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Welcome to The Food Blogger Pro Podcast, hosted by Bjork Ostrom from Pinch of Yum! Our goal is to help you create a beautiful, functional, and profitable blog. We interview successful food bloggers and industry experts in an effort to surface strategies that can help you more efficiently grow and monetize your site. You'll learn about recipe SEO, food photography, plugins, monetization, traffic, and more. New episodes every Tuesday! Learn more at foodbloggerpro.com/podcast
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Now displaying: July, 2015
Jul 28, 2015

For this episode of the Food Blogger Pro podcast, we're taking with Jason Leake from 100 Days of Real Food.

Jason Leake: The business of food blogging

For those outside the food blog world, blogging seems pretty simple - just make some food, take a few pictures, and put it up on the internet. For those of us inside the food blog world, the last sentence really just made you laugh. Well, Jason Leake is right there with you.

Jason went from supportive-but-not-interested husband to full-time behind the scenes blog manager in less than 2 years. He takes care of almost everything that goes on at 100 Days of Real Food that doesn't involve cooking, photographing or writing posts.

What that means is that Jason knows a LOT about what it takes to make a food blog run beyond the cooking & photographing part - and this is where most of us get stuck. This interview is definitely not one to miss.

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In this 64-minute episode, Jason reveals:

  • How 100 Days of Real Food got started, and how Jason felt about being involved
  • The techniques Lisa used to bring attention to her blog
  • What it means for your blog to publish a hard-copy book
  • How Jason handles doing "the books"
  • The resources Jason uses for managing 100 Days of Real Food on a day-to-day basis

This interview gives a real-life look into what it takes to run a food blog behind the scenes. Jason has a lot of information to share that can help bloggers like you and me up our blogging game.

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If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for interviews, be sure to email them to podcast@foodbloggerpro.com.

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Jul 21, 2015

Today on the Food Blogger Pro podcast, we're turning up the heat (pun intended) as we talk about some tech-geek stuff with Dr. David Darmanin from HotJar.

For this episode, Bjork interviews the founder and CEO of HotJar, a revolutionary startup whose goal is to provide highly important website visitor information to web administrators (people like you and me). And the best part? It's free.

Dr. David Darmanin: How Understanding Your Visitors Can Help You Build Traffic and Create an Income

If you haven't implemented HotJar on your site yet, you most likely just haven't heard of it yet. What Google Analytics can't do for you (or does with way too many details), HotJar makes as simple and beautiful as you can imagine. Dr. David Darmanin, the founder and CEO of HotJar, worked for years as a professional conversion expert and as a user experience (UX) designer for websites. When you put those two skills together, you get a tool that is so easy to use your grandmother could do it, and that is so good at converting your visitors into customers or subscribers that you'll wonder how you ever survived without it.

In this 57-minute episode, David reveals:

  • The power of HotJar and what it can do for your website
  • How understanding your visitors can get you more traffic and create more income from your blog
  • What heat maps are and what you can learn from them (you'll be amazed!)
  • How funneling information can tell you where your visitors are dropping off before they convert
  • What a feedback loop is and how you can use it to increase your conversion
  • What a net promoter score is and what it means for your blog

This interview has so much important information that you'll probably want to listen to it twice. The knowledge that Dr. David shares will definitely impact how you look at your website's analytics.

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If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for interviews, be sure to email them to podcast@foodbloggerpro.com.

Be sure to review us on iTunes!

Jul 14, 2015

Welcome back to the Food Blogger Pro Podcast!

For this episode, Bjork had the pleasure of talking with Sally McKenney, founder and creator of Sally's Baking Addiction.

Sally McKenney on creating success, ignoring the competition, and writing cookbooks.

If you haven't been over to Sally's Baking Addiction yet, you are certainly missing out. Sally creates baked goods to swoon over - from cheesecake to brownies to pies, and everything you can imagine with funfetti. She's also a whiz when it comes to blog success. Sally took her blog from zero to hero (read: full time job) in just two years. She is now the author of two cookbooks, Sally's Baking Addiction and the soon-to-come Sally's Candy Addiction.

In this 41-minute episode, Sally reveals:

  • Why comparing your baby blog to the big guns is not a good strategy
  • What she attributes to her rapid success (hint: it's not luck!)
  • How she juggled her full-time job and growing her food blog
  • How she got a cookbook deal - and kept up her blog while writing it
  • Where her traffic comes from
  • And the advice she would give herself back when she started her blog

This interview was such a great peek into the behind-the-scenes work that went into - and still goes into - the Sally's Baking Addiction blog. We loved learning from Sally and know you're going to love what she had to say.

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If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for interviews, be sure to email them to podcast@foodbloggerpro.com.

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