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\"COMMENT<\/p>\n

After receiving an important amount of emails asking for help to create a blog, I thought it would be a good idea to write an article about it. In order to answer all of your questions<\/span> about the creation itself but also about my story. \u2028Good luck for reading (I let myself go #sorrynotsorry)<\/p>\n

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My experience<\/h2>\n

I started my blog in May 2013, 2 years and a half from now. If I\u2019m being honest, I would have to admit I did it on an impulse<\/strong>; I was bored (it was studying haha). And the idea had been going true my mind for a while so I decided to make the step.<\/p>\n

I launched my\u00a0blog, mostly because I wanted to share good deals I found on the internet, daily outfits etc…\u00a0<\/strong>My friends often asked me where I bought my clothes and were quite surprised when I answered I had it from the internet (4 or 5 years ago, it wasn\u2019t that common<\/em>). I was following quite a lot of French bloggers and I did not know any Belgian blog, so I told myself \u201cwhy not do the same as those French girl and share it with everyone<\/em>?\u201d.<\/p>\n

So I did not think about about a name neither about the technical aspects, I just thought: Ok now I am making my blog and 15 minutes later there it was, I created my blog. I already had some experience in the informatics area so it was not a problem for me. It\u2019s afterwards that some problems came up, I started asking myself a bunch of questions (that I should have asked myself before): how am I going to shoot my looks? With what material am I going to do it? How do I become famous? How do I introduce my blog to my friends? How do I make a difference with the blogs that already exist? How often should I post things? A lot of question I didn\u2019t think about when I started but I clearly should have.<\/p>\n

So my beginnings were kind of hesitating, I wasn\u2019t regularly posting, my writing style and set up were limited and the pictures of bad quality, \u2026 I fixed all those mistakes while growing as a blogger. One year ago, my blog was the one I dreamed of<\/strong>! Beautiful pictures, a bright and professional theme, texts that are easy to read but also interesting, and posting regularly on social media. From the moment my blog started to look like something nice, I began to let myself know to people. Step by step the amount of readers increased and the number of followers multiplied itself<\/strong>. You have to know that, in Belgium, blogging was quite new when I started. While in France blogs have been a trend for 6 or 7 years. And to be honest, I did not read any Belgian blogs, only French ones. And that is still the case because I can\u2019t find the same quality and originality in the Belgian ones. So it was even harder to get people to know me because the concept is not as developed here as in France. But now things are changing and Belgian blogs are becoming better.<\/p>\n

Meditate a while …<\/h2>\n

You don\u2019t create a blog on an impulse, at least that is not what I would advise you to do after having myself made that mistake (#oops). These days, there are more and more blogs and they all look alike. So if you want to create one, you have to be different from all the others that look just like each other. So please, do not create one just to be like everyone else, stand out from the crowd. If you want to get to it, ask yourself this question: why do I want to create a blog<\/strong><\/em>? Good question isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

If you are creating a blog, it\u2019s because you want to share something<\/strong>: a particular clothing style, a good nose to find all the good plans on the internet, great taste for decoration, a certain vision on society, an abnormal living style, good cooking skills, a passion like sport or travelling \u2026 When you create a blog it means you think you can touch people with somethin<\/em>. If you managed to find what\u2019s giving you the will of creating a blog, then believe me, you have done 80\u00a0% of your work\u00a0!<\/p>\n

The problem these days is that the life of a blogger is a dream to a lot of people: free products, great salary, crazy trips,\u2026 This world inevitably attracts greedy people. Even if I know this advice won\u2019t be taken seriously by those people, do not create a blog hoping you\u2019ll fall under tons of gifts. It won\u2019t work if you\u2019re only doing it therefore. A blog that works is a blog created with passion.<\/p>\n

The blogs created by those greedy people usually don\u2019t last because partnerships and readers don\u2019t come along that quickly. I only started receiving partnership proposal after a year. I think that that desperate envy to receive gifts ruins the global image of blogs and makes us look ridiculous to a lot of brands and readers. I personally decided to handle things differently with partners this year, I will tell you more about It later.
\nAnyway, once you\u2019ve chosen a subject, buy yourself a pretty notebook you\u2019ll never leave again once your blog is created. You can write everything in it, to do lists, ideas, pieces of articles, words coming true your mind, titles for your next posts, your goals, your wishes, everything\u00a0!<\/p>\n

Name dilemma.<\/h2>\n

Well on this one I can\u2019t be of any good advice because of my crazy blog name (hum<\/del>). But as I told you I did this in five minutes and never thought I would have to share it to a lot of people. And you know wha<\/em>t? I do regret no having thought a little longer about my blog\u2019s name<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Obviously, as soon as you meet me, one of the first questions I get asked is \u00abwhy did you chose this name?\u00bb Well no, sorry, I don\u2019t have any crusty story behind it, I chose this name randomly. And of course, nobody pronounces it the right way and writing it is even worse. When people ask me what my blog\u2019s name is, I\u2019m embarrassed to say it because nobody ever understands it and I have to repeat it like 50 times (at least). But it\u2019s really impossible to change now because I am way too associated to this name. So I do not want you to live the same thing and that\u2019s why I am going to give you some tips to find the right nickname:<\/p>\n