Entrecard Experiment

I've been thinking of some ways on how can I increase my blog's traffic. One way would be SEO, but I am not an expert on it, though I consider my Pacquiao vs Marquez Rematch successful. Another thing that I did was to join forums and promote my blog. Another thing I can do, but didn't, was to advertise on other blogs, but it costs a lot, though projectwonderful offers bidding on ad space on small amounts. Good thing there is entrecard. This is one way of advertising on other blogs for free. You even get to drop your card on other blogs, but I don't know if they even click those.

I concentrated advertising on entrecard. I blog hop and always drop my business card on their entrecard whenever I visited their website. My first business card looked like the picture below. A simple white background with a green stripe on the middle, with the word 'EntrepreNars' in it. I advertise on other blogs via entrecard using this business card.



But it only generated a few clicks. Eight clicks is the most. I wonder why it generated a few clicks. The answer would be the design of my business card. It sucked. It is so plain, it don't catch any visitor's attention. What i did was to create another design, but again, I am no expert on that kind of thing. So I had to think of another way. And that 'way' was to pick a picture that will catch the attention of visitors. I decided to pick this picture (see pic below):




She is Leah Dizon. She is a TV personality in Japan with Chinese, French, and Filipino heritage. Maybe you are wondering why I chose this. Well, my basis of using this 'hot chick' is from tech magazines. I just imitated their strategy on using hot women in front page of tech mags. I know you've mistaken tech mags as men's mags just by looking at the front page. If not, good for you(",).

I tried advertising on Kuya Dexter's techathand.net. Here are the results.











For my first two ads, I used the plain white, green stripe business card. Look how many clicks it generated. Only one and two clicks. But look at how many clicks it generated after I used my second business card(my leah dizon business card). It generated twenty two clicks! It is still small compared to other blogs, but any grade school kid can tell that the clicks have increased.

There are disadvantages on this kind of strategy:
1. It only targets male visitors - Male visitors will surely click on this ad because they are curious on what's behind that picture. But for female visitors, I am surely will be turned off because of this pic.
2. Visitors will think it is a 'po rn' site - Visitors will surely think it's a 'po rn' site because of the nature of the picture.
3. You may offend some bloggers when you advertise or drop your business card on them - I am hesitant to drop or even advertise using this kind of pic, especially if the blogger is a female. Simply because I don't know if they are open to this kind of pics. I even wonder how Kuya Dexter think when he saw my ad. But I just thought, this was just an experiment, if they not approve my ad, they can decline my ad application, and I just have to change the pic again.

There were a couple of bloggers who decline my ad. It's okay for me. As I said, this is just an experiment. And I will keep on changing my business card from time to time, experimenting.


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