Instagram Stories are one of the best ways for food bloggers to connect with their audience in an authentic, engaging, and interactive way. With features that encourage two-way communication and real-time interaction, Stories can help build trust, strengthen your community, and drive traffic to your blog or other platforms.
Creating videos is one of the most popular ways to share content, especially when it comes to food. Plus, there’s plenty of tools out there that can make the entire process, from start to finish, as seamless as possible.
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!
Here at Food Blogger Pro, we’re big believers in diversifying your income streams. And one potential income stream for food creators is… Instagram!
With the sun-setting of Instagram’s Reels Play Bonus in March of 2023, many Instagram creators are looking for new (or just more!) ways to monetize their Instagram accounts. While many food bloggers primarily use Instagram as a means to drive traffic back to their sites, there are lots of other opportunities for earning money on the platform.
Curious to learn more? Let’s dive in!
Oh hi there! We just pressed “publish” on two Quick Win lessons for our Food Blogger Pro members, and they’re both about Tailwind.
Tailwind is a powerful marketing tool that helps creators plan, create, schedule, and promote content to share across their platforms.
Are you creating videos for your blog posts? If so, you probably want to share them on social media.
Videos can be shared on pretty much every social media platform, which is great for getting the most out of the videos you’re producing.
But it can also be a bit confusing because there are different recommendations for each platform. Between the videos you share on Instagram Stories and on the Facebook Feed, the recommended dimensions can vary quite a bit.
Luckily, we have your back. 😊 This post will be constantly updated with new recommendations so you can be confident you’re sharing the right kind of video to each social platform:
Instagram algorithm. Those two words might fill you with dread, or they might ignite your competitive spirit. Whichever team you’re on, Instagram saves are a critical, yet often overlooked, part of the elusive Instagram algorithm.
And that’s what we’re here to help you navigate… everything you would ever need to know about Instagram saves!
Filming recipe videos is a great way to visually show your readers and followers how to make a recipe. Videos are also incredibly popular on almost every social media platform.
Maybe you’re already filming recipe videos and just want to up your game, or maybe you’re a recipe video newbie looking for the best camera for cooking videos. Either way, we’re here to help!
We are going to take a deep dive into the gear that our sister site and food blog, Pinch of Yum, uses for recipe videos – from cameras and tripods to editing software.
Hello friends! It is a wonderful day in Food Blogger Pro land!
We have a brand new Quick Win for you today, all about Quick Tips for Making Recipe Reels on Instagram! 🎥
If you make recipe videos for your blog posts, I know you know that they take a lot of work.
There’s the planning, the shooting, the editing, the promoting… not to mention cleaning up the kitchen after the whole ordeal is over. 😉
So if you’re doing all of that hard work for just one video, is there a way to make that content work for you long-term? A way to take that content and repurpose it in a different way that will allow you to reach more people without doing more work?
The answer: Yes!
And in fact, we’re talking about three different ways that you can repurpose your recipe videos in this article.
Since Pinterest is typically one of a food blogger’s top traffic sources, it’s no surprise that we’re excited about their new Pinterest Predicts 2022 report.
Pinterest Predicts is a “not-yet-trending report” where Pinterest tries to identify the searches and topics that will be trending in the new year. And the reason they produce this report each year is to help content creators take advantage of their predictions via the posts, videos, and photos they share on Pinterest!
If you go to the Pinterest Predicts page, you can filter by category (“Food and beverage” being one of them), so we thought it would be fun to unpack four of their most interesting food and beverage predictions for 2022. Let’s dive in!