Eat Blog Talk
586 episodes - English - Latest episode: 29 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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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...
423: How to Avoid Burnout as an Entrepreneur (+Why Multiple Income Streams Help) with Nicole Liloia
June 29, 2023 08:00 - 34 minutes - 32.8 MBIn episode 423, Megan chats to Nicole Liloia about being burned out as an entrepreneur, how we can avoid it, including tips for building multiple income streams efficiently. New Jersey-based Nicole Liloia is a small business coach and strategist. Over the course of her 9 years in this business, she has helped over 500 service providers build their businesses and diversify their income streams through her signature Bigger Business Bootcamp and Grow Your Income Mastermind. Her Facebook group...
422: Establish Yourself as an Expert and Take Your Content to the Next Level by Following These Editing Tips with Lauren Sawant
June 26, 2023 08:00 - 49 minutes - 45.9 MBIn episode 422, Lauren Sawant teaches us how to think like an editor and incorporate editing techniques into our blog and cookbook writing. Lauren Sawant is a freelance editor specializing in cookbooks, recipes, and food writing. She has worked in and adjacent to the food and beverage industry for over 15 years, including three years as a pastry cook. She has been a freelance editor since 2021. In this episode, you’ll learn more about different editing techniques, when you should hire an e...
421: Establish Your Blog’s Identity Through Photography and Branding with Caitlin Ritchie
June 22, 2023 08:00 - 25 minutes - 24.2 MBIn episode 421, Megan chats to Caitlin Ritchie about how to establish a blog’s identity through strong branding and photography. Caitlin is a brand strategist/professional photographer turned blogger. While continuing to work as a branding and photography consultant, she is growing her blog The Rooted Farmhouse, a gardening, food and slow living blog. In this episode, you’ll learn how to stay true to your voice and niche as you establish your brand identity. Caitlin also shares tips on how...
420: Stand Out to Establish Long-Term Brand Partnerships with Marley Braunlich
June 19, 2023 08:00 - 44 minutes - 41.6 MBIn episode 420, Megan chats to Marley Braunlich about how to stand out to brands and establish long-term partnerships with the brands you love. Marley has been food blogging for a little over 1 year. She started working full-time for an SEO agency one month later. During this time, she grew her Instagram audience to 13k followers and started working with brands to earn a side income while the blog matured and she continued to pour into the blog. Marley has learned how to successfully land ...
419: Learn How to Protect Your Business and Brand Name with Rob Finkelstein
June 15, 2023 08:00 - 41 minutes - 39.3 MBIn episode 419, Rob Finkelstein teaches us how to protect our business and brand name by forming a business entity. 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 got started blogging at, http://www.cinnamonshtick.com, which was also his entry into food photography. He worked with a number of brands and came to represent lots of food p...
418: Great Strategies to Grow Your Domain Authority (DA) As a New Blogger with Allie Petersen
June 12, 2023 08:00 - 36 minutes - 34.7 MBIn episode 418, Megan chats to Allie Petersen about strategies to grow our domain authority as bloggers. Allie is a plant-based food blogger who creates small batch vegan recipes for the busy individual. She has followed a plant-based lifestyle for 6 years and loves sharing her passion for easy, healthy cooking. Allie is dedicated to teaching others about the plant-based diet and showing them simple ways to cook vegan meals. In this episode, you’ll find out how to increase your domain auth...
417: Overcome the Hesitation to Talk About Your Food Blog - Being a Confident Blogger Every Step of the Way with Vinessa Knabbe
June 08, 2023 08:00 - 33 minutes - 32.1 MBIn episode 417, Vinessa Knabbe teaches us how to be confident food bloggers, talking about our jobs without hesitation, regardless of where we’re at in our blogging journey. Vinessa and her family live in Long Beach, New York, a barrier Island on Long Island. Vinessa loves the beach and everything that goes along with it, heat, tan skin, sand on her feet and being outside as much as possible. She loves the heat in the kitchen also as she comes from an Italian family full of cooks. Inspired...
416: Write Your Cookbook Without Getting Overwhelmed (+Book Proposal Tips) with Amanda Polick
June 05, 2023 08:00 - 59 minutes - 55.4 MBIn episode 416, Megan chats to Amanda Polick about how to write a cookbook and intentionally build your platform without getting overwhelmed. Amanda Polick is a cookbook and food memoir coach. Through their work together, clients have landed Big 5 publishing deals and secured media clips for publications including Food 52 and The Los Angeles Times. Her work has been featured by Cooking Light, Time, Southern Living, and Food & Wine, and she’s a proud member of the Cherry Bombe community. In...
415: How to Monetize Your Blog and Get 100k Page Views in 30 Days with Ryan Allen
June 01, 2023 08:00 - 35 minutes - 33.8 MBIn episode 415, Ryan Allen teaches us how to monetize our sites and get 100k page views in 30 days. Ryan has been a food blogger for just under a year. Ryan knew when he started blogging, he wanted to be able to monetize as quickly as possible. So he planned to leverage Facebook and Facebook groups to reach 100K page views in his first 30 days. In this episode, Ryan shares in detail how he used Facebook to gain traction for his blog. Find out how you can implement his Facebook marketing st...
414: How to Deal with Mental Health Problems While Growing Your Blog with Eric Samuelson
May 29, 2023 08:00 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MBIn episode 414, Megan chats to Eric Samuelson about common mental health issues food bloggers struggle with and how they can keep on top of their blogs regardless of what they experience in their day to day life. Eric runs the blog, Eat Like No One Else - the place to learn how to enhance the way you eat through learning of specialty foods and ingredients and how to make the most amazing food at home. At Eat Like No One Else, they solidly believe in the philosophy "if you teach a man to fi...
413: How To Do Keyword Research for SEO (+The Best Keyword Research Tools) with Aleka Shunk
May 25, 2023 08:00 - 41 minutes - 39.2 MBIn episode 413, Aleka Shunk teaches us effective keyword research strategies, sharing tips about which search volumes to target, how to analyze competition and which mistakes to avoid. Aleka is the founder of Aleka's Get-Together, a food and entertaining blog, and Keywords With Aleka, a keyword research school for bloggers. She has a Master's Degree in Teaching, Learning and Curriculum and was a teacher for ten years. Aleka took her expertise as both a teacher and blogger to create courses...
412: Work on Yourself First to Find Blogging Success with Kristin Weeks
May 22, 2023 08:00 - 43 minutes - 40.4 MBIn episode 412, Megan chats to Kristin Weeks about how to set healthy habits that help us push through hard times and grow our businesses in the long-run. Kristin started her blog 3 years ago with the passion to teach others how to cook more homemade meals, bake with sourdough, and how to start a backyard garden to grow fresh produce. Since then, Kristin’s journey has had a lot of ups and downs. A year ago she decided to take her blog and business seriously and that had a lot to do with ha...
411: Up Your Writing Game - What I've Learned From Writing For a Magazine and Working With An Editor with Sabrina Currie
May 18, 2023 08:00 - 30 minutes - 28.9 MBIn episode 411, Sabrina Currie teaches us how to up our writing game by focusing on clear, concise blog writing that shows our personalities while providing accurate information about our recipes. Sabrina started her career in food right after high school by attending cooking school. After doing a few different jobs in the food industry, she went into the healthcare field. She eventually found herself needing a creative outlet so she picked up a DSLR and started photographing food and natu...
410: You Don't Have to Work 24/7 - Blogger Tips That Allow You to Take Time Off When You Want To with Jenna Urben
May 15, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBIn episode 410, Megan chats to Jenna Urben about what we need to do now in our businesses to be able to take a significant amount of time off later on. Jenna is the content creator of The Urben Life, a food and lifestyle blog where she shares allergy-friendly recipes and travel guides. Jenna started blogging about 5 years ago and was immediately drawn to the community aspect. Over the years, she realized there was a need for more transparency in the creator space. So she went on to create ...
409: The 5 Stages of Building a Profitable Business (+How to Talk Confidently About Your Job as a Blogger) with Laura Tobin
May 11, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutes - 43 MBIn episode 409, Laura Tobin teaches us how to treat our blogs like actual businesses, getting into the right mindset and talking about our business with confidence. In 2018, Laura’s husband suddenly passed away, and she became a single mom with two teenage sons and no income. In 2019, Laura decided to focus on a food blog that she’d started previously as a hobby and turn it into a viable business. Applying her technical and business skills, Laura was successful in joining Mediavine one yea...
408: Embrace Your Inner Uniqueness to Find the Success You Want with Miriam Schulman
May 08, 2023 08:00 - 39 minutes - 37.6 MBIn episode 408, Megan chats to Miriam Schulman about why embracing our inner uniqueness can take us from being a starving artist to a well-paid and well-known one. Miriam Schulman is an artist and founder of The Inspiration Place podcast, where she helps other artists learn how to profit from their passion or become better artists. She’s helped thousands of artists around the world develop their skill sets and create more time and freedom to do what they love. Her art and story have been f...
407: What Bloggers Should Know about DEI (+How to Create Inclusive Content Within Your Niche) with Jazzmine Woodard
May 04, 2023 08:00 - 29 minutes - 28.4 MBIn episode 407, Jazzmine Woodard teaches us about DEI (diversity, equality and inclusion) and how to create inclusive content in our niche to make as many people as possible feel included and valued. Jazzmine has balanced growing her food and travel blog, Dash of Jazz, with a corporate career in DEI for the last 8 years. In this time, Jazzmine has learned how to be inclusive in her content approach without alienating her niche audience. She has also cultivated an audience that engages with...
406: Explore New Revenue Streams - How to Launch a Meal Planning Membership with Your Existing Recipe Content with Liam Smith
May 01, 2023 08:00 - 48 minutes - 45.3 MBIn episode 406, Megan chats to Liam Smith about how food bloggers can launch their own memberships to create a new revenue stream from existing recipe content. Liam has 10+ years experience in tech, working Fortune 500 companies and growing start ups. Through a series of fortunate events, Liam was able to combine his passion for tech and desire to help people eat better to create MealPro App - a platform helping food bloggers to launch their own memberships with their existing recipe conte...
405: Tips to Stay Motivated as You Wait for Your Food Blog to Grow with Natasha Levai
April 27, 2023 08:00 - 39 minutes - 37 MBIn episode 405, Natasha Levai teaches us how to stay motivated as we wait for our food blogs to grow. Natasha is a half-Russian, half-Ukrainian living in Eastern Hungary with her family. Her food blog, Natasha’s Home, focuses on gluten-free cooking and baking, including gluten-free sourdough recipes. Natasha is up front about being a beginner, with her blog live for a little over a year. She is in the process of learning and growing toward making this business into a full-time job. Natasha...
404: Break a Big Goal into Achievable Milestones - Adopting a Fitness Mentality to Help Build your Business with Clara Cheng
April 24, 2023 08:00 - 27 minutes - 26.6 MBIn episode 404, Megan chats to Clara Cheng about achieving fitness goals and how applying a fitness mentality to your blogging business can help you grow. Clara is a content creator for the last 2 years at Fitsian Food Life, which shares macro-friendly healthy recipes that are still delicious. Fitness is a very integral part of her life and is also the key reason why she started the blog. Clara likes to stay active by training Muay Thai and powerlifting. In order to make sure she has enou...
403: What Types of Digital Products are Food Bloggers Having the Most Success Selling Right Now? with Jillian Leslie
April 20, 2023 08:00 - 52 minutes - 49.3 MBIn episode 403, Megan chats to Jillian Leslie about which types of digital products are good for food bloggers to add to their businesses and which ones are most effective to start with. Jillian Leslie loves building businesses on the internet with her husband, David. In 2009, they started Catch My Party, one of the largest party ideas sites on the web. In 2016, Jillian and David built MiloTree, a smart pop-up app to help bloggers and creators grow their social media followers and email li...
402: Reach 85k Page Views in 7 Months After 7 Years of Failure with Maren Epstein
April 17, 2023 08:00 - 43 minutes - 40.6 MBIn episode 402, Megan chats to Maren Epstein about how she reached 85k page views from 5k page views in 7 months after 7 years of failing. Maren Epstein is a health supportive chef with a degree from the Natural Gourmet Institute which is a part of the Institute of Culinary Education and a bachelor’s Degree from Drew University. She specializes in developing diets and recipes for gut health that are Gluten Free, which is the focus of her blog, Eating Works. She has published food pieces in...
401: Diversity and Inclusion in Content Creation - How to be an Authentic Ally with Marta Rivera Diaz
April 13, 2023 08:00 - 50 minutes - 46.8 MBIn episode 401, Marta Rivera Diaz teaches us how to be an authentic ally as a content creator, helping under-served individuals in thoughtful and genuine ways. Marta Rivera Diaz is a formally trained chef with more than 25 years of cooking and baking experience and is the chef and author behind Sense & Edibility®, her “online culinary school.” Marta created Sense & Edibility® to encourage advanced and novice cooks alike, to explore- and succeed at executing culinary fundamentals, technique...
400: Why Did I Start Eat Blog Talk, Exciting Blogging Developments & How to Set Healthy Boundaries with Megan Porta
April 10, 2023 08:00 - 43 minutes - 41.2 MBMegan gets interviewed in episode 400! Eat Blog Talk’s community manager, Taryn, asks Megan a list of personal, mindset, entrepreneurial and food blogging questions sent in by her listeners in this AMA episode. Megan started her food blog Pip and Ebby in 2010 and food blogging has been her full-time career since 2012. Her passion for blogging has grown into an intense desire to support fellow food bloggers so they have access to the information, insight and community that accelerates their...