5 Ways To Kick Start Your Career As A Food Blogger

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”

-Mark Twain

Well, I certainly believe in the above quote. To be a food blogger, you have to love food more than anything. One might think that being a food blogger is easy, but let me tell you it isn’t. After a certain point of trying out many cuisines and many flavors, not every thing that you eat will appease your taste buds anymore. And just then, you are fit to pursue food blogging as your career, not just because that will pay your bills, but because now you can differentiate between a good and a delicious dish, you can do your job with full honesty and your reviews will benefit your audience.

Food Blogging is not an instant career option. You need to invest a lot of your time and effort into your page or your channel to make it grow, and mostly it takes years to successfully establish yourself in the food blogging industry. One of the reasons why food blogging is a very time-consuming career option is because there are many food bloggers these days.

But before everything, you must know what Food blogging is.

Food blogging is a complex interweaving of a “foodie” or of someone with a gourmet interest in cooking along with blog writing and photography. Their blogs mainly consist of pictures taken by the creator himself/herself and most of them focus specifically on food photography and food presentation.

Now, let us discuss how to make a career out of food blogging.

How to Start A Food Blog?

The following are the most important things that you need to keep in mind while thinking of starting a food blog:

1.Research: Try to think of ways to make your content stand out from others while you’re working through the initial steps towards starting a food blog. Basically be authentic and innovative! It’s best to pick a very specific niche, as food blogs cover a variety of topics and you might have a hard time holding attention and driving the audience towards your content.

Some topics that a food blogger gets to choose from while creating their content are:

· Recipes: Most food bloggers incorporate their content through this format. They try to create recipes accompanied by a personal story related to the dish.

· Restaurant and Food Product Reviews: The bloggers who choose this niche for their content provide detailed dining guides and reviews of restaurants and consumer packaged food products.

· Super niche: Cataloging a bit from every niche within the food itself and sometimes even incorporating advice about lifestyle choices, is what a super niche in food blogging is about.

2. Setup: Technical steps to set up your food blog, like choosing your domain or identifying your niche, creating your channel on YouTube or your page on Instagram, Facebook, and on other social media platforms, setting up your website on WordPress, and then customizing the theme for your WordPress.

3. Content creation: Creating articles and other content on social media that will populate your blog. Always remember, creating good and informative content is the most important part of food blogging.

4. Photography: It is not mandatory for you to be a professional photographer to become a food blogger. However, it is important to click good pictures, with good clarity and food being the center of focus.

5. Editing: Again you don’t need to be a professional in this field either. All you need to know is just the basics of editing. Sometimes blurring the background to bring the focus completely on your dish or increasing the brightness of your clicked picture to make the dish stand out, is all you need to do.

6. Promotion: Getting the word to outdrive your targeted audience towards your content. For your WordPress, you will need SEO to help you in bringing the audience to your blog. Search Engine Optimization or SEO is the process of increasing website traffic quality and also the quantity through search engine ranking efforts.

Once you have a good amount of traffic on your blog, you can sign up with an ad network to monetize your blog. Some food bloggers in India make upto 3–4 lakhs per month through ads on their websites.

With food blogging, you can give a push to the traditional delicacies of a place or the mouth watering street food. It is a wonderful career option as you get to share your taste, experiences and your stories with people around the world.