I belong to a page on FB for food bloggers to ask other food bloggers questions. It’s been a pretty good resource for things and it was a way to figure out who was going to BlogHerFood and what not. And we started a discussion about building community. I get a lot of beginner bloggers asking me how to get traffic? How to build a community? They want to know how I get brands to work with me. They never like my answer of time and be yourself. There are very few overnight sensations in the food blogging world. Bakerella was because no one was doing what she was doing. She is the master of all things cute cake pops. I hate cake pops but love her site just to look at what things she can come up with. And then there is Ree of course. The woman built a dynasty. That won’t ever be me (I wrote about it here). I’m okay with that. I find it funny when they say they want to build a community. I’m not totally sure they do. I think they want a cookbook. I think they want the traffic. I … [Read more...]