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The best way to use Crowdfire? Want to know the best way to use Crowdfire? Want the most efficient way to maximise your social networks? I’ll tell you the secrets behind it and how implementing it will effect your social media and your blog’s readership. In this post I’ll lay bare everything I’ve learned about using Crowdfire to build followers. It starts with one important thing to remember. One major rule to follow. Don’t use …
‘Unfortunately, your post titled “The most awesome food photo I’ve ever taken” was not accepted.’ Sound familiar? Those words must echo emptily in the inbox of food bloggers all over the world, sliding into your e-mail surreptitiously amongst all the other highly important mail like discount codes and contact form spam advertising SEO services. I’m particularly lucky that Foodgawker e-mails normally arrive around the time I get up here in the UK, which is a …
Ad Men This month I decided to look at some different ways to and increase the readership of my blog. I considered various techniques that help to raise the profile of a blog, especially through social media. My personal favourite social media channel is Twitter, simply because of the way you interact with other people through words, rather than images. Don’t, however get confused with my favourite for driving traffic, which is undoubtedly Pinterest. Something …
If there’s one thing that turns me off when I read a blog post, it’s starting with phrases like “YOU NEED THIS IN YOUR LIFE!” or “This recipe is AMAZING and will CHANGE your WORLD”. You don’t NEED any recipe in your life, you just need basic food and water and the absolute last thing you need in your life is someone telling you what choices you should make. You should work them out for …
I’ve been hovering around the fringes of the @fdbloggers Twitter community for a while, watching the #foodbloggersGTK posts. So I’ve finally decided to join in the party, with my own responses to the questions below… Name? Gavin Blog? brainfoodstudio.com (the little egg) What was your reason for starting a blog? I started taking photos of food I made, and posting recipes on internet forums about 7 years ago. When I was looking for something to …
I feel utterly charmed and enthused at one of my recipes being named reader’s recipe of the week in The Guardian’s cook supplement, which comes with the paper on a Saturday. After seeing the brief of ‘asparagus’ I decided to come up with something simple, which wouldn’t detract from that seasonal superstar of an ingredient. And it proved worthwhile as my recipe, Asparagus with preserved lemon was named as winner in the 9th May edition, …