Independent Fashion Bloggers

When to protect your contacts

You’ve been blogging for a while, you’ve built up your community, your readers, you’ve made friends with other bloggers. Then the emails start coming with opportunities for you, it’s great, but then also start the emails coming requesting contact information of other bloggers.
This has been a personal pet peeve of mine for a while, but [...]

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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2010: The Future Of Fashion Blogging

This post is by Tierra Wilson from The Fashion Techie
With 2010 fast approaching, the number one thing bloggers always ask me is, “what’s going to be new for blogging next year?”. Of course, that’s a loaded question, especially when you start thinking about blogging trends, tools, templates, software, etc.
But fashion bloggers have a unique [...]

Sharing Your Secrets?

Post by  Queen Bee
We all have secrets…secrets that we pinky swear we won’t share, secrets we never share at all.   But what about trade secrets?  Those aren’t just any old secret.  They are secrets with actual monetary worth.
If you’ve never heard of a trade secret, it is something you own and can sell [...]

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

Crash Course in Blogger Etiquette

This post is by Leia of HiFashion
I wish someone had given me a crash course on blogging etiquette when I first started blogging! Here are some tips I’ve picked up along the way. Please remember that these are all based on my personal opinion and not all of them are hard and fast rules.
Credit
Always, always, [...]

When should you start charging money for your blogging experience?

Blogging is a tough business. There are no real clear business models out there to make money (yet) and we’re all experimenting trying to figure out what works. What worked a few years ago, like banner ads and affiliate marketing are on their way out. Many bloggers (myself included) struggle with trying to find out [...]

How Important is Trust? A Review of Trust Agents

We can all go on in volumes about the virtues of trust, but when talking about your online presence, we really haven’t delved into how important trust plays in establishing yourself. When’s the last time you bought a gadget, camera, computer, television without reading the reviews? How about a beauty product? A pair of shoes? [...]

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 [...]

Not Buying It… How has the recession affected your fashion blog?

When I first started blogging, it was more of a deterrent of my shopping addiction. I compulsively bought clothes, almost to the point of being embarrassed to post about my new scores. But as time went on, my shopping habits changed, some to do with what I was learning about clothing production and some ethical [...]