Happy New Year! Hope you all had a great Christmas and welcomed the new year in style. It always takes a while to get back in to the swing of things in January doesn’t it? Hoping the first week back to normality goes well.
Towards the end of last year we asked for your feedback in our survey. We received a staggering response so thank you so much for taking the time to tell us what you thought about our little area of the internet. Overwhelmingly the feedback was positive (phew!) but there was also some very constructive criticism which has helped us shape the way Rock My Style will forge forward in 2016.
When we launched RMS (nearly two years ago) we were keen to cover a wide variety of subjects but this means unlike Rock My Wedding we haven’t carved out our niche. As you may remember we asked you your favourite categories and as a result we’re very pleased to let you know moving forward our focus will be predominately on your three favourite topics; interiors, beauty and fashion. This of course doesn’t mean we’ll be losing the travel, recipes, health, book reviews and general chit-chat but we’ll make sure you get a true dose of ‘style’ each week with some other lifestyle topics thrown in for good measure. We’ll also be joined by several guest bloggers so you benefit from a varied voice.
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With Lolly renovating her home, and James and I embarking on a big redecoration project we’ll be sharing lots of interior inspiration, ideas and before and afters. However it’s not just our own homes we want to share. We’re really pleased to announce the arrival of a submission platform where you can submit your own images to be considered for a home tour. We know this is one of our most popular features on Rock My Style but it’s not feasible to have Adam jetting all over the country snapping beautiful abodes, no matter how much cake we give him. If you have professionally shot images of your pad we’d love to take a peek.
On the beauty front we’re working through various tutorials and even considering vlogging. Our resident make-up junkie Charlotte will continue to take the lead with beauty posts but we recognise your wish for us to cover more looks for all skin and hair types. It’s high on our priority list to address this!
With our second birthday approaching we’ll also be looking to have a mini makeover too so look out for some changes to the site navigation categories and some subtle differences to our overall look.
We knew our capsule wardrobe posts were popular but we didn’t realise quite how much! Your feedback was to have more on this subject. As most of the team have adopted this approach we’ll be featuring more about our closets as well as our curated fashion picks from the high street.
Obviously we all have mortgages to pay so you’ll continue to see sponsored posts and affiliate links within posts but we will only ever partner with brands we feel are right for the brand and ones we heartily recommend.
For all of you who were fans of our maternity posts we created you a whole new blog. Rock My Family goes from strength-to-strength but we recognise you’d like a few maternity mentions over here too so we’ll endeavour to accommodate this.
Thank you once again for your ongoing feedback and support. You guys truly rock.
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{About You}
- Nearly three quarters of our readers sit in the 26-34 age range.
- Over three quarters are married, with 15% co-habiting
- An incredible 82% of you own your own home
- Over a quarter already have children and 10% are pregnant. (Congratulations!)
- Nearly half of you read every day. (Thank you!)
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Sounds great!
Thanks Kate – and happy new year!
Love the sound of all of these ideas! Especially all the home tours! x
This is going to sound really boring, but I love posts like this – a bit of housekeeping! I like getting updates on how the whole of your blogging empire is progressing and behind the scenes stuff too. Oh and the careers posts, those are really inspiring 🙂
Keep up the great work team, wishing you a fabulously successful 2016! x
Thanks Kitty, I am really interested to see what the response is from the community to the responses on the survey…if that makes sense! x
This all sounds super exciting! What interesting stats in terms of readers.
Very much looking forward to more interiors (am currently putting up my own gallery wall thanks to RMS inspo!) and beauty (these are probably my fave). On the capsule wardrobe point, I’d be really keen to hear if any of you guys have managed to incorporate more colour? I find that most of the ones I’ve seen tend to be mainly dark/neutral colours whereas I wear quite a lot of pinks/turquoise/bright colours which is putting me off.
Thanks for all the fab posts, guys and happy 2016.
Oh Kate, I hear you on the colour capsule front. I haven’t been successful yet but I think it can be done. Will make a note for a future post x
Yesssss to capsule wardrobing…and I am quite relieved to learn that it’s not just me that clicks on religiously everyday! #fangirl
Loving your work RMS x
Ahhhh Katie that’s so nice to hear. Thank you!! We’ll do our very best to satisfy your capsule wardrobing needs xx
2016 is going to be a good ‘un, I can feel it! I’m a big fan of the travel posts, especially long weekends in the UK, so I’m pleased to see they’ll be still making an appearance albeit not as frequently as the others. Tutorials and vlogging for beauty sounds great, I’m such a novice when it comes to make up. Random question – Is Miranda no longer part of the team? Haven’t seen a blog from her in a while. x
Hi Sian, we’ll try our best to keep up with the UK travel posts. They inspire me too!
Miranda took a step back from the blog in October and is currently making us all exceptionally envious with her instagram adventures in Goa x
Wow sounds like quite a lot is going to happen over here, so I’ll continue to visit daily! Thank you so much for your great RMEmpire, it is so interesting and offers such varied articles. Keep up the great work, we love you ^^
Aww thanks Anja. So lovely to hear x
Love the submission idea for our own homes, just need to get the bathroom finished now….
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Please keep the book club going!
We will Carolyn!
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