A recent article on Independent Fashion Bloggers on posting about “courtesy of” products got me thinking about how we as beauty bloggers write our reviews with products provided for consideration. As IFB is a blog predominantly for fashion bloggers in the US, the article talked about personal style posts of bloggers wearing clothes provided to [...]
Bloggie Wednesdays: Overcoming Bloggers’ Block
Oh I’ve been there. We’ve all been there. The frustration of staring at the computer monitor and no words come out. My worst hit was mid last year, when I was so out of blogging mojo that I blogged a maximum of 3 times a month. It happens to the best of us. Blogger’s block [...]
Bloggie Wednesdays: Choosing Webhosts For Your Blog
Happy Hump Day, folks! Yep, it’s Bloggie Wednesdays again :) For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you’ll know that I’ve been having a lot of problems with my webhost for the past few months. In short, they complained that my website’s CPU usage was high and was affecting the shared server environment. [...]
Bloggie Wednesdays: How To Approach Negative Reviews Professionally
In our last Bloggie Wednesday, I touched on the topic of editorial control, which is especially apparent when it comes our writing negative reviews on beauty products that did not work for us. Consider today’s topic as a prequel to last week’s, and it is how we approach negative reviews. It’s always my belief that [...]
Bloggie Wednesdays: Editorial Control
You know I like to start my Bloggie Wednesdays by giving you a scenario to think about :) Let’s say that you’ve been sent a beauty product by a PR to review on your blog. This isn’t unsolicited product, by the way, it was something you requested. You tried it out for a month; unfortunately, [...]