May I give you my web 2.0 business card?
moneyrelations :: Nov.19.2007
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Visitors to my website may have noticed that I’ve added a new widget on my blog at the top right hand corner. |
The widget is an Entrecard, or in today’s parlance, your free web 2.0 business card.
This is the latest project of Graham Langdon of the Million Dollar Wiki. And while the MDW had issues with the governance of spam content, this new initiative might have legs to go far.
Think of this as a blend of promised Blogrush traffic, MyBlogLog with the cute avatars, the discovery of new sites à la StumbleUpon, and a credit system as used by TXN.Net.
The idea is to drop your business card into another user’s widget. You receive a credit for the drop and the recipient also receives a credit.
I think this is a solid, non-obtrusive way to introduce yourself to big bloggers that you would otherwise be too intimidated to approach. And let’s face it: it preys on blogger vanity to see who is checking out your blog (and all without commenting).
So, I’m dropping my card off in blogs and others are doing the same for me generating traffic and credits. With these credits, I can sell it to other users or buy actual ad space for my 125×125 logo for a 24-hour period. For example, you will notice someone else’s blog in my widget.
The price to purchase the space is based on the average of credits the publisher receives over the span of 5-days x 2. However, the publisher receives only 25% of the credits while the remainder is cleared from the system to maintain balance in the economy. More credit tweaks are foreseen in the future as the network gets bigger.
Entrecard is still in soft launch mode so it has kinks and there isn’t a lot of users yet. However, Shoemoney runs the widget on his blog but his queue is always full 
There are only 4 blogs in the Finance and Investing domain so I’m publishing cards and running campaigns from other niches. All cards require the publisher’s approval.
Here are samples of Entrecards with branding (can’t get more branded than someone’s face), one with an Entrecard template, and also mine:
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For being such a new player in the blog marketing arena, I’m impressed with the results. Who knows if it will have cracks in the system once it is popular or if it will have to deal with cheaters in the future. I just know I’m getting traffic now with card drops and also click-throughs for my 24-hour campaigns. Let’s put it this way, more than I ever got from Blogrush.
I don’t know if they stay around long enough to read anything but that’s my issue. At least they got here.
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Seems to be working pretty well for me to Mariam … lots of people stop by to drop their card off on a daily basis. It’s a good way of finding new sites outside your own niche.
Yeah, people are dropping their cards but people are starting not to buy the ad spots now. We might have gotten priced too high for the newcomers.
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