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“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 then there are newsletters I get that are really helpful, I enjoy getting them, gosh, sometimes I wish all my content just magically appeared in my mailbox. Newsletters are a useful tool too keep in touch with your readers, to keep them updated with your content, and it also reminds them to visit your site, increasing your traffic.

There are loads of benefits to starting a newsletter for your blog, traffic building, monetization, building a report with your readers, and it’s never too early to start. [Read more]

Marjan Pejoski at Doshaburi

Doing research can be fun…

But it can take hours, days, weeks, months to get a good selection of resources compiled to make finding new content easier. As a fashion blogger, knowing where to find the good shops can be very difficult in the sea of online shopping. While some of us are happy with some of the more mainstream sites, others are on a quest to find the little boutiques featuring lesser known and more unique designers. Ara Anjargolian has created a resource to make our lives a whole lot easier. Since January 2005, Jargol, an online shopping guide featuring independent boutiques, some user submitted, some added by Ara himself, and all of them have something interesting about them. You can search by city, by boutique type and you can even subscribe to the Jargol blog to get the latest on sale announcements and new inventory (like the above photo: Marjan Pejoski @ Doshaburi, Barcelona). And if you are going to visit a new city… it’s best to visit this site before you go, as it has a comprehensive shopping guide for cities, mostly in the US, but also around the world.

Here Ara talks to us about why he started this valuable resource, and how the internet has affected independent fashion…

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By now many of you already know about Polyvore.com. Some of you may even use this website for your posts… and some of you may be using Photoshop (ahem, me) to create collages of items in the post. Sarah over at Polyvore.com and I had a chat where she let me know that’s it’s really a lot more than a collage making tool…
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