Finally it has arrived! I present the beta advertising program! I have had this idea for a while now, and finally I can share it. I want to give my readers a chance to try out advertising on this site, and see how it works for them for the first month of February.

I will be giving out 4 advertising spots this month, and rotating weekly.

This week, the first three spots will be first come, first served, and the last will be raffled off to my trusty email subscribers. Click here to enter.

So the first three to comment on this post will recieve a spot, and tomorrow I will draw the last spot.

I hope everyone has had a successful week, and I hope to see another one ahead of us. I have spotted some outstanding posts, and I am sure success will continue to improve.

-The Green Flamingo

I have written two top quality articles today besides this, but I did not feel like publishing or finishing the details of either. I decided to go on a post of reviews, though it might go ok.

What is a review?

In the webmaster world, the word review still means review as you know it, only refers to a review of a site/blog. It could be a review of a product, but that would be a product review. The most common thing you will get if you purchase a “review” is a 200-1000 word article describing and “reviewing”(we are getting smart huh?:)) your blog. And, you may have notice I said “purchase,” because of course nothing is free and there is some cost no matter what. You may not have to pay cash, you may not even have to win a contest or subscribe to a blog, maybe you just have to be the first, but if you look at it, that is still a cost.

Today, people will pay a lot for a review, I guess they think they are worth something. I have heard people say like Jason from the University Kid that reviews suck, but it is all an opinion.

Why pay for a review?

You may wonder why you should pay for a review, people figure it is because they have to do work and it is another way to earn money.

What is free to the blogger, may not always be free to you. Though the blogger may not receive money, they might actually ask you to subscribe. Or maybe they do not receive profit, you still might have to do something.

I am wondering why free reviews are not offered more, even if you have to subscribe or comment, I am still in shock that someone thinks they can be abused.

I love to review

I actually love to review things, not always blogs, because I run out of things to talk about, but I really love to critique. Critiquing interior design and architecture are some of my favorite things, and also why I say I love to review. Do you love to review?

I am starting a review “page,” where I might publish the reviews that are selected by email subscribers and win the weekly review.

Ok. Was this a good post or not? Let that swim in your head while you are waiting for the next one in a few hours. I have to a cram a lot in because I was gone and school is starting too. The ones I was writing today are going to be backups, not published very soon, so see you in a few hours!

-Note- yesterday I announced I am offering free reviews for my email subscribers, and the drawing is tomorrow. Let me remind you that you must subscribe today to be on the list tomorrow, so hurry and subscribe!-Note-
Rock on! Subscribe and get a chance to win a free review each week!

The Green Flamingo

I am giving out links and banners for free! Come and join, not hard at all!

I was giving them out on Blog Premiere a few days ago, and I am still giving them away. I would just like you to subscribe to green-flamingo by email, then shoot me a mail telling me you subscribed and having your banner. You can catch me at yunkaka[at]gmail.com and subject it “I want a banner!” having the banner, link, and specify where the banner should go. Here are some choices:

125×125 ad spot in sidebar

125×125 anywhere else you think it could go

460×80 on top of first post

460×80 at the bottom of last post

Skyscraper ads in sidebar

Any ads within the post

There are multiples of some, and I can always rotate:)

For a link you will do the same thing, only just send me the link with no banner. We will go to links when the banner spaces are out.

If you want to send me a mail saying you subscribed and really didn’t, that’s fine, just think about why you are cheating me before you do that, for all I am trying to do is have some more RSS subscribers and give you a treat for subscribing.

If you would also like to link to me in return for the banner of whatnot, I would greatly appreciate that but it is not required. I do not run as strict a boat as some.

Good luck everyone and if there is anything I missed remind me in comments! Today is also the 4th of July so happy 4th of July. I will be setting off many fireworks tonight and I will tell you about them!

Blog Premiere Contest Extravaganza!!! Kicks Off!

This is one of the greatest contests I have ever seen. Most have things like ads, entrecredits, reviews, a bit of money like $50-100, but this contest has things actually useful. I will first show you the awesome prize list.

First place winner gets:

Ultimate Blogging Package

Hosting Package

Twelve Months Swamp Plan by Hostgator

Domain

One .COM domain by Blog Premiere

Custom Wordpress Theme

Coloured Mascot by DesignFXPro
Theme Design by PSDThis
Theme Coding by PSDChopstick

Consultation

One hour marketing consultation by Jason Pereira
One hour technical consultation by George Pearce
One BotW slot on Blog Premiere

Monetization

One copy of OIO Publisher

Second place winner gets:

Custom Wordpress Theme

Theme Design by Eli Burford
Theme Coding by Ophelia Nicholson

Monetization

One copy of OIO Publisher

Promotion

One slot on the Can�t Get Rich Podcast

Third place winner gets:

One license to three themes by Magnus Jepson
One license to the Elite Theme

Fourth place winner gets:

One license to the Elite Theme
One license to Mimbo Pro

Fifth place winner gets:

One license to the Power Theme
One license to the Ecstasy Theme

The contest will run on a points scheme… whoever gets the most points wins.

How to get points

300 Points for submitting an accepted article to Blog Premiere�s magazine.

300 Points for blogging about the contest with all sponsor links attached.

150 Points for blogging about the contest without all sponsor links attached

50 Points for joining Blog Premiere�s forums

10 Points for Stumbling this contest entry

5 Points per day you link to Blog Premiere on your website.

3 Points per thread you make on Blog Premiere

1 Point per post you make on Blog Premiere

You can join the contest here!

So there you have it. I could leave it at that for the day, just be lazy and show you what I copied and pasted (it would take me a long time to type that up, especially with links, so thanks Jason). I am going to tell you more though so you can join this awesome contest.

That first place prize looks good right? To bad this guy that joined yesterday or day before has hogged it because he spam posts (all the new people are doing that to get points, I encourage you not to). He also has like 5 websites, so posts about the contest on all of them.

So, if you would like to join this amazing contest yourself and see the original thread, here it is.

Join Blog Premiere here and navigate your way around. Note: the registration box does not work, use the nav bar at top to register.

Yes. Some of you may think this is for newbies, well is it? I’m not sure. I’m not sure if I’m a newbie to blogging. I don’t think so, it has been about 7 months, but I’ll take your word for most of what you say.

So, onto the features, what it is, and what you need to know of entrecard.

Entrecard is a bit like a free way to advertise your blog. I am assuming all of you in the make money online niche already know what entrecard is, but for those that don’t, it can really help. So if you don’t have the money to advertise, you may consider entrecard as an option. Or even if you do have the money to advertise on the place you want, Entrecard is still a useful tool.

How it works – First of course you must create an account, which means for me another password to remember then forget then have a new one or your old one emailed to you. I am pretty crazy that way. Once you have your account, you can add a website, and I think it was just yesterday that they added the feature of being able to have more than one website without creating another account (one less password and username (username usually equally tricky if not more) for me, woohoo!). So after you have your website hooked up, you are ready to start dropping cards and earning credits! Now, before you can earn points by doing nothing, you must set up and entrecard widget. Go under code and get the code, it is best to paste in the sidebar.

Dropping cards and earning credits – To earn credits is simple. There are at least three ways. The easiest and least time consuming are dropping your card on someone else’s blog or someone dropping their card on your blog. To drop your card, simply visit a blog that uses entrecard, and you will most likely see an Entrecard widget. Just click drop, then you will earn a credit and so will the website you dropped it on (don’t drop on your rival website then :p). So you can pick up the credits also by someone dropping their card on your website. The last way I can think of right now is to allow someone to advertise. What will happen is the widget on your site will look like the widget on someone else’s site, or at least the “logo” from the profile. You can also advertise, though it costs you a certain number of entrecards per day. As you have more credits, hopefully the “price” it is to advertise through your widget will increase. What I am surprised at is that in 3 days I have 53 credits, but it is only 8 to advertise. When I had much less credits on the first day it cost 32 credits to advertise I am pretty sure. So now you know the basics to get started and earn credits!

Some thoughts I had – Well, this post is not just to tell you how to you use Entrecard, no! The ones who were bored to death by the previous paragraphs here is something you might enjoy: my critiquing opinion slashing like a lightsaber through everything it sees/reviews.

I am fairly happy with Entrecard itself, but it’s the “Entrecarders” that bother me. The program works well and has given me a significant increasing amount of traffic, but that doesn’t always mean more readers. I am bothered with one thing about Entrecard itself: that you cannot see who you dropped your card on except the day you are living then and there(It shows some but not all). What I am most bothered about is that the traffic is mostly stupid entrecarders that don’t even read your posts. All the do is look for your entrecard button and they’re off. It says it is nice to comment on the latest post, but not very many people do that. I actually comment on one or more posts on every blog I drop on, unless the topic really is boring. I also hate the blogger.com things because you don’t even get to link to your site, and you have to fill out this huge form, all a big pain.

So, for people new to Entrecard and learned what it was recently or today, I advise to join. Reminder: Talk like Yoda day is in two days, on Thursday, May 22. Yoda would appreciate it so much if you would participate, it would be a great honor to him if you did. Another reminder: If you are an entrecard member, would you mind dropping a card on my widget? I will try to follow to your website and do the same for you, and I will most likely commentate on your latest post as well.