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Could law school blogging embody essential entrepreneurism?

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November 27, 2015

Six years ago, Chiara Ferragni (@ChiaraFerragni) was an Italian law student posting avidly about her personal style. Receiving so much support she decided to start her own blog, The Blonde Salad. Now age 28, Ferragni runs two companies worth a total of $8 million, neither employing anyone over the age of 30.

Jennifer Wu, writing about Ferragni for UC-Davis’ California Aggie (@CaliforniaAggie), reports on this phenomena of blogging your way to a brand name and company founder.

Twenty years ago, a career in writing or media meant working for a newspaper, magazine or a TV or radio station. Basic blogging sites may have existed, but a person certainly couldn’t make a living through this medium.

Entirely different standards define today’s careers in media. Advances in blogging and social media have not only allowed individuals to differentiate themselves through online profiles and accounts, but also to create their own personal brands.

Today’s bloggers embody the essential innovative and entrepreneurial air of the Millennial Age.

As a law student, you need not have a perfect plan for a blog. How about just having the goal of inspiring creativity, sharing, or learning as was the case for Ferragni.

She told CBS News:

When I started […] I was doing it just to share […] because I love sharing my photos. My intention was to create something that people loved to look at, and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.

I feel right now we are in the best moment for the fashion industry for what I do. All the rules have changed so much, and so now there are no rules.

Wu shares that a 2014 Harvard Business School case study found Ferragni’s success came from her “ambition as an entrepreneur as well as her ability to relate to fans and consumers.” Others believed Ferragni was a success because jumped on blogging before others.

Who cares specifically what it was? Ambition, blogging based on a passion, relating to others, establishing trust, persistence, learning or sharing. The bottom line is that a new medium which didn’t exist ten years ago allows a student to create a broad reaching brand.

The opportunity for law students lies within blogging on area of the law you’d like to learn more about and could be passionate about. Un-blogged niches lie everywhere.

Don’t worry that you are “only a law student.” The power of blogging comes in sharing what you are learning and engaging those you are learning from on-line.

I’m with Wu, “Not only has blogging allowed the individual to develop their own voice, but it has created the opportunity to share their interests with others and make an incredible living as a result.”

Image courtesy of Flickr by Forsaken Fotos

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