As I mentioned in a post last month, I joined the EntreCard Network. For those that are not familiar with EntreCard, read this post first: http://tycoonblogger.com/2009/03/19/promoting-your-blog/promote-your-blog-using-entrecard
If you are still reading this you probably have a basic understanding of what the network is all about. Just when I was getting used to things, a couple of weeks ago they announced some radical chances to their business model. They announced that they would be selling ad space on the widgets of blogs in their network 50% of the time. This outraged a lot of loyal bloggers, to me I am too new to care one way or the other. I see this as a potential positive in that members will be able to cash out their credits and make real money instead of “EC” money.
After 3 weeks on the network, I have noticed a slight increase in visitors and as I expected an increase in my bounce rate as well. Yesterday, I decided that I was going to join the marketplace and start earning some credits so I can advertise on the major blogs and even the EC blog too. It took my almost an hour to get things started but I figured out how to offer services to the market place. I have two service offerings right now, one involves RSS and the other involves selling blogroll links on another PR4 blog that I own. The response has been much greater than I expected. In the first 24 hours, I completed 9 transactions and earned over 10,000 EC credits. I do not know the exact worth of that because I have been unable to find out any information about the conversion rate that will happen when they start selling outside ads. I do know that EntreCard sells 10,000 credits for $56. I will be happy if I can continue to earn over 10,000 credits for a couple of hours of easy work. I know a lot of people left the network and there is a mass exodus happening right now. I have decided to stick around and see how things go. I have been happy with them so far.
Hey just read your post, have you been successful? Is it easy to make 10,000 ec? Whats the max per day you can earn?
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Me too. I like the market. It is a good way to earn EC if you have something valuable to offer. Dropping cards is a pain in the ***, so I don’t go drop 300 cards every day like some people do (if they do it still). However, I have written a Greasemonkey script that drops back all the cards that have been dropped on my widget (so I’ll drop you back for sure). It’s easy to auto-drop if you know a little bit of JavaScript, but I don’t want to risk being banned, so I don’t do do it, I just auto-backdrop my visitors…