Independent Fashion Bloggers

Should you create a niche for your blog?

This post is by Lauren of A Typical Atypical
We all know that the world of blogging is a strange and busy place, filled with everything from amateurs to professionals and a million shades of gray in-between. Making your own personal space in this great mêlée of opinions and photographs is a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Blog Interview Do’s and Don’ts

Blog interviews can be a lot of fun, they really can help you get out of your shell, get some fresh perspective on your blog and from my own experience with some of my interviews, I’ve established a connection with my interviewees that has lasted over the years. On IFB, Mademoiselle Robot gave some great [...]

So You Want a Review Sample

This post is by Sonja, the beauty editor at The Coveted I asked her to write this post because of the great way she’s built relationships with beauty companies over the past months since she’s started to write on our blog. ~Jennine
The Challenge
You see pics of lovely clothes and beauty products and want to write [...]

Get Real: How to Beat Blogging Perfectionism

“Perfectionism…the persistence which keeps great artists at their easels until their creation matches their conception” W.C. Roedell
A little perfectionism in terms of our blog’s appearance is something I’m sure we’ve all struggled with. You want it to look professional, but not like you tried to hard; you want to include all the important elements, but [...]

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 [...]

Little Birdie Helps You Find the Right Content

Are you looking for unique content?
While there are loads of ways to scout original content, one of the easier ways is to look in your inbox…
In the past year, I’ve been getting more and more story pitches from PR agencies and fashion companies. While I have to admit a majority is irrelevant to my blog… [...]

To Blog, or Not to Blog

Post by the lovely Lauren from A Typical Atypical, image by Jan Michellardi
For those of you who haven’t noticed, the infamous blogosphere is a strange yet wonderful world.…

Journalists can hate us, but then become us. Speculation on an obscure podcast can be public knowledge by the next day. It can be a hugely reassuring and [...]