EntreBlast

Archive for September, 2008

8 major changes have been made to the Entrecard Economy system:

• Buy Credits for Less ($6.00/1000 ECs)
• Pricing Increments Added (View the advertising page for details)
• Members are not allowed to sell credits
• Credit Transfer Limits (limit of 1000EC/week)
• Transfer Tax (12.5% on transfers)
• Blogs cannot be unlinked (unless you ask for deletion)
• Coupons are Gone
• Shop is Closed (until an improved shop is released)

Some aren’t so major, and some have been talked about a lot and were bound to be put in action, but there is only one I and many other Entrecarders have a problem about: credit transfer limits. Tomorow, I’ll post my little rant/investigation on this new change. Feel free to share what you think of these changes below. Which ones affect you?

For more information, check out the Entrecard Economy Changes official blog post.

The title is a bit misleading, but Acadia, a fellow Entrecard member, is holding a halloween-themed scavenger hunt. However, the winner of the hunt will not be a member of Entrecard. That means none of us will win the prize offered. However, it’s up to us to contribute to the contest.

The prize for the contest is going to be cash money. Obviously, we can’t award ECs to a non-member of Entrecard. So far, the prize total is $100. This is a really good start, and it should be expected to grow. To contribute to the contest, contact Acadia on Entrecard for details. You must donate a minimum of $10 and 500 ECs. For sponsoring the scavenger hunt, you’ll receive a ton of backlinks, and traffic as well.

Why are they holding a contest for non-Entrecard members? The goal is to attract publicity from all areas, not just Entrecard-specified contest blogs, and things like that. This way, we are working to get new people to join Entrecard. To those who have never heard of Entrecard, Entrecard credits does not mean anything to them. $100 on the other hand, means something to everyone!

For more details check out the Entrecard Scavenger Hunt blog post or the Entrecard Scavenger Hunt discussion in the Entrecard forums. Let’s drive new members to Entrecard!

That’s right! I am looking to do some advertising, and I have a bunch of Entrecard credits I want to use to do so. I will advertise via Entrecard on one of your blogs, no matter what the cost is, as long as you are a subscribed member of EntreBlast. This will not only boost your ad price, but put some Entrecard credits in your pocket as well! You must be subscribed via e-mail. I thought about having this open only for current subscribers, but thought it’d be fair to give everyone the opportunity to subscribe, so they can receive access to new posts, and cool things like this via e-mail as well!

To subscribe, simply enter your e-mail address below:

Don’t worry, the e-mail subscription service is handled through Feedburner, meaning you’ll only receive new posts via e-mail and nothing else. I hate spam too!

To participate, just drop a comment on this post! Make sure the e-mail address field matches the one you used to subscribe with, and the link to your site is a member of Entrecard. If so, I’ll visit your profile through your site and place an ad! But hurry, you only have until this Friday to do so!

See, told ya it was a good idea to subscribe to EntreBlast!

I guess I can’t hold the title of having the biggest Entrecard contest ever. The Freebie Reporter is giving away over 70,000 Entrecard credits (71,000 to be exact) in their new contest. Entering is easy, and it ends in less than a month! You have until October 10th to enter.

The Prizes

There are 18 sets of prizes being given away, meaning a HUGE chance at winning something! Right now only 14 people have entered, with just 20 days left to do so. Since I earn 10 entries for listing the sponsors, here are all the prizes and the sponsors. You’ll see that you can also grab some free advertising spots as well.

1st Prize:

30,000EC  from  Freebie Reporter
125×125 ad for a month from The Asian Economist
125×125 ad for a month from Free Famous Quotes
1 VIP membership to CreateBanner.com
1 Entrecard banner design from  A Phone Sex Life

2nd Prize:

20,000EC from  Freebie Reporter
1 VIP membership to  CreateBanner.com
125×125 banner  ad for a month  from Journal Of Journey
125×125 banner  ad for a month from  Charcotrip.com
1 month blogroll link from A Phone Sex Life

3rd Prize

2000EC  from  SimpleBrowser
2000EC  from  Debit vs Credit
1500EC  from  Positive Thinking
2000EC  from  Realm of Prosperity
1500EC  from  NickThrolson
1000EC  from  Fantasy Baseball
125×125 ad for 3 months from  Cash Advance Blog
1 VIP membership to CreateBanner.com

Other Prizes:

EC Credits:

11 Lucky winners will get 1000 credits from one of our fabulous sponsors:

1000EC from  Michael Aulia

1000EC from  Øblog

1000EC from  Better Inspirational Communication

1000EC from  Random Detox

1000EC from  Multiply Themes

1000EC from  Momawannabe

1000EC from  Singaporean In London

1000EC from  Abhishek

1000EC from  SEMscoop.com

1000EC from  A Second Cup

1000EC from  Kutsara at Tinidor

Advertising:

4 Lucky winners will get premium advertising spots from the following bloggers:

125×125 ad for a month  from Positive Thinking

125×125  ad for a month from Gift Reviews

1 month blogroll link from Freebie Reporter

125×125 ad for a month from Freebie Reporter

How to Enter

Entering is super easy. For 5 entries, just blog about the contest. For 10, blog about the contest but list all the sponsors. Additionally, you can subscribe to Freebie Reporter and receive 2 entries. Make sure to comment on the Freebie Reporter’s contest post in order for your entries to count! Hmm, these ways of entry sure sound familiar don’t they?

Looks like the Entrecard staff has finally taken intiative to get rid of a wider variety of spammy blogs. Entrecard has updated their quality blog standards for participating in Entrecard. Some are old and obvious while a few are new.

The new standards for being able to participate in Entrecard include:

• No Full Screen Ads (the ones that take you to another page and though you have the option to skip, it is seriously annoying)
• Entrecard Widget must be present (doesn’t make sense for you not to have the widget on anyways)
• No Auto-playing audio (not too many of these but they are annoying as well)
• Content must be recent (last post cannot be older than 6 months; about time they did something like this!)

I am very happy with the recent update to their blog requirements. It is possible to fix your blog if you are not meeting any of these requirements, just make sure to do so soon. Check out the full list of blog standards for Entrecard on the Entrecard blog.

The Summer Credit Splash contest may be over, but that doesn’t mean things will slow down here. Entrecard news will continue, announcing other Entrecard contests will start up again, and the tips, tricks, guides, and interviews won’t stop.

In addition to receiving Entrecard news, contests, and more via e-mail or your favorite RSS reader, you’ll also be getting the good things that will come along before anyone else reads it on here. For example, since the last huge EC contest went SO well, I want to do another one, don’t you? We’ll talk more on that soon. But, the benefit of being subscribed is that you’ll always be automatically entered in EntreBlast’s contests. Subscribing via e-mail will always be a requirement to joining in on our contests, so if for some crazy reason you have decided to stop reading EntreBlast, at least you’ll still be entered in the contests!

So don’t unsubscribe from EntreBlast just because the first contest is over. There is so much more to come! And if you aren’t subscribed yet, it’s best that you subscribe to EntreBlast now. 

Yes! It is finally here. Sorry for torturing all those that entered the contest to win a whopping 36,000 ECs. I have been super busy with school but I did promise I would give the winners this week! I could blab all day but don’t you want to know who the winners are?

There are 6 winners, each getting a nice share of the 36,000 EC total prize.

1st Place – The winner of 17,000 ECs goes to…

Wiehanne at Wiehanne Contest

A HUGE Congratulations!

2nd Place – The winner of 10,000 ECs goes to…

Kirhat at Nesting Buddy

10,000 ECs, not bad at all!

3rd Place – 6,000 ECs goes to…

Mark at World Wide Travel Blog

We see this name too often around here. Looks like being a regular sponsor pays off!

4th Place – 2,000 Entrecard Credits goes to…

bm at Blog Contest

Congrats!

5th Place – The winner of one of the 500 EC prizes is…

Louis Liem of Bukiki.com

6th Place – The other 500 EC winner is…

Ruben at Very Cool News

Congratulations to all the winners! Your prize will be sent tomorrow. Thank you to everyone that participated in EntreBlast’s first contest, and even though it took a lot of time to organize and pick the winners, I plan on holding another one in the near future. Thanks again to the sponsors who were able to make this HUGE contest possible!

That’s right. Today is your last day to enter the Summer Credit Splash if you haven’t yet. Once you are done, report how many points you have and post it here. I noticed people started to post how many on points they had on the original post, and that’s fine too. One mistake people are making though is giving themselves 5 points for blogging about the contest and also the 10 points for blogging about the contest and listing all sponsors. You cannot earn points for both, you either blogged about it or you blogged about it and listed the sponsors. So if you think you have 15 points, you actually will receive 10 points from that.

If you have not reported how many points you have, please do so by Saturday. Either comment on this post or the original. Do not comment on both.

I will announce the winners next week. Good luck and thanks for participating!