As a social media platform, Pinterest contains huge potential as a resource for bloggers. According to Hootsuite blog statistics, 250 million people use Pinterest every month. That is 250 MILLION people who could be accessing your blog’s content. So what are some ways that you can maximize Pinterest’s potential and use it to your advantage?…
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Easy Way to Create Videos and Grow Your Audience
Here’s a super simple way to create videos all with the pictures you are already taking with your phone. In this video, I’ll show a web-based software program that allows you to easily create videos. With this program, you can add another social media profile: YouTube. Did you know that YouTube is the second biggest…
The Next Big Thing: Push Notifications
An average person only spends seconds on a website before they leave. So, it is important to capture their information as soon as possible right? Chances are you probably have an opt in box on the right hand side OR you’re using some “pop up technology” that only works 50% of the time and is often ignored..…
Upleap: Your Instagram concierge
Do you need an Instagram concierge? There is one. It’s called Upleap. But before we get into that let’s chat about Instagram and what you absolutely shouldn’t do to grow your account. Use the follow / unfollow method. It’s pretty self explanatory: you follow people, they follow you back, then you unfollow them. People just…
9 Things Food Bloggers Wish Publicists Knew
When I began blogging, seven years ago, publicists never sent press releases to bloggers. Most of my information came from signing up for restaurants’ email newsletters. Now, my inbox is bombarded with pitch after pitch of news that I can barely keep up with. Want to hone your pitching skills? Here are some tips on…
Tips for desk side visits / meet and greets with destinations
If you’ve established yourself as a blogger, you may receive invites for a meet and greet from a visiting destination. Culinary travel is becoming quite popular! While many destinations present this as their way of wooing us writers and bloggers to visit their destination, it is also a way for them to gauge if we will be…
7 Tips for Protecting and Securing Your WordPress Blog
When you started food blogging, you probably just wanted a fun way to express your creativity online. Who knew that as a blog owner, we have to be in charge of so many things other than content? Probably the most important thing is making sure our sites remain intact. Here are some steps you can…
7 Essential Steps to Protecting Your Food Blog’s Content
Guest post by Lesley Ellen Harris, a copyright lawyer, author and educator. Lesley is the founder and publisher of the copyright resource site, Copyrightlaws.com, where she explains copyright law in plain English. As a food blogger, you create content (recipes, text and photographs) and distribute it via your blog to the world at large. You work…
Bloggers’ Byte food and lifestyle conference
The Bloggers’ Byte is made for Bloggers and Influencers. Our goal is to equip bloggers with the tools, resources and network to help them succeed with their blog and social media channels. The Bloggers’ Byte will take place in Atlanta, GA at Ponce City Market. PCM is a popular new space in downtown Atlanta. The…
Rookie mistakes publicists make hosting media events
Even if you’re a newbie in the PR world, don’t make these mistakes when hosting writers and bloggers at media events 1. Not having enough food. This is a cardinal sin and it happens all too often at media events. Sure, you want to have enough bodies show up to please your client. So you invite WAAY…