The Neotrepreneur

In chess, THE most important piece is your King because if its taken , you lose the game but it isn’t the most powerful one .The queen is.

She can make or break a play and steal victory from your opponent’s clutches.

Where am i going with this?

Chess is similar to webmastering. Your board is your website and the chess pieces each represent a facet that will make your blog succeed or fail miserably. Content is very important as that’s what makes your first-time visitors stick around like flies to glue but what brings those particular buggers to your site? PROMOTION.

No one gets to your blog if no one knows about it . Think about it people. Would Ipod be huge like it is today if it hadn’t advertised in million of homes through television and billboards?

A few simple ways to promote are:

Forum posting.

And Social bookmarking . Each time you make a new post , publish it in Stumbleupon or Digg.

Word of Mouth

Article Marketing. Create articles and submit to article directories such as Ezinearticles.

If your content is very good which should be always a priority , people will link to it and spread the word about it once you actually promote the hell out of your website!

642-453 as well as 642-552 are from the newer lines of courses devised for revision of 70-218 and 70-271. These courses will prepare you for 70-291 and EX0-101.

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With the recent Entrecard contest going on , a chosen set of people will have the privilege of being able to sell any of their own blog related products to the Entrecard community.

Here are the winners . The list is taken from here:

”Sam Freedom will be selling varying sizes of site, product or person reviews.
Price: between 300 and 5000 Credits.

Phillip will be selling complete blog makeovers, 1 page advanced keyword and SEO strategy, and Entrecard designs.
Price: 2000 Credits for the blog makeover, 499 credits for the strategy guide, and 150 credits for Entrecard design.

James will be selling a DVD of his chromatic harmonica repertoire, tips and tricks.
Price: 650 Credits.

Joe Tech will be selling his Status Snoop tool, which tells you when coveted ad spots will become available.
Price: 250 Credits.

Sean The Blogger will be selling Text Links on his blog, for a duration of one month.
Price: 300 Credits.

Mark Fulton will sell a 1 hour professional blog consultation via instant messenge.
Price: 500 Credits.

ATV Style will sell an awesome package consisting of 1 hour of extra strength SEO review on one domain, 1 comprehensive written review of that site posted on ATVStyle.com, and a permanent attachment of 10 eBay listings to the end of the written review.
Price: 750 Credits.

LaTease Rikard will sell Original Photography and 1 month of advertising for your 125×125.
Price: 50 Credits per package of 20 photos, 100 Credits for the one month ad spot.

Tyler Mulligan will sell Card Redesigns, Quality reviews, Ad space, and possible T-Shirts.
Price: 400 Credits per Card Redesign, 500 Credits per Quality Review, and Ad Space for 2500 Credits (two weeks) and 4000 Credits (one month). T-Shirts price yet to be determined.

QforQuack will sell a cheesy Shakespearian Sonnet by her about your website, a three minute song about your blog (using her voice and edited in garageband), a custom skin for your gadget from IStyles, a $10 iTunes Email Gift Certificate, and a Custom iPod Video / Nano theme.
Price: 50 Credits for the sonnet, 100 Credits for the song, 1,000 credits for the Skin from iStyles, 1,250 Credits for the $10 iTunes gift certificate, and 5,000 Credits for the iPod Video / Nano theme.

Fromtheold will sell 125 design, Drupal design, and possibly even some random domains.
Price: 200 Credits for 125 design, 2000 Credits for Drupal design, ??Credits for the domains.

LoboLinks is selling submission to their paid web directory for quality sites. (Note, refunds, if necessary, will have to be issued through the dashboard for now.)
Price: 300 Credits.

Mike is selling Entrecard designs.
Price: 200 credits.

Sphrym will sell Entrecard Design and Blog Reviews.
Price: 250 Credits for Entrecard Design and 500 Credits for a blog review.

And last but not least, the Wordpress Rockstar himself, Adii, will be selling his Exclusive Wordpress Themes, which normally retail for $100, for 10,000 Credits.”

Things that should look particularly interesting to get your hands on:

The status snoop from Joetech.com. Very useful when you want steal an ad spot with the big boys since it will alert you when a queue in line is open.

Adii’s premium theme. Might take awhile to get it though.

Mark Fulton. 1 hour Blog consultation. Now , most people have no idea what they are doing wrong with their blog even though they are working as hard as they can. Mr Fulton will surely help you with your questions.

This will surely make the EC website receive a spike in traffic but it might also incite recent leavers such as The University kid to return and perhaps card drop once again or stop giving away hundreds of ECs that could be used in making useful purchases in the new shops soon to be open.

I mean who doesn’t want a free Exclusive wordpress theme or his blog flipped for a virtual currency that do not cost even a penny to obtain?

With this new addition , Entrecard seems all set to grow even more . I wonder what they have next for us ?

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Here are 5 simple tips to increase your Entrecard traffic all for free.

1. Drop your card like a maniac.

Each and everytime you see an Entrecard widget which will probably happen often as more and more bloggers are adding it to their website , drop your business card.

Also, Chain drop. This method is basically having a list of URLs where all of them have Entrecard so you can come back to them each day and drop some more. Since this process is fairly long and annoying , i have managed to find a Nifty little program which is called the Entrecard Browser.

This tool is a courtesy of Joe tech. What it does is basically this: Every time you click on Next Site, you will be taken to the Entrecard page of a blogger where you can click on their link and drop your card once you find the widget.

Note: You should drop always 200 worth of ECs in a daily run . Also, this browser is still in Beta so duplicate sites might be shown and once you close it , you have to restart everything from scratch so i suggest using the tool once a day and then come back 24 hours later.

2. Finding the right business card.

The default business card you can select is a bit bland so i suggest finding a snazzy image with an even better description. Make it as short as possible while keeping it informative.

3.Buying some cheap advertising.

You can buy exposure for as low as 2 EC a day by going to the Latest Entrecard users section Just purchase any advertisements available with the lowest price possible.

Why should you make these payments you ask?

Because each and every time a new user comes in , his ad fees are set to 2 EC/day that means that if a popular blog with 100k visitors per month were to use Entrecard for the first time , his ads would still cost only 2ecs.

4. Holding contests.

Making contests that have prizes such as 1000 ecs will surely create buzz about your blog and attract a lot of Entrecard users.

I recommend asking participants to post a small post about your contest to be elegible for it so that you can gain exposure and backlinks.

5. Making the bot-like visitors stay.

Chain droppers often drop their crap then leave immediately afterwards so you need to make these buggers stay and become your audience.

There are 2 ways for this:

First, place your Entrecard near the top of your blog as the CP will be quickly annoyed if they take more than 10 seconds to find your widget. I will probably visit a bit around if i like the design of a blog and haven’t wasted much of time finding the goddamn thing.

Second, these viewers only look for one thing only: Your Entrecard widget. So where’s the best place to put something to attract them and to make stay? Anywhere very close to your Entrecard ! and what is probably the subject that will catch their eye? Anything about Entrecard of course!

Placing a hyperlink to one of your posts about something related to Entrecard like a contest or something to maximize traffic will surely bait these droppers to one of your posts.

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