How to understand your blog data, why blogging was more profitable than freelancing, and how to write a cookbook with Mary Cressler and Sean Martin.

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Welcome to episode 262 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Mary Cressler and Sean Martin from Vindulge about the journey to how they run their food blog today.

The Journey of Food Bloggers

Mary Cressler and Sean Martin have done it all: they freelanced, they worked with ad companies, they worked with influencer marketing companies, they catered, they wrote a cookbook –– all in the pursuit of finding what it is that they like to do.

This conversation with the Vindulge team will inspire you to think about your own journey and dig deep to figure out the way you want to run your blog. There’s not a “right” way or a “wrong” way to run your blog; this episode will give you some ideas to help make your blogging journey the best it can be for you.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

How Mary and Sean started to work together
How they transitioned to working on their own thing
What it was like to establish their niche
How Mary decided to focus on her own blog over freelancing
How they started working on sponsored content
How they monetize their blog
Why it’s important to understand your data (and how to gather it)
Why their email community is so important to them
How they decide to spend their time
How all of their content works together
What connectional intelligence means
How they wrote a book proposal and pitched their book

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If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for interviews, be sure to email them to podcast@foodbloggerpro.com.

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