Dear Pennies & Pens,
Not many people know this because I’m not one to toot my own horn or brag about myself but I have been blogging for seven years now. I started with the now defunct blog, The Loudest Pen Ever in 2008. The Loudest Pen Ever was about 80s & 90s Hip-hop and R&B.
In 2010, I decided to focus on blogging about fashion and so I started de la Pen. At the time, I was still living in New York so there was always something going on. I covered exclusive events like New York Fashion Week and I was the first and only blogger invited to attend and cover the Couture Council Luncheon Honoring Valentino. That same year, I was sponsored to attend and cover Style.uz Art Week in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Central Asia).
Upon returning, I met my fabulous business partner, Cacha` Lopez and together we co-founded The Network. The Network is a multicultural creative agency dedicated to bringing the flavor by promoting diversity. We offer marketing, public relations, event production, branding, management, creative direction, and styling. The Network works with fashion, beauty, music, art, travel, and lifestyle brands.
This past April, we hosted Flavor’s Night Out — an event to celebrate diversity by showcasing art and fashion by multicultural artists. Flavor’s Night Out guests were able to see an exclusive preview of Jewels by Cacha` — an online accessories boutique that offers simplicity at its best and #MakeUrPenLOUD: How To Be A Lifestyle Blogger — the first book dedicated to teaching people how to be lifestyle bloggers.
As you can see, I have a lot going on. I have so many different brands and projects that I am working on. I have my personal brand LoudPen, my Tumblr #TheBloggingPRGirl which is a brand that I’d like to develop more, not to mention I have my book #MakeUrPenLOUD, and this online magazine de la Pen…All Pen Everything.
Additionally, I have so many other things I would like to do in the future as well. Having said that, when I started writing #MakeUrPenLOUD, I knew I needed to get focused and centralize my brands and projects. Therefore, I decided to build and launch The InkSpot.
The InkSpot is an international, multicultural lifestyle publishing, production, and design company. The InkSpot produces and publishes original content to entertain, educate, and inspire. We are dedicated to promoting diversity, staying positive, and keeping it real. Our content is created to provide value and enhance the lives of those who engage with it.
The InkSpot is dedicated to empowering the multicultural consumer with original content. Our audience consists of unique individuals who are intelligent, cultured, explorers with big dreams. As creative, knowledge seekers, our audience is always looking for inspiration and motivation. Therefore, we produce and publish original content that will captivate them.
The InkSpot designs modern, chic products to give customers the opportunity to express themselves and showcase who they are. The InkSpot is committed to launching products that enhance the lives of its customers. The InkSpot creates products that exude originality, style, and culture.
We design cutting edge products that allow our customers to express themselves. We know that our customers define themselves based on their ability to showcase their creativity through the clothes they wear, the art they hang on their walls, and the music that bumps through their speakers. Therefore, we create products that allow our customers to express their creative side.
Our customers are fun, free-spirited individuals and we want to give them everything they are looking for and so much more. We are committed to being accessible and relatable to our customers.
We are a multifaceted company created to innovate at all times. At The InkSpot, each project is different, but there is one common factor: they all start with an idea, pen, and paper. The InkSpot is our place to innovate, entertain, and inspire. We make the page come to life!
With that said, make sure you check out The InkSpot. We have so many awesome things happening and I am so excited about the new company! Currently, I am focusing on growing The InkSpot and The Network. Stay tuned as I build my empire like Jay Z and Oprah.
And there it is. de la Pen…All Pen Everything. With us, keeping it real never goes wrong.
