Food blogging is a marathon, and you are not alone! In this episode of Growing Chit Chat, Yu-Han Chen talks about starting as a beginner food blogger with little money. She shares how she found her niche, built routines, learned about SEO and used free tools. Yu-Han also talks about dealing with challenges, staying motivated, and not letting perfectionism hold her back. She gives useful tips to help new bloggers get started.

Useful tools for beginning food bloggers:
1. YouTube -free, the most powerful free tool to learn all basic knowledge
2. Canva - free version
3. Imovie/Cap Cut – free
4. Pixabay – free
5. Chat GTP – free version
6. Grammarly - subscribe
7. Squarespace subscription – necessary expense
8. SEOSpace subscription (Affiliate link: https://www.seospace.co/?via=yu-han) – necessary expense

Key takeaway
1. Building a realistic routine for your lifestyle can keep you consistent – a small step is a big step.
2. Believe in yourself without any reason.
3. It is okay to feel negative, accept it and keep doing daily tasks.
4. Make good use of free tools and pay for most key software to save time from learning difficult prospects for blogging
5. publish it! Something is better than nothing, and we will keep improving.

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00:00 Introduction to the Food Blogging Journey
00:40 How to find your niche?
02:17 Build a routine
03:54 Do I need my own website?
05:36 How to improve SEO?
08:16 How to overcome perfectionism?
09:35 Creating cooking video for the beginning food blogger.
11:43 Marketing: why is Pinterest a key platform for early-stage food bloggers?
14:22 Summary of useful tools
18:49 Embrace negative emotions along the blogging journey
23:45 Creating a Community and Combating Loneliness