Making Money, Working With Brands Articles on IFB https://heartifb.com/category/monetization/ Independent Fashion Bloggers Thu, 03 Oct 2024 10:48:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://heartifb.com/images/cropped-ifb-logo-512-32x32.png Making Money, Working With Brands Articles on IFB https://heartifb.com/category/monetization/ 32 32 How to Approach Brands for Freebies https://heartifb.com/how-to-approach-brands-for-freebies/ https://heartifb.com/how-to-approach-brands-for-freebies/#comments Fri, 30 Jun 2017 17:00:53 +0000 https://heartifb.com/?p=131594 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 burden or a massive benefit to your blog. Done well, samples give you access to product you […]

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]]> https://heartifb.com/how-to-approach-brands-for-freebies/feed/ 10 Monetizing Your Blog: How to Figure Out Your Banner Ad Rates https://heartifb.com/monetizing-your-blog-how-to-figure-out-your-banner-ad-rates/ https://heartifb.com/monetizing-your-blog-how-to-figure-out-your-banner-ad-rates/#comments Thu, 18 Jul 2013 22:00:03 +0000 https://heartifb.com/?p=129553 Despite the increasing popularity of new ad types like native advertising, advertising and programmatic ads, banners are still one of the most popular forms of advertising, and they're usually the first kind a blogger tries when beginning to monetize their blog. A banner ad is basically a brand paying you to upload their image to […]

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]]> https://heartifb.com/monetizing-your-blog-how-to-figure-out-your-banner-ad-rates/feed/ 62 How To Monetise Your Fashion Blog With Affiliate Marketing https://heartifb.com/how-to-monetise-your-fashion-blog-with-affiliate-marketing/ https://heartifb.com/how-to-monetise-your-fashion-blog-with-affiliate-marketing/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 19:08:56 +0000 https://heartifb.com/?p=8633 I read the previous blog post Does banner ad revenue sustain bloggers? With interest and was quite pleased to see that I was not the only one who has not really had much success with affiliate banner ads. I have however had reasonable success with affiliate marketing and wanted to share a few ideas on […]

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]]> https://heartifb.com/how-to-monetise-your-fashion-blog-with-affiliate-marketing/feed/ 28 How To Get Started with Affiliate Marketing https://heartifb.com/how-to-get-started-with-affiliate-marketing/ https://heartifb.com/how-to-get-started-with-affiliate-marketing/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2014 19:30:31 +0000 https://heartifb.com/?p=131716 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 majority of my blogging income via affiliate commissions. It's not […]

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]]> https://heartifb.com/how-to-get-started-with-affiliate-marketing/feed/ 20 6 Ways to Get Products You Actually Want to Review for Your Fashion Blog https://heartifb.com/how-to-get-products-to-review-for-your-fashion-blog/ https://heartifb.com/how-to-get-products-to-review-for-your-fashion-blog/#comments Fri, 06 Sep 2013 22:00:10 +0000 https://heartifb.com/?p=130031 I love writing reviews. Every week, I write a review on Eat, Sleep, Denim about a different pair of jeans. It's a great way to get content useful content about fashion on your site, while still interjecting your own personal flavor to it. The thing about reviews that's different from posting gifted items, is that […]

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]]> https://heartifb.com/how-to-get-products-to-review-for-your-fashion-blog/feed/ 33 Introductory Guide to Accepting Guests Posts For Your Fashion Blog https://heartifb.com/guests-posts-for-your-fashion-blog/ https://heartifb.com/guests-posts-for-your-fashion-blog/#comments Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:10:21 +0000 https://heartifb.com/?p=131135 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 with emails from random people. And they're all asking if they can write […]

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]]> https://heartifb.com/guests-posts-for-your-fashion-blog/feed/ 29 The Independent Fashion Bloggers Guide To…Gifting and Product Reviews https://heartifb.com/the-independent-fashion-bloggers-guide-to-gifting-and-product-reviews/ https://heartifb.com/the-independent-fashion-bloggers-guide-to-gifting-and-product-reviews/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:37:54 +0000 https://heartifb.com/?p=131298 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 of ethics and transparency, especially when it comes to disclosing any relationships with the brand or company […]

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]]> https://heartifb.com/the-independent-fashion-bloggers-guide-to-gifting-and-product-reviews/feed/ 6 The Anatomy of A Blog-to-Brand Deal Part I: You Pitch Them https://heartifb.com/the-anatomy-of-a-blog-to-brand-deal-part-i-you-pitch-them/ https://heartifb.com/the-anatomy-of-a-blog-to-brand-deal-part-i-you-pitch-them/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:33:44 +0000 https://heartifb.com/?p=111445 Fair warning bloggers: this is a long post. When I started analyzing how many steps go into the back-and-forth communication that leads to a blogger-and-brand deal, I had no idea how long it would actually take to explain. Rather than skim over steps with a sentence or two, I've created example emails, based off of […]

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]]> https://heartifb.com/are-you-selling-anything-yet/feed/ 20 The Guide to Affiliate Companies Every Fashion Blogger Must Know https://heartifb.com/affiliate-companies-guide/ https://heartifb.com/affiliate-companies-guide/#comments Tue, 06 Aug 2013 22:14:45 +0000 https://heartifb.com/?p=129751 You probably already know that affiliate programs are one of the easiest ways to monetize fashion related traffic. Even if you only participate in affiliate programs to answer your own questions: how many clicks does it take before someone buys something? is one type of affiliate program faster to pay out than another? what can […]

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