085: 9 million visitors & 450 contributors: the Story of Her View From Home with Leslie Means

Working with contributors, monetizing from day 1, and finding your support person with Leslie Means from Her View From Home

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Welcome to episode 85 of the Food Blogger Pro podcast! This week, Bjork chats with Leslie Means, cofounder of Her View From Home, about scaling her website to over 450 contributors and 9 million visitors per month.

 

Leslie Means started her website just like many of us did - with a passion and a dream. However, instead of the typical create-publish-promote-repeat agenda, she took a bit of a different path: she wanted to publish articles from contributors and pay those authors based on article performance.

Today, Her View From Home has over 9 million monthly visitors and pulls from a pool of 450 contributors. The business is thriving, and Leslie is here to tell us all about it.

In this episode, Leslie shares:

• How Her View from Home started, and where it is today
• How she monetized her website from the beginning
• Why writing a business plan was instrumental for her success
• Why her husband was so helpful in the early days
• When she started working with contributors and why
• How they afforded to pay contributors
• When she started taking an income from the site
• What she would have done differently at the start
• What social media platform has worked best for HVFH

 

Resources:

• AdThrive
• The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
• Her View from Home
• Become a contributor for Her View From Home

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