How to Start Fashion Blogging on a Low Budget

Blog posting or detecting a blogger in a mass of 10, has become a new trend for the decade. Particularly, posting a blog on Instagram and earning a flood of likes and responses drive all the fashion bloggers into a fuss! However, earning money from a blog irrespective of any genre is not everyone’s cup of tea!

Rather it’s a blend of innovation and technical skill which is a matter of diligence, self-effort and investment up to a certain limit.

However, if the matter of investment could be the sole reason against starting your fashion blog, then I must ensure that a fashion blog is an outshot of multiple aspects and a small part of the investment. Hence, forget the worry of budget for a while rather be preoccupied with those aspects which will create a punching impact on your blog. Therefore, let’s gradually turn over the pages to start your own fashion blog on a minimum budget.

Guidance to start a fashion blog on low budget

1. Create own niche

This simply means you must understand your own sense of fashion that you would like to introduce in your blog. This will eventually help you to receive positive feedback. Therefore, you must identify personal affinity with a special style sense. For example, you may be personally influenced by ‘vintage style’ or ‘gothic style’ of dressing. Hence, plan and execute your blog following the choice of genre. 

At the same time, you must pay attention to the uniqueness of each of the blogs that solely aligns with the content creation. Compose a pattern, style of orientation which makes it distinct from others’ blogs. This could be related to the topic of the content, assemble and fusion with images, information, connotation to the readers and so on. Overall turn the content to be informative and appealing than just be dramatic in nature. 

You may put inside different salling events in order to make the content much more interesting and informative. For example, grand discount events from big apparel houses namely American Eagle, Old Navy etc. And their discount coupons on genres of apparel that match with your blog subject.

2. Buy an affordable domain and web hoster

Each blog needs a personal website to be uploaded. Although, you can upload these on WordPress at free, if you wish to take the business seriously then you must be supported by a private website and domain authority.

Being a blogger you may have deciphered the roles played by a domain and web hoster for the smooth functioning of a website. You must not freak out at this point as you’ve to invest a few bucks here.

There are lots of web hosting companies namely Godaddy, Bluehost, Hostgator, Namecheap which unleashed their services at minimum cost (i.e. $2.75/month mostly). Surprisingly, all these web hosters not only avail thousands of unique domain names but these are chained up with WordPress, SSL certificates and VPN services that immensely fasten up your website’s performance.  

3. Master and upskill WordPress

While all successful bloggers acknowledge WordPress as the best platform to post blogs and get reviews, you can’t skip it. The reason for mastering WordPress emphasizes it’s an auto SEO tool and numerous themes and social media viability that transforms the entire stage; from blog creation to posting it on social media as super agile.

3 main parts of WordPress are:

• Jetpack: which showcases millions of themes, features, styles of alignment really helps to generate the content of a fashion blog.

• • Yoast SEO: this auto SEO tool enhances fast ranking of the blog at Google. On the other hand, it also highlights discrepancies in the blog.

• social media button plugin: that enables easy and facile share on various social media platforms simply through buttons.

In case, you are nascent to the blogging world and so as WordPress, you may start with WordPress beginner. However, the best part of WordPress blogging is, you don’t have to invest separately for the service. Moreover, it allows free access which could be used as important learning materials.

4. Start marketing your blog professionally

If you don’t market your blog, you can’t earn from it. There are few ways of earning from a fashion blog that needs no investment. These are

• Promotion and branding

Most fashion bloggers do follow the strategy. What you have to do is, promote brands of popular fashion apparel websites and earn commissions. For example, promoting American Eagle’s summer sailing events, or endorsing top brands from Amazon fashion, etc.

• Enabling Google Adsense

Through Google Adsense each blogger imports Google Adsense of a specific brand or website on their blog page and earns a commission.

• Affiliate marketing

By this method, you are allowed to express personal feedback on a product and personal recommendations. You can share an affiliate link of the product on your blog and will earn a commission when users will buy the product.

• Creating Instagram account

Best way of earning without any serious effort. What you have to do is checking and varying with competitive fashion posts, hashtags and campaigns and then molding up own blogs to generate more shares.

5. Be specific to content enhancement

In order to run a fashion blog successfully, you need to upgrade the content style very often without changing the core. Do enhance images and text orientation, mold up hashtags and campaign as per need, ensure a good quality image and moreover make it to be as much information as possible.

All you have to do is, be consistent and honest to your blog and content, meaning keeping a regular track of the latest trends in fashion apparel, accessories etc. It doesn’t even need a single penny to be invested!

As ‘fashion’ resembles a milestone that infuses attitude and gesticulation, fashion blogs are the tomes to generate diverse flamboyant ideas. And hence, to make a fashion blog successful you have to be more consistent than be cowered by investment. Although investing is necessary, it only covers up 1/10th of the whole. So, I hope with the above description you can project a clear thought of starting it. Stay away from budget peril, everything will automatically be sorted once you start.

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