Mar

17

Hey Bloggers! Now’s The Time to Join Entrecard

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Five Blondes is pleased happy thrilled TOTALLY PSYCHED! to announce their sponsorship of the Women’s Interests category of Entrecard in what is possibly the biggest EC giveaway ever! Kacie of Sense to Save is the mastermind behind this giveaway and has managed to accumulate over 45,000 EC (that’s EntreCredits for the uninitiated) from various Entrecard members. These credits will be GIVEN AWAY to new Entrecard members! Five Blondes has donated 1,000 EC for this huge giveaway - wouldn’t it be great if you could win some of those credits?

But hold on a moment - you can win more than just “some” of the credits. One lucky new Entrecard member will win a prize of 34,000 EC!

What’s that you say? You’re asking me where…WHERE, Erica? WHERE do I go to enter this fantastically wonderful amazing contest?

Would you believe…HERE?

Damn right.

Comment on our blog for an entry, and then comment on each of the blogs linked to below (on their contest posts). You can earn almost 40 entries just by visiting and commenting on these blogs. After you comment on the blogs (and drop your card), click around and discover these amazing bloggers!

Before I let you go (because obviously you’re going to run over to the Entrecard website and join, like, five minutes ago) I want to give you my #1 tip for new Entrecarders: Get a great card designed just for you! The generic cards…well…they SUCK. You will grab people’s attention with a fun, funky card! Maybe like…oh, I dunno…this one? Our card was designed by the lovely Jay of Dat Money. Check out his portfolio - don’t you love that one with the five blonde hotties? Pinkest card he’s ever designed, methinks!

Here are the contest details:

  • The giveaway will be held March 15 - April 15.
  • Only new users that sign up with Entrecard during this promotional period will be eligible.
  • Comment (and include your website URL) at any of the hosting blogs (listed below) on their contest post to receive a contest entry. You can comment one time on each hosting blog to receive one entry each comment.
  • A 1st place prize of 34,000 credits will be given randomly to a new user.
  • Smaller 2nd place prizes will be given within each Entrecard niche category.

Here is the list of 37 participants in this giveaway. Most people indicate they will participate as a host. Visit each hosts’ contest posts and leave a comment to get entries.

Note: This list will be updated throughout the next couple of days to link directly to each blogs’ contest post directly. Any host that has created a contest post will be designated with the text: *Contest Up*

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Feb

7

Dear Entrecard

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Dear Entrecard,

Happy Birthday! Today you are 3 months old. Before that you were just a dream in Graham’s brilliant mind - now you are an advertising and marketing strategy that has helped many bloggers in the blog-o-sphere connect and form great relationships.

FiveBlondes want to thank you with a great big blonde cyber-bearhug. Thank you for all you do, and all you will continue to do. We hope to be blogging for many years to come, and three years from now we are sure we’ll still be great friends, working together to form relationships with thousands more bloggers around the world. There will always be more content added to blogs, and that’s why you’ll still be around - because there are always bloggers wanting to connect and share with other bloggers, and you do that ‘connection’ thing so well!

Here’s to Entrecard. On your 19th birthday, come visit us in Ontario and we’ll buy you a drink.  Or, if you get a fake ID before that,we’re cool with that too ;)

Love,

FiveBlondes

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Now playing: Sheryl Crow - Motivation
via FoxyTunes

Feb

5

Entrecard Beauty Pageant?

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It seems that some Entrecard-ers have started a ‘beauty pageant’ of sorts in the forum.  I would have missed it completely had I not recieved a message and link to the thread asking for “my thoughts”.   We have a fan :)  I’ll let him remain anonymous for the time being.

I’m pretty confident we have the skillz for the evening wear competition, the swimsuit competition, and even public speaking.  But what’s our talent?

We are all accomplished skiiers and snowboarders.  But did you know that we’re musicians too?   Four of us five blondes went to a magnet school for musical education.  We could put together a string quartet, if we wanted to, and our instrumental skills extend to the flute, piano, and guitar.
We’ve sung together in various musical competitions at the local level - with our school choirs we have sung at the provincial and national levels and have won many awards.  In 1997, I traveled to Europe with my high school choir and we were honored to have a private audience with the Pope.  We’ve been in countless musical theatre productions.

So look out pageant contestants…we’ll go the distance!