Last month, I mentioned that I was going to try Adgitize out, what a waste! Bottom line, do not even bother.
As you all know, I am active in the EntreCard community but that may be coming to a close. I wrote a post a couple of weeks back about the paid ads system and how much of a mess it was. The latest blunder of the juvenille management team is that they are now censoring the forum.
They are only allowing a “select few” to join and post on their “community forum.” All the while they continue to treat the backbone of their company (the bloggers) like second class citizens. Those kids over there need a lesson in business 101. You will notice that I still have a EC widget on this blog and that is due to the fact that I have a bunch of credits that I still need to spend in the marketplace. I did not want this post to be about bashing EntreCard, rather I wanted to let everyone know that I joined the CMF Ads community today and I am very pleased with what I am seeing so far.
For those that are not familiar with CMF, the are a blogging/ad network that helps bloggers promote and monetize their blog. They are similar to EC in the sense that you earn credits and use credits to advertise on other members’ blogs. That is where the similarities end. Unlike EC, CMF is a stable economy and there is none of the dropping that EC is built around. That is good for me because I do not waste my time dropping. My time is much more valuable than 30 cents for a half hours worth of work.
I would love to see CMF start a marketplace because I think that is the most valuable part of the EC experience. I currently spend all my credits on getting my posts digged, stumbled and retweeted.
The sign up process was easy and much more strait forward than EntreCard. I remember when I first joined EC it took me a week until I knew what I was doing. The biggest difference that I noticed is the company is actually run by people that really care about their company. The administrators are active on the forums and approved my blog in less than an hour. I also had a question about the size of my ad and I sent an alert to the admin. My question was answered in less than 5 minutes. I have questions that have never been answered over at EC. From what I can see, CMF has their act together and is run by adults who get it rather than a bunch of kids pretending that they know what they are doing. I guess the real test will be to see if I can actually make a few bucks from the ads and more importantly increase traffic from my ads and exposure in the community. I will keep you posted….
Is anyone else made the switch to CMF? Anyone else fed up with EC?
Not tried any of these yet. maybe its time to do so.
What is the URL of CMF because thats not a name i recognise.
Thanks.
Kevin
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@kevin- the url is http://cmfads.com
Guess you can ignore my previous comment as I just seen the answer. I tried adgitize, and its going pretty well. My website viewership has increased 200%. Bounce rate, I havent checked yet. I just started EC yesterday, we’ll see how it goes…
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already try it before. But only at one blog. But i will try more blog soon.
I’ve been using CMF for a few months. It’s a great community to belong to.
I used to enjoy participating in the Entrecard forums. It’s a shame they’ve locked them
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Hey – thanks for giving CMF Ads a try.
To answer a couple of your points – we have been developing the CMF Shop, which is now open to beta testers. Paid Reviews are the first type of product we’re allowing people to sell.
If you want to sell stuff in the Shop, just go to the General Discussion forum and post in the sticky topic asking to be a seller. We’ll give you access.
We won’t be allowing sales of social media votes (Stumbles, Diggs etc) though. I believe that selling Stumbles is against the StumbleUpon TOS. However, we’re certainly interested to hear if you have any suggestions for new categories in the Shop. Please post in the forums if you have any ideas.
Well i try to CMF but not ready yet to become publisher there. Till now I still trying with Adgitize for several weeks. Maybe later i will try CMF after i have done with Adgitize.
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@John- I am very happy with CMF so far and I am happy that they are expanding their markeplace. I have actually started seeling “Twitter shouts”.
Entrecard make a huge blunder with shutting down the forums, they really need to hire someone with some business savvy to run that place before the kids run it into the ground.