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What would you like to win in the next contest?

Thiago Prado — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:35:18 +0000

With the great success of the 10,000 Entrecard credits Contest I’d like to know what you guys would like to win in the next contest.

If you have a company and you would like to sponsor one of our contests we’ll be glad to receive it.

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Dark side of Entrecard – UPDATED

Thiago Prado — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:47:38 +0000

Update » I just received an email from Entrecard crew saying “we’ll settle with a warning” and they returned my credits back to my account.

Two days ago I realized that it was missing plenty of credits from my account, after wonder a while what have had cause that I went to transactions page to check if I had sent someone credits by mistake and then I found a message saying “SPAMMING – STOP OR YOU’LL BE REMOVED” and 4,000 was took away from my account.

Entrecard is being a very important source of traffic to my blog lately however Entrecard crew hurt me really bad.

I sent an email to Graham Landon (Entrecard founder) asking for a explanation about the situation. See the email below »

Graham Langdon,
Today I noticed something really weird in my account. I’m short 4,000 EC Credits.

At first I thought I had send someone the credits by mistake, however when I went to transactions
I realized what have had happened to my account, the message “SPAMMING -STOP OR YOU’LL BE REMOVED”.
To tell you the truth I have no idea why you guys think I’m spamming.
I created a contest to giveaway 10,000 EC credits to the blog which brings more traffic to my blog. Then I sent
some messages to at most 100 people, after 2 people asked me to stop sending messages I stop and that’s it.

And the problem is I didn’t even received a message from Entrecard.com saying something like stop sending messages that
looks like a SPAM.

SPAM for me is some blogs I see everyday that has the Entrecard logo in a page that has nothing but the blog or some people that has more than 5 accounts that looks the same and they promote themselves.

This is totally unfair, if you go to your analysis you can see how much time I spend in Entrecard.com. I think I even stay connected
to Entrecard more than to my email.

I’d like to ask you to please consider to give my credits back, because I have to give to the person who wins the contest. I want to
honor that. I don’t want to be short by the end of the contest.

I treat Entrecard as a family where everybody has to help each other. I never used Entrecard as a SPAM tool to promote my blog.

regards,

Thiago Prado
www.whataboutbrazil.com

Just after a send the message he answered me back in a very rude way. check the email below »

You received about a hundred different complaints over the last few months. Stop spamming people or we’ll close your account, seriously.

The funny part about this story is that I released the contest last week and before this contest I’ve never had sent a message using Entrecard website. It’s impossible the complaints to have happened months ago if I wasn’t even using the service.

Another funny fact is that before May 24th I thought I’ll lose my credits if I drop cards instead of earn credits. So, before this date I didn’t even drop cards using Entrecard.

After I talk to some of my friends that are bloggers they told me that they’ve heard about situations like that involving Entrecard site. I hope this isn’t a strategy to make the user come back to the site and try to get the credits back.

One of my friends even quit Entrecard because the site changed the whole idea of community and started to monetize in every single way.

To tell the truth I didn’t quit Entrecard because I’m having a contest running and I have to pay 10,000 Entrecard credits to the winner. If Entrecard and I don’t settle the situation I don’t know if I will continue being a member of the community after the end of the contest. The deadline of the contest is the end of July.

Entrecard contest [July 2008]

Thiago Prado — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:00:13 +0000

The intention of this contest is to help new bloggers increase the traffic in their blogs. I’m very thankful to have found Entrecard. Once I understood how Entrecard worked and started taking it seriously, the traffic in my blog went skyrocket.

I see Entrecard as a family where everyone should help each other. Of course there are a lot of people who’s only intention is to gain credits and don’t even bother to check if your blog is consistent and has good content.

Entrecard is helping me a lot! I even had the chance to advertise in a big blog I read everyday, John Chow dot com. To sum up in the campaign page of Entrecard my blog figures on top 5.

Alexa Graph after Entrecard

Take a look at the graph on the right and see the improvement my blog had after I took Entrecard seriously.

My blog is so new that Alexa didn’t even upload a thumbnail for it. As you can see with hard work and dedication you can make it happen.

After the success I had with Entrecard I’d like to share a portion of my credits with other bloggers as well. To participate in the contest is very simple, check the description below.

Contest

Name » Entrecard credit Booster.

Prize » 10,000 EC credits.

How to participate » Write an article about What About Brazil or about this contest. To participate, you need to have an entrecard account in order to receive the credits. To register go to Entrecard.com.

Don’t forget to leave a message in this article with the link of your article to be eligible as a participant of the contest.

Judging criteria » The winner will be the website which drives more traffic to What About Brazil blog during the period of the contest. The winner will be presented in the 1st day of the month after the end of the contest.

The contest will continue throughout the year with one winner a month.

Deadline » End of July.

thanks to entrecard team

Thiago Prado — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:36:36 +0000

Entrecard is truly working out for the best. This week I received 2,000 credits for had writen an article about their new feature and now I’m able to advertise in some of the big blogs out there. Thanks to Entrecard.

For the readers that has no idea what I’m talking about, last monday Entrecard team released a new features to Entrecard users, where we’re able to add more than one blog in the service and drop/advertise individually.
If you’re interested to sign up for the service or check out the service, visit the website.

Entrecard on the spot

Thiago Prado — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:59:31 +0000

Entrecard announced a big improvement in their service, the ability of add multiple blogs to the account. This option was requested by user since the service was released.

The person who has more than one blog is gonna be able to drop cards and advertise it individually. on the top of the page, on the right side of your email there is an new link called “switch” where you can go to your other accounts.

E-book

Entrecard released an official e-book to help new users to understand how the site works.

Our free ebook has arrived for everyone to download! If you’re new to Entrecard, and wondering what to do first, this E-Book will guide you along the way. And if you’re an intermediate or advanced user, it’s packed full of strategies you can use to get the absolute most from our service. Download the e-book.

Contest » 75,000 credits

Entrecard will be giving away 75,000 credits as an incentive for the users who add more sites to the service.

In each category one winner will receive 15,000 credits. They will randomly select one winner in each of the following classes:

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

Incentive for who spread the word » 2,000 credits

For everyone who post an article about the new improvement and the new e-book will receive 2,000 credits as an incentive.

Winners will be picked on June 25th.

Biggest contest of the Year

Thiago Prado — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:20:10 +0000

Webmaster Talk Merged Earners Forum to become one the biggest in their category. To commemorate they released the biggest contest of the year. The prizes are going to be over $25000. The prizes come from 10 different sponsors; all of them are internet entrepreneurs too.

That’s the list of the prizes. The good things is that who wins is going to receive all the prizes and they going to be 5 winners.

1. A beautiful new Macbook Air laptop from ClickBooth valued at $1,800.00!

2. A Copy of Interspire Shopping Cart (Professional Edition) valued at $995!

3. $500 cash in a Max Bounty affiliate network account awaits you!

4. Another $500 in the form of a Text Link Ads gift certificate should help with your marketing efforts!

5. How about another Apple product, the iPod Touch from Rocket Profit….wow!

6. Another $250 cash in a Pepperjam Network account will make you smile!

7. Sure would be nice to have some custom T-shirts printed for your headline website, right? Well, Ndesigns is going to do that for you! This is 24 Custom Printed Shirts (color T’s, 3-4 color printing, one-sided).

8. The hottest new camera for blogging, The Flip, is provided by Advaliant!

9. Speaking of blogs, the MOST AMAZING paid theme ever is now yours from Revolution Theme and it isn’t just one, but the complete multi-pack!

10. To help you relax that hard working brain of yours, we close the package out with a Nintendo DS Lite from RevResponse!

Click here to register now

Enter now and have more chances to win. Click here to understand how the contest works.

The contest is going to last until May 13^th until midnight (CST), or 33 days counting from today.