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How To Write The Perfect Holiday Gift Guide
We all loved Tierra M. Wilson’s last post on IFB ‘Fashion Bloggers Claim Your Media Credentials Today‘ so I was delighted to get her tips on creating the perfect holiday gift guide… As a fashion blogger November and December can be record readership and/or subscription months for your fashion blog…
5 Ways to Establish Credibility
Bloggers get a bad rap from the press sometimes. When they’re not calling us biased, they say we don’t know how to check our facts. The main problem, it seems, is that bloggers aren’t journalists, and we don’t have to follow their rules and regulations. That’s part of what makes…
Refining Your Unique Voice
Today’s post is written by IFB Contributor Mademoiselle Robot! This is part two of the post All the Pretty Voices… Noise or Symphony? Nowadays, everyone and their dog has a blog, and even the fashion blogosphere is getting incredibly crowded. So how do you make your blog stand out from…
What do you need to build a better blogging experience?
Since beginning Independent Fashion Bloggers, I’ve been very protective of this blog community. What we have here is very special. While writing tips on blog improvement are important, like many of you, I get a lot of emails from PR people pitching services and free goodies to the community. Until…
Objects Without Meaning: The Brand That Doesn’t Pretend, Yet, Still Profound
Have you ever read a fashion label’s about page? Or a fashion show review? Often sounding more like those little placards you’ll find next to a painting in a museum, the language used in the fashion industry is heady, full of rag jargon. I get it. I went to art…
WordPress Design Tips for Fashion Bloggers (and anyone else)
Richard Spencer Davies is author of Petite Bourgeoisie a beautifully designed site, which is no wonder because he also has a strong web design portfolio. For those of us who are struggling with WordPress(.org), finding themes, tweaking CSS, tweaking PHP, finding themes (notice a theme here)… this article will help…
Ode to the Slow Blogger
Bobble Bee is a lovley blog written by Patricia Yägue a stylist in New York City. Bobble Bee has been a regular supporter of IFB since it’s inception, you can read more of her IFB posts here. For the last couple of months I’ve been reading several apologies from bloggers…
Adding a Newsletter to Your Blog
“I don’t want to put more junk in other people’s mail boxes.” I don’t want to bother people. My blog isn’t big enough. I don’t have enough time… I hate half the newsletters I get in my box. These are all the things I keep telling myself about newsletters. But…
Dress Up Soiree NYC Photos
Alright… I’m so sorry, I’ve been MIA since I’ve been in New York… seriously, it’s been a whirlwind, but I’m reading all your comments, and sooo appreciate them. One of the things I was doing was organizing the Dress Up Soirée NYC. We had an amazing turnout, and it was…