Rejection and lack of collabs

I have been part of the influencing game for nearly 8 months now and I have learned so much from it. The challenges that are faced as a fashion influencer are full of rejection. As with every interview you go to you may not get it as you may not be the right fit. Same with being a fashion influencer. You apply to companies but most of the time they reject you without even answering you back its like they are laughing at you saying who is this one asking for free stuff when she has no followers. You confidence can be knocked but its all about dusting yourself off and keep going. Once the first company says yes to you and you get your first gig its smooth sailing from there.

The same can even to said for the followers on your instagram. Because of todays society I have learned that people are quite fickle and only follow so you follow back if you dont they unfollow within days. Bots and follow for follow groups can make your followers really unorganic and allow you to have an unengaged audience. This also stops companies from wanting to do collaborations with you as they all have systems to test this allowing companies to weed out the good influencers from the not so good ones. I for one did this when I was starting off and it has taken me many months to get rid of these unorganic followers who never engage with my photos. Sometimes it is better to have a smaller following with more people interacting than loads of ghost followers who never engage. By blocking or deleting these ghost followers will it allow for your instagram page to have a better and more organic following.

The job of an influencer is to sell clothes to their followers and without a following it proves very difficult. Bots or ghost followers stop this from happening and this is so difficult to come back from. My advise to everyone is to not engage with this. It does so much more harm then good especially when you lose bags of followers at once. This can have you questioning your self worth which is not worth it in the long run. Keep putting up great photos and keep engaging with others and the followers will come in time.

Confidence is the key and believing in yourself no matter what comes your way will the key to all success in the future no matter if it is influencing or any other career you put your mind it. Its all about self confidence and believing in your own self worth.