style/fashion blogger conference during SXSW

December 9, 2010

Speaking of conferences (see post below!), my friend Indiana and I have decided to undertake organizing our own conference for fashion bloggers during SXSW next year. If you haven’t heard of it, SXSW is a HUGE interactive/film/music “festival” in Austin every March. All of the big-name bloggers/social media types attend, and there are tons of [...]

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blogging conferences: do you attend them?

November 23, 2010

I’ve only attended one “blogging” conference, and besides hearing Chris Brogan speak, it was kind of a bust – I can’t say I learned anything, or met anyone valuable to me or my business. But then again, I didn’t make much of an effort to interact either. I felt like a weirdo for being a [...]

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do you reply to comments on your blog?

November 10, 2010

My comment challenge isn’t going as well as I’d hoped…I am really making an effort to leave comments when they’re warranted and I have something to say besides “great outfit,” but I must be reading the wrong blogs, because I really only feel compelled to leave 3-4 comments a day. Many of the blogs I [...]

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comment challenge

November 3, 2010

Thanks to Ashe Mischief for turning me on to Wolf Whistle’s monthly comment challenge via twitter; it’s just what I needed to push myself to comment on the blogs I read regularly more often! Amy (Wolf Whistle) has challenged herself to 500 comments this month, but I think I’m going to go for 10 a [...]

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the oldest living fashion blogger tells all…

November 2, 2010

I turned 38 today. I don’t feel old, or think I look particularly old, but in the world of fashion blogging, I’m ancient; I’m (more than) twice Tavi’s age, I graduated high school before lots of popular fashion bloggers were born. I’m really not sure what any of this means though, I certainly don’t think [...]

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how NOT to choose advertising for your blog

October 19, 2010

I saw this disclaimer on a blog today – right above an ad: advertisements do not necessarily reflect the opinions or views of …….com In my opinion, those are exactly the kinds of ads you DON’T want to show on your blog – the ones that don’t reflect your own views or opinions; the ads [...]

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for love or money – why start a fashion blog?

October 6, 2010

Why should you (or shouldn’t you) start a fashion blog? Does it matter? If your intention when you start is to somehow make your blog into your career, or use it as a jumping off point, is that less genuine than someone who starts a fashion blog just to write about their passion? NO. You [...]

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as a blogger, what’s your responsibility to your readers?

September 30, 2010

Why do you read blogs? Why do your readers read your blog? Do you read blogs to escape? to find answers to questions? to identify with the blogger? Do you read blogs for the writing? or the pictures? Do you look to blogs for your news? I was thinking about this the other day after [...]

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when NOT to work for free: saying no

September 29, 2010

A perfect example of working for free vs. charging came up just now: I got an e-mail from a designer/online boutique who wanted to submit an exclusive coupon code for my readers. Despite the fact that I told her earlier this year that those types of promotions are reserved for partners, and that I have [...]

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Independent Fashion Bloggers Links a la Mode: 9/23

September 27, 2010

Are You a Follower of Fashion? Edited by: Ann of Holier than Now Last week marked the end of New York Fashion Week. Post-show, the editors, buyers and bloggers went to work to define and list the trends, hoping we’ll follow along. But for many of us, the sheer shirts of Spring ’11 were are [...]

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