Tag Archive for ‘tips’
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 [...]
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 [...]
Starting a blog for the New Year?
Happy New Year IFB lovelies! I can’t believe it’s a new year and a new DECADE. So now that it’s the first day, it seems like a good time to start something new, like a new blog? Well, in the past few years, I’ve gotten quite a few emails asking how to start a blog.
So [...]
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 [...]
Tips from a Fashion Week First Timer
by Gemma Seager/ Retro Chick
Fashion Blogs are gaining increasing amounts of recognition and acceptance and many Fashion Bloggers are making the most of it and grabbing those media credentials with both hands. This means that a lot of us are finding ourselves, for the first time, with Press Accreditation, and the opportunity to cover Fashion [...]
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? [...]
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’s so great about Gravatars?
This post is by the lovely Ashe Mischief!
Wait–what? What is a gravatar?
A gravatar is a globally recognized avatar: a image that is connected with your email address. This follows you around the web and shows up next to comments on all blogs & websites that are gravatar-friendly. (Mostly Wordpress sites and forums) You [...]
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 [...]
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