088: How We Run Pinch of Yum with Alana Woolley & Jenna Arend

How Pinch of Yum employs full-time workers, communicating on a remote team, finding what works with video, and tips for working remotely.

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Welcome to episode 88 of the Food Blogger Pro podcast! This week, Bjork interviews two key Pinch of Yum employees, Alana Woolley and Jenna Arend, about what goes on behind the scenes of Pinch of Yum.

If you’re not a food blogger, it might seem like it’s a job that would be easy to do in your free time. If you are a food blogger, you know that there’s way more time that goes into it than that!

Many people are surprised to hear that Pinch of Yum employs a team of people, 3 of whom work full-time, to keep the blog up and running. Alana and Jenna are two of those people - Alana is the Pinch of Yum Video Specialist, and Jenna is the Pinch of Yum Office Manager. Today, they’re here to break it down for us and talk about how it all works.

In this episode, Alana and Jenna share:

• What they do on a day-to-day basis
• How they communicate on a remote team
• What Jenna’s “lifeline” is for her job
• What Alana’s video editing procedure looks like
• How she manages backing up giant video files to the cloud
• What tool they’ve been using to manage sponsored content contacts
• How they experiment with video to find what works
• How Jenna got more engaged with Pinterest scheduling
• Their tips for working remotely

 

Resources:

• Slack
• Asana
• Asana course on Food Blogger Pro
• Process.St
• Crashplan
• Highrise CRM
• foodbloggerpro.com/design

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