383: Make a Full-Time Income Creating Recipes, Videos and Photography for Food Brands while Blogging with Sarah Holt
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English - February 09, 2023 09:00 - 27 minutes - 25.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 96 ratingsCareers Business Education Self-Improvement blogging education entrepreneurship foodblogger business career careers entrepreneur foodbloggers foodblogging Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In episode 383, Sarah Holt teaches us how to make a full-time income creating recipes, making videos and doing photography for food brands while blogging.
Sarah has been a food blogger for almost 3 years at Real Food with Sarah. After years of struggling with keyword research and SEO, she is excited to be close to reaching her goal of qualifying for Mediavine in the next few months. While Sarah’s blog is growing, she was successful in focusing a lot on freelance and sponsored brand work this year and has so far made 15x more than she made in 2021. Sarah only has a following of 2200 on Instagram so she’s showing it can be done. In this episode, you will learn how Sarah selects brands she wants to collaborate with, how she pitches them and tips for pricing yourself that will make you feel valued as a freelancer.
- Find a brand’s gaps when planning your pitch.
- Decide on the brand’s individual needs before working out pricing.
- What are red flags when it comes to pricing and when should you walk away?
- Should you let go of brand work that you don’t enjoy?
- Will brands work with you if you have a small following on Instagram?
- Follow up on any pitches you’ve sent.
- Don’t be scared to invest in your business.
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