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Opening Up About How Social Media Affects Me (& You) Psychologically
This past spring I took a Communications class on interpersonal relationships. My lectures focused on how we interact with and communicate with others, including our interactions through social media. I was very interested in our lecture about how social media affects us psychologically, so I deiced to write my Pack Fashion Magazine article on the subject. Today I will be sharing a more personal version of the article, edited to include my thoughts and even more quotes from the amazing bloggers I interviewed. The photos in this post are intended to enhance my point- because they are all totally staged. I’ll talk more about it later, but to me, my…
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How I Take & Get Inspiration for Instagram Photos
Set-Up As many of y’all know if you watch my Instagram stories, I take most of my blog and Instagram photos all by myself! It is a little hard to explain the set up I use, so you can check that out here: Lighting One of the most important components of photography is lighting. With iPhone photography specifically, the lighting is extremely important. I have found, through endless trial and error, the BEST lighting for iPhone photography: in the shadows. Right Lighting Specifically, in the shadows while facing the sun. See how there are no weird glares or unbalanced lighting? Perfect! Wrong Lighting See how you have to be specifically…
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How to Get more YouTube Views
As many of you probably know, YouTube is changing their monetization rules and taking the privilege of having ads on our videos away from us smaller YouTubers by now basing their threshold on how many subscribers you have and the amount of minute view duration rather than the amount of views in general like it used to. Obviously, monetization is not why I love YouTube, but this change takes away progress on my channel and feels as though I am having to take a step back rather than progressing forward. Since this change is going to affect my channel, I have been doing a ton of research lately about how…
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How to Start a Youtube Channel
I have been getting tons of questions recently about how to start a YouTube Channel so today I am sharing my tips! This is another question that I get stuck on how to answer but hopefully this video will help you feel more comfortable beginning your channel- especially for those of us that may not have all the fancy equipment “needed” for YouTube!
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How to Start and Grow a Fashion Blog
I have been getting tons of questions recently about how to start a Fashion Blog, and my main tip is to just do it! In the video below I talk about what drove me to start my blog and the steps I took when begging as well as my tips on how to bring traffic to your blog!
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How to Start and Grow a Fashion Instagram
I have been getting tons of questions recently about how to start a Fashion Instagram and I honestly get a little stuck when I am asked this question because my go to response is just do it! Everyone starts somewhere and honestly none of us know what we are doing in the beginning. To try to help those of you that want to start a fashion insta, today I am sharing the steps I took when I started my account and my tips for starting/growing yours!
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How to Shop my Outfits (Instagram, Blog, Facebook)
I’ve gotten some questions recently about how to shop my posts on Instagram and I realized that although a majority of my Insta followers are familiar with Like To Know It, a lot of my blog readers come from my Facebook and those followers may not be so familiar with the concept. 1. Download the Like to Know it App OR Make an Account Online It’s simple and free. All you have to do is sign up with your email. 2. Screenshot my Instagram post OR copy the link at the end of the caption if you are on a desk top and paste it into your search bar OR…
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Future Goals & Looking Back on what I have Accomplished!
It’s funny, I started writing this post over six months ago and it is crazy how much I had to change when editing it. How many of my goals I had accomplished, such as my goal of becoming a Jadelynn Brooke College Rep, and how many of my goal had just changed in general. When I originally drafted this blog post, I wrote that I might start a YouTube channel after I graduated college. I started my YouTube this passed July. I wrote that I hoped to have 5,000 Instagram followers at the end of my freshman year at NC State, I currently have almost 4,200 an 5,000 is my…
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10 Ways to Grow Blog Traffic
1. Have an Instagram for your Blog: Or you can start out with an Instagram and work your way towards a blog, like I did. Instagram is just a good way to connect with other bloggers and create a loyal following. Instagram is also a great way for brands to see your account and possibly decide to contact you to work with them! I would say that in general, Instagram is the most powerful tool for bloggers- even if it is not the platform that brings the most traffic to their actual blog website! Instagram has so many other valuable tools and ways to connect with your followers that you…
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Favorite Blogging Locations+Photography Tips
Today I am sharing my 3 favorite places to take photos, my photography tips for those of us with a low quality camera, and the perfect outfit for blogging photos! In that order! 1. Wall Art: This is my tip for if you are taking photos with an average iPhone (not 7+), and I will talk about even more tips for those of us using our iPhones for blogging later in this post! Taking pics in front of a wall with a low quality camera will hide the fact that it is low quality and turn out better than taking it in open space (in my opinion). I also like…