A Beautiful Mess is a lifestyle/ D.I.Y/ fashion blog geared towards women, a blog that I used to follow frequently for approximately a year. During this year, I have realized that their blog became a business enterprise, whereas it started off as a mere personal account of the writers’ lives and interests.  As an avid reader, I started to notice that more and more blog posts were sponsored. I understood that a method (maybe the only method) to make blogging a full time job is to use sponsors in their blog posts and advertise on their side banners.

This blog post encapsulates the rising industry of blogging and explicitly states that it is just like every other goods/ service industries. Her explanation of the industry is highly significant because she was able to make a career out of blogging very organically. She stuck with her original mission of sharing creative projects with her readers but smartly incorporated sponsored posts to her major body of work (Larson). As an ex-reader, I can say that I supported her other business ventures and I remember not feeling like I was exploited and capitalized off of as a consumer of her service. Thus, the tips and advices she includes in the above blog post is very important to the up-and-coming industry of blogging, that will likely expand and evolve to be something much more significant.

Works Cited List 

Larson, Elsie, “On Young Industries (Part1): Blogging.” A Beautiful Mess. Mar. 19, 2014. Nov. 5, 2014                                   ( http://www.abeautifulmess.com/2014/03/on-young-industries.html).