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Today Entrecard announced that members now can purchase entrecard credits. Currently 1000 credits are going for $9.50 inside the members section at Entrecard website. But I think they are quite over-priced. Because there are very attractive offers in eBay if you want to buy Entrecard credits. (see below)

Creation of Black Market?

As you can see, at eBay 7500 Entrecard credits are going for $17 only. And of course there are some even better offers too, like this one 20,000 credits with starting price of $0.41 cents only. I am sure it will catch high price before the auction ends in 4 days, but it will definitely be better offer than what Entrecard is offering.

It’s like the money market, where Government says our money is equivalent to this much USD. But in actual case, the value of the local currency is much lower (rarely higher) in the black markets.

So what is the solution?

So, what could Entrecard do to establish the real price of Entrecard credits? How much does 1000 Entrecard credits really worth? I think Entrecard could come up with their own bidding system, where users could bid for it. Moreover, this kind of system would allow other members to sell their credits too. Otherwise, at the moment only Entrecard is making money. And those high earning members do not know what to do with their credits. Of course, only solution would be to sell their credits at eBay for a very cheap price. Almost like getting rid of them.

What do you think Entrecard should do? Your thoughts on this…

Ping: entrecard.com/blog/

Update: Entrecard purchases credits from high earning members and sells back to the community.

Author info: This is a guest post by Alan Johnson, the author of The Online Business Handbook.

One thing is certain: the Web is literally filled with information. You can find anything from downright foolish advice to gems and, due to the huge volume of information which is always just one click away, Internet users who are interested in becoming online entrepreneurs end up thinking that simply copying a certain method is all there is to it.

Is That Really Enough?

The most important disadvantage which comes as a result of such an approach is the fact that, when you are copying someone, you are unfortunately always one step behind and, naturally, the person who has actually come up with a certain approach will always have an edge.

Let’s assume that you notice a certain product (let’s also assume that a certain event has made it temporarily popular) which is being heavily promoted by affiliates and decide to finally jump in. The problem is that, once you finally decide to jump on board, the niche you are trying to approach is most likely over-saturated and, as if that were not enough, the project you were thinking about promoting has most likely lost quite a bit of momentum.

The same way, if you take any business model and try to copy everything, the market will most likely not react in what one would call a positive manner, and that brings us to the following question:

What Makes You Special?

I have previously explained why copying everything someone else has done is not exactly worthwhile, but that doesn’t mean that you need to reinvent the wheel. There’s nothing wrong with a little inspiration from an existing business model as long as you make it yours, as long as you add your personal touch in a way which makes the product in question stand out.

If there is a certain business model you think would work well as far as you are concerned, you always have to ask yourself how you can improve it, how you can turn it into something special or, if you will, how you can add your very own “signature”.

What’s Your Signature?

How are you able to prove value through each and every project you launch? What exactly are you able to come up with which makes you stand out? You can approach the market with something new or you can improve upon an existing business model, the choice is yours and only yours to make but, all in all, you need to understand that having that little something is definitely a must if you are serious about making it in the long run.

Al in all, you need to be confident in yourself and in your ability to provide value through each and every project. Never limit yourself to simply copying something another person has done, as I am convinced that you have far more potential than that. What about you? What’s that little something you have which makes you special, what are you approaching the Web with?

Best wishes,
Alan Johnson

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Once you have installed it, don’t forget to bookmark my blog ;) Apparently 56 people have already bookmarked it on delicious. What? Only 2 person bookmarked it in 2008? Come on guys we need to increase that! bookmark to delicious.

Mobile phones are a part of our lives now. Many things are done through SMS these days. We make deals over SMS, send important infos, make promises..etc

But almost all the time these SMSs get deleted over time. And since human beings are not perfect, they forget things; they forget that they made a deal, and they forget that they made a promise…

This is where TreasureMyText.com comes for a rescue! It’s an online SMS Storage service. You can forward your important SMS’s to your account and it will be safely stored online. I tried the service and it worked fine. Local Malaysian telecom provider (Maxis) charged 0.20 cents (USD 0.06) for the sms, which is quite cheap considering that the number was international. TreasureMyText provides UK number for those countries outside US, Canada, Netherlands, and UK. So, I guess those who are in these 4 countries will get a better deal, since they will be sending SMS to their local numbers.

via www.kuanhoong.com

Two brothers came to prophet Daud (David) and said “Judge between us, we are in dispute”. One of them said “This is my brother. He has ninety nine sheep and I have one sheep. He is now forcing me to give up my single sheep to him”.

So, prophet Daud without listening to the other brother said “He has undoubtedly wronged you in demanding to add your single sheep to his flock. He should return your sheep to you!”. Once he has delivered his judgment, two brothers disappeared into the air. Propet Daud realized that these were two angels and that he was just tested by God and that he made a mistake — he didn’t listen to both sides of the story before delivering his judgment.

So, he fell prostrating asking for forgiveness from God. And God forgave him. (Quran 38:21-25)

When mufassireen (interpreters) of Quran talk about this story they say that Daud after the mistake was a better Daud than before the mistake. In other words, after the mistake he was wiser and more knowledgeable than before.

Moral of the story: mistakes can be a great source of knowledge if we derive lessons from them, and learn from them.

About a month ago, problogger posted a blog-post on his blog asking readers “What is the biggest mistake you have made as a blogger?“. I am not sure if you have read this post and comments under it. There are over 200 comments where readers share their mistakes as a blogger and how their mistakes affected their blog negatively (directly or indirectly).

So, if you haven’t read it, go to the page and go through the comments. There are a lot of lessons to be learnt for everyone.