2018 – A Year to Be Thankful

They say time flies when you’re having fun. Well whoever “they” are, hit that on the head. 2018 has come to a close, and that’s alright by us! This year has been an amazing year of new opportunities and firsts for us, and we wanted to spend a little time reflecting.

We started The Real Tall officially in 2018. As we’ve referenced before, we have sat on this idea for a couple of YEARS, before bringing it to fruition. That was truly a proud moment. Even if nothing ever came of it, knowing that we put ourselves out there is a win! Our first Instagram post was on February 28th! We hit publish on our first blog post on April 2nd. Since then we’ve shared 84 posts with you!

Highlights

Some of the biggest highlights of our year were working with brands we’d only dreamed of collaborating with! Long Tall Sally was definitely an unexpected dream that we couldn’t believe. We still pinch ourselves about it! We are super excited to share more small business tall brands with you this year, and we won’t make you wait long!

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On a different note: hearing from any of you on struggles you may have overcome, how we have helped you gain confidence, come out of your shell or any way, is one of the biggest highlights we could ever ask for. That is solely why we are here. We love that we have a community that feels comfortable sharing these things with us.

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Improvements

On the flip side, we definitely had some struggles this year as well. Caitlin and I are both pretty busy, whether it be extra jobs or extracurricular activities. We are constantly coordinating our schedules to meet up and shoot content. This meant an evolution of what our vision was, for both our Instagram and blog together. If you’ll peek back into the archives, you’ll notice we did a lot more coordinated looks as well. We had a lot of fun with that and we loved it, but it wasn’t always conducive to what we were each buying. Plus it meant taking up more of someone else’s time to have them take our pictures.

With the schedule struggles came consistency issues. We hope to improve on this for 2019, so y’all know when you can expect content from us! As always, we’re looking for feedback on what you’re looking for from us, so we can help you out in the best way we know!

Goals

We’re constantly looking ahead to what value we can bring to the table. The top goal for 2019 is growth, and not in the numbers sense. We’re looking to improve ourselves within the scope of posting consistently and bringing quality content to the table. Dependability is a good alternate title, although not particularly sexy! We hope to launch a couple of smaller series that will be posted regularly.

Another we mentioned above, is sharing more tall retailers with you. We have been introduced to a couple of new brands that we can’t wait to share! Our eyes are definitely on some pieces from brands we already know, but haven’t prioritized yet. Always, the goal is to remain true to bringing you budget friendly tall items or tall friendly items, to make your shopping experience as positive as possible.

Thank yous!

We’d certainly be remiss if we didn’t take a moment to say thank you. We’re so grateful for you, our readers! Whoever you are, we hope you’re getting value out of what we share with you. Special thank yous to Sarah, and to Tim. Both of them have spent many of their own hours helping us with pictures, and we couldn’t have done it without you! Thanks as well to Sophia who has provided valuable insights and feedback to us. We appreciate the love and support from our parents, our Aunts, and the rest of our extended family and friends. And one last big thank you to our group of tall ladies we have become intertwined with. Your knowledge, support, suggestions, corrections, etc. have been invaluable to us as we started this journey. We love you all!

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We would love and so greatly appreciate if you would leave a comment, DM, or email on how you think we are doing, suggestions you have, ideas for content you may want to see in 2019 or anything else you may want to share. Thanks for being here with us!

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