Entrecard has been around for quite sometimes and has gained huge popularity among bloggers. Much has been talked about, especially whether it can sustain the growth it had tasted at the moment. From this Compete’s snapshot on how Entrecard ranks between April 07 and April 08 (I use projectwonderful as comparison only), you can see how it keeps getting better from day to day.

Let’s forget about the outage Entrecard experiencing over the weekend. It’s not their fault.

Finally the question whether Entrecard is going to be monetized has been answered even though it is not 100% .

Entrecard has opened its door to allow Entrecarders (Entrecard users) to buy Entrecrad Credit (EC) from Entrecard itself (link available on your dashboard). The price breakdown is as below. Ops, no discount even if you buy a lot, and I don’t think you can buy any amount other than specified on buy credit page such as below.

1000 Entrecard Credits – USD$9.50
5000 Entrecard Credits – USD$47.50
10000 Entrecard Credits – USD$95.00

The ECs are not coming from nowhere. Entrecard does not simply create their own ECs and open for sale to Entrecarders. It is ideal, since Entrecard can control the number of ECs available and has the visibility of how many ECs has been generated on the system so far via legitimate ways. At the same time, fraud can be avoided, and make their system audit-friendly if they wish to do so later.

The rate that that they pay for each EC is unknown, and whether it is the same rate when they sell back the EC to the user. But this is very unlikely if they wish to profit from this business model.

OK, before you get too excited of this update, at the moment you still CANNOT sell your own ECs to other Entrecarders. According to Graham on the blog post, this feature might be able in future after this phase has been proven successful and most importantly error free.

What else new? You’ll earn 25 Entrecard Credit every time you publish a post on your blog ONCE every 3 days. This is done automatically from your RSS, so no action is needed from our end.

Apart from that, you can earn another EC by writing for EC blog. Let’s say you have an interesting idea, send this idea to get approved. After approval is received, submit your post for review and you’re done. You get the payment. The better the article, the more they pay!! Cool!!

The topic is however limited to something that can improve blogging and community on the whole.

Lastly, subscribe to Entrecard blog via email to earn 50 EC.

If you’re not yet Entrecard user, I highly recommend that you guys join Entrecard now. While Entrecard has been widely used by well knows bloggers abroad, the usage among my fellow Malaysian bloggers are still relatively low based on my observation of my frequently read blog. Unsure what is Entrecard? Read Entrecard official guide and Testimonials.