Our up close and personal interview with the knowledgable blogger and jewelry influencer Becky Stone of Diamonds in the Library. Part One
What type of personality do you think is beneficial to become an influencer and blogger about jewelry?
I don’t think there’s just one kind of personality that makes success as a jewelry influencer more likely. It helps if you’re a stubborn perfectionist like me, because producing high quality content on a daily basis takes motivation, but beyond that I think all kinds of people can be successful bloggers.
One thing I will say: you have to have a thick skin to do this. When hundreds of thousands of people follow you, you hear hundreds of thousands of opinions about your work. People on the internet aren’t always nice, and you have to be able to shake that off over and over again to keep going.
Did you start your work knowing you wanted to blog, write and use social media? Or did your work begin some other way and morphed into your current role?
I actually became a jewelry blogger by accident. I’ve been a writer my whole life (I was first published in a magazine at the age of 14) but I never expected to go into social media.
Five years ago, I was managing a publication of banking regulations for the Federal government and the creative part of my soul was dying. I wanted a side project that I could get excited about, one that would help me remember that writing could be fun.
I’d already built a bit of a following on Pinterest, where I was tracking down and saving interesting jewelry online. I decided to branch out from there to an actual blog; I didn’t have any career aspirations in this direction at the time, I was just looking for a fun hobby. I loved it so much that I left my day job two years ago and I’m having the time of my life running Diamonds in the Library as a full time business.
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