Being a foodie, I love watching Food Network and I love trying to remake the recipes done by these professional chefs on TV.  I watch almost every food show and I look up to many chefs such as Tyler Florence, Emeril, Bobby Flay, etc.  Watching them cook and how they became masters in their craft draws great similarity in the blogging world.

Learning how these chefs became successful by studying their habits and the tools they needed to excel, you can apply the same concept to blogging to get you in the right mindset of success.  Many people might not realize that cooking is a lot like blogging, until now…

How Cooking Can Improve Your Blogging

Cooking Tools

Every cook knows that it takes a good set of kitchen appliances to make their cooking experience easier.  There are cheap kitchen tools and there are expensive kitchen tools, the outcome of your meals is a result of the tools you use for cooking.  In blogging, there are tools that you can use that can improve your blog’s design, writing, etc.  For example, WordPress Themes like Thesis is a great tool to be able to easily customize the look of your blog without having to understand coding.

Patience

One of my favorite recipes to make is pulled porked sandwiches.  If you guys know anything about BBQ and pulled pork, it takes a lot of time to cook.  Many people are too lazy to spend that much time cooking, so they just give up.  Being patient is a valuable trait for bloggers as well.  Many bloggers don’t give their blogs enough time to grow so they get discouraged that they don’t see success within 3,6,9, or even 12 months of blogging.  Some days I don’t even look at my analytics and I just focus on growing my blog by writing on topics I have knowledge on.  So don’t feel bad that you’re blog isn’t hitting the traffic you expected.

Your Own Recipe

Part of being a great chef is to get a recipe and make it your own. Chefs do it all the time, they tweak a recipe by adding their own ingredients, etc.  Most of the time the new recipe tastes a lot better than the original, and cooks like me love to find new ways to cook old recipes.  Bloggers do this all the time as well, we read other blog posts and find ways to add more value to that topic and write our own post.  You get ideas to creatively build upon topics written on other blogs, and create your own masterpiece.

Being A Chef

There are many recipes that I follow off Food Network that turned out wonderfully.  The feeling of remaking a recipe from a famous chef gave me the feeling of accomplishment and the “I can” attitude for cooking.  Many new bloggers would see theses top blogs online and wishes that there blog would be at that caliber one day.  As months go by and they’re still consistent on blogging, they start picking up the same success.  Anyone can start  blog, but it takes a lot of learning and determine to make a blog successful.

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