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PURCHASING ADVERTS IS ASKING A FAVOR (Sorry but I am not applying for a job!) I think it’s never too late to give recognition to where it is due. TINATEEE! First commenter for this post.. .
My Two Cents on Declining Requests of EntreCard Adverts
1,026 viewsHave you been denied of your attempt of advert purchase from our fellow EntreCarders?
What was the feeling when your purchase attempt was declined?
Why the need to buy slots for adverts?
There is a need for us to understand the importance of purchasing adverts. EntreCard is a site that drives free traffic to our blogs and one of its features is to promote our blogs via the 125 X 125 widgets by buying ad slots from our fellow EntreCarders. Since it’s purpose is blog promotion, we expect a number of clicks from the purchase . More clicks indicate a more successful advertising campaign, and more visitors to our site, that is, when the purchase is accepted.
In many occasions, I got myself declined. I know whose blogs are those because their widgets will be forever imprinted in my memory and I had them all bookmarked. Honestly, the first thing that came to mind with the decline was:
Everyone makes some sort of decision before a purchase. When it is rejected, I feel obstructed somehow. I am well aware that my blogs aren’t the best blogs one could ever visit but each of us have our own standards of the BEST and QUALITY blogs.
THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN PURCHASING ADVERTS
I actually consider a number of things when making my own selection for the purchase:
Purchasing an advert and for it to be accepted by a fellow EntreCard member is like asking a favor and for the favor being accepted. It is a factor, it is some sort of reciprocity. Declining a purchase is like not willing to do a favor; why would someone not willing to do a favor? I really can’t think of any reason and it sure beats my imagination!
These blogs have their own reasons for declining our purchase attempts and they usually come in the following polite manner:
ARE THE GIVEN REASONS VALID ENOUGH?
I am trying to figure out if the reasons given were valid and reasonable enough for one to decline an attempt of ad purchase. But with the way EC works, there is very little excuse rejecting an ad. Except when one blog’s avatar is pornograpchic or it is an identified SPLOG, that is.
I will relate to you my experience with one EntreCarder. I attempted to purchase a slot in her blog worth 512. I got denied. She reasoned out she will be out for a holiday. That is fine by me. But I actually saw that ads have been running endlessly on her EC widget.
It’s OK. No Problem.
A few months after, I forgot I was denied once and unknowingly placed my purchase again in that particular blog. I got declined for the second time. She sent me an explanation telling me there’s nothing wrong with my blog. The reason this time she’s declining my attempt of purchase is that my blog doesn’t relate to hers. But I checked the ad that’s up and running at the time, it doesn’t belong to her own category either! Well, I don’t really know what’s wrong with my blog but I can’t help but think it’s something personal or something more than that! She never drops her card for this blog but I can see her dropping in my other blogs specifically in my new fashion blog The Certified Fashionable Chic. She must be unaware the owner of this blog and that fashion blog is one and the same!
REJECTION OF PURCHASE ATTEMPT IS AN ACT OF APATHY
Rejecting a purchase for no good reason at all is like refusing to promote a fellow EntreCarder’s blog, which makes me think of some degree of apathy and mediocrity. While it’s true that everyone can opt to reject an ad but let us always put ourselves in other people’s shoe. I am sure you wouldn’t be too happy if you were the one declined yourself! The reasons behind the decline can be authentic or not but whatever such reasons, when one declines an advert I can only conclude that the EntreCarder is not willing to establish a good relationship.
Now with EntreCard adding more features in the system such as giving RECOMMENDATIONS to one particular blog, I will now write recommendations to each and every blog that will approve my advert purchases. There were so many blogs that have given me huge number of hits in the past but I failed to even send them a Thank You note for accepting my purchase.
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I get declined sometimes for YummY! Down on This as well as Rattitude. I can only guess its because people dont like my voodoo doll or the rats on those particular cards.
I’ve only denied a couple of EC ads, as they were AD blogs, with no personal content at all. I’m not here to help people get rich :-$ :-$
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I just started to get rejections this past week or so …. can’t say as I much care for the experience.
flitting on FICTION is not relevant to a book reviewing blog…. and another sent back “design clash” as a reason. whatever. *DONT_KNOW*
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they declined your purchase? don’t feel so bad about it its’ not worthy of your precious time dear. I remember I declined some purchases thrice on one blogger only coz his widget design is that of a woman wearing skimpy bikini, i politely told him that his widget design is not appropriate to my blog because my blog is wholesome
Actually he’s been a constant dropper and his blog is ok but I can’t allow that to appear on my blog. I’m a born-again christian and I have a responsibility on whatever I place on my blog and that widget itself would affect me so much. I know my comment didn’t offended him because he changed his widget design and applied again on purchasing an advert to me. I approved it then. I think we should be careful on our reason for declining if ever we want to decline a purchase. A reasonable ‘reason’ can’t be that bad. Just sharing my thoughts on this! regards 
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I don’t understand them either. But there is one thing on my mind, maybe they just don’t want to contribute to make you even more successful in your blog.
Hmmm, you have a point there. Coz you see, we have to admit that every blogger is our potential friend and our competitor as well. It’s becoming stiffer everyday. But we can be a friend to everyone despite the competition.
Hmmm, you have a point there. Coz you see, we have to admit that every blogger is our potential friend and our competitor as well. It’s becoming stiffer everyday. But we can be a friend to everyone despite the competition.
Hmmm, you have a point there. Coz you see, we have to admit that every blogger is our potential friend and our competitor as well. It’s becoming stiffer everyday. But we can be a friend to everyone despite the competition.
I have also tried being declined. I felt bad about it but eventually I’ll forget it. Not a big deal. However, for me, I don’t decline advert requests.
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Hello Lainy,
I have just finished sorting out my EC ads. It took a while for me to go through all of them!!! But, I might be accepting them in the future. It seems that EC made this new “thing,” hopefully I’ll get used to wait a long time before my ads get accepted. I just want to make way for my regular blogger peeps in my blog.
Have a nice day!
Z O:-)
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Hi Lainy,
Thank you for stopping by and leaving the links they were very useful and gave me the info and tips i needed.
Thanks also for the drops
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Steve
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June 12th, 2010 at 9:30 am
@STEVEBETHERE:
Hi Steve!
It’s my pleasure
I am glad you find those articles useful.
More drops coming your way soon.
Have a great weekend ahead of you!