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4. Fashion Bloggers: Temperament and Characteristics

verfasst von : Gordon Bowen, Deidre Bowen

Erschienen in: The Art of Digital Marketing for Fashion and Luxury Brands

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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The aim of the chapter is to understand the persona and characteristics of fashion bloggers and how they differentiate themselves from other bloggers. Promoting fashion products differs from promoting other products that are functional and tangible. Fashion bloggers require abstract and innovative ideas to catch their audiences’ attention to build a fruitful relationship. The success of fashion bloggers depends on whether they can become influential bloggers in the fashion blogosphere. Influential bloggers must deploy social and individual capital to build networks that enable them to change and evolve the content on their fashion blog. Building cross-social media networks in collaboration with other fashion bloggers is an important mechanism for them to become influential fashion bloggers. Failure to maintain and build their network will cause them to decouple from their followers and become lower in the social media rankings (e.g., Instagram). Influential fashion bloggers must continue to differentiate themselves in the online environment and this is achieved by creating personal and original content that draws on their social capital, which energises their audience to engage.

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Titel: Fashion Bloggers: Temperament and Characteristics
verfasst von: Gordon Bowen
Deidre Bowen
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: The Art of Digital Marketing for Fashion and Luxury Brands
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-70323-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-70324-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70324-0_4