Recent Makin' Bacon Food Blogging Articles - Page 3

Today, we dive into how to set up paid memberships on your blog, how live events can grow your business and just exactly how can you create custom spice blends to sell directly to your fans.

As bloggers, we love to use spices and we know our fans do as well. So it's a natural leap to try to sell our own blends directly to our own fans. But how the heck does that work and how do you get started?

Luckily today's guests are the perfect people to help us out. They run the wildly successful barbecue and grilling website Hey Grill, Hey. They also sell a line of Hey Grill, Hey brand of products and run an online barbecue course called the Grill Squad. I can't wait to learn from today's guests, Susie and Todd Bulloch from Hey Grill, Hey!

Today, we dive into the importance of video in creating your brand. What type of content actually resonates with fans and how Jumprope can help you streamline the entire process.

As bloggers, we know how important video is from food demos to recipe guides. Video is the fastest way to inform your fans and connect with your audience. But most of us don't have any experience with creating or especially editing videos. And it can be really intimidating trying to get started.

Luckily today's guest is the perfect person to help us out. Jake Poses is the co-founder and CEO of Jumprope. At Jumprope he leads the product design and community teams and is passionate about empowering creators to make amazing content.

To highlight this, I wanted to talk about the main "Phases" of writing and publishing a book and what tools are commonly used for each one. A big issue with choosing tools is you can go down a rabbit hole with more and more specialized ones. But it's so important to remember that a powerful tool doesn't always make you better.

So for first time authors, you want to keep your tools as simple as you can. Because it's easier and faster to write a book in a program you know than to learn an entirely new program, no matter how great it is. Writing a book is a big enough undertaking by itself, trying to also learn 5 new tools at the same time quickly becomes overwhelming.

So with that in mind, here's the tool set I use to write and publish my books.

Today, Christine Pittman and I dive into figuring out what your audience wants, how to analyze your data and the best way to formulate your plan of attack.

As bloggers, growing our traffic is often a top priority. But what is the most efficient way to accomplish that? And how do we make time for all the work required?

Today's guest is the perfect person to help us figure it all out. Christine Pittman is the founder of 2 successful blogs, Cook the Story and The Cookful. What originally started as a hobby has turned into one of the top ranked food blogs in the world with more than 2 million monthly readers.

I recently podcast interview with Elizabeth Falcigno on the Makin' Bacon Podcast and I wanted to highlight this part of the discussion because I think it's extra valuable.

In this part of the interview, Elizabeth and I talk about why diversifying your income is so important and how you can find brands to work with on sponsored posts.

I recently interviewed Doug Levy on the Makin' Bacon Podcast and I wanted to highlight this part of the discussion because I thought it was important enough to share it separately.

In this part of the interview, Doug and I dive into the various ways you can work with more mainstream publications like magazines, newspapers, and other traditional media. We cover knowing what your goals are and how to approach them.

From my recent interview with Chelsea Cole from A Duck's Oven on the Makin' Bacon Podcast I wanted to highlight this part of the discussion because I think it's extra valuable.

In this part of the interview, Chelsea Cole and I dive deep into the issues you need to keep in mind when you are looking at your publishing options. There are a lot of reasons you want to choose to self publish or traditionally publish.

I recently interviewed Andrew Wilder from Nerd Press on the Makin' Bacon Podcast and I wanted to highlight this part of the discussion because I think it's extra valuable.

In this part of the interview, Andrew Wilder and I talk about how accessibility affects bloggers, why it's important and what you can do to ensure you are compliant.

As food bloggers, cookbooks are often on our radars. Many of us explore traditional publishing and self publishing but we ignore one path of publishing...getting paid to write a book. Luckily today's guest is the perfect person to help us out.

I can't wait to learn from Maggie Green from The Green Apron Company.

Today, we dive into everything you need to know about hosting online summits, how to harness the power of organic list building, and why building relationships with your audience is the key to jump starting your growth.

As bloggers we always hear how important it is to grow our email lists, especially because it's the only asset we actually own. But trying to figure out what the most effective ways to build your list can be really difficult, especially without just relying on annoying popups or costly Facebook ads. Luckily, today's guest is the perfect person to help us out!