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How To Host a Giveaway to Grow Your Following

So, you want to host a giveaway on your blog, Instagram or YouTube channel? How exciting! Giveaways are a great way to treat your readers, promote your blog and/or social media platforms, and cement good...

How To Create A Business Plan for Your Blog

Fact: If you plan on monetizing your blog or want to make a full-time living out of blogging, you need a business plan for your blog. You might not be seeking investors or plan on selling your blog any t...

Keep Your 2024 Blogging Resolutions With These Udemy Courses for Bloggers

If you aren’t familiar with Udemy courses now is a good time to be introduced. With 2024 around the corner, many of us plan on making New Year’s resolutions. If you’ve struggled in the past with getting yo...

Fashion Films on Netflix: A Fashion Blogger’s Guide 2024

Here at IFB We Love A Good Fashion Film on Netflix! How About You? As the season turns from fall into winter - and as the days get shorter - there is nothing we love more at IFB than curling up with a good fas...

Introductory Guide to Accepting Guests Posts For Your Fashion Blog

IFB's Introductory Guide to Accepting Guests Posts For Your Fashion Blog. I penned a blog post about growing your audience that sparked some conversation in the comments about the idea of guest posting. If you're anything like me, your inbox is filled ...

Pat Flynn’s Smart Podcast Player

Pat Flynn's Smart Podcast Player... Does it ring a bell? We're giving an overview of the plugin below, here on IFB! In case you didn't know, IFB is running a series titled “Start Your Own Podcast: A How-To for...

Fashion Puns: 3 Ways to Awe Your Audience with Wordplay

Happy Monday... Today, We're Talking Fashion Puns! Wondering how to write a good blog post title? Looking for ideas to spice up your written content? Want to be witty? Here are a few ways to incorporate fashion puns into your digital content. Open any ...

139 Fashion Blog Names + Free Fashion Blog Name Generator

Coming up with a good name for your fashion blog, Instagram, tubmlr or Princess can be hard! Stuck? All out of good fashion blog name ideas? Fashion blogger Kim Toomey has you covered in the post below, wher...

Review of John Lee Dumas’ Free Podcast Course

An Unbiased Review of John Lee Dumas' Podcast Course In case you didn't know, IFB is running a series titled “Start Your Own Podcast: A How-To for Fashion Bloggers”. We’re breaking down everything you need to ...

Halloween Guide For Fashion Bloggers

It’s that time of the year again, boys and ghouls! Halloween is slowly creeping up on us. It’s less than a week away now! Do you have your costume planned out? Are you ready for the Trick-or-Treaters? Will you be attending any Halloween parties this year? I...

Top 10 Australian Fashion Bloggers and Influencers 2024

Australians seem to be stepping up their fashion blogging game as of late, and we're super excited about it. To celebrate, we're rounding up some the coolest Aussie blogs we can't get enough of:

Best Podcasting Courses for Bloggers 2024

Have You Ever Wanted to Start Your Own Podcast? In this week’s instalment, IFB will be discussing the top three best podcasting course for bloggers. Throughout the next few weeks, we will be running a ...

5 Tips for Fashion and Beauty Bloggers From SIMPLY Dubai 2024

This past Thursday IFB’s Laura Kell had the pleasure of attending the 2nd annual SIMPLY Dubai conference, at the Kempinski Hotel in the Mall of the Emirates. SIMPLY partnered with the Azdef Group to bring a day of industry insider panel talks to Dubai. Conf...

IFB’s Top 10 Plus Size Fashion Bloggers Round Up 2024

As a plus size fashion blogger... WELL. There are a lot of ways I can finish that sentence. I am a plus-sized woman and plus size fashion blogger. Therefore, I know what it's like to feel ignored by the f...

SEO Tips for Blogger Blogs

SEO Tips for Blogger Blogs: How to Make Your Blog More Searchable Blogger a.k.a. Blogspot is a great publishing platform for new bloggers. Owned by Google, Blogger blogs are easy to set up and very user friend...

Top 5 Podcasts For Fashion Bloggers 2024

Looking for Inspiration, Before Starting Your Podcast? Check Out IFB's Roundup of the Top 5 Podcasts for Fashion Bloggers Below! We're running a series titled “Start Your Own Podcast: A How-To for Fashion Bloggers”. We breakdown everything from what to consi...

Start Your Own Podcast, Part II: What Your Need Before Your Begin

Have You Ever Wanted to Start Your Own Podcast? Throughout the next few weeks, we will be running a series titled “Start Your Own Podcast: A How-To for Fashion Bloggers”. We’ll break down everything from w...

Why You Should Be Following These Top 5 Menswear Style Influencers 2024

IFB has rounded up our picks for the Top 5 Menswear Style Influencers of 2024. Check out what you can learn from their success stories below. Gone are the days of finding the best dressed men in the pages of...

Start Your Own Podcast: A How-To for Fashion Bloggers

Have You Ever Wanted to Start Your Own Podcast? There’s no doubt about it: the popularity of podcasts are on the rise. Studies show that Millennials prefer to listen to podcasts than read long bodies of text. But let's face it, you probably never ente...

A Full-Time Income With No List

Update: Our webinar was great. We covered a lot of info on building your audience and monetizing your blog. Check out the replay here. In 2011, my friend Shawn Blanc quit his job to begin blogging for a l...

Fashion Bloggers Over 40 You Should Follow Now

Over the years, I have become very selective when it comes to the blogs I follow - especially the blogs curated by fashion bloggers over 40. I deleted many blogs from my reader a while ago. The ones I still follow boast a strong writer's voice and convey ...

How to Take Your Ideas to the Next Level and Stay Inspired

This week's post is brought to you by Shawn Blanc, a full-time blogger and internet guy who has been creating consistent, fantastic content while building a loyal and devoted audience. He was kind enough to agr...

Top Three Best Photo Editing Apps for Smartphones

If you're anything like us Instagram-obsessors, we're ready for even more options in filters, effects, stamps, lighting, contrast, collaging, etc.

How to Use (and Install) Lightroom Presets to Improve Your Photography

Did you know that there is a way that, with one click of a button, you can instantly improve your photography for your blog? With Lightroom presets, it's completely possible! You can literally edit hundreds of...

How to Approach Brands for Freebies

Many bloggers, fashion bloggers included, see freebies as a "perk" of running an even moderately successful site. Whether you describe such free items as "gifts," "review samples," "collaborations" or something else entirely, freebies can be either a huge bu...

How to Choose The Best Vlogging Drone with Camera & Filming Abilities

Nowadays it seems like every YouTuber looking to step up their game is using a drone with camera and filming abilities to capture amazing aerial shots for their vlogs. There’s no doubt about it - drones pro...

Why Masculine Style Blogger Tanner Guzy is Not A Fashion Blogger

There are many words that can be used to describe Tanner Guzy of Masculine Style - blogger, vlogger, menswear style consultant and, even, mentor. "So much of what I do is talking about mindset or self-improvement with my readers and viewers," Guzy states,...

How Starting A Blog Can Lead to Your Dream Job in 8 Weeks or Less

Graciela Rivera Pereira landed her dream job through her blog, in February 2017 – despite only launching the blog a few weeks earlier in January. That’s right, this fresh-faced San Juan-based blogger (with...

Body Shaming or A Guy’s Honest Opinion on Fashion? How ‘Fashion By He’ Walks the Fine Line between Humour and Misogyny

“There is not a place for women to get a straight man’s opinion on fashion.” STOP wearing flat over the knee boots. They are gross, they are ugly, they don’t look good on you, He doesn’t want to hear that th...

The Only Blogger Toolkit You’ll Ever Need

Ever feel overwhelmed by blogging? You’re not alone. There have been so many times when we, as bloggers, have felt daunted by what we're learning and doing and struggled to overcome challenges like increasing traffic, social media presences, and even...

Why Being One of Israel’s First Fashion Bloggers Has It’s Perks

Karen Or is undoubtedly the first Israeli fashion blogger to make a splash on the international scene - while still keeping it real back home with "her girls", as she refers to her large following of Israeli yo...

A Blogger’s Guide to Growing Traffic

You've seen the surveys, the questionnaires, and the blog posts: Today's bloggers' biggest struggle continues to be growing traffic to their website and how to effectively do it. Growing your blog's t...

Why Menswear Blogger Brock McGoff Publishes Income Reports on His Blog, The Modest Man

"I definitely had business goals going into it. I thought I’d might be able to turn it into something." When Brock McGoff started The Modest Man in 2012, his goal was to create a blog that would provide style tips and fashion advice for men who are 5"8 in...

How Natasha Ndlovu Made The Jump From Style Blogger to Youtuber

“I can't believe it has been 4 years.” Blogger, photographer and model Natasha Ndlovu is celebrating the fourth anniversary of her blog, Bisous Natasha, this month. And the one piece of advice she would ha...

Website Traffic for Bloggers 101 – How are you Different?

“How do I get more traffic to my blog?” We get asked this all the time. It’s not a small problem, and unfortunately, it’s not a simple problem either. There are thousands of ways to increase your traffic and everyone has a strategy to offer. And, if you have ...

Diary of a Failed Fashion Blogger: 4 Women Who Give Me Hope

Being a Failed Fashion Blogger and all, I sometimes get a little down in the dumps. That's when I go social media and get even sadder checking out the model-thin, model-young women with tens of thousands (milli...

How Natasha Kundi Went From Credit Manager to Official Blogger for the Cannes Fashion Festival

With a Bachelor’s in Bioinformatics Natasha Kundi’s life seemed like it was destined for Science. But after years in a stressful job that kept her away from home and then getting pregnant she real...

Diary of a Failed Fashion Blogger: When Should You Hire a Professional Photographer?

Photography has been a very real struggle for me all along my fashion blogging journey. Right around the time I launched my blog, my husband bought an expensive DSLR. Sounds like kismet, right? Totally wrong. He had little interest in fashion, and sligh...

Diary of a Failed Fashion Blogger: How Many Photographs Is too Many?

Along my blogging journey, I have often pondered how many outfit photos to include in my posts. It was so difficult to choose—not because I thought I looked so fabulous in all of them, but because it’s nearly...

Stand Out from the Affiliate Crowd with Thrive Market

As a fashion blogger, one of the most common ways to monetize your site is through affiliate programs, and most fashion bloggers know of the few big programs out there. While they're great programs and of cours...

Diary of a Failed Fashion Blogger

Hey everyone! This post is both a hello and a goodbye. Until about two weeks ago, I was editor-in-chief of IFB. It was a really fun gig. I worked from home, made my own hours, and was paid well for my efforts...

IFB Is Hiring!

Thank you for your interest. We have filled these positions and are no longer accepting applications. Are you obsessed with fashion blogs? Do you love social media and keeping up with new trends and technology? We have two opportunities you need to know ...

Beware of These Brands That May Be Stealing Your Photos

When Pascale Rowe, a.k.a. @MsBlingMiami (who has 500k+ followers on Instagram), posted a selfie while wearing her bright yellow, green and blue maxi dress, it got more than 7,500 likes. Little did she know that...

The Sporty-Chic Sandal Every Blogger Needs for Spring

Flatforms and chunky, military boot-infused sandals have been all over street style and Instagram feeds in recent months. If your style already veers in the edgy direction, it's easy to work this trend into your daily outfit rotation. But if feminine, stra...

IFB Member Spotlight: Elly of Uptown With Elly Brown

Welcome to this week’s IFB member spotlight! Each Friday we feature an IFB blogger we want to get to know better and share his or her story. Who: Elly Brown What: Uptown with Elly Brown Where: Hou...

6 Bloggers with Short Hair to Inspire You

Short hair is all the rage right now. Blunt bobs are making a huge come back, and pixy cuts have never been more chic. And with the new year around the corner, some of you may be thinking about changing u...

Does Google Analytics Undercount Your Blog Traffic?

I recently started using WP Engine to host my Wordpress blog, and I noticed something weird: My traffic according to WP Engine is about 3 times higher than my Google Analytics data. I expected a bit of disc...

How to Keep Up Your Blog During the Holidays. Or Not

The holiday season is upon us, at least in the US. For many that means more time with family and friends and less time blogging. So how do you keep your blog up during the holidays? Or do you? Personally, ...

6 Ways To Edit Photos Fast and Beautifully Using Lightroom

Photo via Style by Alina Standing out in a sea of fashion bloggers isn’t easy, but having great photos can put you one step ahead of the game. Whether you want to grow your followers, get featured on reputable fashion sites or attract brands for collabo...

22 Offbeat Holiday-Themed Post Ideas

I remember back in the day when Christmas decorations and holiday music in stores didn't start until after Thanksgiving. Seems quaint nowadays, doesn't it? Even though the entire country is saturated wit...

Accidental Icon, the Blogger Who Has It All: Age, Brains and Style

At an age when many people are thinking about retirement, Lyn Slater has launched a whole new career—as a style blogger. At 62, she's in her second year of blogging, while maintaining a successful full-time...

Three Cameras Lighter and Cheaper Than DSLRs Perfect for Fashion Bloggers

Unless you're Garance Dore or Tamu McPherson, the days of lugging around an enormous DSLR that weighs more than you are dwindling. Over the past few years, companies including Sony and Olympus have put out "mirrorless" cameras that produce photos that can ...

How to Get Invites to New York Fashion Week Shows

In previous years, when you were granted press credentials for New York Fashion Week, you also received a list of all the PR contacts representing presenting designers, along with their email addresses. Thi...

Business of Fashion Now Offers Free Online Classes

Blogging can be a quick way to insert yourself into the fashion industry. All you need is a computer, an internet connection which could utilize products from blogs such as cat5e vs cat6, and a Wordpress or other platform for publishing. Or so it would see...

Blogger Must Haves for Better Fashion Photos

As fashion bloggers, we all know that having great photos can really help your blog stand apart from the pack. But if you’re just starting out and haven’t invested in a professional kit yet - don’t worry. While there is no substitution for having a professio...

Fashion Blogging: The Definitive List of Best Practices

So you want to be a fashion blogger...or you already are. Here are some important best practices pulled from the wealth of IFB archives, from the simple (be nice!!) to the more technical (how to do competitiv...

How Sustainable Fashion Is Ruining the Industry

1 Granary, a print and online publication out of Central Saint Martins University of the Arts in London has launched a series of articles on ethically-made fashion. But their first interview subject balked at the title they had in mind for the section: "Su...

How This Fashion Blogger Quit Her Day Job By Using Poshmark

Kate Heimann quit her day job in March of 2014. She had started her personal style blog Wear in LA in November of 2011 and for three years built a strong following, and while many bloggers talk about how they w...

Six Things For Personal Style Bloggers To Do Before Buying New Clothes

I've been a personal style blogger for almost 8 years. When it comes to taking photos of myself on a regular basis, falling into the "new clothes" habit is not only bad for my bank account, it also is bad for...

How Many QUALITY Posts Can You Write Per Day? Per Week?

For many bloggers, posting three times a week does not make a living for them. Many bloggers, writers, and even journalists juggle freelance gigs, work for digital mags that require multiple posts per day. Jessie formerly of Denimology, told us in an web cha...

Three Native American Sites Fashion Bloggers Need to Know About

Happy Indigenous People's Day! Instead of Columbus Day, Seattle and Minneapolis are celebrating Indigenous People's Day as a way of recognizing the cultural contributions of the people who were already living in America when Columbus "discovered" it. What's this have to do with fashion blogging?

The Truth About Fashion Bloggers

It's no secret there's a lot said about bloggers in general, and there's certainly no shortage of criticisms and/or critiques of fashion bloggers specifically. We sometimes get the worst of it, because we sho...

Why Personal Blogs Can Never Really Survive Monetization

Are you a personal style blogger? Do you blog about your life in hopes of making it in the "big time?" It sounds amazing, like do a job you love and never work a day in your life, and you love your life... but in reality, blogging about yourself has a real c...

How to Write a “Trend Piece” People Will Love (And Want to Share)

Last week, the New Yorker published a funny satire article called "Trend Piece." The idea is that all trend pieces are so predictably similar that it's laughable. And although it's a humor piece, it's also i...

Why Read Fashion & Beauty Blogs Anymore?

Last week, Ashley Robison, forwarded a post from Zoe London, a beauty blogger who was approached by a beauty brand for fashion week only to be rejected by the very same brand that approached moments after sh...

The Independent Fashion Bloggers’ Guide to…SEO

Though some experts claim "SEO is dead," learning the foundations of good SEO (i.e. Search Engine Optimization) for your fashion blog has never been more important. At its heart, SEO is all about making it easier for search engines to find your content. Goog...

5 Ways to Say, “No, thank you.” to Blogger Opportunities

As a blogger, I'm sure you get a lot of emails from brands and PR reps asking to "work with you." What happens when you get a request or inquiry from a brand that you don't want to work with? Or they're talki...

Why You’re Not Making Money from your Affiliate Links

As a follow-up to my last post on how to start affiliate marketing, I want to mention some reasons why you might not be making any money if you've already started adding affiliate links to your blog instead o...

How To Get Started with Affiliate Marketing

There are lots of ways to monetize your blog: advertising, affiliate marketing, ebooks, selling a product. It's always best to diversify though, and find the right mix of all of these things for you and your audience, but as I've mentioned before, I make the...

Update : You Don’t NEED 250,000 Page Views to Earn a Living Blogging

Just about a year ago, I wrote an article here on IFB sharing on average how much I make a month as a "professional" fashion blogger. Especially in light of "82% of Bloggers made more money than ever last yea...

Do Bloggers Really Get Paid for Press Releases, Freebies or Campaigns?

Ok, so when I started blogging in 2007, I did not know a thing about the publishing industry. Not. A. Thing. In retrospect, I wish I had someone with experience sit down and tell me what was what, because I mad...

5 Tips for Successfully Approaching Brands

Yesterday I participated in a webinar for brands on identifying & working with social (media) influencers. This included bloggers of course, and I shared some of my experiences as a blogger/influencer working with various brands in different capacities. ...

Are “Fashion Blogger Boyfriends” Even Happy Taking Our Photos?

No one likes to air their dirty laundry, even if it's well curated laundry. I'm going to come out and say it. My husband never volunteers to take an outfit photo. Sometimes I have to talk him into it. So...

How to Negotiate an Ad Contract for Your Blog

I've talked about negotiating on IFB a couple of times now, both on the affiliate side and the ad sales side, but there's always more to say because negotiating is a complex topic...especially when you're fir...

What I’ve Learned in 10 Years Posting OOTD

ifb-fashion I've been posting outfits of the day (OOTD) for ten years. Back when I started, not a lot of people were doing it, so it was a relatively new phenomenon, and there weren't a lot of "rules" or standards. Now, though, personal style blogs are a dime...

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The Independent Fashion Bloggers Guide To…Gifting and Product Reviews

As a fashion blogger, receiving products for review or as gifts can be a great way to try out new items and share your thoughts with your audience. However, it's important to approach this with a keen sense...

Advanced Affiliate Marketing: How to Negotiate for Higher Commission Rates

It seems like every fashion blogger is a part of an affiliate network now. From Skimlinks to RewardStyle, partnering up with a brand (or dozens of brands!) has never been easier. In case you haven't heard of ...

How to Write a Standout Event Recap Post

Fashion bloggers have a high likelihood of receiving invites to various industry-related events, whether that's a new boutique opening, a private viewing of a designer's latest collection, or the big dance (NYFW.) Events can be as important as outfit and r...

Email Newsletter Tips for Fashion Bloggers Revisited

It's a fact, email newsletters drive a lot of engagement. Both my RSS emails and my bi-weekly newsletters bring traffic and comments to my blogs, and I can track purchases readers made via affiliate links. ...

How to Make the Most of your Next Media/Press Preview (+ a Special Invite)

One of the most popular ways publicists and brands seek to connect with members of the press, bloggers and other influencers is through hosting seasonal, industry-only press previews. Essentially a mix of b...

10 Ways to Celebrate Your Blog Anniversary

We naturally find ourselves, in the last month of any given year, reflecting on our accomplishments, our trials and how often we hit the marks of personal and professional success and happiness. Whether you have been blogging for years or weeks, take a momen...

4 Blogger Tools to Host Link-Ups & Share Links

What better way to engage your community, give other bloggers an opportunity to promote their own blogs, while promoting your own blog than a Link-Up? Now, Link-Ups have been around for ages in various forms,...