There are so many contest where you can win some ec (entrecard credits). The first ones offered something like 100ec, then I saw200 or 300, but now they are about 500ec for the winner.
Before I continue; I’m not introducing a new contest… at least for now.
As I have thought it seems that ec devalue with time. Well I’m not 100%, all this is very new, but I think that with time the entrecard credits will cost less.
Why? well, making 300ec from dropping your card to others’ blog is not much, I think, but if you do it well and learn where yo have to drop your card you are gonna make that many many users drop their cards to you. And the number increases rapidly.
This is what I mean, these are my statistics:

Well, the first graphic is the number of cards dropped by me in others’ blogs and the other graphic is the number cards dropped by other members in this blog. I drop more than I receive as expected, for now, but while I don’t drop regularly, one day I dropped about 4 times and the next I didn’t drop at all, the cards dropped by others are constant, and this is enough to get here:

Right now I’m the top 6 most popular card, but I’ve being top 4, and this gives me many drops. And as long as entrecard gets more popular and there are more members the ones in the top-anything can get more drops. Ok, no everyone will be in the top but newcomers have many drops too, because there is more people that waits to get that easy 2ec cost advertising.
Maybe the increment in ec earning will stop increasing, and maybe it will be in an average of 600 for active members, but then the prizes of the contests will need to be of some thousands ec.
Anyway I’m having too much fun driving traffic to my blog with entrecard, at first my only traffic was from entrecard, but now I have google visits, cool, entrecard really works.

I’m really hating Youtube so much right now, it’s slow and I almost can’t watch anything.

But with a lot of effort I’m watching this video about Jhon Chow, maybe many of you have seen because it’s not new it but I haven’t so if you have not seen this here it is.

John Chow on "Lab with Leo"

It’s been 10 days since I joined Entrecard and a little more since I start running this blog, but thinking that this I thought I was never writing here again and my traffic was 0 at that time, I can say my blog have 10 days too. And this is how it has been.

Since that time this blog have been testing what Entrecard can do for a brand new blog, and with effort this is what I have achieved.

First of all, 16 reader. I have two other blogs, with more than 6 months running, with more than a thousand unique visits a day and about 3000 hits per day, but this blogs have less than 10 readers. As I have said before, traffic granted by Entrecard consist of bloggers mainly, and blogger are good readers.

Second, I have reached the top 15 most popular blog in Entrecard. This doesn’t help me at all, but it looks nice.

What? John Chow is not the most popular anymore?

Third, and I think the most important, I have learned a lot about blogging, even when I haven’t implement all I have learned, I have been reading a lot from professional and successful  blogger around the net.

As many of you that are in this system I enter because I read it in JohnChow.com but the hopes of having free advertising in his blog, like he said, I see them very far, I have all the EC’s in the world to spend for his Entrecard spot but his spot is always full, like most of the most recommended list.

Statistics

Everyone like statistics and numbers and graphics, so I put mine here.

Wow, see the amount of cards I drop everyday? I spend too much in printers, and have too much free time.

And finally I’d like to show some of the good sites I have found in Entrecard.

Blogger Templates

It’s always good to know a nice site where you can grab some good templates for your blog and change it every once in a while. And I have seen very good designs in this blog, I think I’m going to change my blog’s template soon, but as I always custom it myself maybe it will take some time.

Profit Juice

Here I found some videos of a very interesting seminar, I have watched some of them and they are very educational, they are about business.

Everything Everywhere

This guy leave his home nine months ago and have been a homeless traveling all around the world. He have been in many countries where he take some photos and write about his travel.

The site have a really cool design.

I have found lots of other good blogs but the post is getting really big, so I’ll write about them later.

This may not mean a thing, and I’m pretty sure it doesn’t but today I realized that I’m in the last place in the list of top 30 most popular campaigns in Entrecard.

This only could mean that I’m the top 30 most active member, maybe, but this is something, and maybe someone would want my ad spot because of this (maybe not).

Here’s the screenshot I made, by the way, this picture at right is my card (I think it’s obvious but, you know):

This table changes every moment so I can easily get of of this list (I’m on the edge), but this are my 5 minutes of fame.

Edit: Besides, it seems that my traffic will double by the end of the day, so it’s more likely that someone want my ad spot now, soon I’ll have a decent traffic.

I’m kind of amazed for the way Entrecard is working in my site, so I share my little experience with the system (and maybe I can win a free advertise in Entrecard’s blog ^^U).

In Entrecard each advertising card space start costing 2ec (Entrecard credits), but advertising in your blog rapidly rise it’s cost by receiving cards that other Entrecard users leave when visiting your site. This is the best part, all the traffic you receive from the Entrecard web page are bloggers. We all know blogger are good readers too, if they like your page they will become frequent readers and in many cases they’ll become feed readers.

That’s why I think at the end this site will end doing better than my Spanish blogs.

Entrecard have four useful graphic statistics, these are mine:

Card Drops:

This shows the number of cards you receive in your advertise space from other Entrecard users. If this rate is high your advertise cost will rise, maybe my rate is too high because my advertise cost have raised too much this few days, and I don’t receive advertise offers now. My advertise cost is 71ec, that’s much for my site (maybe it’s a bad Idea to write this, but I’m too sincere ^^). I’d wish I could sell my advertise space cheaper, for now.

As you can see, the very first day I received 26 card drops, and this was only some hours in the night.

Advert Click:

This is the most important, this shows the number of clicks made from the advertises you buy and place in others spaces, if this number is big it means it’s working for you, mine is not, but it’s because I have not managed to buy advertising in the best blogs, first they were very expensive to buy, and now they are all sold out. It’s just matter of keep trying, it’s the amusing part of the system.

Organic Click

I receive more Organic Clicks than click from advertising. Well, this mean almost all my readers are bloggers. The more clicks you have here the more attractive your card is for other members, well, mine is not that hot. This number changes from day to day in an arbitrary way, I don’t know why is that, maybe one day the hobbies category shows at first too much and the next day it doesn’t, but I don’t think so.

Your Drops

This shows how active you are, how many times you leave your card in other’s blog. I think I’m very active, I drop too much cards a day. This part of the system is amusing too. I have added about 10 new feeds to my reader since I started dropping cards, there’s a lot of interesting blogs out there.

In weekend I’m more active because I have all day to sit and read, visit blogs, make blog posts and check all my RSS feeds that I have not read.

Problems I see in Entrecard

• The first and most important to me is the cost of the advertising is not based in the daily impressions of the widget, so when you buy a space you don’t receive always what you pay. I think the price of the ad spots get more expensive with time, and I’m not sure but if it does it’s really bad.
• You need to work too much to have better places to advertise (make a good card, look for better sites to advertise in, and drop your card) and still it’s not sure that your ad-spot is going to be accepted.
• New user get their spot full really soon, that gives to them too few ec to use later.

Strong point I see in Entrecard

• The obvious one: you have the chance to one day if you work hard and Lady Luck looks at you, you can have your card displayed for one day in blogs like JohnChow.com, Internet Dreamer, John Cow or Pro Blogger!
• You get many bloggers visit your site, and so many RSS feed readers and many recurrent readers.
• You visit many good blogs while dropping cards.
• The most important: it really works, I mean you get traffic to your site, that’s what it’s made for.

I have to do this

I can’t help but comparing this Entrecard system with Blogrush, and Entrecard is much more effective.

In the first weeks of Blogrush I entered my Spanish blog that have about 1,300 unique visits and 2,800 hits a day and I received… about 0 visits from Blogrush, if I run Blogrush in my site now is because this blog have not many widgets and I don’t have to move a finger to use Blogrush (that’s what they promised).

I wonder how are other’s doing with their Entrecard, so I’m going to visit other’s reviews of Entrecard at the contest.

There are really many ways to get more traffic to a blog, and many blogs that talk about it, this is not one of this, but this EntreCard thing is something amusing.

I joined EntreCard first with my most visited blog, but after some hours of having fun leaving card to everyone my account was abruptly canceled without a warning, at first I was very disappointed but then I realized that it was my mistake, my big mistake, one of the few things the page warns you before yo sign up is that your page have to be in English, one more reason for me to write in English.

Well, how it works? At first it seems something hard to use this EntreCard but after some minutes of using the system it becomes addictive. Here’s a little video explanation that say almost nothing but it might help.

Entrecard

The video in the home page is far more comprehensible.

This is one of those things that I just suggest you go and join to learn how to use it.