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Entrecard Burnout: Takedown
I wrote a week ago about my Entrecard Burnout and thought while I stopped dropping I would see how it really effected my stats for a week or so.
I had stopped dropping about 1 week before I wrote my article on the burnout so please take the stats from before that.
I also thought id give you a site to compare mine with… So i randomly took my old local papers stats (It was a random pick….) so here is a local papers stats with mine.
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Like many follow Entrecarders when I first joined I thought “Credits = real money” and “I want to be at the top!”. To do this you really need to drop around 200-300 cards a day. Not only that you need to drop them at good reasonable times and try to keep a list of your normal droppers.
This takes a lot of time. Not only do you need to drop the cards on every one of the 300 blogs, you also need to make the lists and try to comment and read some of the posts. I know the reading and commenting is a rule most people do not follow and that is ok… I do not expect 300 droppers to read all 300 blogs.
After a few weeks of this you start to feel great because your at the top of your group and you can see them credits rolling in… But then you do not want to give up that #1 spot and you know you need to keep dropping and dropping at the correct times. This is when the burnout starts! You get sick of the drop pages (Or bookmarks and inbox) and you get sick of scanning the blogs for the entrecard widget.
I have sometimes scanned a page 3 times and not seen the entrecard widget which is staring me in the face… this is when you know your coming to the end of the road and need a break.
The only problem with a break is you know you will lose a lot of of what you have built up. Your position will undoubtly fall in your category and you may also lose your place on some peoples lists. This is what may keep you going for another week or so…
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