If you are a blogger then there is no doubt that you have heard about Entrecard, I am now putting it to the test. I signed up to Entrecard yesterday, but when I clicked submit I was still very unsure as to what I had actually signed up to. I knew that it was some kind of advertsing platform where you used points to buy advertising on other blogs, but appart from that I was entering this blind.

I have made it my duty to learn all I can about the service, to see if you should all be using it on your blogs. If you are using Entrecard, you shoud think about ‘Dropping’ your card into the slot in my sidebar, I believe that is the correct phrase. If you are not using it then you can sign up and drop your card in my sidebar, for some advertising on ProTycoon.com.

Yesterday I was browsing through my comments, as I do many times everyday to reply to them all and I came across the following comment from Jacob from Group Writing Project.

I have posted previously about ‘Setting Blogging Goals‘ and have also outlined some of my goals for ProTycoon.com, such as ‘My Technorati Targets‘. This post is all about analyzing your progress in meeting those goals.

Setting your goals is the easy part, achieving them is where the hard work is. Many bloggers will set ambitious goals, this is not a bad thing as long as you are prepared to work hard and focus on achieving them. I promote ambitious goals, but not unrealistic goals, always make your goals achievable. What is the difference between an ambitious goals and an unrealistic goal?

An ambitious goal would be to increase your RSS subscriber count from 50 to 500, it is not impossible, but requires hard work and dedication to achieve.

An unrealistic goal would be to increase your RSS subscriber count from 50 to 1000 in one day, it simply will not happen, unless a miricle occurs.

I would today like to introduce you to my new project. It is called ‘The Bloggers Survey’, as the name suggests it will be a survey of bloggers, with the aim of obtaining valuable information to help us all improve our blogs.

How does ‘The Bloggers Survey’ work?

The first stage of the process is to build up a list of questions that we all have about blogging, these questions will then be turned into a survey that I hope will be completed by 1000s of bloggers, once the survey is over it will then be turned into a report that will be shared via ProTycoon.com and will hopefully answer all your questions.

What Happens Now?

We need your questions! I have already established a list of questions that people have sent me and that I have thought about. I now want to know what questions you have about blogging, so that I can help create a survey that answers all your questions.

I have decided that I will now do blog reviews on a weekly basis, to help bloggers understand what I think is good and what I think is bad in terms of blog design. I will be reviewing the blogs of people who subscribe to ProTycoon.com via email, so to be in with a shout, Subscribe to ProTycoon.com via Email and then drop me a message via the Contact page letting me know your email address and Blog address.

This weeks blog review is about Mommy Meryl:

Before we look at the blog let me in introduce you to Meryl, this is an extract from her ‘About’ page:

I’m Meryl and I’m a thirty-something stay-at-home (SAHM) but sometimes part-time working mom to a 5 1/2 year old daughter. I have been married 13 years to a wonderfully supportive husband and 2 dogs complete our family for the moment. . . I began this blog as a supplement to my website - Chit Chat for Mommies.