Food Journalism
Food blogging Blogging is one of the best ways to communicate with the world. It’s so amazing to be able to put your thoughts across the world and see like-minded people connecting back. There is no better feeling than seeing your ideas getting appreciated by a large audience and you make money from blogging. Food is something that everybody eats, many times a day. Some fantasies to cook a delicious meal and some fantasy to eat a delicious meal. Food is evergreen and much talked about the subject of life. Everybody likes to eat and experiment with new food. Hence, food blogs gain so much popularity and they never run out of business. Can you make money from blogging? You cannot just run a food blog to satisfy the fantasy of others, you need to make money from what you do. You as a food blogger would need to make money from blogging. So in this post, we will talk about 15 different legit ways of making money from your food blog and quit your boring 9-5 job. What do Food bloggers do? Food blogging is not just making a recipe and posting it on your blog. There is a lot more to food blogging. A food blogger is typically found involved in: 15 Ways Food Bloggers Make Money from Blogging Out of 15 possible ways to make money from your food blog that we are going to discuss further, we currently make money from 8 of them. We are at different stages on each of them with the highest revenue source for us being the workshops and online courses but our affiliate income and YouTube is picking up the race quickly. Let’s begin. 1. CookBooks & Ebooks Writing a book has always been an exciting thing for me. Remember how we used to first look at the name of the author of our school books and if my story books were of Ruskin Bond, I always used to get filled with joy.Will people buy my books by just looking at my name on the book, because they trust me? The feeling itself is great. And best is that it helps you make money too. So far I have only done one e-book. It was a trial to see how things work, and my first attempt was successful. It is a small book of 12 recipes. Nothing too great about photography because I was immature those days with my photography skills. However, I was able to publish my book on Amazon. Made 5K from it. So all I need is just 20 such silly books to make 100K. And will I be making more if I produce higher-quality books? Of course yes. Quality content is worth much more than you think. And what about the hard copies of these books? 2. Sponsored Post If you have a food blog and a good audience reach, you will have product owners reaching out to you requesting you to write something about their product in one of your posts with a link to their blog/site and in-return they are going to pay you for your services.Sponsored posts are a great way to make money from blogging. The key to this is to keep sponsored posts limited to brands that you trust or have used personally. You want to be sure that you are not recommending the wrong product to your audience.Your blog credibility something that you should be careful of. Also, Google might not favor too many sponsor posts in a short span. You will also find marketers reaching out to you for sponsored posts for their clients and will pay you mere pennies, but if you happen to deal directly with the clients you will have a good pay-out. I have never preferred working with brokers. Depending on your blog traffic people charge anywhere from ₹50 to ₹3000 per blog post. Higher the traffic, more you make per sponsored post. I know a few people in the industry who own multiple blogs and make money from blogging via sponsored posts. 3. Food Critic If you wonder who is a food critic, then for your academics, a food critic is someone who explores the restaurants and eating out places and writes about them and introduces the food businesses to people.Food critics share their experiences with different places and different cuisines. Their opinion matters to their audience and hence they matter to food businesses. Once again your follower-ship puts you at different levels in your journey of being a food critic.Exploring different places, getting invites from restaurants all around who just want you to come, taste their food and write your opinion about them is exciting. And if you happen to be a foodie, it is too much rewarding too. But you need to be really careful as too much of an experiment with yourself and your body can also take a toll on your health.The food industry is ever-growing and ever-evolving and so is the demand for food critics. Food critics may initially start on some barter system, but as their follower-ship and authority in the space increases their pay-out could range between 10K to 15K per visit to up to a few lacs to cover a complete event.One of our friends in the industry gets full house booze with his gang. A pay-out of 20K for himself and 5K per gang member. The deliverables are to bring the gang of influencers for the tasting and each of the gang members should cover the event on their Instagram.A lot of fun isn‘t it? Should we call it the best-entertained way to make money from blogging? 4. Recipe Development Brands lookout for people to develop a perfect recipe using their products. One of our clients from Hyderabad approached us to get a perfect recipe for Pizza and Burger using their healthy flours. We also had a café approaching us to design their menu and develop some recipes for them. However, since we did not