I just couldn’t resist not to try it out so the other day I bought some advertising space on a site with OIOpublisher and paid for it using Entrecard credits.
I went to the OIOpublisher Marketplace to look for sites accepting EC as mode of payment and purchased an ad on the first site I laid my eyes on.
The OIOpublisher interface handled the purchase with great ease and it redirected me to the Entrecard payment API much like how it is with PayPal.
The advertisment took a while to display but I guess that’s normal as the website owner still has to manually approve it.
Screenshot of Ad Placement
That’s 830 ec’s for a 15-day run. Not bad, not bad at all. The site has returned me quite a few hits now and we’ll see how well this plays out. I just hope other larger sites would offer Entrecard as payment.
So, would you take ECs as payment for ads on your site?
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I also have OIO publisher on my blog but I haven’t implemented it yet. I’ll probably do it when I have my new theme. Anyways, regarding your question, I might give it a try. But I’ll make sure that the site/blog I buy an ad from would be worth the credits I spend it on.
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Advertising on OIOpublisher turns out to be cheaper than placing an ad through the Entrecard widget plus the fact that the website owner gets paid 87.5% of that (Entrecard tax is 12.5%)
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I’m still having problems with the plug-in..
It charges me readers 15ec instead of 15 x 200ec (my EC value set per $)
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@Jaypee: you won’t regret installing OIOpublisher that’s for sure
@Michael: have you installed the latest build? 2.04 I think… I also encountered the same problem on the previous version when I tried buying on my own site.
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I also have the OIOpublisher plugin – but I haven’t turned on the EC payment yet. Would it be beneficial to accept EC as payment?
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@bloggista: It does open your Ad slot to more potential advertisers within the Entrecard system. Not much for real cash not unless Entrecard launches their credit exchange.
Compared to purchasing Ads on the Entrecard widget, I’d rather spend my credits on a system where the receiving end actually gets majority of the credits paid.
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you guys have to teach me all about this lol!
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If you purchase OIOpublisher you won’t regret it. Either through here or through the special coupon in Entrecard.
But you wouldn’t have to purchase it to buy advertising on EC-enabled ad slots.
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Nice post! Thanks for sharing this. I would like also to share about one of the most overlooked ways to drive traffic to your website. That is offline advertising. It is like I’ve had great luck with postcards, display ads, classified ads and recently radio advertising, which I am finding very interesting for driving qualified leads to my business.