Entrecard, A Blogger’s Best Friend
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Hats off to Entrecard! Graham Langdon and his team have consistently refused to sit on their laurels, always taking on board feedback from service users, and continually implementing improvements. Entrecard is evolving into a major blogging network and online community.
A few days ago, came the announcement of a new partnership between Entrecard and SezWho, the popular and well-established blog commenting platform.
Reward Rebel enjoys a pretty satisfactory level of commenting, and yet there’s already been a noticeable increase since SezWho became part of the Entrecard equation.
Evidently bloggers value comments - and Entrecard Credits - very highly! And so, as part of Reward Rebel’s forthcoming first birthday celebrations, I’m going to backtrack over the comments here, and rate as many as time permits.
In fact, talk about excellent timing! I had already started to showcase my favourite posts to Entrecard visitors, and you’re invited to participate in Reward Rebel’s birthday bash by taking a moment while you’re here to rate any post or comment that you’ve enjoyed. After all, what goes around, comes around, and your turn will come!
Since its inception, Entrecard has helped launch many blogs, and has been a good friend to Reward Rebel. Bringing SezWho onboard will undoubtedly provide the icing on the cake.
Happy blogging, and enjoy your internet marketing adventure.
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Entrecard And SezWho Launch Partnership
If you haven’t already, go to the Entrecard blog now, and read the article about Entrecard’s new partnership with SezWho.
Although I’ve not previously engaged with any commenting platforms, I’ll install SezWho on Reward Rebel and monitor developments.
This sounds like a new arm of the Entrecard venture that has massive potential to further assist bloggers in their own internet marketing adventure!
Reward Rebel
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Top Ten Entrecard Droppers During June
We are at the half way point in 2008 and it’s that time of the month to give a loud and far-reaching shout out to Reward Rebel’s top ten Entrecard droppers for June.
On The Bricks
The Path to the Pegasus Letter
Regretful Morning
Amy Lilley Designs
Technically Easy
Aerten Art
Absolutely Mom’s [aka Nessa’s Place]
Marriage and Beyond
Happy Family Matters
Turnip of Power
View Reward Rebel’s top Entrecard droppers for May
Your patronage during the past month has been even more greatly appreciated than usual, and I wish you happy blogging and successful internet marketing.
Reward Rebel
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Entrecard Russian Roulette
No doubt I’m shooting myself in the foot here, but during my absence from posting to Reward Rebel blog, I sporadically logged into Entrecard, and there was always a queue of advertisers waiting for approval to display their little promo box on my site.
Curiously, quite often the advertiser wouldn’t have dropped their card on my site on the day they submitted the request… or at all recently.
Firstly, I’d like to thank those advertisers for their loyalty.
Secondly, however, I have to express my concern about how many of the Entrecard community don’t appear to visit a website prior to submitting an advertising request.
In a sense, it is flattering to my blog that a repeat advertiser trusts the content-to-date to be enough, but if there hasn’t been any new content for weeks, why does anyone wish to advertise on a site that’s dormant?
Hey, I’m not biting the hand that feeds me…. er, I suppose I am, but that’s not the point. I’m inclined to infer from the lack of a card being dropped that the advertiser just couldn’t be assed!
Perhaps I’m going about this the wrong way…. “Hey, amigo, WAKE UP!”.
Why aren’t you checking out the websites where you advertise?
It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve advertised on a website, I check it out before submitting a further request. You shouldn’t take anything for granted.
This isn’t the first time I’ve noticed blogs that haven’t posted for months still continue to advertise on Entrecard… as though this is somehow the same thing as maintaining an online business.
Recently, I had to reject an ad request from a website that hadn’t posted fresh content since March! The disquieting aspect was that it was a website dealing with financial markets and their changeability. How can I justify displaying an ad encouraging my readership to visit a site that doesn’t offer anything new for three months… a quarter of a year!
Don’t be complacent, don’t be loyal for the sake of it. If you aren’t involved in internet marketing per se, and participate in Entrecard for the social aspects, you are fortunate that none of what I’ve said here really applies to you, because you have a different agenda.
But if you’re involved in internet marketing and/or blogging to be making money with an online business, it’s all the more important.
You need to constantly monitor where and with whom you advertise, because the internet changes so fast, you may get left behind!
I wish you enjoyable blogging and successful internet marketing!
Reward Rebel
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Entrecard Link Love
Internet Marketing has featured in my life for about 14 months now, and it’s passed so quickly. I remember reading about people working for a year to make money online, and quitting when they still hadn’t generated their first sale! I couldn’t understand why anyone would dedicate twelve months to learning something new - especially something with such life-changing potential - and then chuck it in!
If anything, I’m now more determined than ever because I’ve invested a year of my life in studying internet marketing and acquiring the skills to shape my future and live the life I aspire to. OK, I’m not making a fortune online… yet. But I appreciate that it takes time to build an internet business, it takes time to build anything worthwhile.
As we bid farewell to May and warmly embrace June, it’s appropriate to shout out a big “thank you” to Reward Rebel’s current Top Entrecard Droppers.
I’m grateful to everyone who takes the time to drop their Entrecard on Reward Rebel, but to appear in this list, you know what you have to do, don’t you?
The Path To The Pegasus Letter
Chica & Pumuckl – Living With Cats
I’d also like to thank the sites that have advertised on Reward Rebel this past month. Unfortunately, I haven’t kept a record, so if you advertised during May and would like a link to your site to appear in the “advertisers link love post”, leave a comment below as soon as possible. I’ll be publishing the post in a few days’ time, so don’t delay.
Happy blogging and successful internet marketing to y’all.
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My Time Is Valuable ~ Are YOU Wasting It?
Blogging is one aspect of my internet marketing business, and not a hobby or leisure activity. I have used Entrecard to promote Reward Rebel, and consider that it’s made a significant contribution to the site attaining its Google page rank.
Were it not for Entrecard, there wouldn’t have been anything like as much traffic, as many backlinks, or comments. There have been occasions when a comment has triggered an idea for a further post, too.
Reward Rebel joined the Entrecard Community back in November 2007 and although the degree of involvement has fluctuated, for the most part I’ve continued to network with individual members and drop cards routinely.
Recently, I’ve been ‘outsourcing’ card dropping duties to my partner! LOL But, most days I do a ‘personal’ batch of drops, commenting here and there as and when a post snags my interest.
Many sites display the Entrecard widget above the fold, or nearby, ensuring that it can easily be located and clicked.
Sometimes a blog will load without the widget materialising and, when this happens, I try to be kind, and click ‘reload’ but if it fails a second time…. ‘hasta la vista, baby!’
Sadly, too many blogs don’t appear to have given any real thought to the positioning of the Entrecard widget.
When I’m online surfing blogs and dropping Entrecards, it’s as part of the overall strategy to promote my website. My time has a financial value, and I don’t enjoy, nor intend, throwing away my potential earnings while I’m chasing around a website looking for the Entrecard widget.
It’s vital to position the widget where it’s easily – and quickly – located. I’d recommend you position the widget above the fold (on the opening screen, without scrolling down), and
1. Do NOT position the widget in some obscure spot down the page somewhere. Don’t delude yourself that it’ll entice people to read your articles, all it’ll do is make them click out, so not only do you lose that Entrecarder’s drops, you’ll gain a ‘bounce’ on your site traffic stats!
2. Do NOT position the widget amongst a cluster of 125 pixel square ads making it difficult to spot.
3. Do NOT fail to monitor how quickly your site loads – it should not take half a lifetime.
I personally loathe Blinx Ads obscuring site access, and they have instant B-O-U-N-C-E power!
Am I being too harsh? Do I sound like a bitch? If you think I am and I do, I’m certain that you aren’t involved in blogging as part of an internet marketing business.
Anyone managing an online business, or trying to make money online, will appreciate that every moment spent hunting for widgets to click is time that could be spent more productively elsewhere.
So, if you’re wasting my time, or anyone else’s, Stop It! My time is valuable and so is yours! Use it wisely and productively.
Happy blogging.
Reward Rebel
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Don’t Throw In The Towel!
As I often emphasise, blogging isn’t my ‘thing’, it’s part of my internet marketing ‘thing’ – a requirement of the modern online business.
During the past few weeks, I’ve been heavily involved in developing new projects, and haven’t been as active with Entrecard as I had previously been. However, during the past few days I have tried to allocate some time again to networking with the Entrecard community, as it’s been a good friend to this site.
To shake things up a little, I decided to open my Inbox and drop my card on blogs which had visited me way, way back when, but I was in for a surprise.
Within just a couple of days I have found myself time and again landing on a blog that hasn’t posted for anytime between several weeks and a few months.
When I first started building an online business, including blogs, I read about the high proportion of drop-outs after the initial 3-6 months. This is the first ‘wave’ of quitters I’ve personally witnessed, and it’s disappointing.
Did they just run out of things to say? Were they expecting to earn bucketsful of cash overnight? Have you tried making money online in the past and given up?
I’ve felt fed-up with it all sometimes, particularly the endless series of new technologies to get to grips with. I don’t have the residual funds to outsource, so when something needs doing, it’s me doing it, or it doesn’t get done!
I had to teach myself everything, and I’m proud of what I’ve accomplished so far, both in new skills and abilities, and the progress of my online business.
If you find yourself feeling like giving up, try to remember how you felt about making money online – whether via blogging or broader internet marketing techniques — back when you first became interested.
Remember your initial enthusiasm, and the plans you had for your life, which you felt an online business could bring to fruition.
Pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again. Keeping on, keeping on is the only way you’re going to succeed!
Reward Rebel
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