Readers, followers and fans of the Frugal Flirty N Fab, today I come to you after 2 years of blogging to discuss my life on the Fashion Bloggers D-List. I'm going to give you an up close and personal look into what my life has been like over the past 2 years of blogging. I will try to make this as quick and as entertaining as possible hoping the fashion bloggers that come behind me will learn from my mistakes. Let me first start out with a brief explanation of why I began blogging.
After years of working jobs that I never felt satisfied me I realized the only thing in my life that was constant and that truly made me happy was fashion. I loved everything about fashion from the way you feel when you find a great pair of shoes to the way you can positively touch the lives of others by simply finding the right outfit. The thing that I really liked was the fact that I'm somehow capable of finding the most fabulous outfit without ever breaking the bank and I decided it was about time that I share this with others. My first blog post was titled
Keeping it Real on a Budget , I had no idea what was next to come....
I have a great personality, fairly cute, fun, and a great dresser so I'm sure I wont have a problem getting visitors to my blog I thought to myself, but boy was I wrong. After months of blogging realizing I wasn't getting the visitors I wanted I told myself the right thing to do was to basically spam celebrities on Twitter to get attention for my blog, making this mistake number 1! One night after admittedly harassing celebrities, Tameka Raymond, ex wife of Usher Raymond sent me an email basically telling me my blog sucked, she doesn't like blogs, she's not interested in reading mine, and to please,please,please stop sending it to her....My feelings were beyond hurt but I quickly realized that that was not the way to get the recognition I deserved, although Tameka was a real Bit**! The next thing I tried to do was get some feedback from other bloggers but that was mistake #2, because in the blogging world its every man for themselves I quickly learned. I did manage to make contact with Claire from The Fashion Bomb Daily who was very nice and willingly gave me some advice making her the sole exception. At that point it was just me and my blog and I knew I would learn the ins and outs through good old trial and error.....
On Jun 9th 2009 I was sure the blogging Gods had answered my prayers and my blog was finally turning the corner to Stardom when I wrote a post titled
Love Love ,woke up the next day to find that over 6000 visitors had suddenly visited my post. This was the big break I'd been waiting on but the stardom was short lived and after just 3 short days I was back to my original numbers which were becoming more and more depressing. 2009 played out all the same but I refused to quit because I actually luv blogging even though others didn't appear to be as passionate about my work.
I spent 2010 learning how to make improvements to my blog and how to share my luv of dresses and shoes with others. I attended my very first fashion event and realized just how powerful owning a good blog could be. I still struggled with finding a way to take my blog from mediocre to great but I knew that after a year giving up would never be an option. Thanks to my blog I have met great people, attended fabulous shows, participated in charity events, and hopefully brought a little recognition to the lack of minorities in the fashion industry and theses experiences are priceless.
We are now 6 months into 2011 (2yr blog anniV) and while I am no where near where I want to be I am comfortable with the positive changes I've made on the Frugal Flirty N Fab's behalf. I was nominated as one of the best blogs of South Florida, Invited to more than a handful of local events, have my own
Fan Page and plus my visitors have more that doubled what they were in June of 2010. Am I still on the Fashion Bloggers D list...yes, am I heading in the right direction, absolutely. Bloggers always keep in mind Rome wasn't built in a day.....
Readers, followers and fans of the Frugal Flirty N Fab, today I come to you after 2 years of blogging to discuss my life on the Fashion Bloggers D-List. I'm going to give you an up close and personal look into what my life has been like over the past 2 years of blogging. I will try to make this as quick and as entertaining as possible hoping the fashion bloggers that come behind me will learn from my mistakes. Let me first start out with a brief explanation of why I began blogging.
It is what dreams are made of and what everyone needs to experience at least once in their lives, It is Love and with some of the heartbreaking events we have all recently experienced it is openly welcomed. I have to admit one thing that attracted me to our President was the love and admiration he shows for his wife Michelle. With Que and Dawn its the pure innocent love that they are never afraid of showing and embracing. With the Dream and Christina its the love that you want to showboat and don't give a damn about what people think about it, and with Jay and Beyonce its that understated love that you never have to talk about but the world knows just how strong it is. It is Love and it is Urban and I welcome it and hope that its something we can all see more of and incorporate into our daily lives. Let's embrace love, welcome love, reciprocate love, learn love and most importantly love LOVE!
