My Entrecard Buddies

So far, I believe Entrecard has done a heck of a lot to promote traffic to my blog. I've definitely gained some new readers. Has it been great for business? I don't think so, not really, although I've gotten at least one sale from my new readers. Still, I like it when people read and comment on my blog and I have made some great new friends this way.

Entrecard is apparently not terribly well-run. Recently they've started allowing people to sell things for credits, and now they're going to allow third-party advertising to take up space on my blog (originally they weren't going to let me say no to specific advertisers! but they've changed this policy). In general, I don't like where they're going, and as one friend said, "I don't want to pimp out my blog." I'm staying for now, but I'm not sure for how long. Apparently today.com has banned them entirely. Yikes.

To my today.com friends, and other friends leaving Entrecard for the reasons above, if you enjoy my blog and I've spent some time around yours (I have SO many favorites that I visit on a nearly daily basis and thoroughly enjoy reading), I'd really like to keep in touch. Drop me a line here and I will definitely follow and/or subscribe if I'm not already. Maybe at some point we can set up a blog ring so we can keep making the rounds. I think I'm following most of your blogs already, so that's one way to keep tabs. I'll pull my "follow me" box closer to the top of the page here, or you can subscribe via RSS and I'll do the same. I check my Bloglines blogs daily and I recommend them. There are definitely other ways to keep an eye out for blogs you enjoy.

If you're not following me already, I'm also on Twitter and usually post updates to my blog there. Well, I forget a lot, but I'll try to be better.

I'll miss you most of all, scarecrow! (geez, I'm getting all sentimental!)

Have a great April everyone. April Fool's Day is over so I can say that totally seriously now :)

My Thanks to the Following!

 

 

 

 
 

Sending out a big thank you to my top Entrecard visitors this month.  Click on any of the images above to check out their cool blogs... it's no accident that some of them are favorites that I have to visit every day because they're so cool  and I don't want to miss anything they've said.  :)

A thanks to EVERYONE who comments... your comments mean a lot to me (seriously, I check it more than my Heartomatic now!)

In other news, in case you hadn't heard, The Consumer Product Safety Commission granted a one-year stay of testing and certification requirements for certain products to be regulated under CPSIA.  Thanks for all you did to protest this law as it stood!  Maybe in the next year we can get it amended so that it's friendlier to small business and handcrafters.