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Entrecard has just sent out an e-mail to all the ECers about new ways to earn Entrecard credits! Let’s take a look a what’s new:

Buy Entrecard Credits

Now, you can buy ECs directly from Entrecard! This long awaited feature is finally here, as users have been waiting months for this to come back! This will make it a lot easier to buy ECs than having to search for a user. Another plus is you know it’s a trustworthy source. So many users have been ripped off money from scammers, and now you can get it directly from Entrecard itself! The down side? It costs more than the typical selling prices of users. 1000 ECs is $9.50.

There is a maximum limit to the total amount of ECs sold more day as well, so for the first few days they’ll definitely sell out quick. Who knows, they could be sold out every day for weeks! The new feature hasn’t even been on for an hour and already it is selling out. I guess trustworthiness is more valuable than price for the ECers!

Update: Less than one hour of releasing the buy credits option, and they have already sold out for today!
Update #2: It looks like they’ve decided to put more credits up for sale because of the quick sell out!
Update #3: In less than 10 minutes of update 2, they have sold another 20,000 ECs. Crazy!
Update #4: Looks like they are stopping the madness and not adding more ECs, check back tomorrow!
Update #5: 40K ECs are available for purchase, 10 minutes later.

Earn ECs for Posting on Your Blog

This is a really interesting new feature, and I did not see it coming. Entrecard wants to encourage users to blog frequently by giving you ECs for posting! Earn 25 ECs for a new post, and you can earn this once every three days. This is a nice EC boost and you can earn it by doing what you should be doing regularly anyways- updating your blog! Hey, maybe their will be less blogs that don’t offer new content but continue dropping anyways. The flaw in this is that the new post is automatically fetched via the blog’s RSS feed, meaning the new post isn’t monitored. Spam blogs can just post gibberish/more spam and receive 25 ECs.

Earn ECs for Posting on Entrecard’s Blog

Do you read Entrecard’s Blog? It has slowed down lately, but it seems Graham is making an effort to start updating it a lot more frequently. He’s encouraging users to guest blog on the Entrecard Blog, and receive ECs in return! The more helpful and better quality your post is, the more ECs you’ll receive as compensation. You could get up to 2,000 ECs!

Here’s how to sign up to guest blog on Entrecard:

Step 1.) Get your post idea approved.

If you have an idea for a post, send Graham a message by emailing graham@entrecard.com. Tell him about your idea. If it sounds good, he’ll give you the ok. He’ll also set up your account on the Entrecard blog so you can log in and start writing it.

Step 2.) Submit your post for review

Once your post is complete, and the best you can make it, submit it for review but clicking the “Submit for Review” button. The post will be reviewed by Graham and Phirate, at which time we will decide how much EC to pay for it. If it is a stellar post that is going to help people be better bloggers, build the community, etc. we will pay up to 2000 credits for your post. If it is just a simple update, or announcement, we may only pay a few hundred.

Step 3.) We pay!

We will send you payment and publish your article. The better the article, the more we pay!

Earn ECs for Subscribing to the Entrecard Blog

There’s no point in working this hard to getting new content out if there is no one reading! That’s why Entrecard is offering 50 ECs for signing up to the blog’s RSS by e-mail. You can only earn this once, but might as well subscribe and get a quick 50 ECs!

Early this morning a huge update has been made to Entrecard with all the details explained on Entrecard’s blog and you should have received an e-mail about it. I’ll re-summarize the information here. Plus, an idea I sent to Phirate earlier this week has been added, and not mentioned in the e-mail.

Entrecard Official E-book

That’s right! Entrecard has released their official Entrecard e-book containing a tips, strategies, FAQs and more! I’ll read through it and give a more in depth review later.

2 Blogs, One Account

Or even 100 blogs, one account. Now you can merge all of your Entrecard accounts and blogs into one account! Go to Dashboard -> Linked Blogs and from there you can add an existing Entrecard account or make a new one. You’ll be able to switch between blogs just like that! This, I know, has been long awaited and will surely please fellow Entrecarders.

Small New Features

A couple of small, new features has been added to the Entrecard site, including one that was not mentioned in the e-mail or the Entrecard blog post.

New Campaign Tabs – Now you can see the most popular, cheapest, newest, and even randomly chosen blogs when finding blogs to advertise on. You can use the old way, by searching, with the ‘Search’ tab.

Top Droppers RSS – Subscribe to those that drop the most on you with the new Top Droppers RSS feed. Located right next to the Top Droppers table under ‘Statistics’.

Drops by Date – The drops inbox is a really useful tool to drop on everyone who’s been dropping on you lately. But don’t you want to see who’s dropped on you today, yesterday, or maybe from last week. Now when you visit your ‘Drops Inbox’ in your Dashboard, you’ll see white boxes in the mix of Entrecards with the recent dates on them. You can see the group that has dropped on you today, yesterday, the day before, etc. It would be more convenient to have a drop down menu next to ‘Show’ because the white boxes can be hard to spot with the white Entrecards around.

Contests

2000 ECs to everyone – that posts about the new updates (the e-book and the multiple blogs) on their blog. Make sure to comment on the Entrecard update post.

15,000 Multiblog Giveaway – For this one, add your blogs to one account and you’ll be entered to win 15,000 ECs. There is going to be a 15,000 EC prize for each group, based on how many blogs you add:

2-5 blogs in account
5-10 blogs in account
10-15 blogs in account
15-20 blogs in account
20-25 blogs in account

Two recent updates have been made that will improve the speed and accuracy for tracking credit balances and drops. Also, there were a few small bug fixes taken care of so if you were experiencing some problems yesterday, this is probably why. From the Entrecard Blog:

1. Fast, accurate credit balance tracking which works even under tricky situations

2. Fast, accurate drop tracking with immediate response – no more waiting for the batch processor to put your drops into the system, and no more drops going mysteriously missing. The new system should be 100% accurate – if your drop didn’t count for any reason, it’ll tell you. Your credits are applied to your balance instantly.

In addition, a number of minor fixes are in place, including one for the RSS feeds – hopefully they’ll start updating properly now.

So for those fast droppers who complained about it taking a while to update the number of drops you’ve made- this shouldn’t be a problem now!

Sorry guys for the lack of posts this week, my computer has been sitting in the hallway as I refurnished my room and put in a brand new desk to work at!

Anyways, a new forum category as been added to the Entrecard forums. Check out the ‘Entrecard Economy‘ to talk about everything related to ad prices, the value of ECs, and anything else of that sort!

During Developer Day, one of the little added features was new drop messages. For every 50 cards you drop, you get a new message! We don’t know whether it’s staying for a while or it was just for fun, but for now it’s here and if you want to know what message comes with each range of drops, here they are:

Thanks! – First 50 Drops

Go! Go! – 51 – 100 Drops

Alright! – 101 – 150 Drops

Wicked! – 151 – 200 Drops

Yeehah! – 201 – 250

Awesome! – 251 – 300