How to Start a Fashion Blog

So you want to learn how to start a fashion blog, huh? Well, I’ve got good news for you. Fashion blogs are huge right now.

This post is not just about starting fashion blogs. I’m going to show you some step by step tips for starting any blog in any niche and making sure you do it properly.

Oh, and if you really do want to know how to start a fashion blog this post will hopefully blow your socks off!

The best part?

You can build a fashion blog that really helps people out there by focusing on equality, ethical clothing labels, and helping young people form more healthy opinions about their body and sources of self-esteem.

How to start a fashion blog: you need some guts!

Let’s not sugar coat anything here – blogging is hard work.

And if you truly do want to start a fashion blog you are entering a niche that is so crowded and cramped you will struggle to even find room to breathe.

The same goes for blogs about blogging, travel blogs, music blogs, sport blogs and probably sexy ones.

The competition and the noise is endless.

But there is good news and that is that 95% of those blogs really suck.

I mean they REALLY suck.

This leaves you with an opportunity to do something amazing and awesome and special but, like the paragraph header says, you need some guts. You are going to have to make this work by being smart and different. If you’re not prepared to do that then you may as well stop right here.

So now what?

Now that we’ve got the scary learn-the-hard-way-grasshopper lessons out of the way we can get into some practical matters. Knowing how to start a fashion blog and make it truly awesome means following these basic steps (there’s more detail afterwards):

1. Get a sick domain name and your own host
   Please, please, please don’t start your blog on Tumblr or Wordpress. Those things are promotional tools for your main blog or website. If you want to truly grow a brand and make a business out of your fashion blog you want your own domain name and blog hosting in order to start a blog on blogger. Most of the best sites do it this way.
2. Find out why you are fabulous first
   As I said in the intro-mumbo-jumbo, you really need to know why you are different. There are millions of fashion blogs out there and unless you do something differently you are going to get lost in all the noise. You don’t want that.
3. Publish the most incredible (ethical) content your brain can manage
   Once your blog is all set up and running don’t just publish thing stuff that you type out in five minutes and hit publish. Blogging is hard work. Sometimes I take two or three days to write one blog post. You have to make your brain work and really try to help people.
4. Network, network, network
   Make friends. Lots of them. Make friends with your readers and make friends with other bloggers that are already way more awesome than you and might be able to give you a helping hand. This means growing a mailing list and it means being active on places like Google+.

And now you are successful and famous!

Well, not quite.

I’ve written this stuff in a few blog posts now but it is just so important and we constantly see people get it so wrong that I need to keep saying it.

A free blog is not a good solution
If you want to start a blog that will eventually become a business then you need to get your own domain name and web host.

Why?

Because that blog is your asset.

It will be the place from which you launch every project that you can come up with in the future. It will be the place from which you promote everything you do and it will be how all the big cats in your industry come to know you.

Being different is being alive
That might sound a little dramatic but it is totally true. If your blog is the same as all the other fashion blogs (or travel, music, sport) out there then you are going to fail and give up within a few weeks.

If, on the other hand, you know why you are fabulous and you work hard at making sure that is part of your brand and that you let people know why you are different you will find that you start having small successes.

These small successes are very important.

For example, you might think of a really cool name for your blog, or a really cool angle from which you blog about something. Someone might notice that name on Twitter or Facebook and give you a little shout out saying that it is a cool idea.

The best thing that the beginner cab do is that ,they can take the help of blogger consultant.

You can follow @startyourblog on instagram.

So,if u wish to start your own blog,do drop a mail at startyourblog@consultant.com or follow and DM on instagram account @startyourblog