So a day and a half (approx) after I started the Entrecard sponsored ads I’m burning through the $25 at a heavy rate! There’s only US$14.24 left.
Impressions 17935 cpm $0.6000 Clicks 292 cpc $0.0369 ctr 0.0163
I usually get about 100 to 200 hits from EC a day, and since I’ve had this ad running this has pretty much doubled to just over 400 hits from EC, so it definately has had an effect. However, I think it’s a bit expensive considering that $24 on Adgitize gets me 100-200 hits a day for a month!
If you use Adgitize or Entrecard, or even better, both, then please feel free to use my Double Whammy droplist, which has blogs that have both AD and EC on them.
However, thus far I’ve only had blogs on this list that can be accessed from within China. I plan to revamp it a bit though, and add more blogs that I can’t reach (easily) so others can have an opportunity to be added.
So if you’d like to be on my list, and you have Adgitize AND Entrecard on your blog, and your blog is updated at least once a month, then please just leave a comment! I’ll do a big update when I have a bunch to add.
If you’d like to add my little logo under your EC or your AD, then feel free. It’s not mandatory though. You can get the code on the droplist page, on the left, next to the first line of buttons.
I thought I’d give this EC Sponsored ad thing a go, see how it works, so I deposited $25 in the thingy and put an ad in the ‘mixed bag’ area.
So it’s been running about half a day so far (not sure when they approved it), and the dashboard says I’ve had 6026 impressions and 115 clicks, which isn’t bad. Then again, it’s already eaten through nearly $4, so this isn’t going to be a very long experiment!!
Current cpm $0.6000 – Current cpc $0.0314
I’ll let you know how it goes!
Tags: Entrecard
Time for LF again! Here are some more ’shopped’ movie pics…
I’m still not fully over my bout of unwellness, and it’s affecting my ability to think, including topics to write about on my blog. Thus I thought I’d rehash an old old entry from when I’d just started writing on my old blog. I don’t think there were many people reading back then (not sure many are reading now of course, but that’s another story), so I’ll probably get away with this. 
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One thing that’s pretty alien to westerners is the Chinese concept of ‘Face’. Well, okay, that was badly worded. I mean the concept’s not hard to get, it’s what causes people here to lose face that’s difficult.
Face is like ’status’ or ’standing’, maybe it could be described as ‘pride’ even. Basically in the west if you are embarrassed or made to look foolish in some way, you could say you’ve ‘lost face’.
In China the concept is the same, but what causes Chinese to ‘lose face’ is, to westerners, completely strange.
For example. I’ve done some corporate training here. If I ask a question to the class in general, especially if the class is a new one, no one will answer, because they’re afraid of getting it wrong, which will ‘lose them face’.
I’ve encountered a load of these situations, and very few I would have expected before hand.
One thing to be careful of!
If you make a person lose serious face in China, they will do just about anything to get back at you. It’s incredibly vindictive. It doesn’t matter if they squander money, or make themselves look a total idiot, they will try and recover their ‘lost face’ in any way. It’s frightening.
Thus you can imagine how China felt collectively when, back a hundred or so years, they were basically invaded by various western countries, almost at will. I went to the military museum here not long ago, and found the below plaque, which I think sums it up beautifully. I’ve never seen such a round about way of saying ‘we surrendered’! )
No post here Thursday, something on my Blog of Lies instead. See you for Friday’s lethargicness.
Tags: face, living in China
Earlier this week an old filling fell out if a tooth, and the resulting hole became infected. The left side of my face swelled up, and I was in quite a bit of pain all told. Now I have insurance from my work, but it doesn’t refund all the cash, and if I go to a western hospital, it refunds even less. The western hospitals are really expensive too, so, after taking some medicine which didn’t work, we set off to the nearest semi-decent hospital.
Unfortunately it was Sunday, which meant the good doctors were not in, because they don’t work on weekends!! (The lesson here is to not get sick on the weekend).
We were given the address of another hospital though, which apparently does have working doctors on the weekend. The hospital was on the other side of town, and when we arrived we found a very nice, modern building. We were also told we were too late, despite it being just past nine in the morning. The patient quota had been filled for the (half) day that they worked.
Thus we had to go to the emergency area, which was far less nice. There we waited for an hour and a half on a very cold seat until the doctor could see us.
It turned out the doctor was, in fact, a dentist. Now, I know I needed my tooth fixing, but I mainly wanted some antibiotics to get rid of the infection first. Reluctant to leave after several hours of waiting, I decided to see what he had to say. This meant an x-ray first (back in the lovely nice building), and then back on the chair, where the dentist removed the remains of the filling and put a temporary one back in.
No antibiotics were needed he informed us, much to my disagreement, but what can you do?
So I was in pain for most of Sunday and, to a slightly lesser degree, Monday. I’m not too wonderful still.
Did I mention the dentist area had five chairs in a row, and five dentists working on five patients at the same time? I must dig out my dentist pictures.
I also have to go back on Friday. Joy.
Tags: Denstis, hospitals in China, living in China
Whilst Youtube is still blocked in China (grrrr), there’s the home grown equivalent, called TuDou.com (TuDou means ‘potato’).
I was browsing around when I stumbled over this rather amusing clip doing the rounds. Now, I often see police stop drivers in China (though very rarely do they stop motorbikes), and I’m sure the conversations they have are rather less amusing than the below one.
Just a bit of background first. If you are in a rush, and wish to have an ‘exciting’ journey, in many cities you can take a motorbike taxi. Along with their bigger car ‘brothers’ (called ‘Black cabs’ here), these are mostly, if not totally, illegal.
Anyway, take a look, it’s rather amusing!
Tags: living in China, video
Due to unwellness, Chinaren has no blog entry for today. Normal service will be resumed shortly.
There are a lot of things to see around China, and many tourists spots, both interesting and not so interesting, depending upon taste of course.
One rock, somewhere in the south of China, is a natural formation near a small fountain, if I recall correctly. Anyway, the wind and water over the ages have shaped this rock into a remarkable resemblance to, ah, a woman’s private area. Ahem.
For some reason I don’t have a photo of the actual rock, but I do have a photo of the charming Chinglish sign next to it…
Fairy Maiden rock
Tags: living in China, signs of China
It’s time for Friday. Wait, that’s wrong. Ah, who cares…
I don’t remember this at school!
Tags: Lethargic Friday
Last week I posted an entry decrying how cold it was in Beijing just at the moment, and how the heat wouldn’t come on until the 15th of November. Well, such is the power of this blog (haha!!) that the local govermnent took pity on me (and the few other people in Beijing I suppose) and ordered the heat be turned on early!
Thus, a couple of days ago, I awoke to a warm apartment! Huzzah!
Also as mentioned, this means the local smokestacks are all, very picturesquely, pumping out that smoke:
We're a go for heat.
A Blog of Lies post tomorrow, so see you back for Lethargic Friday!
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