How I Turned my Food Blog into a Career.

*Disclaimer: I have a BA in marketing and a professional background in finance, but no formal eduction on food photography, website management, or food writing. Everything I know on the last three subjects is from my own experience.

Warning: this is a very long post.

The year of 2013 has been a whirlwind.  I got engaged, signed a cookbook deal, wrote and fully photographed a cookbook within 5 months, quit my full time job in the corporate world, moved to the suburbs, and my blog quadrupled its size.

Let me take a moment to let it all sink in. Better grab a cookie as I do that…

 

Ok, I’m back.

Around March of this year, I came to a quick realization. I was making more from my food blog than my full-time job working in finance. (More on how I got to that point below.) I was really struggling to balance it all. I was cranky, tired, and drained. Spreading myself too thin between both jobs.

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