Mens Style Info Overload - Too Many Male Fashion Blogs - How To Find Good Style Websites
Hi.
Iím Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men Real Style.
Today, Iím going to be talking about ìHow to deal with information overload when youíre
learning about style from the web.î Okay, if you havenít already, please subscribe
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Okay so this is the question that came in.
ìHey, Antonio.
Iím an 18 year old guy living in Brooklyn, New York.
All my life Iíve been wearing clothes that either donít match, donít fit well, well,
they just donít look good.
In high school, this wasnít a problem because everybody dressed bad however, now that Iím
emerged into the real world; Iíve run into the problem of, well, I just donít look sharp.
Iíve tried looking at Men Style websites and blogs but they donít seem to help me
because thereís information everywhere.
Thereís just too much of it.
Everybody has their opinions on how they should look so basically, I need help organizing
this information.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you, Dimitri.î
Okay, Dimitri, let me go ahead and say, youíre exactly right.
I look out there on the web and it used to be, I think when Ask Andy started his forum
about 10 years ago, there really wasnít much out there.
10 years later, the year 2011, now going into 2012, there is almost too much out there and
there is a lot of crap out there on the web and youíre exactly right.
A lot of them are opinions.
One of the reasons I started Real Men Real Style is I wanted to give people kind of a
more authoritative, bit of a source of information coming from a custom clothier guy that deals
with his dress literally thousands of men.
I felt I could give a more authoritative but at the same time, I think it comes down to
you need to find people that you relate with.
Now, you said youíre in Brooklyn, New York so I would think youíre going want to focus
on bloggers who focus on big cities because if you focus on small town bloggers or people
maybe that are in areas that arenít really as relative to New York, itís going to be
hard.
So look maybe at Chicago that would be a great city to look for a blogger but maybe somebody
down in Darwin, Australia.
Well, probably not going to be the kind of style youíre looking for or somebody over
in Japan.
The Japanese, amazing people, and their style is, well actually their fashion is very forward
and it may not be what you want to be wearing.
Also be looking for somebody that matches you when it comes to your personal taste so
perhaps youíve got, from your name, it seemed like maybe you got a Russian or Ukrainian
background.
In that case, if youíre Slovak, you want to maybe try to find a blogger who resonates
with you and with everything that you would see in with a kind of ñ just people that
you hang out with.
Be looking for that but here are the quick tips I put together for you.
One of them is understand that you donít have to go out there looking for all the information.
A great way to absorb a lot of information is have it come to you so look at RSS and
have that come right to your homepage and you can choose which blogs youíre receiving
content from.
That way, you donít have to actually go to the blog unless you see a title that you really
like.
Another way is subscribe up to email lists.
Iíve got a great email list.
Every week, Iím sending out helpful tips.
Occasionally Iím selling or promoting some of companies I support but in any case, I
stay in touch with a lot of people via email.
Another way is Twitter.
I donít know if youíre on Twitter but thereís a lot of people that you can follow their
tweets and thatís a great way to get a good summary of what you want to see.
Facebook, oh thereís a mosquito.
Iím outside if you canít tell but another great way is Facebook so you can follow somebody
on Facebook and you can see whatís going on via Facebook.
So really find a way that you want to absorb the content and go with that.
After that, you want to maybe look for smaller bloggers.
Look for somebody that not only can you connect with but will actually respond when you send
an email.
So if you go over to that guy, the sartorialist, youíre going to find that he just doesnít
respond to emails anymore because he literally gets probably a thousand a day.
Now, Iím not up at that level but I can tell you that I get dozens of emails every single
day and itís hard for me to respond to people.
Iím able to get back to you via video but Iím finding that this is almost becoming
overwhelming so my advice would be to look for somebody that you respect, thatís a bit
smaller, doesnít think heís getting a lot of traffic or people arenít leaving a lot
of comments and go and talk to this guy.
Engage with him and youíll find that youíre going to get a lot more value working with
a small guy than working with somebody huge.
I also write over the Art of Manliness and itís really hard for Brett and Kate to get
a hold of me.
When you put out a single post and you get hundreds of comments, itís just hard to respond
to that.
And finally, look at some of the blogs that you really enjoy and look over on the side
and see who they are linking to.
Who do they recommend?
So thatís a really quick way instead of you going out there and searching with Google
or some of the other search engines.
For you to actually just see who the people you trust are recommending.
All right Dimitri, I hope that helped and just to let you know, I am going to be putting
out a course which is going to address this problem of analysis paralysis.
Itís going to be called ìThe Style System.î Look for it.
Itís going to be coming out here probably at the end of November and I donít know,
maybe thatíll be something thatíll be able to help.
Take care and Iíll see you in the next video.
Bye-bye.