In the early stages of food blogging, many people are recipe-dependent. You add flair here and there but rely on recipes to learn new techniques and explore flavors. But as you hone your skill, you find recipes limiting. They staunch your creativity and become a total time-suck. Instead of spending hours pouring over cookbooks, you…
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3 Tips for Food Bloggers to Avoid Marketing Burnout
Avoiding your computer’s gaze, so you don’t have to edit one more image? Have a post ready but can’t bring yourself to write the caption and hashtags for Instagram? Sure, you could be stressed. Or you can chalk it up to a lack of divine inspiration. But, if you’re on week two of sidestepping your…
Stay Focused on Important Things (or: why Pinterest sucks)
This is an opinionated post from Skylar, arguing the counter-point about why Pinterest and social media is a waste of time. Lots of food bloggers use Pinterest very successfully and derive income from it and it may have a place in your particular strategy, but the negative side of it all needs to be acknowledged…
Recipe Page Guidelines for Food Bloggers
Wouldn’t it be nice if you knew exactly how your food blog was evaluated for quality, and what you might be doing wrong (or right)? Well, you actually can know. The online world is constantly changing, and what was “kosher” a year or two ago (nevermind 5 years ago) doesn’t fly quite as well in…
