Makin' Bacon: Serve Your Fans. Grow Your Income.

Today we dive into everything you need to know when cooking on live TV Including how to pitch TV stations and set yourself up for success!

Today we dive into what you need to know when doing an online cooking class, why delegation is a key to growth, and how to pursue your creative vision!

As bloggers we are experts at teaching people. And one of the best ways to do that is by teaching cooking classes, but learning how to start, especially when the pandemic has pushed all classes online, can be really confusing. Luckily, today's guest is the perfect person to help us out.

Today we talk about how to work with traditional publications, when to engage with negative commenters, and how to respond in a crises.

Life as a food blogger is generally pretty low key most of the time. We write recipes, we take photos, we put it up on our website. But every once in a while something goes wrong and you're thrust into a crisis. Or, you know, there's a global pandemic. When this happens, it can be really hard to know what to do. But luckily today's guest is the perfect person to help us navigate through it all.

Join Jason as he interviews Andrew Wilder, the founder and CEO of NerdPress. They are going to chat about everything you need to know about website security, finding problems to solve, and what every blogger needs to know about maintaining and accessible site!

Join Jason as he interviews Casey Markee and they chat about everything SEO, including the biggest mistake bloggers make, what Core Web Vitals are, and how to prepare your site to get the most out of your holiday traffic!

Speaker, writer and trainer Casey Markee is the founder of digital consultancy Media Wyse and a well-known SEO professional with 20+ years of experience. Casey has trained SEO teams on five different continents, spoken at over 100 conferences, and has worked with thousands of bloggers in the Food, Lifestyle and Travel niches. He also collects comic books, is currently being forced to watch Love Island with his wife Tifany, and believes bacon should be its own food group.

As bloggers, we often forget that there is a whole world outside of our blogs. We get so caught up being online, writing our recipes and relying on ads and affiliate links that we forget there are things offline, whether it's tours, demos, events or classes. There's a lot of things you can do in the real world; at least when the pandemic is finally over.

Join Jason as he interviews Chef Debbi from Debs Kitchen, Edible Gardens & Cooking Tips and they chat about everything you need to know about running food tours, demoing with brands, and hosting live cooking classes!

Today, we talk about the what jobs are best to outsource, where to find freelancers, and how to tell when you really need help!

Running a blog can be a full time business...and so can managing social media, finding sponsorships opportunities, editing videos, taking photographs, and everything else we have to do! So how can you get it all done? By hiring the right people. It's a really intimidating process, but today's guest, Emily Perron, is the perfect person to show us how.

Come join me as I talk to Chelsea Cole from A Duck's Oven about publishing a cookbook, leveraging your blog to work with brands and how a photography style can help you stand out in the crowd!

Today, we talk about the power of tracking your time, how to limit distractions, and why if you aren't following a vision, you're not going anywhere.

As bloggers, there is always too much work to get done. So being able to effectively prioritize, and maximize, our efforts is a huge key to moving our blogs forward. It can feel really overwhelming at times, especially when we are busy, but today's guest is the perfect person to help us get started moving forward faster.

Today, we dive deep into going live on video, overcoming your fears, and why sometimes when things go wrong, it's just an opportunity to connect with your fans even more!

One of the biggest challenges bloggers and creators have is connecting with our audiences, of letting our personality come through and making our fans feel involved. One of the best ways to do this is through video, especially live video.

But between technology concerns and fear of messing up, many bloggers shy away from it. But today's guest is the perfect person to give us that boost of confidence we need, to get out there and connect!