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The Benefits of Creating a Membership Site for Your Food Blog

Ann @ Food Blogger Pro
by Ann @ Food Blogger Pro on Feb 6, 2025 in

Have you ever wondered how you can turn your passion for food blogging into a recurring revenue stream? Or maybe you want to create a space where your most loyal followers can hang out, learn from your recipes, and engage with you on a deeper level. Well, if you’re dreaming of building a community and earning money from it, a membership site could be just what you need.

In this post, we’ll explore the reasons why you should create a membership site for your food blog, tips for keeping your members engaged, and some of the best platforms you can use to get started.

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5 Ways to Use Amazon Affiliate Links for Food Content Creators

Natalie @ FBP
by Natalie @ FBP on Nov 7, 2024 in

One of the most common goals for food content creators is to make money through sharing recipes online. And one of the best ways to monetize your content? Affiliate marketing! Affiliate marketing is a great, passive way to earn revenue and can be an especially valuable source of income before you meet the criteria for major ad networks. 

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5 Ways to Make More Money from Your Food Blog

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by Ann @ Food Blogger Pro on Aug 8, 2024 in ,

If you’re making a dollar from your food blog, you could probably be making two. If you’re making $100, you could probably be making $200. If you’re making $1,000, you could probably be making $2,000. I could keep going with that, but you probably get the gist by now: it’s time to maximize your blog’s earning potential! 💰

While it may be easy to increase your blog’s income by adding additional ad units, writing spammy posts with many affiliate links, or pitching unrelated or untested products to your readers, the goal here is to increase your revenue-making capabilities without degrading the quality of your site.

The more value you can provide to your readers, the easier it is for them to return to your blog. Words to live by! 

Let’s explore some ways you can amplify your monetization strategies in this post!

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7 Simple Advertising Terms Every Food Blogger Should Understand

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by Bjork on Jun 27, 2024 in ,

Let’s face it — advertising terms can be confusing. But if you’re looking to turn your food blog into your career (or a money-making side hustle) then it’s important that you have a solid understanding of advertising terminology.

The good news is that the most common advertising terms are fairly simple to figure out, especially if you have examples to reference. In this post we’re going to look at seven different advertising terms every food blogger should understand and explain them using simple and easy to understand examples.

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5 Ways to Find Brands for Pitching

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by Natalie @ FBP on Apr 4, 2024 in

As a food content creator, one of the most popular ways to grow your income is through working with brands. While brands do reach out to individual content creators, sometimes it’s best to be proactive and pitch to brands. However, crafting the perfect pitch is meaningless until you identify the right brands to collaborate with. The process of finding brands to reach out to involves researching, networking, and thinking strategically! 

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18 Ways to Make Money From Your Food Blog in 2023

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by Emily @ FBP on Apr 13, 2023 in , ,

For many food bloggers, the ultimate dream is to “go pro” and turn their blog into a business that can generate a full-time income. It’s possible, but it takes a lot of hard work, dedication, luck, and diversification to make that much money from your food blog. That last one, diversification, is a concept that people don’t often think about when they consider creating a full-time income from their blog.

People often use the phrase “don’t put all your eggs in one basket” when referring to diversification, but that phrase doesn’t really work for what we’re trying to communicate in this post. We like this phrase better:

Fill your empty egg carton.

Okay, we’ll be the first to admit that it’s not as catchy, but the visual of the egg carton helps to communicate the point that we’re hoping to make, which is this…

It’s really hard to create a full income from just one income source (i.e. one egg), but when you fill all of the possible income sources (i.e. openings in the egg carton), it becomes much easier to make that much money from your food blog.

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How to Make a Media Kit for Your Food Blog

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by Emily @ FBP on Mar 9, 2023 in

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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6 Ways You Can Make Money with Your Email List

Emily @ FBP
by Emily @ FBP on Jan 12, 2023 in ,

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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6 Strategies for Negotiating Sponsored Content Contracts

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by Emily @ FBP on Jun 2, 2022 in ,

If you’ve ever had a paid partnership with a brand, you know that contracts come with the territory. And if you haven’t done any sponsored content yet, now is the time to brush up on your negotiating skills and contract terminology. 

We’ve reviewed the MAGIC Framework for negotiating with brands in the past, but we wanted to dive deeper into the most common areas for negotiation within contracts.

I know, I know, I can almost hear the snores through the computer screen. But learning the language of contracts can empower you to be a much stronger negotiator and can mean a difference of thousands of dollars in payment.

We’ve broken down six clauses of a sponsored content contract that often lead to negotiations between a brand and a content creator. Within each section, we’ll chat about the most important things to look out for and prioritize. Let’s dig in!

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The ‘MAGIC’ Framework for Negotiating with Brands

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by Alexa @ FBP on May 5, 2022 in ,
a photo of a woman drizzling oil into a jar and the title of this blog post, 'The MAGIC Framework for negotiating with brands'

Working with brands on sponsored content is one of the most popular ways that food bloggers, influencers, and content creators can monetize their online businesses.

That said, when it comes time to negotiate your rate and your work with a brand, it can get a little intimidating and complicated.

But knowing what to expect by doing some work ahead of time can help you feel more comfortable and confident when you get to the negotiations.

Allow us to introduce to you the concept of MAGIC, a framework created by our Legal Expert, Danielle Liss from Businessese, in our Negotiating with Brands Quick Win lesson available to all Food Blogger Pro Members.

This framework will help you approach negotiating with brands as a collaboration-based exercise, versus one rooted in conflict. It’ll help you identify and articulate what both sides want in a sponsored partnership so that both you and the brand are happy with the contracted work.

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