Independent Fashion Bloggers

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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…

More Bang for your Fashion Blogging Buck: Affiliate Programs vs. Affiliate Networks

post by reLYME.com image by jenn_jenn
If one of your goals for blogging, other than sharing your passion with the blogosphere, is to make money…
You’re not alone. It’s easy to witness the success of other bloggers, and not crave a piece of the pie.
You might want to earn enough to make a full time [...]

Traffic School: SEO a Go-Go

Beka Lynn from reLYME not only writes a lovely fashion blog, but her day job entails helping people monetize and drive traffic their blogs through affiliate programs… so when she asked to contribute some of her knowledge, I jumped at the chance. Here she give us SEO tips..
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the way in [...]