Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Don't pay the 50$/year for EntreCard -Part II-

EntreCardYesterday i wrote about my reasons why i will not pay 50$ to EntreCard, today i want to show you some more reasons.

First of all, how has Entrecard responded to users threatening to leave over the latest changes?
By adding a "cancel account" button to the dashboard!
(in the past you had to write directly to the admin to delete your account)

Aldon from Orient Lodge pointed out that the sponsored ad campaign may lead to some kind of bad publicity for the sponsors themselves when WE the members don't like the ad or the content of the advertiser's page!
But in the end we have to approve most of these ads (if we are allowed?) and with the paid option, it will be more likely that we are NOT ALLOWED to reject sponsored ads (we could opt out by paying).

In the past there have been already some blogs who reported some of these "non-blog" paid ads.
I remember one "ad with the teeth whitening" which was for one or two days nearly everywhere visible on the widgets.

By the way, i joined already Aldon's short 2 minute survey about
Which Blog Advertising Networks do you use?


Will there be enough sponsors who buy ads when they are only shown on every 7th pageview?


With the paid ads in April - July 2009, the ads have been shared with EC-paid ads to 50% of the time and the costs have been between 0,60 - 1,20 $ for 1.000 page impressions.

The new ads shall be shown only 15% of the time throughout the 24 hours. In this case the previous price seems to be too high, especially when a lot of members from the TOP 300 (blogs with more than 125 EntreCard-Visitors) would opt-out from the sponsored ad program.

In my opinion, these prices are too high for the new sponsored ads. They have to reduce it to 30 to 50 cents for 1.000 page impressions. I believe EntreCard wants now to cash in most of the money from their members.
Read my previous post "Why i don't pay the 50$ to EntreCard!!!" about this topic!

ENTRECARD PLAYS the card WITH YOUR FEARS that INAPPROPRIATE ADS WILL BE SHOWN!


Show them that WE are the members who have the power to accept their methods of earning money by pushing the EntreCard down if they really show such ads!
Will there be sponsors willing to pay money when they get -first of all- so less views and second when only 10% of the visitors can see their ad at the bottom of each blog?

What will happen to the ad prices in EntreCard?

I guess ad prices will drop like last time for some blogs in the TOP 100 (mine included) but shouldn't fall more than 50% as the sponsored ads are shown less frequently. This will benefit members who don't click so much, as they can afford in the future again more ads.
I believe it won't affect the amount of visitors, only the ad price will be slightly affected :)


What do you think will happen next week?

Monday, September 28, 2009

Why i don't pay the 50$ to EntreCard!!!

EntreCardNow the big news is already more than one day old and a lot of members are not sure if it could be acceptable to pay EntreCard 50 $ for one year to get rid of forced sponsored ads.

Here are my main reasons why i will NOT pay 50 $ to EntreCard:

- i don't get any additional benefits for being a "paid" member except 15% sponsored ads are not shown

I get on the five registered EntreCard-Blogs around 1.000+ page views/day this will result in 150 times a sponsored ad will be displayed.

At the moment the EntreCard members themselves play with the FEAR of inappropriate ads which could be shown (half naked women, religious signs from another belief and so on).

If this is your concern, just place the EC-widget near the bottom where 90% of the visitors don't watch at all and if you get almost only EntreCard (or Adgitize, 80% have both ads) members as visitors who cares if they see these ads as they know it's a sponsored ad?

- the price is too high for this kind of non-sponsor-ad fee 50$/year, 4,17$/month, 14 Cents/day

Let's face it, there are some blogs in the TOP 50 of EntreCard who get more than 300 and up to 450 visitors from EntreCard. There are not many blogs who get the same amount of visitors from search engines when i look at some available statistics from these blogs.

They will show the sponsored ads on average 60 times a day which means for paying 14 cents/day, you pay EntreCard a 2,33 $ CPM (cost for 1.000 non-sponsor-ad page impressions)!
You will never get paid this CPM of 2,33$ from Google Adsense, just have a look in your Adsense-Account at the eCPM (except you got some clicks which don't count for this example)!

If your blog gets just 100 or 50 pageviews a day from EntreCard the numbers are more extreme as you will pay the same amount of $$ to EntreCard instead of less based on your pageviews!
50 page views - 7 sponsored ads shown x 30 days = 210 sponsored ads shown
-> Cost per ad not shown 1,98 CENTS

350 page views - 60 sponsored ads shown x 30 days = 1.800 sponsored ads shown
-> Cost per ad not shown 0,23 CENTS

As the paid ads have been active from April-July 2009 EntreCard charged
  1. 0.60 $ for 1.000x shown ads if you advertised in all categories and
  2. 1.20 $ for 1.000 shown ads in a specific category.
-> Cost per ad shown 0,06 - 0,12 CENTS

From this point of view a more acceptable price would be between 1 and 2 $/month or give us additional benefits for a price of more than 4$/month, especially for members with less visitors!

Look, what do you get for a referral?
300 ECs, if you would buy this, you would pay 1,80 $.

Why not top up the monthly fee with EC-based benefits for the paying members?
- with 500 ECs,
- with a 25% discount on ads you buy from other members
- featuring them in rotation on the front page/campaign page in the sidebar

I guess such a combination would attract much more members and even members with less visitors to buy this package and let them really feel as PREMIUM members for these premiums!

UPDATE:
Another reason for NOT PAYING THIS FEE is that the new owner himself announced in the forum that at the moment NO SPONSORS ARE IN QUEUE.
At first they want to "try this service with internal promotions of the EntreCard market and perhaps the forum", it could take "weeks or months until outside sponsored ads will find their way into EntreCard-Widgets". It's more about the ability to use the 15% "free air time" of our widget - not necessary that they will fully utilize it in the next weeks!

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Saturday Sucks: Summary of EntreCard development

EntreCardUPDATE:
Just a few minutes ago the EntreCard blog announce that they will POSTPONE the sponsored ads to 5th October + the SMALL FEE program, for 50$/year (4,17$/month) you can opt out completely from the sponsored ad program.


Today i write again about EntreCard as i'm also a little bit concerned about their new developments.
In case you didn't visit some of the other blogs who have already written about the current changes or have not read in the EntreCard forum/blog about the on-going changes and developments, you will have a chance to have a look into these posts from my article.

It's all about the old invention in a new package: paid ads turned into "forced sponsored ads". This was announced on 22nd September in the EntreCard blog.

Difference between the old paid ads and the new "forced sponsored ads":

- No more CashOut program
- In the first few weeks no possibility to reject the ads
- not able to reject all ads when this reject ads-option will be available

The main purpose of these ads is to fund the EntreCard system with the help of the page views of their members.
15% of the Network's INVENTORY (what a nice word they used for the member's resources!)
will be filled with sponsored ads per day.
They want to present ads which are Family-oriented and they shall be for everyone acceptable.

When we read now one response in the EntreCard forum from the new owner Andrew Te it sounds for me completely different and much more acceptable.

So, what's going to happen when Sept. 28th comes around?
This is just an "official" starting date we're giving users. We don't have a list of sponsors waiting to take up any of the ad space. If any ads were to run at all, it'll be to promote Entrecard Market (http://entrecard.com/market/) and possibly this forum. It could also mean that we might not run any ads for the next few months. But it's important for us as a company to reserve a percentage of our inventory to sponsors because we do see it as huge revenue model based on other free advertising networks.

This means we might see on Monday the usual logo from EntreCard like we see it on blogs with no current ad running, perhaps with a slightly different message as they promote only the EntreCard Market and the Forum!

With this said, i believe the members can influence this decision!
It's very simple, just follow the way like Shaunalynn and Caledonian Comment already had done it.

"Push EntreCard down"
it or "EntreCard is at the end" (bottom of the page)
like i want to call.

What will happen when more and more members join in this "Push EntreCard down"-campaign?

This might bring less advertisers into the system and EntreCard has to look for new ways to earn money or just listen more closely to the suggestions of their members
.


There are a lot of suggestion given by the members in the forums or in blog posts and comments.
  • One of the most read suggestions is a double-ad widget which would display one EC-based ad and one sponsored ad (which should be rejectable).
  • Another suggestion is to monetize the Front page and the User pages inside of Entrecard with Google Adsense advertisement (like it can be seen in Blogcatalog).

  • Or they could make a paid premium membership for a small fee which prevents that sponsored ads will be shown on their widget.


UPDATE:
Just a few minutes ago the EntreCard blog announced that they will POSTPONE the sponsored ads to 5th October + the SMALL FEE program, for 50$/year (4,17$/month) you can opt out completely from the sponsored ad program

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Weekly Wednesday Worth Readings: EntreCard

EntreCardEvery Wednesday i publish now posts which i found worth reading and of interest for everyone.

This week i will begin with EntreCard and their on-going developments which shall make them a member-rich and profitable company.

As a round-up of the events last week within EntreCard the following developments have been published in the blog
In my opinion a referral program was not necessary for EntreCard. It will only cause that there will be more ECs in their economy and when we look at the incentive it's just 30 cents for one referral (taking the old CashOut rate).
It can be abused, too, as it's not clearly written how active a new member should be (1 click daily or 1 click within the 14 day period) and when you don't link your own blogs together but make separate accounts for it under your referral link (and many more ways)!

If EntreCard wants active members they should charge us monthly a membership fee with 10 ECs/day (would be deducted at the end of the month) and new members get 300 ECs as a incentive in the beginning.
In this case every member should drop 300 cards throughout the month (10 cards daily). At the moment there are too many blogs in EntreCard registered as "Just here for the view".


This week's choice for EntreCard's Referral Program!

An interesting article to this topic can be found on the blog of Entrepod.

It's called Hey Carders, let's play Tricknology and definitely worth reading for every EntreCard member.


The second big topic in the last week was mentioned by Laane and then Queen Katherine.

It's about the issue that Virus and Trojans are spreading from several EntreCard Blogs. Me, myself got two times a message to download a "fake" Adobe Flash player update in the previous week.
I recommend everyone NOT to install or download any program which is NOT from the official Website and just POP-UPs while visiting a blog + install a actual virus, malware and spyware scanner!


In a response to this article again have a look at the second article of Entrepod

Isn’t it time We Started Dropping Smarter instead of being Baited Harder

In this article you can find useful information how to get rid of these virus and trojans which might already take control of your computer.

Now to the third topic which will cause again new confusion and dispute in the EntreCard world as it's now a forced paid ad campaign which will be running in 15% of our daily ad campaigns (and bring EntreCards some $$ so that it can stay FREE FOR ALL OF US).

This new SPONSORED Ad program will start from 28th September on and you will have a choice to reject some of the offered sponsored ads.

Cindy Ung announced that
"the ads will be ALL Family-oriented and will not promote nudity, violence or anything illegal."

For this Sponsored Ad topic i found two actual posts:

One is again from Entrepod

Junk Mail PSA: How to Milk The EntreCOW


and the other article is from Reality Talk which is called

Why Entrecard
(an excellent summary of the events that happened since the Paid ads started in April 2009 until now and a future outlook!)

If you care about the EntreCard community i would like you to visit these links as they provide you very good information about the stuff that's going on within EntreCard and on our blogs!

What do you think about the on-going changes in EntreCard? Will we get more quality members or will you quit sooner or later?

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!

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Is Paid-to-promote.net a SCAM-program??

Get paid To Promote at any Location

I guess many EntreCard and Adgitize members saw this Get paid to Promote at any Location-advertisement on a lot of blogs in the past days because one guy promoted this program in Adgitize ;)

I signed up for this program some months ago but never copied the code in my sidebar until i saw this ad in Adgitize.

As they increased their CPM-Rate up to 4$ for 1000 page views for specific countries (United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, for these countries 2$/1000 page views > Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain), it's a good deal to try it now.
Especially when the payout date should be the 15th and 30th of each month, you wouldn't loose much and we could test if it's now a SCAM-Program or not.

I put the code on 11th September on my blog and the earnings have been counted each day in their statistics. They varied between 5 and 16 $-Cents each day, depending on the location of the visitors and the length of their visit on my blog.

The big surprise came as i opened today my mailbox and found in my spam file a Paypal-Mail. This time it was not a Scam-Mail :) It was the small payment of 0,47 $ from Paid-to-promote. Now i have to put it on all my blog and see if they pay me again on 30th September :)
Anyone else got paid from this program yesterday?

Next post will be an earnings update from Adgitize and some information to their new free traffic-program!

UPDATE:
I deleted the Paid-to-promote.net code from this blog (on my other blogs it seems not to be such a big problem) as it appears that many users from the USA, UK and Australia get redirected to some advertiser pages!
In this case you will loose more readers than you can earn with this program!

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!
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