Networking With Internet Business Card
Many of us know Networking is an essential part of working life. The importance of networking is multiplied many folds when we conduct any forms of online businesses, faceless. Networking is about how you get information, make contacts and build professional relationships with people.
In the real world, the most notable activity that took place when people network is the exchanging of business cards. Networking with business cards is one of the most cost effective means of marketing your business–and yourself. In the world wide web, how does one carry around and pass along their business cards?
Well, fret not. Now you can network with other bloggers with your Internet business card in the form of EntreCard. In their own words, “Entrecard is the first and only free exchange network for 125×125 ads.” Take a look at the sidebar to see the EntreCard widget in action. It works as a very interactive online networking service and a place for bloggers to exchange advertising space.
With EntreCard, you can network by dropping your own 125×125 EntreCard on sites with the EntreCard widget installed (and vice versa), as well as “buy” advertising space with EntreCard credits that you earn when you drop card, when people drop their cards into your widget, and when people purchased advertising spot on your widget.
The best way to do so is to log into your dashboard and check out and drop your card on those sites that had drop cards or have put up a purchase requisition to advertise on your sites. Alternatively, you can browse the many categories and check out blogs related to your niche. It requires some work, but the opportunity of visiting new and sometimes very interesting blogs and also seeing traffic trickling in, is well worth the effort.
It seems that entrecard is better than BlogRush
It is definitely better in terms of sending traffic to this blog and I have hard data to prove it.
I agree! I might give Entrecard a try. I’m beginning to think that BlogRush is not living up to their expectations, and slowly they are deteriorating.
To me, BR had over-promised and under-delivered.
You should give EntreCard a try.
How’s the traffic quality for the entrecard referral? I’ve had almost 200 hits from card-droppers, but my bounce rate from them is terrible. According to analytics, the average time spent on my site from traffic sent from entrecard was 27 seconds with a bounce rate of 98%. This isn’t really a complaint though, I was just wondering if you’ve had better results. Not-so-quality traffic is better than no traffic.
This blog has so far got almost 100 hits, average time spent was 28sec with bounce rate of 85%.
I guess such high bounce rate is within my expectation because most people, including myself, visits sites to drop cards, scroll down real quick and exit the site. Unless there’s something eye-catching that catches my attention, I’ll drop my card and exit to drop more cards on other sites.
Having said that, I’ve stumbled upon some really interesting blogs through EntreCard and had bookmarked them for repeat visits. I wouldn’t have come across them without EntreCard, so on that account, I deem this service to be useful in expanding my network.
Yeah, I’ve pulled the ‘drop and leave’ also. I stop to look around other blogs with the e-widget when I’m not busy, though, and a handful of other users have done the same. By the way, I found out about this service because I was browsing your site last week and the widget caught my eye.
I’m glad you found the service while browsing my blog (although there’s no affiliate benefits), and it has sent you so much traffic, almost double the traffic sent here!
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“Paying for ad spot on high profile blogs and sites may cost us hundreds of dollars per month, which many of us with small blogging budgets cannot afford. Using EntreCard credits, we can overcome this limitation in advertising budgets, and have our limelight when our ad goes live on many other blogs.”
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I very much agree with your comment and I love the fact that EntreCard has opened the door to new (or lower budget) bloggers to advertise on higher profile blogs without having to shuffle out a lot of cash. Sure, you may not get a lot of time, but it is still free. Everyday my credits go up (this is only the 2nd day I’ve been running EntreCard) so it’s just a waiting game to spend credits on advertising on big-name blogs once I earn enough credits (which doesn’t seem to be taking very long)
I really like EntreCard and with the “success” I’ve had with it so far on my second day, I’m curious to see what kinds of rewards it’ll have brought me in a few months time.
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