Comments on: What Is Entrecard (EC)?

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:52:50 +0000

Thanks Graham .. I might just do that! I have some observations.

By: Graham

Graham — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:56:45 +0000

Hey Hart,

Just curious as to how we might be able to improve the site and service. Feel free to email me and start a dialogue. Would really love to chat about it.

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:47:26 +0000

Richard .. thanks for the offer, but I’m not interested. All that would do is make my site more popular, and cost the advertisers more EC credits when advertising on my sites! If my readers had to pay more than the 4,8,16, or 32 credits to advertise on my site .. I’d probably just remove the code from my footer altogether!

I do have many BlogCatalog friends who claim the EC Toolbar has been a big help also, with dropping cards.

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:44:03 +0000

Cindy … you pretty much described how I feel about EC. To each his/her own! I mentioned in my post that I don’t believe in “beefing” this up – in order to keep cheap daily advertising rates in EC money .. but, I do get requests to post ads on my sites every day. I think – ever since I first started .. I’ve only rejected 2 ads (both were for R-to-X rated sites not appropriate for my G-rated sites).

I do get some trickle down traffic .. besides the daily advertiser checking to see if his/her advertisement is on my site!

By: Richard McLaughlin

Richard McLaughlin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:36:17 +0000

I made a set of batch files, each batch has 15+ EC sites. I made this for people to easily open 15 tabs in their browser, drop the cards and move on. I even made one batch that is bigger than the others where people post a “You Drop I Follow” policy. Dropping 20 EC gets you 20 visits. I can add your site to the list if you like http://cheapkeywords.info/Entrecard.html because a lot of people dropping is traffic. Hard to say that it will be good traffic.

By: Cindy King

Cindy King — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:23:11 +0000

Hello Hart,

I was very slow in using Entrecard. In fact I still don’t. I didn’t like the high volume of cards for things I don’t want associated with my blogs.

But my partner insisted on having a closer look at it. I teased him for a week, kept limiting the choice of cards I would allow on the blogs.

But now I can say that it is bringing in some good traffic. My entrecard is for a free translation widget. Peole are curious enough to click through and there is a good conversion rate.

Like everything, I think you need to figure out how you can get the best use out of it. Now, I personally would not have spent a week fiddlng around with it…

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:06:28 +0000

Ya .. I know what you mean .. it’s like …
is it Theatre? or Theater?
is it Center? or Centre?
Is it Entrecard? or, should it be Entercard?

Meanwhile .. should I be looking forward to your future daily advertisements? For you site .. (and others) I would not insist people not use them (e.g. not a negative recommendation) and it could be a good thing placing the code on your site for other bloggers starting out – even if you don’t plan on participating.

I cringe at all the EC contests in BC or places that costs thousands of EC credits to advertise – for one day. You get a better bang for your buck with twitter, or plurk, etc.

By: wilbau

wilbau — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:28:43 +0000

Hi Hart
Your post makes me feel great, because I had a lot of prejudices concerning EC. Why didn’t I sign up at EC? Mostly maybe because of an obvious stupid reason: I didn’t like the name of it.