03-28 20:58:08 I signed up for my first Entrecard account in December, and have signed up for a few more since then. Yet, if I were starting over again, I would definitely take a different approach. Please don't misunderstand me, I'm not having or doing a Cow. I have really enjoyed the Entrecard "experience" and have benefited from the time and energy I have spent as an Entrecarder. Having said that, here's what I (and heavy on the "I") would do if I were starting fresh today:1) Drop a card on the new blogs that grabbed my attention each day. New Entrecarders have made the decision to join and are likely hoping to meet other people and generate traffic to their site. Reviewing the newer blogs would allow me find sites that I want to return to later (or subscribe to), based on their content alone, and not Read more:Joining
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U Subscribe - I Follow.....Ahkong.net 2008-03-27 10:09:31 I guess it started with the "U Comment - I Follow" movement, and was adapted for the Entrecard community by Lee Doyle to read U Drop - I Follow. I admit that for a while I was thinking of using "U Drop - I Smile" but figured it would engender the wrong reaction in folks. However, I have seen a "U Drop - I'm Happy" that made me smile.Now, Deimos Tel`Arin (ahkong.net), who was one of the first Entrecarders to publish a list of sites to drop cards on, and was the first (to my knowledge) to come up with a Reciprocative Dropping group, is pushing a "U Subscribe
- I Follow" fellowship. You subscribe to his blog feed via email and he will return the favor and subscribe to your blog's feed. What a great idea! Perhaps you are saying "Duh" and yet there are some Entrecard-specific dynamics that make
3 Entrecard Experiments 2008-03-26 12:10:25 Recently I had the opportunity to guest drop for another Entrecarder for 7 days, in addition to my regular multiple account activities. This particular Entrecarder buys ads in addition to dropping cards and has achieved good results in the form of a high ranking in their category and in the community at large. Instead of Power Dropping my way through 300 cards a day, as I might do on my own accounts, I used multiple card dropping strategies to ensure that this Entrecarder got plenty of traffic. I've mentioned before that I'm not a fan of blindly return dropping from the Drops Inbox. It might be polite to do so, but if one is seeking to get ranked above their peers, being nice doesn't necessarily cut it. The trick is to figure out how often to return drop from one's Drop Inbox and on which
Entercarder Profile: Bloggernoob 2008-04-21 11:00:45 The Noob got married! Any day now Bloggernoob will be returning from his honeymoon with pics and stories for all his fans. In the meantime, the "BrotherNoob" is filling in and has written some interesting posts of his own. This is a site worth spending some time on and not just passing by while dropping cards. Chances are, if you have already been to the Noob's site, you might have missed his video that got over a million hits on youtube. It's on his About page, as well as some FAQs that give you an idea about his personality. Bloggernoob has been very successful making money online in just a short few months and if you are trying to do the same you should check out his income recap post for some ideas. I enjoyed the random pics of starlets that are scattered around Bloggernoob's site, d
Entrecarder Profile: Mall of Earnings 2008-04-20 15:19:31 Pay attention, those of you who want to see an example of how one can design a great looking site that is hosted by Blogger! Mall of Earnings
' site was so good I had to check the URL to make sure it had blogspot in the address. Mall of Earnings is "A place where you can earn everything... from money to wisdom, life's humor to life's lesson, tips and turn, and a lot more!!!" Lucky_witch is the author of Mall of Earnings and her site is a good study in how to diversify your traffic so your Alexa ranking doesn't tank. She is listed with a number of social networks and blog directories, something that I should do more of, and have since visiting Mall of Earnings. Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see an About page or section and while I was able to track more information about this author with s
Entrecarder Profile: Is A Man's World 2008-04-22 11:08:36 For starters, you've got to love the non-politically correct title of today's highlighted Entrecard Advertiser. Is A Man's World
is authored by David Jackson, a New Zealander, and the site's byline is Where Technology and Humanity Meets, which helps focus in on the real intent of the site, which has nothing to do with the anti-feminism movement. From Dave's About page:This blog is about My thoughts, My Interests with Sports as well as technology, planes, motorsports, everything about big boys toys, including New Ideas, News, Gadgets, Resources related to technology, Opportunities, Comedy and more.... that is why my Site calls "Is a mans world" I will be posting contents that interest men and women in some occasions.Sure enough, the top post categories on the site are Home Technology, Motor
Entrecarder Profile: Cecilia 2008-04-24 06:42:12 The Cleveland Ohio Real Estate Blog has some great tips for buyers and sellers of real estate, regardless of where they are located. Great tips aside, it's the person behind the blog that has made a mark on the Entrecard community. I did have to look up her full name, but that only helps support my point that Cecilia
Sherrard, aka The Realtor, is one of the few Entrecarders whose first name is sufficiently well-known as to generate immediate recognition from many of the active members of the community. Perhaps it's due to her photo being an integral part of her Entrecard, or maybe she's easy to remember because of her quick wit and humor, but there have been few Entrecarders who've hit the scene running as quickly as Cecilia did and become so recognizable so fast. After reading her bio pag
Entrecarder Profile: IT-Aid 2008-04-23 11:56:04 Do you know this blogger? IT-Aid: PC Tips, Tricks and Tweaks is at this writing in the 56th position on the Popularity rankings and deserves to be there. Check out these stats: current Alexa 3 month ranking of 114,492, but 1 week ranking of 37,148, Drop Master status, and a Google page rank of 3. What's not clear is who the author is, merely a username of Slavezero. Ah, well, a few minutes of searching did not yield a answer and so Slavezero's anonymity can be left in place. Ok, so IT-Aid is the real deal and that's leaves us asking the question "Why?" This answer can be found without much difficulty as the site is full of exactly what the title suggests, tips, tricks and tweaks. Recent posts include: * The easy way to Fix your Task Manager * Restore your desktop icons arrangement
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