TweetThis post is by Ashe Mischief One of the first things I hear out of new bloggers’ mouths is– “how do I grow my traffic? I want to make money off my site.”  I think it’s Darren at Problogger who says quite honestly, if you’re getting in to blogging to make money, you’re in it [...]

Tweet Today in Women’s Wear Daily an article titled  Marketing’s New Rage: Brands Sponsoring Influential Bloggers by Cate Corcran talked about the changing landscape of retail marketing in the blogging community. Banner ads have been lucrative for some bloggers in the past, but today, companies engage bloggers in many different ways, such as design collaborations, [...]

Tweet A couple of weeks ago, I got a pitch from Coach about this thing called the Poppy Project. You can install the widget on your blog and your readers would interact with the poppies and the one whose readers interact the most wins a grand prize. Or if they spot a coach bag then [...]

Tweet (Wendy Brandes and Kickstarter Stacy Lomman) Are you blogging for love, or for money? I swing both ways. Yeah, bitches, I’m kinky like that. I started my Wendy Brandes Jewelry blog in 2007 to promote my fine jewelry line. But, before I was a jeweler, I spent 10 years as a journalist at the [...]