Considering we live in an age where bloggers are sitting front row at Fashion Week, it’s not shocking that more and more women wondering how to start a blog of their own. Course, how to become successful and how to actually make money blogging is its own beast—it’s easy to write about shoes and skirts, but when it comes to the technical stuff it takes serious smarts—but you have to start somewhere.

If you’ve ever considered starting your own fashion blog, you’ve probably considered the following question: How can I make blogging my full-time job, and make money in the process? It’s one thing to have a personal style blog—pretty much everybody and their mom has one, since most platforms are free to start and easy to use—but it’s quite another to take that platform and make it something that nets you actual income.