In this episode, I interviewed food and travel blogging rockstar Kit Graham of theKittchen blog and the Windy City Blogger Collective.  Kit is a “full-time blogger” and she shares with us some of the tips and tricks she deployed along the way to grow her blog income.

She is also the leader of the Windy City Blogger Collective and shares some great tips for getting a blog started. We discuss what platforms to choose and why it’s good to maybe rethink your Instagram strategy. Most importantly, she outlines some valuable traits that a serious blogger should expect.  (Hint, be scrappy).

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Tina Haupert has been at her blog and online strategy for over ten years with what started as a wedding day prep blog turned complete healthy living resource. Just interviewing Tina was so inspirational for me and I’m genuinely amazed at how she owned what is often considered just a hobby blog and turned it into a successful online business. Great listen for those who have started a blog and many not sure how to take it to the next level.

Tina’s blog Carrots n Cake has evolved into what she calls a healthy living resource that truly marries her journal-like content with an online marketing strategy. We discuss how she produced up to 3 posts a day while she was working full time. What she outsources so she can focus on content creation and how her blog landed her a book deal with a traditional publisher.

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Binta Diallo is the blogger behind Internal Archives and in this episode, we discuss how she’s grown her blog since inception 3 years ago.  For Binta, creating content is about substances rather than stats so we discuss how she creatively sources ideas and keeps her blogging goals. Hint: She does this by sourcing her morning routine with prayer and utilizing the flow blogging technique.  Be sure to listen in, great episode if you’re looking to get into blogging or amp up your existing game.

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In this episode, accomplished world traveler and blogger Sahara Rose and I chat about how she is transforming her travel blogging experience into an online travel coaching business. Sahara Rose has a very interesting story and inspiring vision for how she is tackling the travel coaching industry. Most importantly, the thing that I love about her is that she is a go-getter and doesn’t let fear get in her way.

Sahara starting sharing content with little intent to turn it into a business but today she is realizing the power and profitability of building an authority online. Regardless if it’s traveling the world or posting content to her blog, Sahara is fearless and not afraid to make mistakes. I can tell she dives head first into whatever she puts her mind to. That is absolutely the right attitude for content entrepreneurs and I know that her story will inspire those listening, I know it did for me. She is for sure someone you want to follow.

Want to give a big thank you to Mr. Keith Murphy who introduced Sahara to me and a thank you to our sponsor Content Academy the premier school for learning content strategy, Content Academy offers a 10-week Applied Content Strategy Online Course, taught by 20-year content strategy pro and coach, Rebecca Steurer. Rebecca helps people like you start exciting and rewarding careers in content strategy. Apply online at contentacademy.com.