Sure, no problem.
I haven’t personally worked with Glam so I cannot speak for how their program works. I can tell you that Adsense pays pretty well (but that’s all relative really) when you start getting traffic that’s around the average of 500 to 1000 unique hits a day. If you’re not currently using something to track/analyze your traffic I would suggest Google Analytics (there’s an easy WP plugin you can use for this once you have an Analytics account). My experience is that any traffic that is below the aforementioned range tends to be hard to make more than extra spending money….which is completely fine if that’s what you’re looking for and have a passion for fashion blogging! When sites get to 10,000 & up unique hits everyday is when revenue starts to jump even more.

I think the possibility of making good money with fashion (or beauty) blogs is there but you have to build an audience and have repeat traffic. My partner and I have been slowly trying to build a network of sites that collectively we feel should bring in solid revenue (although that remains to be seen at this point).

Using a range of different tools and programs for monetization is the way to slowly start building income with your blog(s). Adsense, Chitika, Shopsense (shopstyle), infolinks and/or Kontera will all pay you per click as your surfers visit their sites through ads. Then there are great affiliate programs with top notch merchants that you can use to promote products and earn commissions. Commission Junction (CJ), Linkshare, GAN (Google Affiliate Network), Shareasale, Pepperjam, Clickbank, Linkconnector, Shareresults and even more.

So, in summary the possibilities are good I would say. However, blogs take time to build and adding quality content isn’t always easy. It takes some time for search engines to index your content before you’ll start pulling in traffic from the likes of Google, Yahoo or Bing. When I talk to my friends that are interested in starting a blog I always tell them to find a targeted niche, be in this for the long haul and do not expect to start making good money in the beginning. The great thing about this is that we all love fashion (that’s why you’re on this site right now) & if you have a real passion for this you will find your way over time. Just be willing to be flexible and have your brain wide open to soak up as much as possible in terms of learning.

Sophie

I would really like an overview post on this subject matter – to just get a glimpse of what is possible. Because right now I do think the possibilities are quite bad… no?
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Our primary goal at FlipGloss is to help all online publishers break out of today’s low yield ad models. We appreciate the comments and questions and are glad to see real interest in new approaches.

We’re a young company which means we’re learning and that we can be responsive to feedback. I want to touch on Jennine’s concerns to let the community know we’re listening and suggest ways we can adapt our offering.

Regarding monetization, FlipGloss makes no money from Inserts that promote blogger content; our goal is simply to test a new model. That said, since the test cpm payment might cause concern, we plan to limit the Inserts available for distribution tests to a few per week, and with no promotional blogger content. (For IFB sites who have signed up in the past couple days, we look forward to working with you, please bear with us as we make some tweaks. We’re a small team ).

Regarding copyright, we respect bloggers’ rights to not be featured promotionally, and will pursue a 100% contact policy for promotional spots.

Finally, we welcome the opportunity to build a regular dialogue between Jennine, IFB and FlipGloss, so your community can have a voice in shaping the evolution of our product. We appreciate IFB’s advocacy for bloggers’ needs and sincerely look forward to continued input from the community. Thanks, Kerry

For fashion blogs though there are still several options out there. Getting into a larger ad network (Hydra for example) is possible but not likely for new bloggers or if you have little traffic. There are other networks like Buzzlogic that seem to have a decent cpm payout but not always seem to have the best ads.

Affiliate programs work pretty well but as you mentioned in terms of banner ads people don’t tend to click-thru and buy…this works better when links are blended into the content/posts. Chitika works pretty well for search if your blog has an established base for SE traffic. Glam network is out there, of course Adsense and in text ads like InfoLinks and Kontera but those can be annoying for readers so I don’t always recommend that type of advertising. Shopstyle has something called ShopSense that pays about 5 cents per click and you can pull in 3rd party content and put looks together….love doing that although they are strictly supplemental income. New programs like Pixazza and GumGum seem interesting but I haven’t actually tried them yet.

Any of you girls have experience with any of the above mentioned programs? Your results?

Sophie
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thefatandskinny, i would be also open to using the site after changes they made… but at this point I wouldn’t, personally…

I’d definitely be interested in a follow-up post at some point to see how and if things change!
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Thanks for posting!