Tag Archive for ‘resources’
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 [...]
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 [...]
What Do Companies Look For In a Blog?
While only you can measure your own blogging success, sometimes a different perspective can help you set your own goals.
PR and fashion companies have started to look to blogs to disperse content about their clients and labels, the advantage to this often comes in the form of pitches. While some bloggers look at pitches as [...]
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 [...]
How to Write ‘How to’ Posts
To have a successful blog, you need to provide your readers with something useful. As Darren Rowse is always saying, it is quality content that counts when it comes to traffic building, reputation and monetization; pillar articles that support your overall vision or niche topic.
You may provide this usefulness through entertainment, through breaking news, through [...]
Rhythm is Gonna Getcha: Maintaining Consistency in Your Blog
By: Beka Mercurio of reLYME.com
Once upon a time, I used to help bloggers expand their brand online. I watched tiny blogs grow to very big blogs, and very big blogs grow to take over the Web. All the while, I preached the gospel of consistency.
I would tell my clients that you must find your rhythm [...]
How to Customize Blogger Post Templates
Hi there again, Icy of IndividualChic.com here. I hope you found my last post on how to make your Blogger blog more searchable useful. Thanks very much for all the lovely comments and suggestions, they’ve inspired me to write another post.
Are you the sort of person who uses a consistent sign-off on every [...]
How to make your Blogger blog more searchable
A Blogger blog is a fairly simple thing. It’s easy to get up and going and it’s quick to post articles. However, there are a few simple things you can do if you want to make it easier to find your blog in the Interwebs.
The first two things you can [...]
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 [...]
Essential Wordpress Plugins For Fashion Bloggers
This post is written by Miss Elle of Broke and Beautiful
Oh, the wide world of open-source software…
It’s brought pleasure and pain to the lives of aspiring bloggers everywhere. The leader of the pack for bloggers-going-pro? Wordpress, that magical publishing platform that allows full customization as well as a squeaky clean user interface that so many [...]
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