Archive for the ‘Entrecard’ Category
Sunday, April 27th, 2008 |
After blogging actively for half a year, I could say that I at least understood some things about making money online. Here are some of the lessons I learned:
1. Earning from blogging isn’t going to work if you don’t know what your blog is about, and who will eventually stick around to read it. If it’s about you, because it is a personal blog, make sure that you know what about you people are seeing. For example…
My
evilwoobie.com blog is about a side of my personality that I’m comfortable with as I’ve been dishing out love advice for years now to my friends and their friends. I am aware that not everyone can relate to that side of my personality so I put up my
mommy blog (because I am a mom and darned proud of it). A lot who cannot relate to my evilwoobie blog can relate to my other blog. Therefore, I make sure that
the products that I recommend in one blog directly touches on the needs or likes of the people who read it.
2.
People can smell desperation, even online. I mentioned that I was selling this domain in
another post, but now you see that I’m using it. What happened? A buyer contacted me and said that within one month he will buy this domain (no posts, no website) for my asking price, 80USD. After reverting back to the old blogger subdomain for a month, the buyer renegotiated to 65USD, which was still ok. THEN, his final mail said that since this domain isn’t even indexed yet, it will probably cost him a lot to market it, so he’s offering me a mere 20USD for it.
Was I desperate enough to eat that up because it is
still cash that I could use? Hell no. And it isn’t injured pride that made me say ‘no thanks’, it is the search results for ‘divablogger’ or ‘diva blogger’ that made me stick with this domain rather than sell it for less than what I spend on
one lipstick.
While a lot of sites and forum avatars take on the name ‘Diva Blogger”… I AM the Diva Blogger with a dot com.
3. It’s not the amount of money you could earn, it’s what you have to do to get it. Are you willing to devote chunks of your time researching a product and the credibility of the affiliate network that pays you to sell it? Are you willing to risk your page rank and google love for 10 dollars per post? Every single cent that you earn online needs an effort on your part. If you feel that selling your soul completely and joining a multilevel marketing scheme designed to scam people is worth it, then by all means, sell out. It’s the how.
4. ‘Thank you’ goes a long way. We Filipinos have a saying, it’s “the person who doesn’t look back to where he started will never reach his destination”. A simple thank you or a return favor will make people stop and smile at you. More importantly, you’ll be able to move forward knowing that you acknowledged every single one of those who helped you in the first place.
I would like to thank
Entrecard for being my first real social network. Without it, I wouldn’t have met the following Golden people:
Sam Freedom for calling me a noob, which I am. This prevented me from closing my mind to things I could still learn from. Saphrym, for being real. Turnip for the marketing tips and for the occasionally sympathetic ear to my internet marketing rants. SEO Rob who introduced me to keywords. And the multitude of Entrecarders who visit my blogs. Thank you.
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Friday, March 21st, 2008 |
I am now accepting guest bloggers again at Evilwoobie.com!
My first round of guest posters chose topics they liked and pimped some affiliate links. This time, however, I’m keeping the guest posts within the topics regularly discussed in that blog. Here’s what’s written on the shop page (you must have an entrecard account to enter, I think).
If it gets stumbled I pay you back 200EC. If there are at least 5 comments within 24 hours of posting, I pay you back 300EC. Must be about Love, Relationships, Dating and other hormone-driven issues, emotions or activities. I also accept astrology-, fashion- and lifestyle-related posts. Strictly PG13-R18 only. Maximum of 700 words. I reserve the right to edit the article if it contains too much profanity and/or inappropriate images. I will offer your RSS feed and a short overview of your own blog at the end of the article.
One Requirement: You must create a posting avatar using this tool http://www.tektek.org/dream
The avatar idea was an afterthought, to add more fun to the guest posting. The avatars are customizable from eyeshape and skin color to clothes and accessories. That should be a fun project for someone who wants a link on my site through a guest post for ‘almost free’. Why almost free? The price to purchase is 500 EC, and if the post does get stumbled and commented on as stated in the description, I refund the 500EC that was used to purchase it.
Not bad huh?
Here’s a sample avatar I made from the Gaia Online Avatar creator. It’s Diva Blogger!
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 |
The first one is the “What is Social Networking” contest by Chaindrop.com. It’s funny because Turnip just sent me the link to the contest and I ended up winning. I was lucky number 9, and the prize moolah was 3k Entrecard credits. That’s 30 dollars, if converted to the standard credit=dollar scheme in Entrecard.
Would anyone like to buy some advertising credits? I got 3k up for grabs right now! Price is negotiable. Just use my contact form.
^_^
The second contest I joined and won is the Easy PLR contest from internetmarketing sweetie. This really got me excited because PLRs (Private Label Rights Content) will help me build more niche blogs! These are basically packs with ten or so quality articles discussing a particular topic. They could make up the first 10 posts in a blog and get your Google Adsense all showing target market ads while you grow your blog.
Content is king! And winning some quality content is so much fun!
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 |
Add-on to this post: Jason of Gorilla Sushi posted something on Stumble Upon. I saw it just now and I just needed to get it on this post because it showcases tips on how one can succeed in Stumble Upon. G.S. boasts a Google Pagerank of 5 and has received 21,000 unique visitors in one day, so we should listen.
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I’ve heard stories of how trolls abound at Stumble Upon. How they troll on people who stumble their own posts. I’ve always thought that self-promotion is a survival tool in the internet, and that in any way, you can promote yourself.
Now suddenly, in a social circle that can bridge the difference between no traffic and high traffic in a blog, it seems that self promotion will just bring you somewhere near the lowest reaches of the system. Or you can fight it, and they can still bring you down. They being the people who dislike self promoters.
So it seems the way to do it is to let another person stumble you. Like in entrecard, there’s a shop selling stumbles. Pay a certain amount of credits and the person will stumble a post on your blog. It makes sense. This way, someone else stumbled your post, and that person got compensated for it. What’s in a stumble, eh?
Maybe it pays to make a reputation in Stumble Upon first before selling your stumble power. Stumble worthy posts that other people will like, before selling your service to stumble posts that not everyone will like. They’d end up asking “why’d he stumble that post? maybe he got paid to do so?”… and lose your rep.
Things to think about.
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Monday, February 18th, 2008 |
I just saw a forum thread at Entre where a guy was actually begging for people to advertise on his widget. I was amused because that was never a problem when the system was only a thousand bloggers strong. Then, everyone wanted to advertise on everyone else.
Perhaps the Ebay selling of Entrecard Credits made people realize that they’d rather sell their credits than use these to promote their blogs. The going rate now is 7-10 dollars for 1k credits and to someone from the Philippines, that’s like 400 pesos for a few hours of clicking. More, much more, than an average office employee earns.
Weird thought: so many bloggers are getting cunning at Entre. Setting up blogs that are so ugly and so useless just so they can gather credits.
What does this mean? Maybe it’s too soon to say anything but I’m worried for some reason.
“We need more incentive to place ads.” - Turnip
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