Do you have so many Entrecard credits you don’t know what to do with them? Or are you just starting your blogging adventure and are trying to build your Entrecard bankroll? Well, for all of you looking for a creative way to make your credits work for you there’s a great new site called EntreCash.com . The brainchild of Ramona Iftode is a spankin’ new community created to allow bloggers the ability to buy, sell and trade their Entrecard credits. As I said the community is new (only a few days old) and still in it’s infancy, but I believe it will soon skyrocket into popularity. The idea is simple: post a classified advertisement and wait for the bids to come in. I firmly believe that the trading system will be the backbone of the community.

For example if you want to trade credits you can do any of the following:

• Trade credits for advertising space
• Trade credits for reviews or content
• Sell credits for cash
• Pay cash for credits

The possibilities for the community are endless, and since it just launched it’s possible to get established and start building relationships with the members and becoming a bigger part of the group. If you’d like more information about the site you can read Ramona’s Post Here .

~ GrandmasterB

Did that headline get your attention? To be quite honest it’s not Entrecard that is killing my blog…it’s me that is killing my blog. When I put the Entrecard widget on my blog and starting seeing all of these people wanting to place their advertisement on my site I felt a rush of excitement. I thought “Wow! This is an amazing community of bloggers wanting to help out the new guy.” After three or four days of being on the service my stats showed that I was getting many visits and a good deal of unique visitors as well. I thought I was onto something big. If I kept dropping cards and commenting on certain posts that I had enjoyed reading, maybe I would start to see some good comments on my site. Dropping cards became an obsession the first few days. I was trying to build up some EC credits, so that I could eventually start advertising myself…this turned out to be the big mistake.

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Before I started my blog I found a lot of great tips and a budding new community of bloggers at Buzz My Blog. The creator of the site (Jeff) is dedicated to building traffic on his site and eventually try to make money. During his “Adventure in Internet Marketing”, Jeff has vowed to share all of his findings, successes, failures and monthly traffic reports for the site. Jeff is one of the first bloggers I have seen that is truly sincere in helping other new bloggers in getting their sites off the ground. Each week he holds a contest dubbed The Weekly Buzz. Generally the prize is geared towards giving the winner a jumpstart on getting their blog off the ground with EntreCard credits. When the contest first started the prize was 300 EntreCard credits, but as the popularity of the site grew…so did the prize.Now Jeff has raised the bar again with a really interesting prize…500 EntreCard credits and 200 Unique Visitors. How can he guarantee 200 unique visitors you ask? Jeff is going to do a focused StumbleUpon campaign for the winner. The winner of this weeks contest will be able to pick the day of the campaign, so they can post some really good content. Then Jeff will use the power of the StumbleUpon mob to drive traffic to the site. Personally, I think this is a great idea…definitely original for sure.

For more details on the contest go to: Weekly Buzz Contest - Enter Now!

Guaranteed Traffic Coming Your Way

~ GrandmasterB

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Throughout the past two or three weeks I have been doing some research on how to build a strong reader base and increasing traffic to the site. There are of course sites that all have great advice on how to get rolling, as well as other sites that are selling e-books from self-proclaimed ‘gurus’. Each site has found a way to build traffic and they all do it well, but there is a craze that is taking the blogosphere by storm…CONTESTS!

I have found one such online contest that is the mother of all contests. Gyutae Park has created what he’s dubbed the “Craziest Internet Marketing Contest You’ve Ever Seen!” Quite frankly…I think the title hits the nail on the proverbial head. When I first stumbled upon the contest on March 14^th, there was already a substantial prize pool in excess of eight grand in value. Amazingly the prize pool has now reached a whopping $12,201 in cash and prizes. Prizes range from 125 x 125 advertisements on popular blogs like JohnCow.com, an iPod Touch kindly donated by Shoemoney and cash prizes ranging from $50 to $650. The contest will end on March 31^st when the prizes are divided amongst the lucky winners.

Good luck to everyone involved…I’m hoping to get in the mix.

GrandmasterB