Cool people and suggested items

Ah, summertime is here. I love the summer. Old school music. Long, warm, sunny days. Mimosas, Sangria, and Mojitos. And of course more FLOSS IN STYLE. Now I only need to be FLOSSin on a sandy beach in Cali and my life would be perfect.

So I want to spend some time talking about what’s next for FLOSS IN STYLE. Me, Dirty, and Fucasso have been hard at work making small but important improvements to the site. We’ve also been working with some wonderful people to spread the word to the world about the coolness that is FLOSS IN STYLE.

The three of us founders got together about a month ago now to talk about where we go next with FLOSS. We realized that we have all this cool technology, and FLOSS IN STYLE looks great, but we’re missing a key ingredient. We don’t have enough suggested items. As I mentioned in an earlier blog, we want to roughly double the number of suggested items we have over the next month or so. We also want to drastically increase the incoming rate of items.

Well we’ve started to put together the last pieces in the puzzle. We had to build some technology to help our Google rank. Dirty built that. We had to improve our suggested item click through rate, Dirty and I did that on a two-way collabo. We added branding and changes the picture sort order to favor suggested items. We needed a plan on how we were going to ramp suggested items. Fucasso took the lead on that front. And so it goes…

The last piece was getting the word out about the site. Well our site focuses on celebrity fashion and we figured it would be most loved by fashionistas that appreciate what we’re trying to do and would applaud our efforts.

Well we couldn’t have been prepared for the warm reception the online fashion and celebrity communities have given us. We already talked about the people over at Jen-Fan. Now let me tell you about some of the best fashion bloggers on the internet.

We’ve been in touch with Elle at KissMeStace (http://kissmestace.com/). She’s just a wonderful person, very kind and full of energy. We’re excited to see that she really loves our concept and is even helping suggest items! She is a true expert on celebrity fashion. Check out this Coach handbag post for Eva Longoria! http://www.flossinstyle.com/ShoppingMall/CelebShop.aspx?pictureID=510&sessionGuid=blog What a great find! I love this stuff!

We’ve met a lot of great people as we’ve been doing this, but I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Britanny over at The Fashion Musings of Brittany Ancell (http://fashion.typepad.com/). She’s another really cool and sincere individual. She’s written a post about FLOSS IN STYLE that all of you reading this blog would be interested in http://fashion.typepad.com/tfmoba/2005/05/speaking_of_fas.html. Along with KissMeStace, Brittany runs one of the best fashion blogs on the web.

On a side note, I guess blogs can only exist on the web…so the “on the web” part is meaningless. Let’s just say Brittany runs one of the best blogs out there.

There are a number of other great people that I can’t even go into detail about because of limited space, and I’m sure you’re already tired of reading this J. So here are the people I’d like to thank: Lera over at Fashion Addict Diary, Coolchiq, Erin from Jen-Fan and so many others.

It’s cool to see the community around FLOSS IN STYLE grow. Hopefully we have many more people to meet, and much more growth ahead of us.

Now that the pieces are falling in place, it’s time for us to make suggested items our clear #1 priority. Right now it’s kind of mixed in with the others.

I can’t wait to get the new content up. FLOSS IN STYLE is becoming more fun every day!!

keep flossin’
iji