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The Food Blogger Pro Podcast

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: September, 2021
Sep 28, 2021

How Bob's Red Mill works with content creators, how creators can effectively reach out to brands, and how to secure ongoing brand partnerships with Cassidy Stockton.

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Welcome to episode 324 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Cassidy Stockton about how Bob’s Red Mill works with content creators on sponsored content.

Building Strong Partnerships

When we chat about sponsored content here on the podcast, we usually talk to creators and publishers about how they secure partnerships with brands. But today, we’re flipping the script and hearing things directly from a brand’s perspective!

In this episode, Bjork interviews Cassidy Stockton, the Senior Content Marketing Manager at Bob’s Red Mill, about how her team works with content creators, what she wishes creators knew about working with brands, and more.

If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about how to reach out to brands, how to negotiate your rates, or how to secure ongoing brand partnerships, this episode with Cassidy is for you!

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • What Cassidy does at Bob’s Red Mill
  • Why they invest so much into influencer marketing
  • What kinds of campaigns they find successful
  • What an employee-owned company is
  • What metrics they look at when working with influencers
  • What influencers can do to maintain a strong relationship with a brand
  • How they handle invoices and payments
  • How they initiate partnerships at Bob’s Red Mill
  • Why they consider video to be essential right now
  • How they’ve been experimenting on TikTok
  • How they negotiate rates with influencers
  • How Bob’s Red Mill works with various agencies
  • What you should include in your media kit
  • What she wishes creators knew about working with brands

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

Learn more about joining the Food Blogger Pro community at foodbloggerpro.com/membership

Sep 21, 2021

Tracking your expenses, optimizing your business for tax season, and setting yourself up for success financially with Ansley Beutler from Peach Perfect Financials.

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Welcome to episode 323 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Ansley Beutler from Peach Perfect Financials about optimizing your blog’s financials to set your business up for success.

Understanding the Numbers

While Ansley Beutler is well-known for sharing delicious and healthy recipes on The Fit Peach, she’s also a CPA and an expert when it comes to the financial side of running a food blog!

Through her consultancy business Peach Perfect Financials, she helps bloggers level up their business and gain control and clarity over their finances.

In this episode, she shares why you should have a business bank account, how to keep track of your expenses, how to structure your business to optimize your taxes, and more.

Whether you just launched your blog or if you’ve been blogging for years, we think you’ll have a lot of great takeaways from this episode. Enjoy!

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • Why Ansley started her food blog
  • What she does at Peach Perfect Financials
  • How she balances working on her blog and her client work
  • Why she recommends having a business bank account and credit card
  • What business expenses and startup expenses are
  • Why it’s so important to track your expenses
  • What happens if you get audited
  • How you get taxed when you run your own business
  • When you might consider making an S election
  • What an EIN is
  • How you can keep track of your receipts digitally
  • How to determine what your salary should be as a business owner
  • How to set yourself up your success in the future financially

Resources:

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

Learn more about joining the Food Blogger Pro community at foodbloggerpro.com/membership

Sep 14, 2021

Investing money into your business, deleting posts to encourage growth, and the importance of having accountability partners with Sarah Cook from Sustainable Cooks.

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Welcome to episode 322 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Sarah Cook from Sustainable Cooks about what specific strategies she implemented to grow her blog’s traffic and increase her revenue.

Going All In

A few years ago, Sarah Cook was feeling burnt out and ready to call it quits on her blog. But after listening to some food blogging podcasts, she decided to switch up her blogging strategy and see if she could turn it into a thriving business.

And today on the podcast, she’s sharing everything she’s done along the way to go from 17k to 600k monthly pageviews with her blog, Sustainable Cooks! She explains some of the unique ways she has invested in her blog, why she decided to delete hundreds of posts, why she loves having a blogging accountability partner, and more.

It’s a really inspiring interview, and we know it’ll leave you feeling motivated and excited to make progress on your blogging goals.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • How Sarah decided to go all in with her blog
  • How she struggled to define her identity as a full-time blogger
  • Where she started investing money into her business
  • How she shifted her content strategy
  • Why she deleted hundreds of posts on her blog
  • How she categorized her content into specific buckets
  • Why ad earnings are typically lower in Q1
  • How her blog’s success has helped her support causes she cares about
  • How she fits work into the margins of her day
  • What tasks she decided to hire out
  • Why she loves having a blogging accountability partner

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

Learn more about joining the Food Blogger Pro community at foodbloggerpro.com/membership

Sep 7, 2021

What an exitpreneur is, why we're not able to run our businesses forever, and what factors to keep in mind when deciding to sell your business with Joe Valley.

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Welcome to episode 321 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Joe Valley about making a great exit and maximizing your profits when selling a business.

The EXITpreneur’s Playbook

When it comes down to it, we’re not able to run our businesses forever. And most business owners wait to sell until they’re exhausted and emotionally rundown, and by that time, it’s too late to have a great exit.

Enter: Joe Valley! After facilitating nearly half a billion dollars in exits, Joe has written the bestselling book, “The EXITpreneur’s Playbook” to help online business owners get the maximum value and best deal structure possible when selling their businesses.

Even if you’re not quite ready to sell your own business, this interview will show you what areas to focus on to create a successful pathway to your own eventual exit.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • What an exitpreneur is
  • Why it’s important to be on top of your financials
  • What the difference is between a CPA and a bookkeeper
  • Why it’s important to consider risk, transferability, documentation, and growth when deciding to sell
  • Why you need to have specific goals in mind when it comes to selling your business
  • What SKUs are
  • What the transition period looks like after selling a business
  • What most people do after selling a business

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

Learn more about joining the Food Blogger Pro community at foodbloggerpro.com/membership

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