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By BLOGGER VISHWA BHAVSAR BLOG NAME: A CUP OF VISH To all the people working in the socially accepted 9 to 5 jobs or any other profes- sion, Blogging is a past time for girls & (now) guys who are clueless about their career or are just lazy to work. To them, a person who is good looking has enough money, & can only think of shopping is a Fashion Blogger. Just like any other dis- cipline, profession or even caste & looks are stereotyped, Fashion Bloggers are ste- reotyped this way & judged to the core. There is no basic understanding as to what exactly bloggers do & why. Let me just start by saying this loud & clear – FASHION BLOGGING (or any oth- er blogging field for that matter) IS A FULL-TIME PROFESSION & NOT JUST GIRLS & GUYS POSTING EVERYWHERE WEARING BRANDED CLOTHING. It is disappointing to see where tv commercials, print media promotions & celebri- ty promotions are accepted to an extent in the society, but blogging which is more or less the same to all these kinds of promotions are judged. Blogging is just another way for brands & labels to promote themselves on the dig- ital front & reaching a mass audience through the internet. It’s 2017 & from the youngest kid in your family to your 60-year-old uncle & maybe also your grand- parents are on the internet. It’s challenging for the fashion brands to reach to their target audience but through blogger, they can easily see their products promoted to a huge number of audience through their followers. Almost all bloggers are influ- encers but not all influencers are bloggers, & the brands want to use their influence for their product promotions. SO HERE IS WHAT WE BLOGGERS ACTUALLY DO : Well, It’s not really easy to be a Fashion Blogger. We bloggers are one woman/man army because we are the Model, Stylist, Art Director, Photographer & Videogra- pher (sometimes), Editor, Writer, Marketing Team, Makeup Artist, Social Media Coordinator, PR, Accountant & the list can go on & on. Which field has got these many roles for one single person? It is important to create regular content in order to be a good blogger & also collaborate with brands & label. We have to keep an eye on the zillion number of brands & labels popping each day & deciding how cre- atively this can be portrayed to the followers in order to trigger sales.