Eat Blog Talk 612: A New Way to Build an Alternative Revenue Stream - Spillt's Newest Offering with Ann Baum and Maddy Baum
In episode 612, Megan chats to Ann and Maddy Baum about Spillt's newest offering: Premium subscriptions and why this is a great way to build an extra revenue stream for bloggers.
Spillt is a social app for home cooks to save and organize their recipes from anywhere (however we don't scrape the recipe, we always respect bloggers' traffic). Spillt also offers bloggers tools to share their content through a free Wordpress plugin that syncs their recipes to Spillt. And most recently, Spillt launched a paywalled subscription tool that allows bloggers to create a subscription offering for their fans, giving them access to all their blog recipes ad-free, as well as customizable meal plans.
In this episode, you'll learn why Spillt is a great asset for food bloggers, including its ease of use, social element, subscription tool and meal plan creation, which aim to diversify bloggers' revenue streams.
Key points discussed:
- The Spillt app is a mobile and web-based platform: It allows home cooks to save and organize recipes from anywhere online, making it easy to access your favorite recipes.
- Spillt respects bloggers' content and traffic: The app syncs recipes to the platform without scraping content, ensuring bloggers maintain their ad revenue and audience.
- Spillt offers a free WordPress plugin that integrates bloggers' content into the app: This plugin allows bloggers to build a profile and have their recipe reviews and ratings sync back to their blog.
- New features to help bloggers diversify their revenue and save time: Spillt is launching a premium subscription tool and a meal planning feature.
- Premium subscription benefits: It allows bloggers to offer an ad-free, premium version of their recipes to their followers, providing an additional revenue stream for bloggers.
- A meal planning feature comes with the Premium subscription: It makes it easy for bloggers to create and share customizable meal plans with their followers.
- Spillt has a social element that allows users to see what recipes their friends and family have saved: This can help with recipe discovery and community building.
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