Showing posts with label EntreCard-Contest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EntreCard-Contest. Show all posts

Saturday, December 12, 2009

The Holiday-Contest-Winners!

Holiday-Contest
Congratulations to the 10 winners:


Thank you to all participants in our Holiday-Contest... the next contest will come soon!

In the next two days the ONE MONTH ads will be online and the ECs will be transferred in your accounts (the three members who made a blog post will receive the additional ECs, too) :)

Not all members who dropped cards commented on all five blogs, so i only took the persons who commented on the specific blog into the drawing.

If someone won the same prize on another blog, this prize has been put back and was chosen again for another blog.

Winner of the ad prizes should comment on this blog and give me a link to their ad image which they want to display or tell me if i can use the EntreCard ad image!

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Quickies for Adgitize, EntreCard, Contest, Comments

Hi, we are back from the visit of my wife's relatives in Penang and Alor Star (Malaysia) since the weekend.

Just wanted to make some quick announcements about new additions in Adgitize and EntreCard, the Holiday-Contest and my reply to comments.

ADGITIZE

There is now an option to BUY GIFTCARDS for Advertisement in Adgitize. This option is useful for contests, for "donations" or just as a gift for a blogger friend. They are available as 12$ gift for an ONE WEEK ad, as 18$ gift for a TWO WEEK ad and as 24$ gift for 31 DAY ad.

Throughout the 1st December the advertiser keep on dropping, it's a fact now that we lost over 60 advertiser since the end of October 2009. But this fact should not make anyone worry to stop advertising NOW.
I will keep advertising but change the ad in Adgitize to our All about babies and kids-Blog from 3rd December on.
In case you like to visit me after my Adgitize ad expires, simply follow me with Google Friend connect, bookmark me or subscribe to my blog :)

Why NOT stopping to advertise?
In every month there have been only 20% of the advertisers who earned back the money of their bought ad, this has been like this since i joined in April (there they changed the earnings system to the actual point system). And it will be again the same in December because of the specific calculation for each 100 point tier. In the coming days there will be less members in the 300/400 point tier and we saw already this effect throughout the last few days (Thanksgiving holidays).
Members who can score more than 300 or 400 points will have more stable earnings than the members who slipped in the 200 point tier. They have to share the same amount of money with more members.

More reasons to start/renew your ad now!

The last two days i see a sharp increase in clicks to my blog (around 30%-50% from the average 77 clicks --> 30th - 96, 1st December - 123):
  • one reason is that more advertisers stopped their ads and have now to click 100 ads instead of 50
  • the other reason less advertiser means higher chances to appear more often on the ad widgets and get surely a click!
In case you are not yet a member, you can join Adgitize today, start earning $$ and get traffic.
If you advertise as my referral for the first time you get 50% of my finder fee (9$) which would be 4,50$ via Paypal (Paypal may deduct fees of less than 50 cents).


ENTRECARD

After the invasion of sponsored ads in the last week the run for it has stopped as many members don't see it as an effective advertisement (too expensive as the 25$ just lasts for less than 5 days, less clicks if you advertise in one and the same category with the whole 25$).
When the spike of 12 sponsored ads had been reached, the 15% reserved air time was even exceeded by EntreCard, as many members experienced less clicks from their EC-based ads!

As an addition in the CAMPAIGN section, they added a new sign for EntreCard sponsors. The sign is a STAR in the ad image. It is also written in the user profile of these members.
It means the member has paid 5$/monthly or 48$/year to opt-out of displaying sponsored ads. On these blogs you will get now 100% airtime for your EC paid ads!
I saw in the last days four blogs with the star (Ad Master, SpicyBugz World, 2 of Maitri's Blog).


The Holiday-Contest

Thanks to the members who participated in this contest. The winners will be announced on this weekend on each of the five blogs!


Reply to your given comments during our holidays

I will reply to your comments in the coming days, so come back or subscribe by e-mail to the comments to stay in touch with the ongoing discussions!

Friday, November 27, 2009

Join the Holiday-Contest now!

Sticky post (read below for my new interesting articles):

All you have to do is... just drop your EntreCards on one or more of the our mentioned blogs and make ONE comment on this Holiday-Contest post for having the chance to win FREE Advertising on Cornyman's Money-Blog (from 19th to 27th November).

The prizes have a worth of more than 200$, you can see them on the above mentioned link. If you do a blog post about this Holiday-Contest, you can get some free ECs, too.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Holidays-Contest and advertising on my blogs!

Hello readers, visitors and advertisers!

We will be not able to drop cards and do Adgitize clicking from 19th November on. I guess we'll be back from our holidays between 27 and 29th of November.
Then we will start to drop again 300 cards daily.

In this time of absence we have several scheduled articles (so it doesn't get boring visiting us + there will be a Holiday-Contest on all five blogs.

The 10 prizes will be for each blog
  1. ONE x ONE MONTH AD (December) - Value: 4.000 - 30.000 EC - 5$ to 20$
  2. Two x TWO week ads (January) - Value: 2.000 - 15.000 EC - 3 $ - 11 $
  3. Four x ONE week ads (February) - Value: 1.000 - 7.500 EC - 2 $ - 6 $
  4. 2.500 EC
  5. 1.500 EC
  6. 1.000 EC
The Blogs are

Cornyman's Money-Blog
Cornyman's Blogreviews
All about babies and kids
The One Minute Guide
Best travel pictures in the world

What do you have to do to win ONE of these prizes?

Simply drop cards on one or more of our blogs during the time of 19th - 29th NOVEMBER.

In case you would like to write a blog post about this contest, you'll get at the end of the contest
  • 200 EC (if the blog post is written between 18 - 20th November),
  • 125 EC (if the blog post is written between 21 - 23rd November),
  • 50 EC (if the blog post is written between 24 - 25th November),
  • 0 EC (if the blog post is written after 25th November).
The more often you drop, the more chances you will have to win. A blog post doubles the amount of dropping entries (Example: You dropped 3 times and write a blog post, your entries will be 6 + guaranteed ECs)

Please remember to make a comment on the first day (from 19th on) when you start dropping, if you want to take part in the contest (i only count the drops of members from that day on when the Participation-Comment is written!).

In case you wrote a blog post, leave the link to the blog post and your EntreCard Details, otherwise there will be no transfer of the ECs.

Winners will be announced in the first days of December!


To my Advertisers


If you bought/buy an ad from 19th November - 29th November in EntreCard on one of these blogs

Cornyman's Money-Blog (up to 380 visitors)
Cornyman's Blogreviews (up to 70 visitors, didn't click 300 daily, otherwise up to 200 visitors)
All about babies and kids (up to 200 visitors)
The One Minute Guide (up to 200 visitors)
Best travel pictures in the world (up to 180 visitors)

be advised that the visits will usually drop daily by 20%-30% and you might not get the return of clicks for what you have paid (even when i bought several ads and make this contest)!

I don't mind, if you like to cancel your ad and buy it in the last days of November, when it's sure that you will receive a better price and much more clicks in December when your ad will run!

The ads will be on auto-approval from Tuesday 17th November on!

If you like to buy an CMF-Ad, i have until end of November a Special Birthday Prize of 33 cents for one month. From December on the price will be again 60 cents!

Have a nice time, keep on reading/commenting on our articles and good luck to our participants of the Holiday-Contest!

Friday, October 30, 2009

Birthday Giveaway - Happy 9.999 ECs for you!

Hi,

i had birthday already some days ago :)

And my son invited you on All about babies and kids to guess how young his daddy is since the 27th of October.

If you like to win easy 33 x 333 EC, hop over to the Baby-Blog, read the HINT and start "guessing" my age.

The deadline is the 1st of November midnight (Malaysian Time +8 hours GMT), winners get the ECs on 2nd of November.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Our contest-winners of 5$ and 500 ECs!

Here are the winner of the prizes of the 2nd commenting contest:

5$ from Businessphere : HiTechBlog

4 x 500 EC each to:

The prizes will be transferred within the next hours (cash prize as soon as the paypal-mail is available). The 100 ECs for each comment will be transferred in the next days from the sponsors!

Thanks again for participating!

Monday, September 14, 2009

2nd commenting contest - Win 5$ and thousands of ECs!

The sponsors for the second commenting contest from 15 September - 21 September (winners will be announced one or two days later) will be

Sponsor 1
Business Sphere - Business Advice, Entrepreneurship, Consulting, Real Estate
First 35 comments - 100 EC = 3.500 EC + 5$ (for a random winner)

Sponsor 2
Your daily photo depot
First 35 comments - 100 EC = 3.500 EC

Sponsor 3
lunaticg banknote & coin
First 35 comments - 100 EC = 3.500 EC

Sponsor 4
Frugality is the new reality
First 35 comments - 100 EC = 3.500 EC


(Sponsor 5 - no comments needed-)
For each contest there will be additional a random winner with 500 EC
- sponsored by The One Minute Guide (2.000 EC)

Throughout the day these sponsors will post their articles, the direct links are provided at the end of this post! I strongly recommend to use these links for direct access!

Please read first the rules before you start!


The rules:

With this contest you can discover new blogs, new contents and perhaps favorite some of these blogs in the future and the best, you can win weekly always hundreds of ECs and 5$ cash!

If you take part in all contest and are one of the first 35 comments, you can get up to 1.200 ECs for 4 x 3 comments (3 comments are paid, the fourth comment gives you one more entry) + the chance to win additional 4 x 500 ECs + 5$!

Easy ECs!


The more often you take part in these contests throughout the month, the more entries you get for the monthly prizes, too.

Each comment/subscription/following for a sponsored contest - maximum of 6 entries, up to 24 entries this week for the monthly prizes!

Monthly prizes (End of September, October, November, December):
  1. One week free Adgitize Advertisement (value 7$, which will give you up to 80 visitor/day + you earn some money! Not yet member, you can sign up here which will give you 20 Entries for our BIG FINAL PRIZE contest!)
  2. 2.000 EC
  3. 1.500 EC
  4. 1.000 EC
  5. 500 EC


  1. Possibility 1:
    • Copy the 5 sponsors and a link back to this post in your blog (with the links) and provide the link of your post in the comment section!
      In this case you have to publish each week in which you participate in one of our contests a new blog post with the sponsors!
      No qualification for the BIG FINAL Prizes!

    Possibility 2:
    • Copy the sponsor list in your blog and provide the link of your post in the comment section. The code for the sponsor list can be found in the Final Prize rules.
      In this case you have to publish the list just once and you can always participate (just update the "old" list every 15th of a month as some new sponsors will join)
      .
      Only this will qualify you automatically for the BIG FINAL Prizes (5 entries), if you want additional chances for these prizes, have a look in the Final Prize rules!

  2. The sponsors choose four different posts, on these posts you have to give quality comments.

  3. You can comment on all sponsors with one comment and up to four comments for each sponsor. If your comment is one of the first 35 comments, you can get at the end of the contest for up to 3 comments 100 ECs/comment. You should always comment on the 5$-sponsor!

  4. Quality comment: The length should be more than 1 sentence and it has to be connected with the content of the posts. SPAM COMMENTS will be deleted by the sponsors and are not counted as an entry!
    Add your Blog address at the end of the comment if you want to enter with more than one blog!

  5. You can make one comment on each post which will give you ONE entry for the specific sponsor's weekly prize. You can get four entries if you comment on each of the four posts of one sponsor. The entries are only for the specific sponsor!
    Example: Four comments on Too little time to blog four posts will give
    you four entries for her contest, to get entries for the other prizes you have additional to comment on the other sponsor's blogs!

  6. Following the Sponsors (additional to comments!): If you follow them through Google Friend Connect or subscribe by e-mail/RSS-Feed you'll get 2 additional entries.

    Summarized you can get 6 entries for each of the mentioned sponsored contests when you comment on all posts and subscribe to all mentioned blogs.

The winners will be chosen by random.org, the ECs will be transferred to you after the winners have been announced.


In the comment section, you only have to provide the link to your blog post about this contest and on which sponsor's blog you posted how many comments.

An example will be online as soon as we have all sponsor posts!

Direct link to Sponsor 1 Business Sphere - Business Advice, Entrepreneurship, Consulting, Real Estate

Direct link to Sponsor 2 Your daily photo depot

Direct link to Sponsor 3 lunaticg banknote & coin (it's at the end of the post)

Direct link to Sponsor 4 Frugality is the new reality

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Our first contest-winners of 5$ and 500 ECs!

First of all, i like to thank all the participants of these contests who commented on the sponsor's blogs. And now - the winners:

The 5$ from A Little Boy's Blog are going to

Mara from Mara's Appetite

The 2 x 500 EC from Work at home have won:

Kitni from HiTechBlog (+ 2 x 75EC = 150 EC for the comments)
Zul from My Online Contest (+ 4 x 75 EC = 300 EC for the comments)

The lucky winners of 2 x 500 EC from Kamila the Camel - A Camel in Bulgaria are

Jan from Better Spines (+ 2 x 75 EC = 150 EC for the comments)
John from EzGreatLife - Family, Fitness and Finances (+ 4 x 75 EC = 300 EC for the comments)

The following members receive 500 EC from EzGreatLife - Family, Fitness and Finances:

Kitni from HiTechBlog (+ 75 EC for one comment)
Jan from Better Spines (+75 EC for one comment)

The last winners of 500 EC from The Fitness Diva:

Aldon from The Orient Lodge (+ 75 EC for one comment)
John from EzGreatLife - Family, Fitness and Finances (+ 4 x 75 EC= 300 EC for the comments)


The prizes will be transferred in the coming days!

Thanks again and i hope to see you back when the next contest starts during TUESDAY 15th September!

At the moment the question and answer contest is still open, get 50 ECs for One Minute of your time, look here!

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Your feedback and opinion about the contest is appreciated!


Now nearly two weeks have gone since our 1-Million EC-Contest started.and in 12 hours the first winners will be announced. To make it more interesting for our participants i would like to know (from participants, participants-to-be and our sponsors!) your opinion on several topics.

  1. Which kind of contests do you like to participate in?
    - commenting contests: comment on the sponsor's blogs on chosen topics
    - question and answer: like the previous post, just look up on the sponsor's blog the easy answer and get immediately (if i'm awake :) ) the ECs in your account!
    - your own suggestions: it should include a visit of the sponsor

  2. What's the reason at the moment not to take part in the contest yet?
    - any improvements to make from my side? Some suggest to give the Html-Code of the complete sponsor list and the post for the weekly sponsored contest (will be made tomorrow)
    - are the prizes not fair enough? 75 EC for one comment (reading + commenting may take 5 minutes, dropping 75 cards - 25 or more minutes) + the chances to win 500 EC in each of the sponsored contest + 5$
    - your reason would be interesting to know

  3. Let me know your opinion, suggestions and ideas to make this contest a better place for participants and sponsors!
    The sponsors have great content to share and our participants have amazing thoughts to share and in exchange for that both have a win-win situation!
Good luck for everyone who take, took part in our contests!

Don't forget to comment and publish an article with the weekly sponsor links on the previous articles otherwise your given comments can NOT be counted!

CHANGES from your suggestions:
  • NO MORE WORD Verification for comments
  • Just write how many posts you made on the sponsors blog, direct links no more needed

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Quick Give-Away: First 50 persons get 50 ECs!

As the first weekly contest is going to close soon (you still can get 75 EC/comment, up to 1.200 ECs for all sponsors + the chance to win additional 5$ and several 500 ECs!), we make now one of the quick and easy EC-Giveaways.

This time it's a Donation from The Journey

You just have to hop over to her blog, drop your card (if you like to comment on one of her beautiful picture posts, she would be happy, too :) and answer this question - it's done within ONE MINUTE:

Tell me one of her EC-Advertisers in the week from 24th to 31st of August 2009. (Solution now on the third page, just click previous entries :) )

Leave in this post a comment with the correct answer and your EntreCard-User profile (click on the "E" of your EntreCard and copy this link in the comment form).

The contest has no time limit as i will give the 50 ECs immediately to the first 50 persons with the correct answer!

This means it will end as soon as i have 50 correct answers :)

Winner list (after publishing the comments this list will be deleted) - 42 left!
1. Isker's Blog 50 EC
2. HiTechBlog 50 EC
3. Orient Lodge 50 EC
4.
EzGreatLife - Family, Fitness and Finances 50 EC
5. So far, so good 50 EC
6. A Women remembers 50 EC
7. A lonely planet it is not 50 EC
8. My Online Contest 50 EC

Otherwise use the commenting contest to earn up to 1.200 ECs + have several chances to win 500 EC and 5$ cash, jump here to the details of the commenting contest!

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Get up to 1.200 ECs for commenting, win 5$ and 8 x 500 EC in our weekly contest!

NEW:
MORE Participant-Friendly RULES!
:)


Here are the first five sponsors who will give-away 4.000 ECs and 5$ until the 12 PM of Sunday, 13th September (Malaysian time, GMT +8). The winners will be announced until 13th September.

CHANGE OF PRIZES AND RULES (as of 5th September!):
ACT FAST as only the first 40 COMMENTS get for each comment 75 ECs, but you have additional the chance to win 8 x 500 ECs and the 5$!
THE RULES ON THE Sponsor's pages are no more valid :) here are the OFFICIAL RULES!

Sponsor 1 - Kamila the Camel First 40 comments -75 EC + 2x 500 EC

Sponsor 2 - The Fitness Diva First 40 comments -75 EC + 2x 500 EC

Sponsor 3 - Work At Home First 40 comments -75 EC + 2x 500 EC

Sponsor 4 - A Little Boy's blog 5$

Sponsor 5 - EzGreatLife - Family, Fitness and Finances First 40 comments -75 EC + 2x 500 EC



All sponsors have posted their articles today, the direct links are at the end of this post!

Please read first the rules before you start!


The rules for the weekly contests will be usually every week the same.
With this contest you can discover new blogs, new contents and perhaps favorite some of these blogs in the future and the best, you can win weekly always hundreds of ECs and 5$ cash!

If you take part in all contest and are one of the first 40 comments, you can get up to 1.200 ECs for 4 x 4 comments + the chance to win additional 4x500 ECs + 5$! How does this sound?

The more often you take part in these contests throughout the month, the more entries you get for the monthly prizes, too.

Each comment/subscription/following for a sponsored contest - maximum of 6 entries, up to 30 entries this week for the monthly prizes!

Monthly prizes (End of September, October, November, December):
  1. One week free Adgitize Advertisement (value 7$, which will give you up to 80 visitor/day + you earn some money! Not yet member, you can sign up here which will give you 20 Entries for our BIG FINAL PRIZE contest!)
  2. 2.000 EC
  3. 1.500 EC
  4. 1.000 EC
  5. 500 EC


  1. Possibility 1:
    • Copy the 5 sponsors and a link back to this post in your blog (with the links) and provide the link of your post in the comment section!
      In this case you have to publish each week in which you participate in one of our contests a new blog post with the sponsors!
      No qualification for the BIG FINAL Prizes!

    Possibility 2:
    • Copy the sponsor list in your blog and provide the link of your post in the comment section.
      In this case you have to publish the list just once and you can always participate (just update the "old" list every 15th of a month as some new sponsors will join)
      .
      Only this will qualify you automatically for the BIG FINAL Prizes (5 entries), if you want additional chances for these prizes, have a look in the Final Prize rules!

  2. The sponsors choose four different posts, on these posts you have to give quality comments.

  3. You can comment on all sponsors with one comment and up to four comments for each sponsor. You should always comment on the 5$-sponsor!

  4. Quality comment: The length should be more than 3 sentences and it has to be connected with the content of the posts. SPAM COMMENTS will be deleted by the sponsors and are not counted as an entry!
    Add your Blog address at the end of the comment if you want to enter with more than one blog!

  5. You can make one comment on each post which will give you ONE entry for the specific sponsor's weekly prize. You can get four entries if you comment on each of the four posts of one sponsor. The entries are only for the specific sponsor!
    Example: Four comments on Kamila's four posts will give
    you four entries for her contest, to get entries for the other prizes you have additional to comment on the other sponsor's blogs!

  6. Following the Sponsors (additional to comments!): If you follow them through Google Friend Connect or subscribe by e-mail/RSS-Feed you'll get 2 additional entries.

    Summarized you can get 6 entries for each of the mentioned sponsored contests when you comment on all posts and subscribe to all mentioned blogs.

The winners will be chosen by random.org, the ECs will be transferred to you after the winners have been announced.

Please provide -after you made the comments on the sponsor blogs- a comment on my blog here with the Blog posts you commented on.

An example can be found in the comment section!


Link to Kamila the Camel's post
Link to A Little Boy's Blog post
Link to EZGreatLife - Family, Fitness and Finances post
Link to Work at Home
Link to The Fitness Diva

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

1 Millionen EC-Contest started! Take part in it and win weekly prizes - Rules for participants + Sponsors

Welcome to the biggest EntreCard-Contest in the history of EntreCard and a BIG THANK YOU to all SPONSORS for making this contest possible !

There will be more than 500.000 ECs, 125$+ cash, 75+ ad spaces and many more items to win from 1st September until 31st of December 2009!

I think after the "You'll get only 1EC/drop-Change" which is effective since today, 1st of September, it will be difficult to get again so many ECs for a contest.

It's also a good chance to fill your EntreCard-Account with thousands of ECs which you can use to advertise on other blogs or trade and buy services in the EntreCard Forum/EntreCard Market.


Each week you will have the chance to win 5$ and always more than 15.000 ECs + several ad spaces.

There will be also some shorter contest periods with a duration of only one to six days and prizes from 500 - 3000 ECs throughout the contest and several surprise give-aways on one of our four blogs.


Monthly prizes will be given to the persons who take part in our contest and one or several of the sponsor's contest (each participation in one contest gives entries for the the actual month's prize).

Monthly prizes (End of September, October, November, December):
  1. One week free Adgitize Advertisement (value 7$, which will give you up to 80 visitor/day + you earn some money! Not yet member, you can sign up here which will give you 20 Entries for our contest!)
  2. 2.000 EC
  3. 1.500 EC
  4. 1.000 EC
  5. 500 EC
Final prizes (End of December)
The final prizes are not final yet, as the contest is still open for new sponsorships until the first week of December and these prizes will be upgraded soon!
  1. 20.000 EC
    ONE month free ADGITIZE advertisement (value 14$, which will give you up to 80 visitor/day + you earn some money! Not yet member, you can sign up here which will give you 20 Entries for our contest!)
    10$
    several ad spaces

  2. 15.000 EC
    Two weeks free ADGITIZE advertisement (value 10$, which will give you up to 80 visitor/day + you earn some money! Not yet member, you can sign up here which will give you 20 Entries for our contest!)
    10$
    several ad spaces
  3. 10.000 EC
    ONE week free ADGITIZE advertisement (value 7$, which will give you up to 80 visitor/day + you earn some money! Not yet member, you can sign up here which will give you 20 Entries for our contest!)
    5$
    several ad spaces
  4. 5.000 EC
    Ad space
  5. 4.000 EC
    Ad space
  6. 3.000 EC
  7. 2.500 EC
  8. 2.000 EC
  9. 1.500 EC
  10. 1.000 EC
  11. 500 EC
How to enter the Final prize contest:
  1. MUST DO! Blog about this contest and copy the sponsor list (as the sponsorship is going on, please update the sponsor list every 15th of each month! :) - 5 entries



Additional entries:
  1. Copy the following code in your sidebar and display the Contest-Logo until 31st Dezember - 5 entries per month

    Join the 1 Million EC-Free Traffic-Contest now!

  2. Follow one or all of our blogs - 3 entries for each blog

    Cornymans Money-Blog

    Cornymans Blog-Reviews
    The One Minute Guide
    All about babies and kids

  3. Subscribe to our feeds - 5 entries for each blog

    Subscribe to All about babies and kids by Email

    Subscribe to Cornymans Money-Blog by Email
    Subscribe to The One Minute Guide by Email
    Subscribe to Cornymans Blogreviews by Email

  4. Link to us from your blog - 3 entries for each blog

    Cornymans Money-Blog
    Cornymans Blog-Reviews
    The One Minute Guide
    All about babies and kids

  5. Bookmark this post in Stumble upon, Digg, Delicious - 2 entries for each bookmark

  6. Sign up with Adgitize, start earning money and get traffic - 20 entries
    more information about Adgitize (to sign up use the provided links, otherwise it won't be valid!)
More additional entries coming soon!

Please provide the link to the Blogpost, for the Button-Ad, your Follower-Name, your e-mail, your link to the Social bookmark profiles and the name of the blog(s) which you signed up in Adgitize in the comment!
An example can be seen in the comment-section!

Start of the 1 Million EC-Free Traffic - Contest!

Our contest will start soon, just wait some hours.

All sponsors who want to participate in the contest have to copy the sponsor list (and update it once each month!). The complete rules will be published in a few hours.

Sponsorships are still possible until the beginning of December throughout the contest period! Join us and get free Traffic! Here you can read the sponsor rules!

There will be over 500.000 ECs, 125 $ Cash and more than 75 ad spaces + many more things to give-away.


We will start with a weekly contest where you can win 5$, and 16.000 EC (first 40 comments get 75 ECs on each sponsor's blog + 8x 500 ECs). There will be a few daily contests, too. So try to visit us each day or follow us!


The Final prizes will be several 10.000 ECs + $ and one month (value 14$)/ two weeks (10$) / one week (7$) free advertising in Adgitize (which will give you up to 80 visitor/day + you earn some money! Not yet member, you can sign up here which will give you 20 Entries for our contest!).
As we will get more sponsorships during the contest period these final prizes will grow, too!

Stay tuned!

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Build a popular blog with these three types of posts!

There are a lot of questions how to grow your blog and generate traffic which is what keeps your blog alive!

Are you a blogger who writes for yourself or do you write your blog posts for your readers? How can you attract your readers to read your posts? Which posts attract which readers?

What are the ingredients for a successful blog?

Like in the real life, we can not live without some sugar, spice and vitamins.

Why vitamins?

As everyone needs vitamins in the daily life, these posts are one of the essentials for the regular readers in your blog.

They represent your blog or your niche like in my case it would be the guides of myLot, Adgitize and EntreCard or the Scam posts.

These posts help you grow and build up the blog!


The purpose of sugar posts!

What do you think about your important blog posts? Do they always keep the attention of your readers or will it get after a while too serious?
I think you know what will come next. They wait for some sweeties from you! Why?
Sugar posts catch the attention of new readers and of your loyal reader much easier. The sole purpose of these posts is to make your blog easier to consume.

Sugar posts are usually blog lists where other readers can find additional information about a specific topic like the Scam List , paid survey list or freebies like the Suze Orman ebook

Like in the real life, try to keep your sugar posts in little dosages otherwise your blog will turn into a candy shop. The sugar posts shall attract new readers to keep on reading your vitamin posts and make them to one of your regular readers!

Why you should use some spicy posts!

The purpose of spice in your blog is to keep the whole blog interesting as every meal gets less tasty without some spicy herbs or chilli!
Sugar and vitamin posts will give you the opportunity to gain and hold your readers, they help you to grow substantially.

Within spicy posts you present your flavor and your own personality (opinion). This will, can and should cause some heated debates on your blog.
One of my spicy posts included EntreCard: The Wipe Out has already started.

Is it dangerous for your loyal readership to use this kind of spice?
Of course you can say, "Hey, they won't like my opinion about this topic."
Yes, that's might be true but first of all not everyone will flee and stop coming back. They may hate this particular post, ok. You won't like their comments on this post.
You have to bare it like they have to. But in the end your reader will no where else get this specific spicy flavor of your post!


Let's summarize the recipe...


Take a little bit of sugar to attract new readers, keep your readers and yourself healthy with the vitamins and make your blog more interesting with some spices!


What do you think about it and which kind of post might this be?

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

EntreCard: Breaking NEWS - Only 1 credit per drop from 1st September on!

EntreCardThat's new, that's amazing or is it the worst decision ever made by the new management of EntreCard?

From 1st September on, only the person who drops the card will get a ONE EC. The member who receives the DROP gets NO MORE ONE EC. This means if you want to advertise in the future, you have to be active and drop cards, otherwise you won't have many chances to advertise.

I guess the advertising prices will drop too in the long run (when the ECs that are hold back from the Cashout program will flow into the Economy!)

This action had to be taken by the management to solve the Entrecard Inflation.

I guess our contest will be welcome from 1st September on, by the members who don't want to click so often. Instead of clicking so many members to pay for a good advertising spot, they just have to visit some blogs to get a chance of winning several thousand ECs each week!
Thank you EntreCard Team for this step :-) (ironic!)

What is your opinion to this new decision (again no word about the strange paid ad from the previous day)?

Monday, August 24, 2009

EntreCard: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

EntreCardOk... i thought i wait until the day is over and write a rant after the situation in EntreCard with the Server might be fixed.

But now it's just ENOUGH!!

I just wrote with Eli from Businessphereconsulting.com about the Server meltdown in EntreCard yesterday and about the strange appearance of the paid ad (which when you buy their promoted software, will produce a much higher bounce rate, by the way you could get a similar software for free... just have a look in one of my "EntreCard explained"-Series, there i promoted a website which offers this for free!)

While writing with him, i dropped two cards one on his blog and one on Chronic Chick Talk. On her blog there is the RSS-Feed for the Drop Inbox, usually i appear there immediately after i dropped my card. This time -NO- no Cornyman's Money-Blog and the strange thing was no one from today appeared only drops from yesterday.

I checked my Inbox, the same, only from yesterday 48 drops (instead of around 280) and my statistics from yesterday showed only 80 drops from me but i did 300 drops!! Seems the two hours yesterday night have been a waste of time better have watched one more movie with my wife!

And now the best... after i wrote a message to Eli 10 minutes ago my ECs got deducted by 534 ECs. At the moment i can only guess that this must be the difference between my drops yesterday 300 - 80 (registered) drops = 220 ECs and the drops from other members on my blog for yesterday and today (my stats telling me that more than 30 members clicked directly from their inbox today but none of them are counted in the real statistics!! The real drops are usually 50 to 80% higher).

When i look just now in my Transaction it's very obvious. The ad price from yesterday is not counted (or was deducted) and all drops since yesterday 5:38 am (Amercian time).

You can look up the answer about this situation of Phirate from EntreCard forum here. No chance to get the lost credits back!

Since 3:42 am today the drops are being counted again!! So better to come back again and drop your cards on everyone you dropped in the time from 0:00 to 3:42 am (American time)!!!

HAVE A GREAT DAY and in case you want to get free traffic better to join our contest and recycle your ECs because EntreCard seems no more that trustworthy these days!

Sunday, August 23, 2009

EntreCard: Can this be true ???

Have you seen this picture on the other member blogs of EntreCard... wondered why this is displayed on our EC-Widgets but on their website (in case you clicked on the pic) there is no EC-Widget?

It seems to be true... this is again a PAID AD. What's going on with EntreCard... accepting again paid ads (from outside websites) but no more CASHOUT option?

And why is the server down so often in the last two days? Do they run really out of cash now?
Anyone any explanation for this two topics?

Hope my contest doesn't suffer from this server meltdowns... join as sponsor until 31.08.2009... and join as participant from 1st September 2009! Just click on the Banner on the right side and read what you can do to take part in it!

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Recycle your ECs into FREE TRAFFIC! Join our contest!

There are so many members in EntreCard sitting on their ECs (like me) and i guess you don't know how to RECYCLE those massive amount of ECs for the best value?

Join our contest because now you can get FREE TRAFFIC for as low as 500 EC/day, for a week it would be 3.500 EC or sponsor 5$ via Paypal for ONE WEEK FREE TRAFFIC + Ad spaces from your blog.

If you have some Gift cards which you don't use or which will perhaps expire soon, just sponsor them in our contest and in exchange the participants have to visit your blog to win this gift card!

This Contest will change further upcoming contests!
  1. The first time that sponsors get actively traffic from a contest - not just some clicks through the link love that is given by publishing the sponsor list on all participant's blogs.

  2. Sponsors get link love from the other sponsors who want to participate in the contest.
    1. If you are already member of Technorati, then your Technorati Authority will jump up tremendously from so many blog reactions. Join Technorati for free and increase your future traffic!
    2. Link love produces backlinks from sponsors and participants which can result in a higher pagerank (Google pagerank updates should be two times during the contest period)
    3. Your Alexa ranking will get a boost from the participants who visit your blog.
      It seems to be helpful for this ranking when you get from time to time a spike in visitors - and this will happen during the time when your sponsored prize can be won!

  3. Take the Early Bird-AUGUST advertising discount of 33% and more!
    The sponsorship is cheap in comparison to the advertising prices in EntreCard itself.
    You sponsor 500 EC for ONE DAY or 3.500 EC/5$ for ONE WEEK Free Traffic.
    Sponsorship will be open until the first week of December, but the "price" will raise throughout the contest.
    Sponsors who join in September have to give already 750 EC/day and 5.000 EC/week, the 5$ will remain the same for ONE WEEK Free Traffic.

  4. Link love is given already for the first contest, if you join in September the already published lists on the participant's blogs can't be changed immediately. In this case link love will be given only from newly joined participants ("old" participants have to update the list monthly).

  5. I would like to make a special part of the contest which is concentrated on gems, craft and art as i have now a few of this items as pledges, they usually have a higher value than the ECs/cash. And i think it would be a great time to make this kind of contest from mid October to mid/end of November, so that it could reach the participant before Christmas (as a gift for someone).

    These are the items:


For all the sponsors who haven't yet registered in the EntreCard Forum, please write down your pledges (sponsorship) there, too, and don't forget to copy/past ONE of the TWO ADS in your blog's sidebar!!
In this case the Forum will be an active place to share and communicate about the contest and not to forget the Itrader points that you will get!

If you like to sponsor now... here are the "rules" of the 1 Million EC-Free Traffic-Contest, comment on this post and write down your pledge in the forum, too.
Please DON'T transfer the ECs into my account!! You have to transfer the ECs directly to the winner as soon as it's your turn!

Afterward please take one of the two ads and post it near the EntreCard or above the fold, so that we can attract more person to join our contest and make other persons curious about the upcoming contest!
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