A lot of current happenings in Entrecard have added to my conclusions that the system will:

• help and encourage the new bloggers to maintain and improve their blogs;
• challenge the bigger ones to keep their readers interested (because of the emergence of new quality blogs);
• and basically just turn off those who refuse to maximize the service to their advantage by not participating in any activity.

Nuff said, on that topic at least. Now, off to more exciting things…

Keep on droppin’!

There are crazy contests offering Entrecard credits in exchange for subscriptions, reviews, links and more. From my vantage point as a zeny earner in a MMORPG (Ragnarok Online), when something exchangeable has reached its evolution as a “good-as-cash” thing, the service is prospering. So, what are these Entrecard credits for, or what can you buy with them?

1. Ad space in members’ blogs - normally obtainable only by contacting the blogger through mail and paying the blogger with cash for a duration of advertising on his/her blog. (mentioned here in my first entrecard post)

2. Any one of the cool stuff at the Entrecard shop - some lucky Entrecard members have been chosen to sell their services under the system, and here are just some of them …

• blog makeover for 3950 credits
• A sonnet (poem) about your blog for 50 credits
• professional blog consultation via IM for 500 credits
• Wordpress Blog Hosting (yep, I know… cool huh?) for 3000 credits
• 250-, 500- and 1000-word article (any topic, any tone) written by a gifted writer for you for 500, 1000 and 2000 credits, respectively.
• A premium wordpress blog by Adii for 10,000 credits (announced in the Entrecard blog, but not yet offered in the shop, which is ok because I don’t have that kind of credit amount yet)

and…

• a football-inspired sweepstakes for 500 credits per entry

- this is a very special mention because it’s actually an opportunity to obtain 16 chances to win up to 1,500 Entrecard credits — you can win more than once! So, that’s like investing some of your credits for you to win more credits for buying all the stuff I mentioned above. There’s a pot to be won and the whole sweepstakes thingie is based on the football season’s results.

More reasons to join in and keep on dropping, besides the exposure, the tips and the friends that you pick up along the way.

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