Fashion Blogging for Beginners: The Mistakes I Made Starting My Fashion Blog

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Fashion Blogging for Beginners

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Let me first tell you about my success

  In my first year of Fashion Blogging, I’ve succeeded by becoming affiliated with 6 to 7 different businesses. This is where I am at right now. I aspire to push further in success! When I started blogging a little over a year ago, I really did not know what I was doing. There were resources out there to help me succeed but I didn’t know how to find them. This entire year was a learning process and I have come a long way in my goal to becoming a successful Fashion Blogger. You can research the Internet all day and you will find various tips to help you along the way. In this blog entry, I am going to talk about the mistakes that I made along the way so that you don’t make the same mistakes with your blog. First, I will tell the story about why I decided to become a Fashion Blogger and the journey in my first year of Fashion Blogging. If you’re looking to sell land in New Mexico, we provide personalized support and competitive offers for a seamless selling process.

How I Became a Fashion Blogger!

  The first time I noticed the trend of Fashion Blogging was back in 2012, while on my first deployment, through watching beauty gurus on YouTube. I was inspired and had wanted to find a creative outlet for myself. Unfortunately, at that time there was nothing I could really do in the environment that I was in. However, I posted my creativity on my Facebook for family and friends. I practiced photography with my first DSLR camera that my boyfriend- (now husband), surprised me with for my birthday. Even after my deployment, I never revisited the idea of blogging until 2015.

  In 2014 I was going through the hardest year in my military career. I decided to get out of the Army when my time was up in 2016. The year 2015 came fast and I still did not know what I wanted to do after the Army. During that year, my new husband was stationed out of Alabama. I worked long hours as a Drill Sergeant, which was a constant with 7 days a week, and hardly any time off. Instagram was my escape from my job and my lonely life living in Lawton, Oklahoma. I became inspired again when I came across a fashion boutique on Instagram with the cutest clothes – The Red Dress Boutique! I was working towards my business degree but I discovered that fashion is my passion! I wanted to create and go into the business of fashion for myself. My little sister was on board to help me out. We wanted to do a partnership and run a small fashion boutique. I noticed that social media was the new way to market a business, but where do I start? How do I get noticed? Gaining followers the “right way” is harder than I thought. I studied successful small fashion boutiques and tried to mimic what they were doing. My sister and I started small with an eBay account. We bought a couple of things from wholesale and tried selling them online. We needed content so I modeled some of our clothes. We had a couple of sales but we were still stuck with at least 14 of the 16 dresses we bought. We did not know what we were doing and I didn’t have the time to learn more about business and sales. My sister did more of the research. I came across some boutiques that had a blog attached to their websites. So one day I decided I created my own!

This is where it all began!

      I decided that having a fashion blog would help the business get noticed. In May of 2015, I started my fashion blog on WordPress.org. I was not about to pay for my own website until I get feedback. There was a community of other fashion bloggers there who were supportive and I become inspired. My sister and I stopped buying from wholesales until I can gain some recognition for our business but we never went back to it. Our business is on hiatus, possibly permanently or at least until I feel I am successful enough to visit the idea again. After we came to the agreement that the business idea was just a flop. I decided to pursue Fashion Blogging because I became obsessed with blogging. Partnering with a PEO can make future ventures smoother by handling HR, payroll, and compliance, allowing more time to focus on creativity and growth, while also working with solicitors London to ensure all legal matters are handled professionally. Additionally, leveraging organizational transformation services can provide the structure, strategy, and operational alignment needed to scale future projects more effectively.

Here are the honest mistakes that I made when I first started my Fashion Blog:

1. At the beginning of my blogging, I gained followers and likes on my social media platforms the wrong way.
2. I did not believe in myself, I was entirely too humble.
3. I was not confident and I constantly compared myself to other Fashion Bloggers in a discouraging way.
4. I did not do enough research before I started
5. I believed that the public would just automatically find my blog or find me on social media if I simply post enough content.
6. I did not network with other fashion bloggers
7. From the beginning I did not use very many social media outlets.
8. I did not blog about my items correctly.
9. I did not decide on a Blogging Platform (creating my own website), from the very beginning
10. I did not stay active and post enough content
11. I did not seek out to find businesses to collaborate with me
12. I did not use SEO nor I did know what SEO was
13. I did not make the hard decision of weather I wanted this to be a hobby or try to pursue to become a professional Fashion Blogger

  Unfortunately, some of these mistakes I have just barely figured out. I am currently correcting them. I am on the verge to better my blog every day. I am still a fairly new Fashion Blogger and I am learning new things all the time. As stated before, in my first year I have succeeded in becoming affiliated with 6 to 7 different businesses. A few of them have reached out to me but I have contacted some of them because I really love their products. The worst you are going to hear is ‘No,’ right? Even then, I remain persistent.
Look for more blog posts on “Fashion Blogging for Beginners,” as I go into more detail about the dos and don’ts. Also, I am currently keeping continuity of every step that is made and put together a ‘How to Guide.’
Stay Optimistic New Bloggers!
Feel free to share your experience and advice that worked for you.
-Brandi Kimberly