How to Increase Blog Traffic & Exposure – Sign up for Entrecard

I was posting announcements about my grand opening of my Shoppes site to Stumble Upon Exchange the other day, and came across a really great blog singing the praises of Entrecard. Wow, if you want exposure for your blog, Entrecard is the next best thing to sliced bread…or in my case, preferably, chocolate!

It’s a virtual “drop your business card,” or in this case, “ebiz card” onto someone’s blog and introduce yourself! It also offers the opportunity to purchase 125 x 125 banner “advertisements” or ‘adverts’ for 24 hours via credits…no cash is exchanged. If accepted by the blogger, your advertisement stays on the front page for 24 hours!

Here’s more information, directly from Entrecard’s site:

“What is an Entrecard?

Entrecard is your business card 2.0. It’s a 125×125 image which represents you and your blog. Its part advertisement, part business card.

Entrecard is the first and only free exchange network for 125×125 ads. Through this revolutionary platform, you can advertise your own 125×125 Entrecard on any blog in the network, for free, for a number of days. You pay for this advertising with Entrecard Credits, that you earn for free by networking … Entrecards are exchanged via a widget that you place on your blog. Other members with an Entrecard can leave their card for you by dropping it in your widget, and you can leave your card for others by dropping it in their widget.”

If you look at the top left corner of my blog, under the American Flag, you’ll see I’ve posted “Drop your Entrecard Here”. A member who’s searched through the various categories offered, finds my blog, reads it, can comment on it, and “drop” their card by clicking the “drop” link. You can use one of their images as your banner if you don’t have one, or upload your own. How cool is that?

Run, don’t think about it…if you blog ~ it’s like a 24-hour link exchange for your WAHM biz. Sign up! It’s FREE!

Be sure to drop me a line or comment to let me know that you’ve signed up so I can “drop-in” on you & say ‘hello’!

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WAHM eBiz Tip # 1 ~Giving Your Home Based Business a Boost with Blogging

So many things to do! Sometimes don’t you feel like you don’t know what to do first? I have a list that I’ve put together of all the suggested things I should be doing to in order to get all my ebiz’s up & running smoothly. But my plate is getting so full ~~ between trying to roll out fantastic new Spring Inventory for my eBay Store (you just have to see it all!) at Moomette’s Magnificents and changing over the host site for my
Moomette’s Magnificents Olde Towne Shoppes site.

Additionally, I’ve been entertaining the thought of starting another blog …where I can banter about daily trials & tribulations of family life, thereby separating it from my WAHM eBiz tips blog. In the meantime, here’s a heads-up for newbie WAHMs who have an Internet eBiz or Direct Sales Home Party Business and would like to gain more exposure for it:

Giving Your Home Based Business a Boost with Blogging by Tamara

Blogs are like ripe apples hanging on the tree ready to be picked, beautiful and oh so delicious. Indulging to it will never be a poison. . It can also be likened to a virus but the difference is the benefits blogs give and also because they are vastly and fast spreading around the globe.

That’s for the giants of the arena of business, but how about those smaller enterprises? Does blogs suit them? By all means, yes.

Small businesses or home based ones needs more blog than any other business. Since their business place is far off from the central marketplace, people need to be informed and be aware of the existence of these smaller enterprises through blogging. By means of blogging, these types of businesses are given chance to be known and be noticed.

To add to that, let us take these advantages of blogs for home based businesses:

»Blogs are all-you-need package. HTML is hard to learn and a little time consuming. By using blogs you will no longer problem the appearance since it is preset for convenience purposes.

»You can post anything on blogs without any hassle at all. Plus you can post anytime. Nonetheless, posting is not a problem.

»Since basically blogs are not e-mail communication, spam has no place in it.

With these entire advantages all for free means a business with high profits.

Remember you must update your blog every now and then. New updates mean another to look forward to on the side of your audience. In as often as possible, you may update your blog at least twice every week. It will let your audience ask for more. Never overlook all current information and issues that will surely catch their attention.

Your blog should have a place for comments, reactions and suggestions. It will help you reach the audiences tastes and desires through their own feedbacks. Criticisms are very essential tool for your websites growth. Just take every criticism positively.

Do not forget to link your blogs to other resources. It will help not just you and your business but also your customers.

Simplicity is not ugly. Complicated layout and color will attract customers easily and also can shoo them easily too. Always keep in mind that content is more important than anything else in your blog.

The entire earth is waiting for your business to be known. Take that mouse and make your own blog.

Tamara works from home and enjoys helping others do the same. For More tips and ideas on home businesses visit My Work at Home Business besure to sign up for the newsletter for great tips and ideas to work from home and a free chance at some great advertising.

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