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Do you like Entrecard’s Pricing System?
For many bloggers out here, Entrecard has been a useful tool to use as a way of advertising for free. Dropping by others’ sites, saving up credits to buy an advertising space on another. Great. Due to the demands of advertising space on popular sites, high credit cost has been issues to many who lack credits.
But they’ve changed it right? Would you say that you honestly like the new pricing system? Because in my opinion, I do not like it at all. For sites that are in high demands, it won’t matter at all for them, since people will simply find them at all times. But for many starters or those who’re trying increase a bit of traffic, this pricing system change may hurt them.
Take a look at the pricing system as follow:
Since it can get as high as people are willing to pay, trying to save up tremendous amount of credits for one big site can be troublesome. Listen to this logic: If you were to spend a bit each time advertising on low credit ones, you’ll be able to advertise a lot, with fewer clicks building up. But if you were to save up 1000s for a single day, you may get better traffic, however, will you be able to advertise continuously? No.
This concludes that either way you spend your credits, it’ll be similar enough. But to think of those who drop as much as possible daily in order to earn credits AND try to increase their advertising cost (as the previous system followed according to # of clicks), do I like this change? …not really.
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Ben Barden, thanks for your interview with Graham, it was very interesting.
As for the pricing, I do agree with you, once it gets high, it’s just way too high for some of us to afford continuously. |
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sJ_Dan - thank you for checking it out. Graham is a good person to interview, as he’s very honest and up front about things. Hopefully the pricing system will be tweaked soon so we have a few more prices along the scale from low to high. |
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Sorry I’m late to this conversation; I have limited time on weekdays. I don’t see a big problem with similarly-priced sites, being a bit of a newcomer to the field. In fact, the possible similarity in prices WILL help newcomers like me. On the other hand, the big jumps as the price goes higher are really wrong - I hope the people at Entrecard review their high school algebra (on exponential growth, which is modelled by the pricing system now). |
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Isles Tech, sure it can help newcomers, but as I’ve continued to use it, I realized that it’ll be only temporary help unless you’re willing to work harder. For example, most (if not a lot) of top entrecarders either have U Drop I Follow, or promote some kind of services such as giving away. Hence people will always go to them, and their hard work pays off. But for those regular bloggers, dropping by to build up credits for advertisement simply may be something that you don’t really want to do, since it’ll be mostly high bounce rate visitors anyways. But since you’re liking it so far, I wish you the best with it. Thanks for coming by.
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Most sites do not actually end up being very expensive unless they are really popular, which shows that the new system is working - to a point. The main issues I have with the new system are as follows:
1. Too many sites end up being the same price, thereby making it difficult to distinguish between them;
2. As the prices go into three digits and above, the jumps between prices are too high.
You might be interested in the interview I had with Graham Langdon, as the pricing system was one of the things I asked about. He had some reassuring comments to share.