Today I want to start a little contest where you can win 500 Entrecard credits! If you don´t know Entrecard, please read my post about it to find out more.

Here are the simple rules:

1. Write a short review about this blog with at least 100 words.
2. In your post you have to include two links pointing to “http://makingmoneyexperiment.blogspot.com”
3. Send me an email containing your review post URL, submit it to netzfischer[at]gmail[dot]com
4. Have the chance to win 500 Entrecard credits!

The contest will end at Friday 22nd midnight (CEST), so you have 5 days to write a review. After the time is over, a winner will be choosen randomly (with help of an online randomizer). You´ll get your credits shortly after that (maybe a day), I´ll send them via email. The winner will be mentioned in one of my future blog posts!

You may win 500 credits if you´re the lucky one, but there´s even more! Everybody writing a review about my blog will get a share of what I call my Entrecard pot. I have another 2,000 credits left which I´ll share with everybody participating in this contest. For example, if 10 people write a review about my blog, everybody will get 200 credits plus one lucky person getting an extra 500 credits, easy isn´t it?

As this is my first contest here on my blog, I don´t have a clue how it will work. I hope that many people participate. Remember, it´s easy earned credits even if you´re not the winner of the 500 credits!

So long,
Querblogger

You probably have heard about Entrecard? No? No problem, let me tell you more!

You may know that advertising your blog or website is a crucial task in order to succeed with your online business. Sure, it would also work without any advertising, but it would also take a much longer time to make your blog/website more popular. So, it should be one of your first goals to drive traffic to your site, the more the better. More traffic will bring you more revenue, be it from affiliate marketing, contextual ads or referral programs. But the traffic is even better if it´s free!

So, recently I came across Entrecard, a nice site that offers free advertising for your site. I´ve seen it on many blogs lately, even on those from famous bloggers like Darren Rowse or John Chow.

Entrecard lets you exchange 125×125 banner ads for free. The whole story is based on dropping your entrecards on blogs you like, think about it as giving your own business card to other people. In order to drop a card, the blog you´re about to visit must have a widget installed. There you can click to drop your own card. You then get one Entrecard credit for each drop which you could use for advertising your own blog or website.

Advertising your own site is easy. The first thing you´ll need is a 125×125 image banner representing your blog or website, you could also use only a simple text link ad, but that isn´t too effective I think. If you have earned enough credits from dropping your Entrecards on different blogs out there on the web, you can use that balance to advertise on other sites. After an advertising request is approved, your banner ad will show up in a widget (have a look at the left side bar to see what I mean) for the period of one day.

Other people can also advertise on your blog. The cost for advertising is based on the average Entrecard drops your site gets, multiplied by two. For example, if an average of 100 cards were dropped at your site each day, it would cost 200 credits to advertise on your site for one day.

You can even spend your earned Entrecard credits in a shop. There are many offers from many Entrecard users. You can find many things to choose from. For example you could let digg or stumble your blog from other people after paying them some Entrecard credits. Or you could hire someone to design your own Entrecard. There are many possibilities, check it out by yourself!

So far Entrecard is bringing me an extra 30 unique visitors to my blog each day and it´s growing from day to day. Really awesome in my opinion (hey it´s FREE advertising I really like the service, it´s relative easy to understand (look at their site to get a better understanding) and offers you great possibilities like advertising on John Chows blog for example!

I´ll soon start a little contest where you can win some good Entrecard credits. More info will follow by the weekend!

Bye,
Querblogger