Do you use Entrecard to promote your blog?

Than you have good news in your mail box. If you did not receive it, check out this blog post on Entrecard’s blog - they have launched Entrebar - the Entrecard Toolbar for Firefox.

This was somewhat very necessary to keep pace with its growth (or decline).

However, I am still missing one important aspect out there (I am yet to go through all the features of the toolbar - but I could not find it anywhere - even in the post).

My experience with Entrecard:

I use Entrecard in one of my blogs. And the most annoying thing happens when I open my mail account and find out a lot mails with the subject line: “An advert is awaiting your approval on Entrecard.com”.

What happens?  

1. The Entrecard notification mail only gives me the name and URL of the prospective advertiser. It does not give me any overview on what type of blog is asking for the advertisement space.
2. Now, I would visit that blog to find out whether that is good enough for my visitors or not. As a good blogger, you must think twice before allowing any advertisement in your blog. (At least, as long as you have an option and as far as AdSense is concerned, you can do nothing about it.) And I don’t know how many people skip this option - but I do it honestly. (you should also do it at least to avoid your competitor’s advertisement in your blog)
3. Now I will have to login to my account and do whatever I wish (approve/decline)

Why this seems annoying to me?

1. Why doesn’t it provide me more information on the blog? For example, its Entrecard status (like how many other users have declined or approved its advertisement proposal); topic of the blog (blog name is often misleading); about the blog (at least what he or she has entered in the about section) etc. This would have helped me a lot to take a primary decision.
2. Now when I visit another website to make the final decision about approving or declining it, it takes a lot of time. I must go through some posts to get an overview of the blog. Do I always have so much of time! And it is not a good sign if I keep a decision pending for a long time.
3. The third step is more annoying. Here I would have login to my Entrecard account to approve or decline the advertiser. Ok, that’s too much for me (that wouldn’t have been a problem if the mail came once in a while - but as a regular task it is tedious.). I contacted them via the feedback form asking “why don’t you give me the option to approve or decline an ad in the mail itself!!” and I must say - they were very prompt at replying to that.

The reply was this: “Because that would require Javascript in the email, which is a huge security risk. I don’t think that most email software even tries to run Javascript in emails. We would also have to list all of your ads every time an email goes out, which would probably slow things down a lot.”

Ok guys, I understand your problem - but does this solve my problem? Especially the last line - that does not make any sense to me.

You are doing a great job - but if you want to run things more successfully, you must note these small things - small changes make big differences.

The launch of the Entrebar (Entrecard Toolbar) is a good move. Now, why don’t you add these small functions in the toolbar!!

Think about it…

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