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I have posted a new contest in the forums and figured I would share with the rest of you who are just passing by. If you are interested in winning 2,000 Entrecard credits this Friday, just subscribe to my rss feed by email. Here is the link. I will be drawing the winner and announcing them on this blog. This is as easy as it gets for getting free credits. If you have already subscribed by email don’t worry you will be automatically entered into the drawing.

If you are not sure what Entrecard is or why you would want these free credits, go discover why at www.entrecard.com I will accept entries for the competition until noon this Friday. I will announce the winner at 5 p.m. CST.

All you have to do it solve the puzzle and enter in the coupon code to redeem your 1,000 free Entrecard credits. The coupon code only works once, so the first person to get it wins.

Here are the rules:

• When you win post a comment here saying so.
• When the answer is a word the letter you are looking for is the first letter of that word (ex. What is the capital of France? Paris is the answer, and the letter you are looking for is P
• These will be in order.
• There are numbers and letters.
• Have fun.

There are 10 blanks to fill in _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ for the complete coupon code.

1. What is the capital of Bangladesh? _
2. What are police known to eat? _
3. What is 6,144 / 1024 = _ (answers is a #)
4. The number of Spartans (the famous estimated number) divided by 50 = _ (answers is a #)
5. Columbia is the capital of this state? _
6. This number is pronounced deux in French _ (answers is a #)
7. This is the study of animal life? _
8. These are also known as Felines _
9. Pride is # what of the deadly sins _ (answers is a #)
10. The middle name of the 6th President of the United States

Good luck!

Update: Ty’s Blog solved the puzzle after 48 minutes and claimed the 1,000 credits. Check out his amazing Entrecard Dropping System here.

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If you are new to this blog and want 250 Entrecard Credits all you need to do is sign up for my RSS feed and comment here to collect your prize. What could be more simple than that? This offer is available to the first 10 subscribers.

I was one of the first few people to sign up with Entrecard before it spread to the pubic. In the last few months I have discovered some interesting marketing techniques and ideas surrounding Entrecard. I am not going to be able to post all the ideas in one blog post, so I will spread it out. I will focus on one main idea per post. Today, I am going to talk about credit give-a-ways.

People love free credits, and that is no lie. But, the number one thing people don’t want to do is figure out how to get those free credits you advertised in the forums. When I get to your site and have to read a long instruction list on how to receive the free credits, you have already lost me. Of course if you are offering a ton of free credits like 5,000+ then maybe I will devote a little more time to figuring it out.

This brings me to my first tip. When giving away credits, make it easy and fun. Nobody wants to decipher your blog enigma code in order to figure out how to score those credits. If you want RSS subscribers, say you will give 300 credits each to the first 10 RSS subscribers.

So, with that said, if you are in the market for 300 credits, simply subscribe to my RSS feed and comment that you did in this post.

To my surprise the second day of the experiment went better than the first. The biggest difference is that on the second day I spend no credits advertising the site. Referrals from Stumbleupon and Google search engines were both up. These combined netted over 712 visitors on day two. This experiment has brought in a total of:

• 1404 visits
• 2607 pageviews
• 3:06 average time on the site

Conclusion: I was not sure exactly how day two would go seeing that I did nothing more to promote the site. I think this changes the numbers even more from the last post in regard to the value entrecredits. Using entrecredits as a bartering tool for such things as having people stumble, digg or comment on your blog has proved to be a lot more valuable than spending the same amount of credits on advertising your advert.

Note to self: Before ruling out the value of advertising make sure to advertise on a blog with over 1,000 RSS  subscribers and compare.

Question: What successes have you had with people stumbling and digging your articles?