Eat Blog Talk
560 episodes - English - Latest episode: 19 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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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...
399: What New Bloggers Should Know - Don’t Learn the Hard Way with June Albertson-Dick
April 06, 2023 08:00 - 37 minutes - 35.2 MBIn episode 399, Megan chats to June Albertson-Dick about the blogging lessons she learned the hard way and how new bloggers can avoid her mistakes. June started Practically Homemade in late 2017 as a way to share her love of making simple recipes spectacular. For years June had owned and operated a cake decorating business and deli in her hometown before becoming a high school culinary teacher. It wasn’t until June of 2021 that she stepped away from 8 years of teaching young adults to cook...
398: Post Every Single Day & Other Tips For Quick Growth When Posting Reels on Instagram with Lee McGuire
April 03, 2023 08:00 - 34 minutes - 32.6 MBIn episode 398, Megan chats to Lee McGuire about how she grew her Instagram account to over a 100k followers in one year using mostly reels. Lee is the creator, photographer, recipe developer and writer of the gluten free food blog, Lane & Grey Fare. There, you will find gluten free and allergy-friendly food that is as decadent, savory and as rich as other food, while still being simple enough to make in your own home. As a mother of two children with celiac disease and multiple food in a ...
397: How to Use PDFs and Video to Quickly Build Your Email List for New Bloggers with Megan Gonzalez
March 30, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes - 30.9 MBIn episode 397, Megan Gonzalez teaches us how to use PDFs and video to quickly grow our email list. Megan Gonzalez is the knitter behind Nurture Knitwear, and she strives to create a chic casual style for modern women. At Nurture Knitwear, they are focused on empowering women to carve out a little creative space for themselves to learn, to find peace and satisfaction, and to refill so that they can keep pouring out into the lives of those we love. In this episode, Megan shares her journey ...
396: Different Ways to Leverage AI Writing Tools Like ChatGPT for Your Food Blog with Marley Braunlich
March 27, 2023 09:00 - 28 minutes - 27.1 MBIn episode 396, Megan chats to Marley Braunlich about different ways to use AI tools like ChatGPT to streamline writing for our blogs, helping us become more efficient bloggers. Marley has been a food blogger for a little over 1 year. She started working in SEO shortly after starting her blog. 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 lea...
395: Overcome Your Limitations When Growing a Food Blog (+Taking Guilt-Free Days Off) with Cynthia Christensen
March 23, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutes - 40 MBIn episode 395, Megan chats to Cynthia Christensen about ways to deal with and overcome our limitations while growing our food blogs. Cynthia is a professional baker and cook who has transitioned to running a breakfast and brunch focused blog. She also does freelance recipe development for larger online magazines, runs private chef events, and does occasional food photography. In this episode, Cynthia motivates us to find ways around our limitations which can be anything from work or famil...
394: Achieve Your Goals by Creating a Realistic Roadmap for Success with Jules Grasekamp
March 20, 2023 09:00 - 35 minutes - 33.3 MBIn episode 394, Jules Grasekamp teaches us how to create a roadmap for success, based on lessons she learned during 10 years of building her own baking business. Jules, a dessert blogger from Scotland, started her own bakery at age 16 and she ran that for 10 years before selling up and moving to Canada. After a few years of working as a business coach, Jules realized she missed working with food, so she purchased a camera to share her recipes on her blog - Bonni Bakery. Now, Jules shares...
393: What Should Bloggers Know About Nutrition - Providing Accurate Nutritional Information for Recipes with Chrissy Carroll
March 16, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes - 36.1 MBIn episode 393, Megan chats to Chrissy Carroll about nutrition considerations for bloggers, especially within the wellness niche, and how to provide the best healthy recipes. Chrissy Carroll is a Registered Dietitian and the creator behind Snacking in Sneakers, where she shares food and fitness tips for active women – especially runners and triathletes. After growing her main site to more than 100,000 page views a month, Chrissy has gone on to launch several other successful websites like ...
392: Optimize Your Blogging Workflow Using Checklists with Jen Talley
March 13, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutes - 34.1 MBIn episode 392, Jen Talley teaches us how to use checklists effectively to optimize our workflows for blogging. Jen grew up eating dinner with her whole family every night. In 2006, Jen moved across the country for college and she found a love for cooking and experimenting with new recipes. When Jen graduated, she had 3 kids and became a stay at home mom. Many years later, Jen finally got the courage to start a food blog and she now loves following her passion for food. Jen is really enthu...
391: Should You Start Another Food Blog? with Taryn Scarfone
March 09, 2023 09:00 - 25 minutes - 24.6 MBIn episode 391, Megan chats to Taryn Scarfone about the advantages of starting a second food blog. Taryn is a happily married, busy mom of 6. She began her blogging journey as a hobby in 2015 and it took off pretty quickly. Joy Filled Eats concentrates on low carb and keto recipes that are easy to make and suitable for the whole family. Since starting her blog, Taryn has launched two more food websites. In this episode, Taryn talks about how her second food blog allowed her to expand into ...
390: Legal Issues Every Food Photographer Should Consider with Rob Finkelstein
March 06, 2023 09:00 - 49 minutes - 46.6 MBIn episode 390, Megan chats to Rob Finkelstein about why it’s important for food bloggers and photographers to have contracts and understanding important legal terms. 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 Cinnamon Shtick, which was also his entry into food photography. He worked with a number of brands ...
389: How to Push Through the Perfectionism That Holds Us Back with Christina Jolam
March 02, 2023 09:00 - 44 minutes - 41.7 MBIn episode 389, Megan chats to Christina Jolam about why Christina was held back from blogging and how she overcame doubt, perfectionism and other obstacles that stood in her way. Christina Jolam is a communications consultant turned food writer and founder of the blog Weekday Pescatarian. She creates easy and impressive fish-forward recipes and shares tips for incorporating more seafood into your diet, all from her tiny sea-side flat in Portugal. In this episode, you’ll be able to explore...
388: How to Use Fiverr or Upwork for Effective Outsourcing with Ruth Grindeland
February 27, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes - 36.1 MBIn episode 388, Ruth Grindeland teaches us how to find international resources for effective and cost-efficient outsourcing. Ruth started Sinful Kitchen in 2020, during the Covid pandemic. After binge watching 9 seasons of The Great British Baking show, Ruth knew she needed to find a better way to connect with the world. Hence, Sinful Kitchen was created. It’s a vegan and vegetarian blog that shares recipes from all around the world, while occasionally trying to recreate Baking Show challe...
387: How to Batch Produce YouTube Content for Increased Efficiency with Olena Osipov
February 23, 2023 09:00 - 55 minutes - 51.5 MBIn episode 387, Olena Osipov teaches us how to batch produce YouTube content for increased growth and efficiency. Olena of iFoodReal has been blogging for 11 years. While blogging, she tried to grow her YouTube channel, however she stopped a few times as she did not have the right strategy amongst other reasons. In 2021, Olena needed a break because she recognized that she was burnt out. She came back in 2022 with a new strategy to produce video content more efficiently for YouTube and she...
386: Leverage the Power of Focus to Increase your Traffic (Get More by Doing Less) with Erin Gierhart
February 20, 2023 09:00 - 46 minutes - 43.6 MBIn episode 386, Megan chats to Erin Gierhart about getting clarity on what is essential in order to grow your blog and how to let go of everything else so that you can get more done by doing less. Erin founded her blog, State of Dinner, in 2020, after almost 20 years in the food and beverage industry. She enjoys developing mostly from scratch recipes that bring comfort to her family, without spending all day in the kitchen. She quadrupled her blog traffic year over year by getting clear on...
385: How to Monetize Online Baking Classes and Create Multiple Streams of Income for Your Blog with Katalin Nagy
February 16, 2023 09:00 - 35 minutes - 33.7 MBIn episode 385, Megan chats to Katalin Nagy about extra revenue streams for our blogs, specifically how to monetize online baking classes and other skills. Katalin started her food blog, Spatula Desserts, in spring 2020 during the lockdown. She loved baking and teaching people how to bake, but at the start, she didn’t know anything about SEO, search consoles, or the importance of keywords. She quickly picked up an avid desire to learn more about the industry in 2021. She began to monetize ...
384: How to Build a Strong Food Brand in 4 Easy Steps with Caro Jensen
February 13, 2023 09:00 - 37 minutes - 35.1 MBIn episode 384, Caro Jensen teaches us four easy steps to build a strong food brand, stand out from the crowd and offer maximum value to our readers. Caro is a seasoned marketing professional who has worked in the food and wine space for over a decade. As a Brand and PR Manager in the wine industry she’s worked with bloggers directly and via agencies. She’s also connected bloggers and brands as a marketing consultant and works as a food and wine content creator to build her own brand and c...
383: Make a Full-Time Income Creating Recipes, Videos and Photography for Food Brands while Blogging with Sarah Holt
February 09, 2023 09:00 - 27 minutes - 25.8 MBIn 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 th...
382: Reach Your Goals Quicker and With Less Stress - Investing in Yourself and Your Business from the Beginning with Bobbie Blue
February 06, 2023 09:00 - 28 minutes - 27.4 MBIn episode 382, Megan chats to Bobbie Blue about why investing in ourselves and our business from the beginning will help us reach our goals quicker and with less stress. Bobbie Blue lives in Florida with her husband and step-daughter. She started the blog, Blue's Best Life in 2018, however it had no focus and she wrote about everything from fitness, being a step-mom to healthy recipes. Bobbie’s ears perked up and she finally took the advice from the blogging community and niched down. But...
381: How to Use Previous Work Experience to Improve Your Blogging Skills with Erica Hopper
February 02, 2023 09:00 - 28 minutes - 27.4 MBIn episode 381, Megan chats to Erica Hopper about ways in which you can apply your previous work experience to improve your blogging skills. Erica, the creator behind the sugar + salt co., uses nearly 2 decades of professional culinary experience to create mostly gluten free, veggie forward recipes that anyone can make and the whole family will love. Erica has worked in all areas of the "food biz", and for the last couple of years has enjoyed developing her own blog, diving into the world ...
380: Expand Blogging into a Baking Academy and Bootcamp with Shani Whisonant
January 30, 2023 09:00 - 39 minutes - 37.3 MBIn episode 380, Megan chats to Shani Whisonant about how she turned her blog into a lucrative baking academy and bootcamp. Shani is the creator behind Begin with Butter, a baking education platform. It started as a baking blog in 2021, and she’s now grown it to include the Begin with Butter Home Baking Academy. She uses this platform to host live and pre-recorded baking classes to help home bakers and cottage bakers reach their baking potential. Shani enjoys demystifying baking for people ...
379: 7 Ways to Monetize Your Food Blog Before 50,000 Pageviews with Brooke Harmer
January 26, 2023 09:00 - 37 minutes - 35.5 MBIn episode 379, Brooke Harmer teaches us how to monetize our blogs before hitting 50,000 pageviews. Explore 7 strategies ranked in order of difficulty and time required. Brooke launched her food blog in March 2020, because she knew she could work from home and still be a full time mom. However, after her son was born, she struggled to keep up with the demands of the job and constantly felt discouraged that despite her best efforts, she still hadn't hit 50,000 monthly pageviews. Instead of ...
378: 5 Lessons from Business School that Helped me Succeed in Blogging with Zhen Zhou
January 23, 2023 09:00 - 37 minutes - 35.5 MBIn episode 378, Megan chats to Zhen Zhou about how her experience in business school translated into her blogging career and how that has helped her succeed. Zhen blogs about cooking up flavorful South East Asian recipes for her audience because she can't stand bland food. She also occasionally shares about the life of a food blogger. She shares her story of going from doing an MBA in London to starting a food blog as a way to reach more people with her creative work on the Internet. In th...
377: Grow and Monetize your Blog without Relying on Instagram with Jamie Silva
January 19, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes - 30.7 MBIn episode 377, Jamie Silva teaches us strategies that we can use to grow our blog business without relying on Instagram. Jamie quit a safe and secure full-time job in 2016 and started A Sassy Spoon, her food blog. Two years later, Jamie began making a full-time income (from $0 to $85k in 2 years). Today, she’s making over six figures from various income streams (close to $100k from ad revenue alone). Jamie focuses on coaching food bloggers on how to grow and manage their food blogs so the...
376: Why Every Food Blogger Should be Using Pinterest to Grow their Blog with Nadalie Bardo
January 16, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes - 36.5 MBIn episode 376, Megan chats to Nadalie Bardo about why we are losing potential traffic opportunities by not exploring Pinterest more and which Pinterest strategies work the best for growth. Nadalie is a Pinterest coach dedicated to helping blogs, brands, and businesses like yours achieve their goals of more traffic, more subscribers, and more sales. Achieving 1M views on Pinterest since her very first month for her personal development blog, It’s All You Boo, she’s grown her email list to ...
375: Expert Strategies to Optimize and Grow your YouTube Channel - The Surprising Truth behind YouTube with Tim Schmoyer
January 12, 2023 09:00 - 49 minutes - 46.3 MBIn episode 375, Megan chats to Tim Schmoyer about expert strategies to optimize our YouTube channels for easy discovery and growth in 2023. Since 2011, Tim Schmoyer has been one of the leading YouTube strategists in the online video industry. His company, Video Creators, has been featured by FOX, Forbes, BBC even YouTube themselves as his team trains creators and brands to master YouTube and use it as a place to spread messages that change lives. Their clients have organically grown by ove...
374: Take the “Scary” Out of Annual Planning as We Dive into 2023 with Andrea Liebross
January 09, 2023 09:00 - 47 minutes - 44.2 MBIn episode 374, Andrea Liebross teaches us effective strategies for long-term planning, making it less daunting, doable and fun. Learn how two become clear on what you want to achieve and how you’re going to make it happen in 2023. Andrea is a coach, speaker, podcast host, and soon to be published author who is known for helping bold, ambitious women make clear, confident decisions, so that they get exactly what they want, every time, and not just add another thing to their to-do list. And...