What motivated you to move to New York? I was coming to New York pretty frequently working on project to project, I started to fall in love with the feeling of being in a big city environment. The endless opportunities and possibilities, combined with riding the train and hustling to the next meeting, I found that there was even more drive in me that I could employ outside of Florida. New York just felt like the next move I needed to make to expand my brand to the next level.
Recently, you revamped your online platform AshleyOutrageous. Did your move to New York influence the re-launch in any way? Thank you! The move certainly influenced my re-launch, being in a new city I wanted a new focus.
More original content, a cleaner and more sleek look, and a new forefront of my personal brand; Lifestyle blogging. I would love to actually, it just takes so. How did it come about? They are like family to me. When I met KDot, we were actually on iChat for our first interview together. He was super cool and chill, in his element at the studio with Dr. That relationship eventually grew to bring him to Revolution Live in Downtown Fort Lauderdale for his first headlining show in South Florida.
What's your secret to setting yourself apart from all bloggers? Just staying true to my brand, while not keeping myself in a bubble. Favorite restaurants in New York? I have so many! I also love going to Little MO in Brooklyn for their char-sui chicken rice bowl, yum! Prince St. Name three of your major influences and why.
Sophia Amoruso. Her story has inspired me since I first heard it. On top of running AshleyOutrageous. Read our interview with Ashley, who stopped by our booth during Afropunk to chat about how she got started, and how she overcomes her challenges as she builds her name and her brand in an industry she loves.
It takes a lot of hard work and determination but being my own boss allows me to do what I want and switch up things when I want. Ashley: Time management has been my biggest challenge. Sometimes I can get stuck on one project or something for so long that I forget I have other things to do.
Ashley: My Instagram is my biggest platform right now that drives traffic for me. But at first it was definitely Twitter, and still is Twitter for the most part. I hopped on Twitter in the early stages. I would reach out to artists that way, I would reach out to managers because at that time, no one was really on it. I made a lot of connections through Twitter which I still have. Everything I post on my website automatically goes to my Twitter.
Everything I share on Twitter I usually share on Instagram. Instagram I feel is more visual and a lot of people are into seeing something visually now. What the hell is that? At the time it was dctobc. So I would look at those, especially dctobc , shout out to Modi , and I really liked what they were talking about.
Did you see these new music videos? I was doing it with respect and linking it back to where I found it, and then I was documenting me and my friends on nights out. I was going to concerts since I was a kid so I always had a digital camera. So I shot with my digital camera everywhere and put it up on my blog and it was very much so personal, until when Twitter came along and I started using Twitter to reach out to people and people were sending me stuff asking if I wanted to premiere their songs.
I met other bloggers through Twitter like Modi from dctobc , he became like a mentor to me. At the time I was on blogspot and he geared me into getting a WordPress and it all went from there. I got into the rhythm of it and studying things on my own and just flourished. Yeah, that was like whaaaaaat? I was like no way! I started my blog in , October and throughout it was all personal. There were so many blogs out there.
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