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How to Make a Media Kit for Your Food Blog

There are lots of different ways that food creators can monetize their businesses. While ad networks might be the main source of income for food bloggers with significant traffic, the income from running ads on your site can be less than satisfactory if you’re getting just a few thousand page views per month.

Alternatively, working directly with brands can be a reliable source of income if you are able to start and maintain a sponsorship. For most food bloggers, developing a blog media kit is the first step in the brand partnership journey!

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7 Mistakes Food Bloggers Make When Writing Recipes

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As food bloggers, one of the most important things we do is… well, write recipes, of course!

And a lot goes into the recipe writing process: coming up with ideas for new recipes, testing a recipe until it’s perfect, writing down the instructions in a concise way, formatting the recipe on a blog post, and so on.

The more you create recipes, the more you’ll perfect your process, but in this post, we wanted to share some common recipe writing mistakes we see bloggers make. Hopefully you’ll be able to learn a thing or two to help level up the recipes that you share online!

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How to Correctly Attribute a Recipe

As food bloggers and recipe developers, inspiration for recipes can come from many different places. Your grandmother’s famous pound cake, a new product at the grocery store, your local Italian restaurant, and yes, other published recipes can all get your creative cooking juices flowing. 

There are lots of food blogs and cookbooks out in the world, and it’s only natural that you take inspiration from them. Whether you need a little guidance on the process for a complicated baking technique, or want to riff on a unique flavor combination in someone else’s recipe, recipe adaption can come in many different forms.

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The Definitive Guide to Video Sizes for Social Media (Updated for 2024)

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Are you creating videos for your blog posts? If so, you probably want to share them on social media.

Videos can be shared on pretty much every social media platform, which is great for getting the most out of the videos you’re producing.

But it can also be a bit confusing because there are different recommendations for each platform. Between the videos you share on Instagram Stories and on the Facebook Feed, the recommended dimensions can vary quite a bit.

Luckily, we have your back. 😊 This post will be constantly updated with new recommendations so you can be confident you’re sharing the right kind of video to each social platform:

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6 Ways You Can Make Money with Your Email List

Did you know  that one-third of content creators send weekly emails, and less than 26% send an email monthly? Why are so many bloggers, content creators, and marketers leaving money on the table? 

In my experience as an email marketing strategist, most bloggers aren’t taking full advantage of the opportunities their email list offers because they simply don’t know the strategies they have at their disposal.

Many people start and run email lists because “that’s just what you do” as a blogger, but there is a magical realm of high return on investment, or ROI, you can step into, if you know a few solid strategies and how to implement them!

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Introducing Food Blogger Pro Coaching Calls

We have some exciting news for the Food Blogger Pro community today! We are officially launching brand new Coaching Calls with Bjork this month! 🎉

What exactly are these Coaching Calls? So glad you asked!

In this post, we’ll dive into what the Coaching Calls are, how they’ll work, and how to get registered for the chance to participate!

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7 Food Photography Tips for Beginners

We all know that photography is an essential part of food blogging and social media, but it can be overwhelming when you’re just starting out. Expensive equipment! Complicated editing programs! Lighting! That’s why we’ve compiled seven affordable and easy food photography tips for beginners that will help get you started on your food photography journey.

Because you know the old adage, “We eat with our eyes”? Well… it’s true! I know that when I’m looking for a recipe to make, I’ll only consider it if the photos are mouthwatering.

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WP Tasty is Now Part of the Strategy11 Family

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Hi there! Bjork here.

A little over six years ago, we started working on the businesses you’ve come to know as WP Tasty and Nutrifox. 

We were building some custom plugins for our own site, Pinch of Yum, and thought that other bloggers might find these plugins valuable as well, so we started WP Tasty to offer them for sale.

Within a few years, hundreds of publishers a month were signing up to use WP Tasty plugins on their sites and use Nutrifox to analyze their ingredients and generate nutrition labels.

As these businesses and products have grown, we came to realize that the best home for these products would be with a company that focuses entirely on WordPress plugins and software development, so we started to look for potential acquirers who could dedicate the time and resources needed to continue developing and evolving the products.

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