The following is an interview with Graham Langdon, founder of Entrecard and previous owner of Million Dollar Wiki.
Turnip: Entrecard is now a few months old, with over 4000 users. While the number of blogs increased, the number of drops on the top blogs really hasn’t. For example, with 3000ec blogs, 500 was the “most popular”, yet with 4500 blogs, 600ec is most popular. Are you satisfied with the growth, and why proportionately are the top blogs getting fewer drops?
Graham:I am very satisfied with the growth. It allows us to respond to problems and adjust our backend as things grow increasingly complex and use increasingly more system resources. If it grew twice as fast, we might not be able to handle it. But the current growth rate is actually perfect.
I don’t know why the top blogs are getting proportionately fewer drops. Maybe lots of people don’t want the rich to get richer! -its all democratic if you think of your drops as votes.
Turnip: 600ec is a lots of credits for advertising on one blog. Any update on the new formula for calculating advertising costs or a timetable for the changes?
Graham: The new formula is going to simply allow people to lower their prices if they so choose, and prices will increase through tiers if your Alexa rank is below 20k, 10k, and 5k
Turnip: One of my main concerns is a lack of incentive for recognized blogs in the community to advertise, thus creating a glut of credits. Any chance you might tie credits spent into ad cost or allow Project Wonderful type bidding on certain select sites like johnchow or problogger?
Graham: We’re going to have a “paid rank” category, that the top 30 bidders get onto the page, and can be outbid at any time. It should get interesting.
Turnip: One of your early goals was to get some type of financial sponsor. “Once per day we will allow a larger company to drop their card into the inbox across the entire network”. Is Project Wonderful a temporary solution until a sponsor is found, or have your plans changed?
Graham: We like project wonderful because it allows our members to pay cash to advertise on our site. We’re exploring a number of targeted monetization strategies. You might start seeing a pitch for a blogging related product or service on the dash in a “deal of the day” type of thing. We’re also opening the credit exchange soon where you can sell your credits for cash to others, and we’ll take a little piece.
Turnip: How many blogs of your own do you still have in the Entrecard system, and do you still drop cards?
Graham: I have a couple blogs here and there, but I only drop from my Entrecard blog. Some days I only drop one or two, some days I drop 40 or 50. It depends. Whenever I go through all the support forms it involves a lot of checking out members’ blogs, and I always drop my card. And alot of other blogs I read regularly and drop my card. So I’m an active dropper, but definitely not a chain-dropper.
Turnip: What’s the most exciting upcoming feature current Entrecards have to look forward to in the next few months?
Graham:The credit to money exchange. I can’t tell you how excited I am that members will have a streamlined way to earn money with Entrecard by simply selling their credits. It’s going to be awesome!
Turnip: Thanks Graham!
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18 users commented in " Entrecard’s Graham Langdon Interviewed "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackback **********Dude, sweet interview with Graham. I like the well-thought out questions. I wonder what’s going to happen to the “black markert” entrecard credit exchange after they institute an official one?
Pretty good interview well done!
Great interview! I’m glad he’s finally “letting the cat out of the bag” about certain features.
I heard he’s tall in person, is it true? Dish!
That was short n sweet. Glad that entrecard is gonna have an official credit to money exchange…waiting for that.
Thanks mate
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This is a great scoop interview. Wow, good to hear straight from the man himself on what’s going to happen with EC in the near future.
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“The credit to money exchange. I can’t tell you how excited I am that members will have a streamlined way to earn money with Entrecard by simply selling their credits. It’s going to be awesome!”
This sounds interesting, I wonder how it’s going to be
Nicely done! Your questions were great.
Great interview and I’m excited about the upcoming things at Entrecard Graham talked about with you. I hope you do a followup interview with him in the next month or two.
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An interesting interview. The whole concept of the Alexa Ranking creeping in is interesting. This comes at a time that I was starting to think that Alexa really meant nothing to anyone. I most certainly hope many carders read this interview so that they can get those Alexa toolbars installed.
Simple interview but meaty…i love reading your enterview and this inform us about graham and the great entrecard. For me Entrecard is the best thing happen now a days because it’s fair and give the small sites that don’t have budget to advertise and increase the visibility. I like your question it’s straight to the point and no non-sense.
I still think the Alexa thing is a horrible idea, but whatever.
The credits exchange is cool, and will definitely help out their website. However, the black market is going to be killed. I also think the price for credits is going to drop dramatically due to this. No more $10 for 1000ec. It will be more like $5, sometimes less.
Like the idea of selling credits. I don’t do it myself, but it’s a nice way for some small businesses to make a couple bucks along the way.
Great interview. I met the Entrecard guys at BlogWorld and never knew this was going to take off like it did.
This guy just keeps coming up with ways to scam people out of their money by claiming he’s helping them get traffic. He sure is lucky there are so many people trying to make a buck with their blogs and finding out it’s not easy so they’re gullible enough to try this stuff.
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