The Vine Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In this episode:

Do you ever feel like there are not enough hours in the day to get everything you need to get done? Maybe you decide to hire an assistant, thinking that will solve all of your problems! But now you have a bigger problem. Now you have to give your assistants tasks and feedback and now you have more on your plate.

If you have ever found yourself in this position, you have been the bottleneck in your business.

Today I’m going to unpack a few ways to untangle this web and help create a more seamless experience for you and your team. 

 

Key Points:

• Give ownership not delegation
  
• Create systems around your bottlenecks
  
• Rely on task management systems
  
• Streamline your plan and goals
• Utilize other team members
  
• DO LESS

 

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Related Episodes:

Episode 101: The Standard and Systems Your Food Blog Needs With Jillian Dolberry

Episode 147: How to Create More Content

 

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Work with Grace + Vine in 2024:

1. Design Services for Food Bloggers

2. Our newest way to redesign your website! Learn more here.

In this episode:

What is social proof? Essentially it’s the trust that a reader has in your blog or recipe because they’ve seen other people like it.

Social proof is really important these days because of how much other social proof is out there already between Amazon reviews, restaurant reviews, etc.

If you’ve been wondering the best way to showcase social proof on your blog, listen in for these creative ways you can share your readers feedback and engagement on your blog!

 

Key Points:

• Add recipe rating stars to your header
• Optimize Commenting
• Showcase a reader comment in blog post
• Add social sharing plugin and display total number of shares
• Encourage people to share when they make your recipes

 

Related Episodes:

Episode 194: 3 Quick Wins for E-E-A-T

Connect With Madison

Instagram | Website | Show Notes

Work with Grace + Vine in 2024:

1. Design Services for Food Bloggers

2. Our newest way to redesign your website! Learn more here.

In this episode:

As a food blogger, you want to continue to grow to reach more people with your blog. But have you ever considered if your blog is ready for growth? 

Listen in to hear the things you might not have considered that you can prepare for before your blog's growth feels out of control. 

In this episode:

1. Being ready for comments & email increase
2. Being proactive about site speed & hosting
3. Making your website easy to navigate
4. Having an easy-to-find email opt-in

Connect With Madison

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Work with Grace + Vine in 2024:

1. Design Services for Food Bloggers

2. Our newest way to redesign your website! Learn more here.

As a web designer, I spend a lot of time imagining and studying how users behave on websites. User experience and how a user moves through a website is so important to understand as a food blogger. So in today’s 100th episode, we are going to talk about your reader’s journey through your food blog.

In this episode, I'll cover: 

• Understand how people get to your site
• Understand what people do next
• What is happening as people move deeper into your website

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Web Design for Food Bloggers

Today we chat about building your website team and what you need to know when you are building that team to manage your website. We talk about building a team for your website and thinking like a CEO. Join us for this fun and casual conversation!

In this episode, I'll cover:

• The biggest struggles with managing a website
• The ideal website team for food bloggers
• Things to look for when hiring someone 

Connect with Madison

 Instagram | Website | Show Notes

Web Design for Food Bloggers

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NerdPress

Have you ever wondered which part of your brand strategy is the most important? Is it the main font in your logo? Or your color palette? Is it your website design? Today I’m sharing the key ingredient to your brand strategy! 

In this episode, I'll cover: 

• The key ingredient is your audience
• Discovering your audience
• Connecting with your audience

 Instagram | Website | Show Notes

Web Design for Food Bloggers

Resources:

How to Connect More with Your Audience

Three Days to Discover Who Your Audience is

Two Questions to Ask to Understand Your Audience 

Strategies to Connect with Your Audience

Do you ever get to the end of the week and wonder what you even accomplished? In today’s time management episode we’re going to chat about why setting weekly goals is so important and how you can get started setting weekly goals and managing your time, so that you can be more productive and reach those bigger goals you have in mind for your food blog. 

In this episode, I'll cover: 

• Why you should set weekly goals

• How to set weekly goals

• Break the goal down into smaller pieces

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Web Design for Food Bloggers

Resources:

Time Management for Food Bloggers: Save Time with Time Tracking

Time Management: Creating Your Ideal Week

If you have ever wondered how some food bloggers manage to run not one but two food blogs at once, and what all this requires behind the scenes, you are not going to want to miss today’s episode. I sat down with Christine Pittman, of Cook the Story and The Cookful, to discuss lessons learned from running two blogs, the team behind this, and her journey on this incredible feat. Plus, Christine tells us about her experience working with us on website design for her two very unique blogs. 

In this episode, I'll cover:

• Why she started a second blog
• Ideas for having contributors
• How a podcast can support your blog
• Hiring full time employees vs contractors
• What it was like redesigning her websites

Connect with Madison

 Instagram | Website | Show Notes

Web Design for Food Bloggers

Connect with Christine

Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest | TMI Podcast

Cook the Story | The Cookful

Around here we talk a LOT about how much strategy impacts your branding. But have you ever wondered why it matters? In this episode I’m digging into why strategy is an essential part of our branding process!

In this episode, I'll cover:

• Strategy creates direction for your brand
• Strategy helps your audience connect
• Strategy creates timeless design

 Instagram | Website | Show Notes

Web Design for Food Bloggers

When you are considering a big investment in your business, like redesigning your website, you might ask yourself what you’re going to get out of this experience. For some investments, there is a financial ROI that you will see directly as a result of something you do in your business. For others, the results may be more intangible. Let’s talk about what to expect in terms of ROI with a new website. 

In this episode, I'll cover: 

• Every website is different
• Finite vs. intangible results
• What are some results you can expect from a website redesign? 

 Instagram | Website | Show Notes

Web Design for Food Bloggers