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Three Ways To Grow Your Blog

GrowYourBlog

You have a blog and love it, but want… more. More comments. More interaction. More review and giveaway opportunities. Gotcha. Three Ways To Grow Your Blog 1. Be social: Make sure you are part of social media networks such as facebook, twitter, Pinterest, and Google+. Use these networks to not only share your posts, but to [...]

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How To Comment On A Blog Post: National Delurking Day

Delurking Day

Hi there!   I didn’t mean to scare you, but I know there are a lot of you that come visit Our Crazy Boys and keep quiet about it. That’s ok. I used to silently read blogs, too. But today is National Blog Delurking Day! That means… you should say hi.   Don’t know how? [...]

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Securing A Blog Conference Sponsorship In 3 Easy Steps {Plus A Blog Conference Sponsorship Template} Countdown To #Blissdom

BlogConferenceSponsorship

  If you’re heading to Blissdom or any other conference this year, you might be thinking about securing a sponsor to help with conference costs such as your ticket, travel, or hotel. It never hurts to reach out to brands that you know to ask if they are interested in sponsoring you, but your request [...]

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SEO For Bloggers: Get A Green Light In The SEO by Yoast Plugin

GreenLight

SEO. No, not “see-o.” It stands for Search Engine Optimization, or “how to make it easier for Google to find your stuff.” This tutorial is called SEO for Bloggers because I’m not going to give you an entire SEO class right now – I’m going to tell you how to use Yoast to get a [...]

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Fun Facebook Memes… Or Are They? {Tween/Teen Tuesday}

Tween Teen Tuesday Our Crazy Boys

Welcome to Tween and Teen Tuesdays at OurCrazyBoys.com! I hope you’ll come share your posts about your not-so-little-but-not-so-big kids with me. Michael has a new favorite past time. He sends me things. More than “things,” he sends me these – (I think they’re called memes – rhymes with themes – but Karen calls them “Creative [...]

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HTML Simplified: 4 HTML Tips For The Savvy Blogger

HTML-Tips-For-Bloggers

I’m super excited to introduce to you a dear friend of mine, Nicole (she’s an amazing blog/web designer).  I talked her into giving you a few of her best HTML tips because it’s one area that I wish I knew more about. Go ahead and bookmark this post so you can refer back to it [...]

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Unassembled Lego Birthday Invitations {A Tutorial}

LegoPartyInvitations

I am knee deep in Lego party creativity right now, and am dying to share my invitations with you! I just finished making these Lego birthday invitations: We mailed our invitations today, and Jack’s friends will have to assemble them to see the party details. After buying a new box of Legos at Target, we [...]

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Make Instagram Photos With PicMonkey {A Tutorial}

Make-Instagram-Photos-With-PicMonkey

There are so many awesome Instagram-related products out there right now, and I want them all. Jewelry with wearagrams, phone cases with casetagram, and a few great My Life products over at Paper Coterie, for starters (I’m getting ready to order this My Life memory box, actually!). Don’t have Instagram? That’s ok, I’m going to [...]

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Installing A WordPress Plugin

How to install a wordpress plugin

I have had several of you ask about installing a wordpress plugin, and I thought that it might be easier to just post about it. I should mention that I know this works for self-hosted blogs, but I don’t believe it works for WP hosted blogs. (If you pay yearly for someone to host your [...]

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