We all need to be a bit more reflective and maybe less reactive.

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So, a small part of what I actually wrote to EC is at the bottom, but I would like you all to go to Aldon’s blog and read his newest entry about how all of the different kinds of ad sites work. It is so amazingly wonderful that I feel like I understand a motherload of things I never did before.

Love to all,

Mother Maitri, ec post in part below…

“I have gone in and checked that I will accept ads ONLY from REAL entrecard users bought the real way, ec points only. If this bears fruit I will stay. The ad system is a mess past belief. Not only are we all obviously being inundated with so many paid ads the system is crashing, ads are showing up on ALL 3 BLOGS as approved when I did NOT APPROVE THEM, EVERYONE is noticing that the 50/50 rule is not working and the paid ads are taking up far longer than their share, and really, you should never have dropped such an enormous bomb on a loyal community of people without having kinks worked out. You offered us free space and then pulled the rugs out from under our feet. WE are your bread and butter. Allow paid advertisers on the site pages on ec, get an underwriter, do something, or there won’t be an ec left to advertise on!

I wish most sincerely that this can be worked out before I go for good. I have and will remain with real entrecard ads only, but if I’m not going to get enough ads to make it worth my while, then I’ll have no choice to leave. I’m giving it one last chance.

Reverend Mother Maitri

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I wish I could understand the whole new entrecard concept but I don’t. I have a lot of reading to do so I can understand it.

I assume it is like Google pay-per-click, and know what I think entrecard owner started this new pay-for-ads program so he can sell the whole thing to Google.

Google is swallowing up all the good fun and Free programs like Twitter they jus bought them out.

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Why does Entrecard not allow a choice? Offer different types of widgets. Offer the basic single widget we all know. But offer a double size widget, one with blogger ads and the other with paid ads…and let those who take this double widget share in the revenue. Let only those who carry the double widget cash in their EC credits. Then we’d have a choice. Heck, allow people to choose a 3 or 4 sized widget if they want even more extra rewards. Entrecard could have developed a savvy marketing scheme if they thought it though. I bet most people would have picked a double size widget if they get benefit from it. OH well! They better wise up fast.

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I hope noone will finally decide to leave yet because it is early days and we don’t know how things will work out once they settle down a bit.

I have carried on dropping the same if not more, applied for the same number of ads from credits and paid $10 to show some support for the new paid ads because I thought it best to see how things go.

But it has now become clear that it is very unfair for those accepting paid ads not to be given any reward for doing that at all and I think Entrecard needs to be aware how much resentment that is generating among the members. Practically every site I go to and in the forums people are complaining it is unfair and that their applications for adverts from credits have gone down.

Perhaps Entrecard can be persuaded to start making rewards for accepting paid ads in the same way they were persuaded to drop the fee they were going to charge for not accepting them.

It is an obvious disadvantage and members can make clear to Entrecard how unfair the current system is so far. I hope that happens before any good members leave.

Jill

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You know, here’s the thing that’s clinching it for me. NO, the 50/50 is not working. And I don’t know if any of you are experiencing this, but since they started the paid ads, which you never get pending e-mails for approval for, at least I don’t, they just jump out at you like a scary jack in the box, I now don’t get ANY e-mails for ANY ads, regular ec ads or otherwise.

And WORST, and what hit me so hard this morning I nearly cried, I have been very loyal in this community and do you know that once the onslaught of ad buying started, I have not received ONE regular ec ad bought on points dropped FROM ANYONE. The ads there now were there last week and my 3 ads had 1024/768 and 512 respectively. Now that everyone is BUYING ads, hence its’ easier for them not to have to spend so much time dropping, I’m not getting ANY regular ec ads on ANY of 3 sites. It STOPPED the very day the paid ads started. Last week I got quite a number of regular ec ads on all of my blogs. It broke my heart to realize that. I have continued to drop like mad, especially since I put up a new blog a week ago. I’ve literally worked my hiney end off and accrued lots of points because I really wanted to do a good ad campaign for the new blog.

I feel betrayed by ec who clearly set up a system so they would get money, but the regular advertisers still have to drop their panties off so to speak to to get the points to advertise, only to still have to pay high prices for some of those ads but only get very little time comparatively on that site we dropped abovesaid panties off to get!

My advertisers have clearly stopped advertising the old way to buy ads and I am watching my ‘worth’ ON ec go down the tubes. That was the clincher for me. With that said I have decided to leave entrecard.

I will let the regularly purchased ads from ec droppers go through, ALL paid ads are now being cancelled on principle (And I’m so sorry to those of you whom I held dear and who bought an ad, but most of them I never heard of. I will give you an example. This morning, my most popular site was down from 1024-768 down to 256 and dropping, I have 8 regular ec ads and 28 paid ads (count em, 28! And I let them in because I *thought* we were going to be compensated in points or something for
“allowing” them to USE our sites, and that’s after I rejected some. Also, a handful of people are buying multiple ads on the same blogsite??? Huh?

I am a new minister building a ministry, my mother is in endstage cancer, there are friends who need me, and they have all suffered for the time it took me to drop ec’s which now don’t even matter anymore.

It breaks my heart, but I am indeed leaving.

My widget will stay up until the last regular ec ad has run, but I can’t take all of this brouhaha in my life. It is taking a terrible toll and I am done.

I hope you will all stay in touch and I will advertise with you through other means… I love you dearly and wish you well, I mean that with all my heart.

Before I close I would like to say one last thing that I know will be on people’s minds. Some of the other ads, like CMF, we will also share adspace on, HOWEVER we haven’t spent hours and hours a day dropping cards to earn the right to advertise on it. I can get an ad for a month for as little as a quarter on CMF. A whole MONTH. And I have received very good return on my ads

WE built entrecard. Yes Graham and his team created it, and offered it for free, and built it’s popularity on the backs of the people spending hours a day dropping cards to buy ads. It was a lot of work but we were happy to do it because it was bringing us good traffic, and giving we we don’t have money to buy advertising, a way to do it and a wonderful community to do it in. Now that the community is built, OOPS, they need money and we are the ones that are going to be hurt by it while they make money. As I said, it is on principle to me. It is not fair. I understand they need income but they way they are I send much love, blessings and know, those of you who know me, that all of my work will continue, and I will miss you terribly, but will not be here. I’d love to stay in touch so write to me so I can keep in touch with you if you like, and I will be listing, as I wait for my ec ads here to end, all the sites I love so I can keep in touch with you.

With tender love and an aching heart,

Mother Maitri

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I understand that EC needs to generate profit to keep their site running and I believe they can generate income from advertisements on their site and not through paid ads like this. They could learn a few tricks from Google. Most of their services are free to use and they are also one of the biggest companies around.

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