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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Fashion PR FAIL

September 21, 2010

I get Fashion PR fails every day, but I usually just ignore them, delete the e-mails and move on. But yesterday I received 5 e-mails from the same PR company within 15 minutes. And they were all address to “Gretchen.” That, in and of itself usually warrants an immediate delete, but there was more. Not [...]

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are you a closet blogger?

September 20, 2010

And by “closet” I mean, are you IN the closet about your blogging, not that you blog about your closet I’m inspired to ask this question because a friend of mine is only just now slowly coming out of the closet to tell friends & family about her blog. She’s been apprehensive because she does [...]

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Independent Fashion Bloggers Links a la mode: 9/16

September 20, 2010

Working the new season with fabulous new discoveries. Influences, Impressions, and Interpretations of Fashion and what it all means Edited by: Marie Denee of The Curvy Fashionista It is without a doubt that fashion makes the world go round. Just last week, Fashion’s Night Out helped revive the economy, fashion week’s across the world bring [...]

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when to work for free

September 15, 2010

I was reading recently “279 Days to Overnight Success” by Chris Guillebeau and noticed a section where briefly mentioned that he worked HARD but also worked for free in the beginning of his blogging/writing/self-employed career (this is worth reading by the way – there are quite a few gems scattered about). I honestly just glossed [...]

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WordPress vs. Blogger

September 13, 2010

I write from the perspective of a wordpress.org (self-hosted, my own domain name, everything is on my server) blogger, but I know a lot of you are wordpress.com or Blogger bloggers. If I could, I’d convert everyone over to self-hosted WordPress, but I also know, it’s not for everyone. I’m not going to try and [...]

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how to make your fashion blog more user-friendly

September 10, 2010

open links in new tabs – here, I’m referring mostly to sidebar links, like your blogroll. You don’t want to lose readers to another blog when they might intend to come back. link images!!!! I am always so disappointed when I go to click on an image and I think it’s going to go directly [...]

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5 things I’ve learned about blogging: Sugar and Spice

September 10, 2010

Emily of Sugar and Spice and all things nice I started my blog just over a year ago. I work in politics and therefore don’t have much of an opportunity for creative writing, so the blog was – and is – an outlet for my writing. The blog has also encouraged me to be more [...]

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