Independent Fashion Bloggers

Devil’s Advocate

This was originally posted on my blog The Coveted. I’m reposting this because, well 1. not all of you read my fashion blog and 2. as fashion week approaches, we’re running into a slew of murky pitches and ‘opportunities’ for bloggers, so I thought I would share with you my personal experience with corporate seeding.

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How to Create Your Media Kit

This is the year you’ve decided to get serious about monetizing your blog. Whether it be for banner ads, video ads, sponsored posts, text links, giveaways, etc, chances are if you’re working with a company, they will want certain information about your blog. What kind of information? Traffic does help, but companies also look at [...]

Poll : How do you feel about Sponsored Posts?

While monetization in the blog world evolves, one thing is for certain, we haven’t decided how we feel about sponsored posts. As a whole anyway. Many bloggers have clear cut views on how they feel, and I’d really like to know your take on the controversial practice.
Image by martinfeemster / CC BY 2.0

Defining & Publicizing Your Blog’s Advertising Policy

This post is by the lovely Ashe Mischief of Dramatis Personae.
Why Should I Define An Advertising Policy For My Blog?
There comes a time in every blogger’s life when they start getting approached for various advertising and monetizing opportunities by marketing and pr companies. My first one was a jewelry company wanting to purchase [...]

The Recession Effect on Bloggers’ Business

Last week I posed the question, How had the recession affected your blog? While I anticipated a wide variety of responses, I was quite intrigued to hear from the bloggers who make a living with their blogs and to hear how it’s impacted them. With all the doom and gloom we hear about in the [...]

Flipgloss Media… Good for Bloggers?

There is no question that the current advertising structure does not work…
Banner ads don’t produce much revenue unless  you really push ad sales, affiliate marketing delicately teeters the line between editorial and sales content at the best of times. Flipgloss Media plans to change all of that. Funded by Forbes Media, FlipGloss.com is marketed as [...]

FTC plans to crack down blogger freebies…and what that means to you.

With the rise in power of blogs, also comes responsibility. By late summer, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans start monitoring blogs for non-disclosure of free products, sponsored posts and affiliate links. Since the rise in popularity of using blogs to research products, many readers have been unclear or even unsuspecting that the blogger may [...]

Sites to promote your giveaways… free! grechen

I have a giveaway on my blog… now what?
I pretty much think that’s what I said when I ran my first giveaway last December, I didn’t have a clue. While we have some great tips on how to give stylish giveways, like announcing/twitter/facebook trifecta for your giveaway, finding threads to announce in forums (IFB has [...]

Hot or Not? Affiliate Links in Twitter

Don’t ask me why, but I’ve always felt a little strange about making money.

Why can’t the cash just appear in my account and automatically replenish itself? Oh yeah, that’s why we work.

Back in March, I asked you all how essential twitter was to your blog… and mentioned I had been doing some experimenting with affiliate links in twitter. At the time, I didn’t really think much about whether it was ethical to use affiliate links, because I only tweeted things that I really loved… until I read some recent articles about an affiliate backlash in twitter…

Giveaways with Style

Post by the lovely Lauren from A Typical Atypical, image by Migraine Chick
Blog giveaways are a huge phenomenon. They have seem to have sprung out of nowhere, and have done so for many reasons. They raise your hits, they attract attention, they encourage commenting. They can even be used to attract subscribers and reinforce your [...]