A Year Of Milk: 2016 Reflection
In just a few hours, we'll finally be out of 2016 and heading into 2017! I think everyone can agree that 2016 has been a testing year, but even with the extreme lows this year brought, we did have some good times. 2016 marks the first year that we've blogged (regularly) on Milk News! We've had so many good things come to us through this website so I've made a list of our top 5 highlights:
June 2016, we went on our first holiday together! We went to Paris for 3 days and went to the best place on earth, Disneyland! The trip didn't start off too well, we were stuck on the Eurostar for an extra 3 hours because of flooding but as a whole, it was honestly the perfect to celebrate finishing Uni! Paris was definitely one of the highlights of the year as we got to spend time without any uni stress and we got to experience Disneyland together!
The Blogger's Hangout was our very first blogger event so we were all really nervous about going. We were also kind of sad because Jasmine couldn't make it because of work and we wanted out first event to be al of us but as we had just started taking Milk more serious we thought we had to go. It was so much fun talking to brands and getting a feel for how the blogging industry worked. The only negatives I can think of about that day was not being able to really chat with other bloggers as the space was a bit cramped and being dismissed by one brand because we didn't have a massive following but we learnt a lot and we did have a good time!
The very first time a brand reached out to us and invited us to an event! This time we all got to attend and it was so nice to be able to chat with other bloggers who were just as nervous as we were and really network and talk about our work. Thanks again to My Favourite Sale for inviting us and to all the lovely bloggers we met especially Jenny at Jaffacat and Eboni at EboniIvory!
Probably my favourite event out of the ones we've been too, we had the most amazing time! We were invited by the London Graphic Centre to take part in a wrap battle (get it?) and not only did we get to wrap some presents for competition winners, we also got to hear about the launch of the LGC's new blog which you can check out here. It was the most fun evening, we got to meet other bloggers and have some (competitive) fun with them and it was so lovely meeting a company who were not only friendly but took the time out to get to know each of us as bloggers.
The last but probably the biggest highlight of the year, our blog stats! I know a blog's success isn't solely about stats but we've done so much better that we thought we would and I can't be prouder, we got over 7k blog views and we hit all our goals on our social media accounts!
Thank you to everyone who reads our posts, follows us on our twitter, instagram and pinterest accounts and have liked our FB page! Without saying to much, our goals for 2017 are for Milk News to become even bigger and better than we could have imagined, quality content as always, regular posts and getting to know more of the blogger community. We obviously have more specific goals but thats for us to know and you to see next year (have to avoid any evil eyes, js)! Happy New Year to you all and we hope 2017 has nothing but positive things for everyone!