Leaving Your Day Job and Scaling a Food Blog with Pinterest with Sharlene Murrell

About this episode

Bjork Ostrom interviews Sharlene Murrell about leveraging Pinterest to grow a food blog and the importance of a 'ready, fire, aim' mindset.

Leveraging Pinterest for growth and the "ready, fire, aim" mindset with Sharlene Murrell of Good Enough Moming. ----- Welcome to episode 571 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Sharlene Murrell. Leaving Your Day Job and Scaling a Food Blog with Pinterest with Sharlene Murrell 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. The conversation also dives into actionable Pinterest strategies, including targeting broad keywords, creating multiple pins per post, and leveraging tools like Canva. They round out the conversation with practical advice on capitalizing on seasonal trends, maintaining consistency, and overcoming imposter syndrome. No matter where you are in your food blogging journey, this episode is packed with inspiration and tactics for creators ready to take action! Three episode takeaways: The "ready, fire, aim" mindset: Sharlene's success highlights the importance…

People in this episode

Host: Bjork Ostrom

Guest: Sharlene Murrell

Topics covered

• Pinterest strategies
• food blogging
• mindset
• keyword research
• traffic growth
• seasonal trends

Keywords

• Pinterest
• food blog
• traffic growth
• keyword research
• imposter syndrome
• seasonal trends

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Organizations: Good Enough Moming

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