Most of the middle and lower classes are going through tough financial times. I'm no different, and my blogging is especially no different.
What's worse is I've been as depressed as any unumployed person who feels no purpose. I've even been a bit worse than "woe is me" (Woe am I*
Thing is I'm no businesswoman. I have many talents, but CEO-ing is far from one of them.
Since I've been fashion blogging, I've disliked the domains I was using. Since I moved nearly the whole enchilada to pursedlips.net I've had the feeling that the assumption this was still a bag blog (and it does make sense, I know) was killing me/us.
We're broke, like I said. It can't get any worse (well, much worse, but I can be negative lately), so it can't hurt to try a revamp to refocus on what I've always been good at here, or mostly back at Kiss Me Stace. Writing about style "but" from my brain. (Sure, when that site started, it was fluff, but I didn't say the beginnign was good, anyway.) One part of the problem has been a definite lack of feeling focused on this site, partially due to an unfocused site name, even though I also wanted room to breathe and grow/change.
I have a solution. And so what if it sets the hits back? The cash is set back anyway, and hopefully a focused first impression will actually help retain real readers - which is what I want much more than hit numbers.
New domain: www. stylish with substance .com - is coming.
(New Facebook Page - please "like" us or re-like us there!)
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The technical details here on OnSugar blogging is kind of tough-fangled for me. So you might be reading this while things are not working properly or before the change has really begun. But it's coming.
And come back. Or stay. And come back again. I'm going to try to make this easy on readers.
And then I'm done with changes, but not with blogging. I think I'll be much happier typing away now. Phew!
I do feel good about this, and here are some reasons:
- The content has always matched this name. And my resessionista-ism of late has really put me into more of a substance (of many kinds) over quantity-of-clothes position, anyway.
- Plus, the use of the word "style" in the writing world is well-known to me. The punnage is not lost on me, it makes me giddy! I am quite stylish, or, grammatical. ;-)
- Besides, this is a name I can really take home to my (future) mother (in law). I know she'll like this better than purses. OK somewhat better. Those ladies are always tough to please.
- *Updated* It can make readers happy, too.
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*Links to Amazon associate link of the Grammar book, Woe Is I. [Clearly I believe the title is erroneous])
I don't want to drop Pursed Lips entirely though, even if it were to remain fairly stagnant for some time. (I have thoughts on hiring another blogger in the distant future). I know we've made a lot of changes this year, and a lot of direction turns since the summer began, probably. But in order to make things easy on myself and keep PL flowing more - I'm proposing another content direction move.
Ella M.
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