Entrecard-Your business card 2.0:A review
Entrecard is your 125*125 business card. This is an easy way for networking and advertising. You spread the word about your blog using a small but useful card.
How it works
When you join Entrecard, you should upload a 125*125 picture which becomes your card. The card will be linked to your blog. Then, you have to place a widget in your blog. Widgets of three styles a available now and it may look like this:
In the widget you can see a card and a yellow bar. If you have joined Entrecard, the bar will show “Drop yours”. By clicking on it, you are giving your card to the blogger and it will appear in his dashboard at Entrecard.com. You can drop your card in a blog once per day.
Advertising
You can advertise your card in another one’s widget by paying him credits. Credits are earned each time you drop your card or receive a dropped card. The price of advertising in a blog is calculated by the server on the basis of drops the blogger receives per day. To advertise, go to ‘Campaign’ tab and click on “Advertise” link shown under a card. Your card will appear in ‘Advertisers’ section in the blogger’s dashboard. After the blogger approving your card, it will enter the queue. If there are no more cards before you in the queue, your card will be displayed in bloggers widget.
Make Money
As the credit you earn is valuable, you can earn money by selling it. Entrecard has made an easy way to send credits through emails.
Traffic
It has proved that you can earn lots of traffic from Entrecard. It gives you a chance of free advertising in popular blogs and your card is displayed in dashboards of many bloggers. Entrecard owners visit your blog frequently for dropping their card which gives a huge increase in your traffic.
Pros
1)Easy networking: Networking by just putting a card and spreading the word by just one click makes it really easy.
2)Easy way to spread the word of your blog:Unlike any other viral traffic tool your blog gets popular beyond the traffic.
3)Gives you a chance of free advertisement:Even ones without money get free advertisement with great value
Cons
1)Huge part of traffic earned is useless:You will get lots of traffic as people will visit your blog for just dropping their card. But they don’t mind your blog.
2)Rich gets richer:Blogs with more traffic will earn more drops and their price of advertisement increases. So they get an exponential increase in credit they earn per day.
3)Value of credits decrease each moment:When more and more people join Entrecard, drops received by one also increases and price of advertisement increases with it. This decreases the advertisement which can be bought by a particular number of credits. As this has no limit, the problem is more severe.
Tips
1)Drop your card in every blog:Go to ‘Campaign’ tab and visit each and every blog and drop your card. This gives you a maximum exposure plus a good number of credits.
2)Drop your card to every one who dropped in your blog
3)Make your card attractive for clicks:This will give you more credits and will give more value for advertising.
4)Place the widget in a good position:This will increase drops, which will increase price of advertising in your blog. This will also attract advertisers.
5)Talk about Entrecard: This will make sure your readers have joined Entrecard. This will increase drops and will gin you quality traffic
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Hey, about the value of the credit decreasing, this actually isn’t true. Drops received by one increases your price by two, so the whole economy balances. Every time you drop your card, essentially, you’re taking out of the economy what you put in by raising the price to advertise by 2 credits. As it stands now, the market is perfectly saturated with ads.
Soon we are unveiling a store where companies can give away promotional items like t-shirts, only they will be sold for credits that are then cleared from the system. This will also help make credits more valuable.