intership(1)

Blogging, business, jobs

Five Tips for Getting Your Dream Internship

3 Comments 17 May 2012

Tweet Coffee runs, press bag-stuffing, paper filling, email organizing. Welcome to the glamorous world of interning! With summer comes a new crop of eager college students (or recent graduates) who are looking to break into the media or fashion industry with a coveted internship. However, landing that dream internship can be as tricky as finding [...]

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ILWYW2-ifb

business, ChicGeek

Cool Start-Up To Watch: I Like What You’re Wearing

6 Comments 15 May 2012

TweetAlong with being the founder of I Like What You’re Wearing, Olivia Gossett also holds the title, Director of ‘Ness. It’s a concept she came up with to encapsulate what her less-than-two-week-old publication is all about. She wants to “save the [fashion] industry from its stagnant state of Same.”   In 2010, Gossett launched a [...]

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agent

Blogging, business

Be Your Own Agent: PR Tactics for the Blogging Community

14 Comments 07 May 2012

Tweet Partnerships, advertising deals, news placements: the era of blogging agents is upon the blogging community. While having a blogging agent can help you achieve certain blogging goals, not everyone can afford a blogging agent nor do they necessarily want one. If hiring a blogging agent isn’t for you, is it possible for you to [...]

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celebritylessons

Blogging, business

PR Lessons from Celebrity Faux Pas

6 Comments 27 April 2012

Tweet Another day, another celebrity scandal. There isn’t a day that goes by when we don’t read a story in the press where we ask ourselves, “what were they thinking?!” Some celebrities gallivant around town pointing a toy gun at photographers or lash out in an angry twitter-tirade to your social media followers. Whatever their [...]

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business, inspiration

The Fashion Blogger’s Guide to the TIME’s 100 Most Influential List

5 Comments 18 April 2012

TweetEvery year, Time magazine releases its “100 Most Influential People in the World”, a list that is meant to “inspire, entertain, challenge and change” us. Entrepreneurs, philanthropists, musicians, activists, protesters, the list is full of this year’s big names. While some of the 100 were a tad nonsensical (Rihanna? Really?), a few actually resonated with [...]

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Sea of Shoes

Blogging, business, ethics

Jane Aldridge in a Sea of Controversy

35 Comments 09 April 2012

TweetAs you may have read last week, there was a flurry of controversy over a recent profile of Jane Aldridge, the blogger behind Sea of Shoes, in a publication called Texas Monthly. In it, the reporter rather candidly describes days spent with Aldridge (he spent 4 weeks with her), as well as the some of [...]

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