A digital-style influencer herself, Amber Venz Box conceptualized and launched rewardStyle at the age of 23 as a solution to monetize her fashion blog, venzedits.com. Amber has worked on all sides of the fashion industry—as a shop girl, an editorial stylist, a fit model, a retail buyer, and a jewelry designer. Her intimate understanding of the fashion industry, along with first-hand experience as an influencer, has helped to fuel rewardStyle's global success and launch of their first book, LIKEtoKNOW.it: Stories from the Influencer Next Door. LIKEtoKNOW.it: Stories from the Influencer Next Door goes behind the screen with over 100 of the world's top global influencers sharing how they started their entrepreneurial businesses and achieved their path to influence. Curated by the Editors of LIKEtoKNOW.it, the book has something for everyone—the entrepreneur, the fashionista, the foodie, the stay-at-home mom, the beauty buff, the interior design guru, and so much more—encouraging readers to find their people and their influence.
"As we built rewardStyle over the last seven years, I have gotten to privilege to meet influencers from all over the world, in their hometowns, in their favorite restaurants and coffee shops and in their homes. What is striking about these influencers is that they are all normal people. They come from all types of cities and countries and family types and their ages are as varied as their professional backgrounds. In their online content, you only the finished product and with this book, you will read about nurses, parents, Chief Architects, and teachers, all of whom decided to embark on building a business of their own and what it took to get there. What these influencers have in common is that they are all entrepreneurs; they all had the guts to launch and the grit to keep going."—Amber Venz Box
For more on Amber, be sure to follow her on Instagram and don't forget to check out the LIKEtoKNOW.it app!
August 13, 2018
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What was the inspiration behind rewardStyle:
Amber
rewardStyle was built out of my own need. I launched a blog, Venzedits.com, in 2010 as a marketing tool for my offline business, personal shopping.
I quickly learned that my audience preferred to use my recommendations to shop online at their convenience, instead of booking and paying for time with me. I needed to be compensated for the sales I drove online and that was the impetus for rewardStyle.
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What do you love most about your work:
Amber
As a creative, I love that I get to spend so much of my day brainstorming big ideas and having a fantastic team in place to execute them. I also like being able to create a work environment that makes people excited, inspired, and comfortable. As an entrepreneur, you get to set culture in this way and that is an irreplaceable feeling.
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How has the world of influencer marketing changed throughout the year and how has it impacted your business:
Amber
As an influencer, you can create content with the phone that is already in your bag, attract an audience on a free publishing platforms that facilitate discovery and follower growth, and get paid for waking up every day and creating compelling content. These influencers now represent the majority of content consumed and they encourage shopping online, making it convenient and accessible for their audiences.
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Describe your typical work day:
Amber
I rarely have a typical day. I am either in the rewardStyle office taking meetings with the team or I’m traveling to one of our other 6 global offices or doing a speaking engagement. I never know where my day will take me.
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One piece of advice you would give your 18 year-old-self:
Amber
If I could give any piece of advice to my younger self, it would be to listen more than you speak.
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Your most treasured piece of clothing in your closet:
Amber
My husband has given me the most beautiful necklace and ring in honor of each of our children’s births with their names on them. They are my most cherished pieces and it helps that they go with every outfit.
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You decompress each day by:
Amber
Being home with the kids. Since Baxter and I work together, we make a conscious effort to leave work at the office and be present when we are with our children.
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Share your biggest guilty pleasure:
Amber
Nerd ropes and Diet Dr. Pepper! You’ll never catch me in a meeting without one or the other.
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What apps and gadgets can’t you live without:
Amber
I’m admittedly pretty addicted to my iPhone! I use it for everything, but my favorite apps are all about adding convenience to my life—
- LIKEtoKNOW.it app for shopping every aspect of my life, from maternity wear to kids and home
- Cherry Manicures for on call, at home nails
- Lyft for everytime I’m traveling.
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What’s next for rewardStyle and LIKEtoKnow.it:
Amber
Our goal is to continue to empower the world’s premium lifestyle influencers to achieve maximum economic success. This is the most rewarding part about what we are doing at rewardStyle—empowering thousands of content creators around the world to capitalize on their creative gifts by providing them with the technology, relationships and education to make money doing what they love.
For consumers, it is exciting to see the LIKEtoKNOW.it app grow and evolve to connect content and commerce cross-channel. They can curate content wherever it lives and shop it when they are ready. LIKEtoKNOW.it solves the problem of allowing consumers to shop inspiration in closed mobile social and the numbers tell us it is working and is the future.
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