This episode is sponsored by GRO. Welcome to episode 573 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, to kick-off a new mini-series, Bjork is interviewing Ben Jabbawy from GRO (formerly known as Grocers List). If you’ve been looking for a smarter way to turn your social media followers into website visitors, email subscribers, and paying members — this episode is for you. Ben Jabbawy and his team at GRO have sent over 100 million DMs across Instagram and Facebook on behalf of...
12 days ago • 2 min read
We're excited to send new Food Blogger Pro blog posts to you via email! We'll share our latest and greatest blog posts with you where we'll talk about tips and strategies for growing your audience, creating great food content, and monetizing your blog, as well as updates on new courses available for Food Blogger Pro members! Updated Course: Understanding Ads Published on May 14, 2026 Hey, hi, hello! Guess what?! We pressed publish on a freshly updated course today, and we think you’re going...
19 days ago • 1 min read
We're excited to send new Food Blogger Pro blog posts to you via email! We'll share our latest and greatest blog posts with you where we'll talk about tips and strategies for growing your audience, creating great food content, and monetizing your blog, as well as updates on new courses available for Food Blogger Pro members! Trending Recipe Ideas This Summer Published on May 21, 2026 Are you planning your content calendar and looking for recipe inspiration for the summer months? Look no...
24 days ago • 5 min read
This episode is sponsored by Yoast. Welcome to episode 571 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Sharlene Murrell of Good Enough Moming. In this episode, Bjork Ostrom sits down with Sharlene to explore her journey of building a thriving food blog by mastering Pinterest. Sharlene shares how adopting a “ready, fire, aim” mindset and overcoming early struggles with keyword research helped her rapidly scale her traffic and income after leaving her day job....
26 days ago • 2 min read
This episode is sponsored by Clariti. Welcome to episode 570 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Jenn Lueke from Jenn Eats Goood. Jenn Lueke started Jenn Eats Goood in 2018 as a college student — no strategy, no monetization plan, just a hobby Instagram account she loved running. For five years, growth was slow, but she remained consistent. Then in 2023, something clicked. She leaned into meal planning and budget grocery content, and everything changed....
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
This episode is sponsored by Yoast and zZest. Welcome to episode 569 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Liz Wilcox. Early on in Liz’s career as a content creator, she noticed a pattern: the most successful creators all had one thing in common — a thriving email list. So she started hers from day one, and she never looked back. In the following years, Liz sold her travel blog, went all in on teaching email marketing, built a membership with 4,000...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
This email is sponsored by zZest. Turn recipes into shared, real-time cooking moments with zZest. What if your readers could cook with each other, not just read your recipes? zZest adds a live, interactive kitchen directly to your blog, turning passive traffic into an engaged community and new revenue. It’s completely free to use, and you earn a share of any revenue generated during live sessions. We’re opening a limited group of creators for early access with a higher revenue share. zZest is...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
This newsletter is sponsored by Yoast. Upgrade your blog’s SEO game today with Yoast. If you’re a food blogger, you’ve probably spent years mastering traditional SEO. But here’s the big question: how does your brand show up inside AI answers? Are you being cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini… or completely left out? That’s where Yoast comes in. Included with Yoast SEO AI+, Yoast SEO Brand Insights scans how your brand appears across AI platforms like Perplexity, Gemini, and ChatGPT. You...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
This episode is sponsored by Yoast. Welcome to episode 567 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Sally Ekus. Have you ever wondered what it actually takes to get a cookbook deal — and whether your platform is big enough to make it happen? Sally Ekus, a literary agent specializing in the cookbook space, is here to pull back the curtain on the entire process. In this episode, Sally shares exactly what she looks for when evaluating potential cookbook...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
