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 [...]

How To Cover NYFW…When You Are Not There

This post is by Tierra, The Fashion Techie
Note from Editor: This can also be applied to any other city’s fashion week as well!
New York Fashion Week (NYFW) is the one event that every fashion blogger wants to go to. Some fashion bloggers are lucky. Either they live in New York, work for fashion pr [...]

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 [...]

Chictopia Now : An interview with Helen Zhu

Not all fashion communities are created equal, and as a blogger, we hear about what seems to be a new style community popping up all the time. But Chictopia has steadily risen amongst the ranks gaining respect amongst the fashion community both on and offline. Admittedly, I resisted Chictopia as it was already difficult keeping [...]

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…

The New IFB is Here!

Welcome to our new home

A few weeks ago I announced that IFB would go through a transformation of sorts… that we’d go from a blog to a social network with the newly designed blog. While that may not sound like a big step, it’s a big step.

So what’s new around here?

6 Do’s and Don’ts for Networking Online

This post is by the lovely What the Pros Do, image by annia316
It is so easy to connect with other bloggers and those that share your interests what with all the networking sites out there for you to join. Although networking online can be fun it is still important to treat your online profiles as [...]

Top 5 Traffic Yielding Social Networks for Fashion Blogs

Image by wwarby
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. [...]