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How to Write a Recipe Post
There are days when writing is a breeze, and others where the words just don’t flow. In both cases, having a structure to work off and knowing what’s important to answer helps the flow so that you can get more done in less time. Just like in baking, having a formula (or recipe) to follow…
Why You Shouldn’t Waste Time with Recipe Indexes
Recipe indexes are a core part of food blogging. Your food blog is the best thing ever invented visitors are going to spend minutes and hours going over every inch of your website and looking at each recipe that you made Well, that’s the theory anyways. The days of typing in “yahoo.com” and browsing their…
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…
How to make email marketing an easy part of your content production process
You already know that social media is vital to promoting your food blog, but did you know that email marketing is just as important to the top food blogs? According to OptinMonster and MailMunch, email marketing has actually proven to be more effective and have a wider reach than social media. But why? MailMunch claims…
DMCA and Copyright Infringement
There’s some debate about whether recipes can be copyrighted, but generally, copying creative content (such as a post, or parts of one) Note that recipes themselves can not be copyrighted: https://lizerbramlaw.com/2015/04/07/copyright-protect-recipes/ Issuing a DMCA Issuing DMCA to Microsoft cloud hosted sites: https://www.microsoft.com/info/FormForCloud.html Does this duplicate content hurt me? It might, and it might not. If…
Feel Refreshed Tomorrow With This Nightly Routine for Food Bloggers
A relaxing evening ensures you’re prepared to tackle tomorrow. Work these activities into your nightly routine and feel refreshed in the morning!
The Secret to Getting More Done—Even When Your Schedule’s Packed
Growing your blog or business involves a lot of hard work and time. But even if you’re short on hours, you can still be successful! Here’s how.
Productivity Hacks for Bloggers to Publish on Schedule
After a day full of errands, emails, and putting out fires, you finally kick up your feet to settle in for the evening. You’re just about to pick up the remote when it hits you. “Oh, shoot!” you think to yourself, “I don’t have a blog post ready to publish for tomorrow.” You’re left with…
How to Grow Your Food Blog with Little Time
Photograph by Katie Purnell found on minimography.com Many of us creative types are building businesses from the ground up – from side hustles to bootstrapped businesses from a “home office” (aka the nightstand beside my floor bed). And we have very little time to do it in. If this is you, you’re in good company!…
5 Online Courses That Will Rock Your Freelance World
So, I’m kind of a course junkie. I’ve taken a lot of good courses. And a lot of bad courses. And a lot of great courses. I’m a big believer in investing in professional development opportunities and it would be selfish for me to keep these great courses to myself, so I wanted to make…
Build Your Dreams on Epic Fails
No one gets it right the first time, every time. NO ONE! Whatever it is that you are trying to accomplish – a new recipe, a new blog, designing a new website or a new small business venture – is guaranteed to look different at its completion than it did at the start. Most people…
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