Tag Archive for ‘branding’
From Blog to Brand: Questions to Help Define a Vision for your Blog
This post is by Ann Colville Somma of Holier than Now
For most of us, our blog is personal. We are independent fashion bloggers – the very opposite of corporate blogs that ultimately seek to sell something. It might not come naturally to think of ourselves as a product – yet we want people to consume [...]
What’s so great about Gravatars?
This post is by the lovely Ashe Mischief!
Wait–what? What is a gravatar?
A gravatar is a globally recognized avatar: a image that is connected with your email address. This follows you around the web and shows up next to comments on all blogs & websites that are gravatar-friendly. (Mostly Wordpress sites and forums) You [...]
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 [...]
Beyond Boundaries: IFB to speak at conference
Thanks to the lovley people at FashionFreax and E.Factor, next week I will be on the panel at a conference in Berlin about working in a world without geographic boundaries. Though IFB is in English, our community is strongly international, and to be honest, I didn’t really think that was special as I always thought [...]
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 [...]
Top 5 Traffic Yielding Social Networks for Fashion Blogs
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Social networks take a lot of effort, they really do. In order to make them work for you, you really have to put a lot energy into maintaining your profile, adding friends, commenting, etc… but if you got into blogging because you like to– blog, social networks can be a love/hate relationship. [...]
How essential is twitter to your blog?
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Do you twitter?
Unless you’ve been living in a hole, covered up by ten feet of concrete, you have probably heard about twitter. Some people say that twitter will replace blogging, though I’m not exactly sure how, certainly not in it’s current state. As a blogger it’s become an essential part of my online [...]
Privacy Tips for Bloggers
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Privacy by definition is the ‘right to be left alone.’ Yet, these days the very definition of privacy isn’t as clear, and when you put yourself in the public eye things get fuzzier. As bloggers, we’re active members of the attention economy, we put ourselves out there to the public and develop [...]
Branding Basics for Your Lovely Blog
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If you love fashion, you probably already have a strong understanding of the power of branding, afterall image is everything, right? While we’re all aware of big fashion houses use of branding, why not apply some of those principles to blogging. Last week we talked about blog names… but developing a brand for [...]
In the Name of the Blog
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Ronke Adeyemi of The Musings of Ondo Lady has been a part of IFB since the early days and has contributed before. She specialises in popular culture and the hotest guilty pleasures. Here she gets the story behind how bloggers get their names…
So what’s in a name? Well everything actually. A [...]
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