Eat Blog Talk
560 episodes - English - Latest episode: 18 days ago - ★★★★★ - 96 ratingsEat Blog Talk is the one-stop podcast for food bloggers, delivering value and instilling confidence so you can level up in your business. The podcast features interviews with food bloggers and other experts who deliver valuable and relevant information and insights to the blogging space.
We cover all the hot food blogging topics such as SEO, social media strategies, keyword research, how to pitch yourself to brands and which keyword research tools to use. We also focus on improving your mindset, as this will help improve your job performance, creativity, productivity and add value to your business.
Eat Blog Talk publishes new episodes every Monday and Thursday.
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472: 10-Step Formula For How To Achieve Any Goal with Cliff Ravenscraft
December 18, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBIn episode 472, Cliff Ravenscraft teaches us his 10-step formula for how to achieve any goal. Cliff Ravenscraft a Master Business Coach, Mentor & Speaker. His focus is to help you break free from any beliefs and/or behaviors that are holding you back from living the life of your dreams and doing the work you feel most called to do in this world. In this episode, you’ll learn why goal-setting is important for food bloggers and how to overcome limiting beliefs that are holding you back fr...
471: My Video Strategy to Create Highly Engaging Content for Fast Growth on Instagram (+Avoid These Mistakes) with Liz Douglas
December 14, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBIn episode 471, Megan chats to Liz Douglas about her short-form video strategy that helped her grow her Instagram account to over 200k followers. Elizabeth is a food buyer and product developer turned plant-based foodie influencer at Glow Diaries. Elizabeth chose the vegan path in 2019 and it sparked a love of exploratory cooking. She then started an Instagram page not long after but didn't see much growth until she began consistently posting reels in late 2021. Elizabeth’s account grew fr...
470: How to Keep Going Despite Setbacks - Define Your 'Why' with Anja Eckert
December 11, 2023 08:30 - 40 minutes - 38.1 MBIn episode 470, Anja Eckert teaches us how to keep going despite setbacks caused by major changes in the blogging industry or in our personal lives. Anja’s been a food and lifestyle blogger since 2018. What first started as a pet project, turned into an almost full-time job after a severe knee injury that prevented her from continuing on as Yoga teacher. In March 2020, Anja was at almost 25k sessions when MediaVine raised their requirement to 50k. It took her another setback and 3 years to...
469: How to Plan and Execute a Schedule and Content Calendar to Take Extended Time Off with Callan Wenner
December 07, 2023 08:30 - 39 minutes - 36.8 MBIn episode 469, Megan chats to Callan Wenner about how she planned and executed a schedule and content calendar so that she could take 4 months off for maternity leave. Callan started her food blog, The Cozy Plum, in spring 2020 with a focus on elevating classic baked goods and savory appetizers and small bites. After quickly honing in on her photography and videography skills, as well as thorough recipe development techniques, she was able to quit her corporate job after a year and a half...
468: A Hyper-Niche Blog is More Valuable Than You Think (+How to Make an Income From it) with Emily Rhodes
December 04, 2023 08:30 - 43 minutes - 40.7 MBIn episode 468, Emily Rhodes teaches us the value of a hyper-niche blog and how to make an income from it. Emily started Steam & Bake a little over 10 years ago. Emily is now a journalist and nutritionist, but at that time, she was a home economist and demonstrator for a global appliances manufacturer. Clients kept complaining about the lack of steam oven recipes and resources after they'd bought these fancy new ovens. After a couple of years in the job, Emily realized no one was coming to...
467: Free Resources Will Only Get You So Far - The Importance of Investing in Your Business with Briana DeBolt & Chamere Orr
November 30, 2023 08:30 - 43 minutes - 40.6 MBIn episode 467, Megan chats to Briana DeBolt and Chamere Orr about the importance of investing in our businesses instead of relying on free resources to make progress. Briana and Chamere of A Full Living are the husband and wife team behind the website! They have been blogging (a bit aimlessly at first) since 2016, and in the past 3 years, have really dug into strategizing to the next level by improving on their photography, SEO knowledge, and hiring contractors to help them manage the day...
466: How to Take Care of Yourself - Holistic Self-Care Practices For Stressed-Out Food Bloggers with Mary Ellen Valverde
November 27, 2023 08:30 - 45 minutes - 43.1 MBIn episode 466, Mary Ellen Valverde teaches us how to nourish our bodies and look after ourselves so that we can handle stress and avoid burnout. Mary Ellen Valverde MS, CNS, LDN is a Licensed Nutritionist & Holistic Nourishment Coach who guides women to feel clear and confident about what is uniquely nourishing to them. She works with busy women who are frustrated and confused about wellness and helps them reframe their beliefs around food and movement, their inner wisdom, and their full ...
465: What You Need to Know About Filming Recipes with Liz Capozzoli
November 23, 2023 08:30 - 40 minutes - 37.7 MBIn episode 465, Megan chats to Liz Capozzoli about how to easily incorporate filming recipes into our business strategy. Liz is the creator behind OwlbBaking ("I'll be baking") which is a recipe blog focused on classic homemade desserts and sweet treats. Liz has been blogging as a business since 2019 and she also did recipe development, photography and video for Mashed.com, Tastingtable.com, and has created videos for other food bloggers. Liz runs a cookie decorating online course and also...
464: Should You Buy a Second Blog (+How to Get On to An Ad Network) with Liz Thomson
November 20, 2023 08:30 - 42 minutes - 39.7 MBIn episode 464, Liz Thomson teaches us what to expect if we buy a second blog and how to get on to a premium ad network quickly. Liz Thomson is a full-time content creator who has been running the blog I Heart Vegetables since 2010. She loves chatting about influencer marketing, food photography, and why everyone needs an air fryer. In this episode, you’ll learn if buying a second blog is right for you, what are the challenges and what does the process look like and to get on to an ad netw...
463: The Amazon Influencer Program Can be a Great Side Hustle to Help Fuel Your Blogging Business with Sonila Zarate
November 16, 2023 08:30 - 47 minutes - 44.5 MBIn episode 463, Megan chats to Sonila Zarate about how food bloggers can make extra revenue through the Amazon Influencer Program. Sonila is a mom, wife, engineer and food blogger. Sonila was born in Albania and came to the US to study engineering. She met her husband (who was born in Bolivia) while studying at University of Miami. Her everyday cooking is influenced by both Albanian and Bolivian cuisines as well as the fusion of Miami's food scene. In this episode, you’ll learn how to ap...
462: How To Be A Food Blogger With A Baby At Home with Christine McMichael
November 13, 2023 08:30 - 32 minutes - 31.1 MBIn episode 462, Christine McMichael teaches us how to balance being a blogger with taking care of our families without getting stuck in burnout. Christine is the recipe creator and food blogger at Jar of Lemons. Jar of Lemons is a healthy recipe website focused on easy-to-find ingredients that are flavorful and creative. From comforting dinners that can be made in 30 minutes or less, to healthier takes on classic favorites, Jar Of Lemons is here to help with inspired recipes and a refreshi...
461: A Post Update Strategy that Will Double Your Google Traffic with Brandon Gaille
November 09, 2023 08:30 - 41 minutes - 39.1 MBIn episode 461, Megan chats to Brandon Gaille about why food bloggers should regularly update old content and how to do it so that you increase your Google traffic. Brandon Gaille is an entrepreneur who founded multiple 7 figure businesses in his 20s before becoming disabled by a rare disorder for nearly a decade. He eventually regained his health and started a blog. He grew his blog to over 1 million visitors in just 18 months after his first blog post. Today, he gets 5 million monthly vi...
460: Pinterest is the Best Way to Drive Traffic to Your Blog (+Latest Pinterest Strategies) with Laura Rike
November 06, 2023 07:30 - 53 minutes - 49.9 MBIn episode 460, Laura Rike teaches us the latest Pinterest strategies for food bloggers to help us grow and monetize our blogs. Laura Rike is a Pinterest Strategist who helps high-performing business owners implement content growth plans, outsource their visibility and steadily grow their monthly revenue through her signature growth to greatness framework with done for you services and course packages. She has helped clients and students bring in over 50k+ in monthly revenue. Her clients h...
459: Easy Mindset Hacks to Reach Your Goals While Maintaining a Healthy Work-Life Balance with Allison Ferraro
November 02, 2023 07:30 - 37 minutes - 35.7 MBIn episode 459, Allison Ferraro teaches us the importance of not making excuses when it comes to reaching our goals, and other easy mindset hacks to grow our blogs while keeping a healthy work-life balance. Allison is the recipe developer and food photographer behind the baking blog, Always Eat Dessert. What began as a fun hobby back in 2014 while she pursued a career in advertising became a much-needed creative outlet when she left her job to be a stay at home mom and is now a full-fledge...
BONUS: Advanced Food Bloggers Falling Through The Cracks (+How to Access the Info We Actually Need) with Melissa Erdelac
October 31, 2023 07:30 - 30 minutes - 29.3 MBIn this bonus episode, Megan chats to Melissa Erdelac about why advanced food bloggers are falling through the cracks and how to access the info we actually need. In particular, they explain how their new initiative, The Flavor Media Summit, can help. It is a two day workshop-style event taking place May, 2nd and 3rd of 2024 in Denver. Their goal is to ensure that attendees actually walk away with a TON of value information. Given that food blogging has made quite the transformation over...
458: How to Use Substack to Monetize Your Recipes with Laura Scherb
October 30, 2023 07:30 - 35 minutes - 33.6 MBIn episode 458, Megan chats to Laura Scherb about how Substack can be used as a replacement for a blog to monetize our recipes or as an additional tool to drive traffic. Laura is a food photographer, stylist, and writer based in Chicago, IL. Since 2017, she’s been taking pictures of food. Laura has created imagery for food blogs, restaurants, CPG brands, and cookbooks. Laura’s photography and styling have been featured on The FeedFeed, The TODAY Show, Esquire, The Spruce Eats, Eater, and F...
457: Why I Sold My Bakery to Become a Food Blogger (+How to Deal with a Sudden Drop in Traffic) with Andrea Mut
October 26, 2023 07:30 - 50 minutes - 70.7 MBIn episode 457, Andrea Mut explains why she sold her bakery to become a food blogger and how to deal with being overwhelmed as we manage Google updates and other unexpected factors that affect our blog’s traffic. Andrea's culinary journey began at age 14 when she worked in her grandparents' three restaurants. She later received formal Chef's training, and later specialized in Baking & Pastry Arts. Throughout her career, Andrea gained experience in various restaurants and bakeries, as well ...
456: Why is a Contextual and Seamless Shopping Experience Important to Monetize Your Blog? with Nick Minnick
October 23, 2023 07:30 - 43 minutes - 41 MBIn episode 456, Megan chats to Nick Minnick about how Chicory’s seamless, contextual shopping experience can help new and veteran bloggers monetize their blogs. As the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Chicory, the leading contextual commerce advertising platform, Nick Minnick strategically builds, fosters, and oversees relationships with key recipe publishers, grocery retailers, and retail media networks. His purview spans 5,200+ recipe sites, including the Food Network, Delish,...
455: The Unexpected Benefits of Seasonal Eating and How to Find Your Niche in Food Blogging with Alessandra Macaluso
October 19, 2023 07:30 - 41 minutes - 39.2 MBIn episode 455, Megan chats to Alessandra Macaluso about following our intuition and why she chose her niche of seasonal eating and the impact it has had on her blog and life. Alessandra Macaluso is the author of What a Good Eater!, Lucy the Bee and the Healing Honey, and The Real-Deal Bridal Bible. She’s also a Qigong and Tai Chi instructor, and overall wellness advocate. Her work has been featured in several anthologies which can all be found on her Amazon author page, and she has contr...
454: The Best Planning Strategies to Manage a Full-Time Job and a Successful Food Blog with Brooke Burks
October 16, 2023 07:30 - 47 minutes - 44.8 MBIn episode 454, Brooke Burks teaches us tangible strategies to manage a full-time job while growing a successful blog. Brooke Burks is the owner and head dishwasher at TheButteredHome.com. She started her blog in 2018 at the urging of a friend. In the last 5 years, she has juggled this HUGE learning curve all while working full time, being a mother to two girls and now a grandmother to a new grandson. She is an expert in consistency and planning for steady growth all while managing another...
453: How to Recognize and Deal with Burnout - Manage Your Time and Priorities with Danielle Wolter
October 12, 2023 07:30 - 35 minutes - 33.8 MBIn episode 453, Megan chats to Danielle Wolter about how to recognize and deal with burnout by learning how to manage your time and priorities. Danielle has been a food blogger for almost 7 years at Went Here 8 This. She spent the first 2.5 years struggling not knowing anything about blogging. Then Danielle dove into learning about keyword research and grew her blog to about 175K visitors/month (currently) while starting and growing 2 other businesses and working full-time. The blog focuse...
452: Improve the Quality And Quantity Of Your Work AND Feel Better By Changing Your Perspective with Megan Johnson
October 09, 2023 07:30 - 34 minutes - 32.2 MBIn episode 452, Megan Johnson teaches us about the importance of mindset in the growth and success of our blogs and businesses. Megan took a big leap in 2021 and quit her job to become a full-time food blogger. Megan was super optimistic and excited, but then, in her first year, she failed... hard. Megan realized she had the wrong strategy. On top of that, when she didn't see success, she took that very personally. Megan has made it a priority in 2023 to fix her mindset and start pushing t...
451: How to Make Recipes More Nutrient Dense - Tips From a Registered Dietitian with Wan Na Chun
October 05, 2023 07:30 - 49 minutes - 45.9 MBIn episode 451, Megan chats to Wan Na Chun about how we can develop more nutrient dense recipes, giving our readers healthier options without specific diet talk. Wan Na Chun is a registered dietitian and personal trainer. Her blog, One Pot Wellness, is focused on prioritizing self-care through nutrition, physical health, and mental health for the busy working professional. In this episode, you’ll learn more about adding nutrient dense ingredients to your recipes as well as other important ...
450: Creative Ways to Repurpose Content on Social Media (+What to Do if a Post Goes Viral?) with Rebecca Eisenberg
October 02, 2023 07:30 - 47 minutes - 44.8 MBIn episode 450, Rebecca Eisenberg teaches us practical and unique ways to repurpose our content on social media and on our blogs, including what to do if our content goes viral. Rebecca is a journalist turned food blogger who built a career at media and tech companies like Buzzfeed, Upworthy, Medium, and Headspace, before launching The Practical Kitchen in 2019. In 2020 she got her pastry certification at Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, graduating as valedictorian of her class. The Prac...
449: How to Transition From a Corporate 9-5 Job to Full-Time Blogger and Content Creator with Kayla Burton
September 28, 2023 07:30 - 32 minutes - 31 MBIn episode 449, Megan chats to Kayla Burton about the hurdles she had to overcome in order to become a full-time blogger, quitting her corporate 9-5 job, and ways in which we can make our own blogging journeys easier. Kayla founded the baking blog, Broken Oven Baking Company, in May 2020 after a few months of sharing baked treats on Instagram. She didn’t know much about blogging when she started, but she got eager to dive in and learn as much and as fast as she could. At the end of April 2...
448: Should You Give Up on Your Blog? Avoid Discouragement When You Face Blogging Challenges with Michelle Morey
September 25, 2023 08:00 - 41 minutes - 39.4 MBIn episode 448, Michelle Morey teaches us how to avoid getting discouraged while blogging, especially when we experience challenges like slow traffic or seeing other bloggers succeed faster. Born and raised as a Mainer, Michelle is a stay-at-home mom who started blogging right before the pandemic. She’s been working with food since graduating high school in 2004 and has successfully turned her love of food into a passionate business. Today, Michelle and her husband whom she met at the bake...
447: How to Find Low-Competition Keywords That Will Rank a Post Quickly Using the Keyword Golden Ratio (KGR) with Dalia Escobar
September 21, 2023 08:00 - 28 minutes - 26.7 MBIn episode 447, Dalia Escobar teaches us the Keyword Golden Ratio (KGR) method to find low-competition keywords that will increase our traffic by helping posts rank quickly. After bidding farewell to an engineering career, Dalia wholeheartedly embraced her blogging dreams and embarked on a new path. Cooking has always been a lifelong passion, which motivated her to open several restaurants, despite not achieving the financial success she had hoped for. However, this setback served as a cat...
446: How to Manage a Chronic Illness While Running Your Own Business From Home with Karin Collins
September 18, 2023 08:00 - 48 minutes - 45.3 MBIn episode 446, Megan chats to Karin Collins about dealing with a chronic condition while building a food blog and how we can do the same by overcoming our own challenges. Karin started her blog with a severe disability. Even though she has MS, she turned her blog into a success so she knows anyone can do it. Karin is a blogger as well as a social media manager for bloggers with over 2 million followers. She is proud to also run a video business as well that shoots food videos. Karin added...
445: Get Ready To Transform Your Business in 2024 with Megan Porta
September 14, 2023 08:00 - 50 minutes - 35.5 MBIn episode 445, Megan talks about how you can experience a transformation in your business in 2024 by joining the Eat Blog Talk mastermind experience. Inside the episode you will learn about: The definition of a successful mastermind group. How the EBT mastermind differs from other groups. Information about investment and discounts, including a value analysis. How to determine if you are a good fit for the group. Information about how to get started. Audio testimonials from prev...
444: Book TV Food Segments to Target New Audiences and Expand Your Brand with Jessie-Sierra Ross
September 11, 2023 08:00 - 44 minutes - 41.5 MBIn episode 444, Jessie-Sierra Ross teaches us how to book TV food segments and why this will help us grow our audience and expand our brand. Jessie-Sierra Ross is a former professional ballerina turned food blogger and home entertaining specialist. A self-taught cook and food stylist from Boston, Jessie is the personality behind her blog, Straight to the Hips, Baby. Known for her step-by-step recipes, easy elegance, and light and bright photography style. Working alongside her photographer...
443: Why Should I Hire a Food Copywriter for My Blog? (+ Tips to Start Your Food Writing Career) with Michelle Hauck
September 07, 2023 08:00 - 39 minutes - 36.9 MBIn episode 443, Megan chats to Michelle Hauck about copywriting for food bloggers, including how to become a copywriter and hiring tips if you’re looking to outsource your copywriting. Michelle is a copywriter for food bloggers so they can focus on their favorite part - creating, testing, and sharing their recipes. Michelle loves what she does because it helps overwhelmed foodies find joy in their business again. Many bloggers aren't aware that they can have someone write SEO packed and en...
442: Leverage Social Media to Springboard the Development of a Blog or Podcast with Geo Banks-Weston
September 04, 2023 08:00 - 30 minutes - 29 MBIn episode 442, Megan chats to Geo Banks-Weston about using social media, specifically Instagram, to springboard the development of a blog and/or podcast. Geo Banks-Weston is a food and culture blogger, influencer, and recipe developer based in Philadelphia. In 2014, he launched his blog, Geo's Table, where he shares recipes rooted in the African diaspora, as well as highlights black-owned businesses, and explores food's connection to Black culture. In 2019, he started his podcast, Table 8...
441: What is Supplier Diversity and How Does it Benefit Food Bloggers? with Rob Finkelstein
August 31, 2023 08:00 - 38 minutes - 36.4 MBIn episode 441, Rob Finkelstein teaches us about supplier diversity and its importance in the recipe development/food photography marketplace. Rob is a lawyer, practicing for over 20 years in NYC. In 2017, Rob decided to pursue his passion of baking and went to culinary school for pastry arts. After graduating, not wanting to leave the law, Rob started blogging and found Cinnamon Schtick, which was also his entry into food photography. He worked with a number of brands and came to represen...
440: Why Going Viral is Bad for Your Business and 6 Tips to Stay Motivated as You Grow Your Blog with Tara Smithson
August 28, 2023 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35.8 MBIn episode 440, Megan chats to Tara Smithson about why going viral is often bad for your business and 6 tips that will help you stay motivated as you set healthy, long-term goals. Tara enjoys creating quick and easy recipes for busy people, who love the flavor, but lack time. Tara’s intention is to make cooking less intimidating by sharing easy recipes that will begin to help people get inspired to cook delicious food. In this episode, you’ll find out why setting long-term goals instead of...
439: Be Open to Learning About What Goes Into a Successful Food Blog with Tammy Spencer
August 24, 2023 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35.9 MBIn episode 439, Tammy Spencer teaches us about being open to learn about all different aspects that go into successful food blogging. Tammy started Scotch & Scones in 2017 as a way to keep track of her whisky-tasting notes and share her experiences of having fun baking. In 2019, she devoted herself full-time to developing her site for commercial success, learning about the business of growing a blog from the ground up. Since then, she's applied her culinary school training by sharing recip...
438: How to Get Paid Brand Deals as a Small Creator with Breanna
August 21, 2023 08:00 - 38 minutes - 36.1 MBIn episode 438, Megan chats to Breanna about how to land paid brand deals as a small creator. Breanna started on Instagram in January 2023 and then followed with a food blog in February 2023. She always had a passion for writing and cooking but never thought that she would be able to do something like this. Breanna loves sharing easy meals that are family-friendly and perfect for those with busy schedules. She has been doing this full-time as of last month and wants to share how she was ab...
437: Help! My Blog Traffic Has Suddenly Dropped - Responding to Declining Website Traffic with Jessica Scully
August 17, 2023 08:00 - 35 minutes - 33.4 MBIn episode 437, Megan chats to Jessica Scully about dealing with the uphill battles in blogging, especially when you see a dramatic, instant drop in traffic. Jessica began her journey into food blogging after her family had a house fire and had to move out for 11 months. Blogging became a hobby to distract her mind that then grew into a business. A former gym owner, personal trainer, and homeschool mom to her 5-year-old, Jessica has been running the food blog since 2015 and has seen her fa...
436: A Sales Process that Converts 75% of Cold Pitches to Closed Opportunities with Candice Ward
August 14, 2023 08:00 - 52 minutes - 48.7 MBIn episode 436, Megan chats to Candice Ward about how to convert 75% of cold pitches to closed opportunities using a tried and tested sales process. Candice is the Founder of Eat More Cake Dessert Blog, Food Photographer, Educator and Sales Expert. Candice spent over a decade in corporate sales and translated that experience to help other food content creators monetize and scale their business. She has coached hundreds of food content creators inside her business course, The Confident Pitc...
435: Modern-day Blogging Success - The Latest Strategies for New Bloggers to Succeed with Carmen Spillette
August 10, 2023 08:00 - 46 minutes - 43.8 MBIn episode 435, Carmen Spillette teaches us the latest strategies to grow our blogs and gain success in the food blogging industry, especially if we’re just starting out. Carmen is a food blogger and stay-at-home mom from Canada. Carmen started her food blog in the spring of 2022. It has always been her dream to share her recipes and once she started she has never looked back. Last year, Carmen gained 106,000 followers on Instagram in 5 months and she’s excited to have recently qualified f...
434: Imposter Syndrome - Why do We Suffer From it and Tips to Overcome Feeling Like a Fraud with Amy Reid
August 07, 2023 08:00 - 35 minutes - 33.4 MBIn episode 434, Megan chats to Amy Reid about imposter syndrome, what causes it, how it affects our businesses and how to overcome it. Amy started her blog, Baking with Granny in 2015, as a way to document her mother's (her kids Granny) recipes. Within a couple of years, Amy gave up full-time employment to make money blogging. She then became a single mum and the pressure was on to make it work. 8 years later and Baking with Granny has excelled past any expectations she could have ever had...
433: How to Use RankIQ in Different Ways to Grow Your Blog with Alexis Leonhardt
August 03, 2023 08:00 - 36 minutes - 34.7 MBIn episode 433, Megan chats to Alexis Leonhardt about different ways to use RankIQ to grow your blog. Alexis is founder of the blog, Fancy Apron, which shares upscale recipes that everyone can make. She cooks lots of Traeger recipes, weeknight dinners, and shares tips for shopping at Costco. She started the blog 3 years ago and has had a slow start, but 2023 is bringing big growth. In this episode, Alexis explains how she uses RankIQ for keyword research to help her write blog posts that r...
432: 3 Ways to Monetize Your Online Cooking Classes (+Filming and Marketing Tips) with Adam Sobel
July 31, 2023 08:00 - 58 minutes - 54.2 MBIn episode 432, Adam Sobel teaches us how to monetize and market online cooking classes as well as the technical details of running such classes. Adam Sobel is the chef and owner of The Cinnamon Snail, an award-winning vegan food truck, restaurant, and catering company serving New York and New Jersey. Adam has cooked at the James Beard House, represented the USA at the World Street Food Congress in the Philippines, and teaches cooking at the Institute for Culinary Education, De Gustibus Co...
431: Incorporate Videography into Your Business to Further Create a Captivating Experience for Your Readers with Shanika Graham-White
July 27, 2023 08:00 - 39 minutes - 36.8 MBIn episode 431, Megan chats to Shanika Graham-White about how to incorporate videography into our businesses and why it is essential in today’s video-focused social media world. Content creator and recipe developer, Shanika, is part kitchen ‘ninja’ and connoisseur of interior decorating (hence her passion for beautifully staged food photos and videos). She is a self-taught cook and baker, who has partnered with top brands like Ripple Foods, So Delicious Dairy-Free, Vitamix and California O...
430: Take Back Control of Your Time and Design the Life You Want with Jaimee Campanella
July 24, 2023 08:00 - 43 minutes - 40.9 MBIn episode 430, Jaimee Campanella teaches us how to take back control of our time to meet our goals and lead balanced lives. Jaimee Campanella is a time strategist and productivity consultant who mentors and guides parents, professionals, and entrepreneurs to take control of their time. She is the creator and principal facilitator of the Time Power program which gives people the essential tools and strategies to avoid overwhelm and tame chaos to regain control of their time for good. In th...
429: How I Grew my Instagram Account to More than 82K in a Year Using Reels with Samantha Erb
July 20, 2023 08:00 - 46 minutes - 43.9 MBIn episode 429, Megan chats to Samantha Erb about how she grew her Instagram account to more than 82K followers mainly using reels. Samantha is the busy woman behind Everyday Family Cooking for the last 4 years. She began the blog in the summer of 2019 and worked her way through COVID growing the blog while being mom to two small kids at home. Since then, Sam has grown the site tremendously along with her Instagram account to 82.5K mainly using reels. In this episode, Sam shares her Inst...
428: 5 Biggest Mistakes Food Bloggers Make In Their SEO with Ty Kilgore
July 17, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBIn episode 428, Ty Kilgore teaches us the 5 biggest mistakes food bloggers make in their SEO journey. Ty Kilgore has been geeking out on SEO and Digital Marketing for over 14 years. He loves getting results and has successfully increased rankings for over 150 major sites in over 40 industries. He founded Everything Digital Marketing in order to share his passion and to clearly instruct, guide, and help influencers overcome the frustrations related to SEO and Digital Marketing. In this e...
427: You Will Never Have Enough Time to Do it All and Other Lessons From Academia with Joanne Stekler
July 13, 2023 08:00 - 41 minutes - 39.2 MBIn episode 427, Megan chats to Joanne Stekler about lessons she learned as an academic and how she has applied those to grow her blog. Joanne is a lifelong baker, but it wasn’t until 2020 when she was stuck at home with her elementary school child, that she started baking and cooking with a purpose. You’ll find recipes on the Ugly Duckling Bakery blog that she makes for her family, ranging from 30-minute weeknight meals to more complicated weekend cooking, baking projects made from scratch...
426: Why You Should Repurpose Content and Why AirTable Makes It Easy with Alexandria Drzazgowski
July 10, 2023 08:00 - 48 minutes - 45.3 MBIn episode 426, Alexandria Drzazgowski teaches us how to keep track of our blog content and it repurpose easily using AirTable. Alexandria Drzazgowski is the food blogger behind The Foreign Fork, a project where she is cooking a meal from every country in the world. After backpacking to 15 countries in Europe and taking cooking classes in each one, Alexandria decided to take her project of cooking-around-the-world home with her. She started her blog in 2018, and to date has cooked over 400...
425: How to Maintain a Healthy Relationship with Instagram and Set Realistic Boundaries while Growing your Blog with Ally Kepley
July 06, 2023 08:00 - 48 minutes - 45.4 MBIn episode 425, Megan chats to Ally Kepley about how to maintain a healthy relationship with Instagram and our mobiles devices. Ally is a home baker who grew up baking with both of her grandmothers since she was little. Ally started creating her own recipes at age 11 or 12 and was on a roll through becoming a stay at home mom. She decided to create a recipe website a little over a year ago out of a desire to bake full time and have more freedom and time with her son. Ally’s blog is catered...
424: Publish For Growth - How Today’s Food Bloggers are Leveraging Books for Growth with Matt Briel
July 03, 2023 08:00 - 37 minutes - 35.3 MBIn episode 424, Matt Briel teaches us several ways to use a book as a growth tool for our business and how to go from idea to published author. Commonly described as equal parts loud music, Disney culture, tattoos, and book nerd, Matt Briel is an entrepreneur and the Vice President of Marketing & Communications at Lulu.com. After more than 15 years leading Sales and Marketing teams in the Media & Publishing spaces, he’s developed a unique passion for helping creators become more successful...