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Entrecard: A Great Way to Get Out There

Posted by tetsujin • 11/21/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Advertising, business card

For those of you out there who want a bit more traffic check out www.entrecard.com It is a business card widget that allows you to drop your business card off at other peoples blogs.

Every time you drop of a card though you gain a point, with enough points you can get extra advertising on blogs such as www.shoemoney.com

Check out this article about it: www.dnxpert.com/2007/11/21/how-to-get-your-ad-on-shoemoney-for-free-within-...

So if you do sign up drop a card off at my blog ok?

Cameron

User Comments

11/21/07

crkian

My ads keep selling out, I like the way the price goes up depending on your stats and how many ads you sell.

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1. 11/21/07
  
  tetsujin
  
  Haha, I have a strange feeling I won't get sold out any time soon.
  
  Cameron
2. 11/21/07
  
  crkian
  
  I may have to buy a spot
3. 11/21/07
  
  tetsujin
  
  That would pretty much make me feel cool ^_^
  
  Cameron
11/21/07

TonyB

What is Entrecard and how does it work? What does "drop your business card off" mean? What of yours is displayed if you have points? How do they determine where it is displayed?

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11/21/07

crkian

It is 125x125 ads, when you visit blogs which have a card on you can click near the card to let them know you have visited (it appears in their stats).

You get credits for clicking, you can use these credits to place your card onto someone elses blog by paying with credits, the price varies depending on how many have brought ads from the blogger e.t.c

So if you wanted to advertise on shoemoneys blog you search for his card in the 'campaign' area and click to advertise, shoemoney gets an email about this and can then decide if he will advertise your card or not.

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11/21/07

tetsujin

And your card consist of either a picture, text, or anything like that. And it can be placed pretty much anywhere on their blog, mine is in my left sidebar on the top. I am going to try advertising with one of the smaller places and see if it really helps out or not here in the next couple of days.

Cameron

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11/21/07

TonyB

Sounds interesting

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11/21/07

daisythecurlycat

So far I am pretty excited about this program. I signed up last night, and I have had 20 visitors from Entrecard just today. The ad space on my page is already filled up for the entire 9 days!

I am having a technical issue with them, but they have been really responsive and are working to fix the issue.

ps: I finally gave up on Blogrush.

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11/21/07

robinj

I have a card but the good news is even though I have no idea what I am doing I cant really stuff it up lol

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11/21/07

Majik

Entrecard has helped me get a little bit more traffic, my ad spot isn't full yet though.

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11/21/07

Tonylewis

Hi all,
I've been with these since I saw it mentioned here about a week ago,i've had 20 cards dropped to me, it seems to work quite well, at least the idea is pretty good, not really enough blogs there yet but new ones are being added daily, keeping my eye on it. I like it but not sure how well it will do, i'm still waiting for ads to be accepted.

Tony:)

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11/21/07

clairec23

It would be nice if there were more writing and book blogs but I still like the idea of it. I've found a couple of new blogs to subscribe too so that was good.

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1. 11/21/07
  
  libdrone
  
  I am still taking a wait and see approach to this one. I seem to be the only BC member who gets traffic from and still says positive things about Blog Rush. (I tried and deleted two other similar programs that did not work for me.) I have noticed the entre ads on some of the blogs I visit regularly and if it takes off and becomes ubiquitous I suppose I will have to join the crowd. But frankly I am tired of signing up for a new program and filling out forms and adding widgets to my page and I'm not going to do that unless and until it becomes clear that this one is Really going to fly.
2. 11/22/07
  
  clairec23
  
  So far it seems ok, the widget hasn't slowed down my page like everything else and I like that you can decide who advertises on your page and what pages you advertise on. You can earn credits yourself so you don't really have to rely on anyone else.
11/21/07

Rozie818

libdrone
It's just a 125 x 125 banner really so it's not like one of those slow down the boat widgets. Sign up was quick and painless. They seem to be on top of things. Blog Rush was a waste totally agree with you. Widget bucks also seems to waste time as well. I have a 125 x 125 on one blog, but that is all.
It is frustrating signing up for all of this things to take up blog space.

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11/21/07

Xight

I had a lot of left over bonus credits on blogrush so I'm putting it back on for a week to see if it nets me anything.

Widgetbucks I'm not getting too much from yet, so I'm going to try something else there.

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11/21/07

Naturalwoman

thanks, will check it out.

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11/21/07

Rozie818

correction it's 200 x 125
125 is the ad size.

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11/22/07

libdrone

nobody clicked on my widgets so I got rid of them. I tried cliq and another blog rush like syndication widget and neither brought in traffic. I do get regular traffic from blogrush, some posts more than others. I need ads that pay for eyeballs cuz my readers don't click a lot

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11/22/07

libdrone

nobody clicked on my widgets so I got rid of them. I tried cliq and another blog rush like syndication widget and neither brought in traffic. I do get regular traffic from blogrush, some posts more than others. I need ads that pay for eyeballs cuz my readers don't click a lot

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11/22/07

libdrone

sorry for double post. the board burped

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4/10/08

kaybday

I brought this back in order to avoid using space for a new discussion. I joined and there were 5 requests to approve or decline advertising. So I approved them (they looked appropriate.) So what do I do now? Do the ads just show up on my site? I have the EntreCard widget installed.

I have to say it's a helluva social media tool.Or it appears that way.
Thanks. Kay

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1. 4/10/08
  
  Mewie
  
  I thought so too.
  
  However, despite the fact that I brought in a lot more traffic, the quality was poor and my bounce rate quadrupled. It seems people just go in for the 'drops' rather than the content - it's how the incentive system works.
  
  After realizing that, I just got rid of the widget altogether. I guess this widget is great for monetizing blogs but for quality subscribers, it doesn't do much.
4/10/08

kaybday

Ah, I see. Hadn't thought about drive-bys. I visited a few and left comments at each blog.

But do the ads just show up on your blog? Or should I be doing something to put them there?

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1. 4/10/08
  
  ginahomolka
  
  The ads will just show up. You don't have to do anything. I've gotten great results from Entrecard.
4/10/08

wehireu

Entrecard recently went through some odd changes that makes it not as effective. I have had a drop off in traffic...

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4/10/08

machinehuman

Entrecard is damn ugly.

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4/11/08

kaybday

Oh, gosh. I'm gonna have to get out of this Entrecard thing. I've got all these ad requests, but I don't have time to go to all those blogs. And I still have no idea how the whole thing comes together. So I'm gonna drop out.

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