10 Blogging Tips for New Bloggers

1. The blogging community is full of millions of wonderful people, all doing their own thing in different ways, so, just like at a new school or workplace it's important to meet the people around you. Most bloggers will be happy to offer guidance and hand out tips, and you can even make some good friends along the way! I'd recommend joining a site like Bundle if you're a teenage blogger like me. It's a great site that I personally use!

2. Whatever I'm doing, wherever it is, I always carry a notebook with me because you never know when you might get an idea! Most of my notebooks generally contain badly drawn sketches of outfits, names of vintage shops and where they are (you have no idea how many times I have found a new vintage boutique and then lost it *sigh*), and also a never ending wishlist of items that has not once had something crossed off of it.

3. Since joining Blogger I have become addicted to most forms of social media. Twitter is fantastic because there are scheduled blogger chats and a decent sized chunk of my traffic comes from there. Places like Instragam are ok, but its more for showing off photos than posts, and as for Facebook, I abbandoned it.  Definitely not down my street, but, if it works for you, do it! There's tons of ways of communicating that you can mess around with and use however you want.

4. Y'know that moment when you're talking to some friends and they both have all these inside joke you don't understand? This is the same. So make the time to subscribe to some fashion emails, check OOTD apps regularly and read style posts! It's so important to try and stay one step ahead in the fashion world otherwise you will be left out in the rain. This goes for any other field as well. You're a book reviewer? Check out the top 100 books list. You have a food blog? Watch cooking shows. It all helps!

5.This is such an important point. Please don't feel the need to put up a post you're not happy with just because you have scheduled to upload that day. Quality over quantity, after all. It's totally ok to scrap something that you don't feel you're proud of but please don't stress about it. Blogging is meant to be a fun! So don't pressure yourself into doing a slapdash, half-effort post just because you think you need to.

6. Going to different places is such a great way to become an interesting person that people genuinely want to read about. That doesn't mean that you have to go loads of exotic countries, but just go somewhere photogenic and quirky near where you live. Note: DON'T FORGET YOUR CAMERA IF YOU DO PHOTOGRAPHY. Pretty much every time I go out, about 20 minutes into the car journey I ask "have you got the camera" and my mum always replies with "No. You said you would pick it up". Next comes a very boring debate about who forgot the camera this time.

(It's totally always Mum's fault. Duh.)

Japan | Berlin | Instagram photo's

7. No one can dictate what happens on your blog except you, and all the content reflects who you are as a person. Finding what you love to do will take time and a fair bit of experimenting with but eventually you will find what you are passionate about. For me, its photography, making outfits online, but not including photos of me. I have always hated taking photos of myself and once I realised I didn't have to do it to be a style blogger, it felt awesome!)

8. Ack. I'm not terrible at being organised but I'm not brilliant either. I'm fantastic at making sure stuff eventually gets done but the process of actually doing what I'm meant to do kinda leads to A LOT of procrastination on slowrobot.com,  pointlesssites.com and youtube.

I'd say my best tips for organisation is making lists and finding the time to complete what's on the list. That usually works best for me.

9.  Be brave with what you wear, what you say and how you act. Write something that's never been done before. Publish a fiction story on your blog like Tolly Dolly Posh did. Talk about mental health issues and things that are effecting your life. Do something that really makes you unique. If anyone ever says "you can't wear that", wear it anyway! Why should anyone dictate how you should act if it does not negatively effect them in any way? NEVER feel like you can't do something because you are too scared or fear judgement.

10. And finally, the one everyone says, stick at it. You will be so happy you did in the end. No, you don't get a medal or a sticker for doing it, but blogging is such a brilliant thing to do. Not only does it look great on application forms but it means you learn how to commit to something and keep doing it. There are so many other advantages as well. You learn how to spell better, you learn photoshop skills, you can manage a website and all the traffic associated with it. You get confidence and your ability to communicate with others improves. I could go on and on and on.

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See ya soon guys

Strawberry x