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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

15 Delightful Food Photographers to Follow on Instagram

Instagram is the perfect place to find mouth-watering inspiration. With tons of food photographers ranging from amateurs to star chefs, it’s easy to discover a new recipe, get creative and try something new for dinner tonight.

Whether you’re an Instagram addict or need a place to start, we’ve gathered the very best food photography the community has to offer:

1. Wright Kitchen

Brittany Wright is a freelance photographer based out of Seattle, Washington who has a knack for incorporating a wide variety of colors in her photos.

Things on toast #FoodGradients I created and photographed for @SamsungMobileUSA on the #GalaxyNote4.

A photo posted by Brittany Wright (@wrightkitchen) on Mar 29, 2015 at 4:04pm PDT

2. Slice of Pai

Joann Pai is a food and travel photographer. Pai takes a wide variety of angles from places on her travels, but often incorporates food with contrasting backdrops for an interesting effect.

A photo posted by Joann Pai (@sliceofpai) on Sep 17, 2014 at 4:35pm PDT

3. Julie’s Kitchen

LA-based Julie Lee captures gorgeous collages of related food, like fruits and vegetables. Her shots sometimes look more like high-end wallpaper than delicious edibles.

A photo posted by Julie Lee (@julieskitchen) on Mar 4, 2015 at 2:49pm PST

4. Bakerella

Based off the baking and decorating blog, Bakerella will have Instagramers craving dessert. The patterns and themes offer colorful inspiration for graphic design and event planning.

A video posted by @bakerella on Feb 1, 2015 at 10:20am PST

5. Pinch of Yum

Lindsay Ostrom likes to cook and eat, and her recipes look divine. Although her dishes resemble works of art, they’re easy (and fun!) to make. Her Instagram stream is the perfect source for dinner ideas.

A photo posted by Lindsay Ostrom (@pinchofyum) on Jan 13, 2015 at 7:12pm PST

6. Andrew Scrivani

Andrew Scrivani is a food & still life photographer whose work has been featured in publications like the New York Times. Scrivani’s macro photography offers a second look at everyday items from live oil to oranges to onion skins.

A photo posted by Andrew Scrivani (@andrewscrivani) on Jul 26, 2014 at 10:06am PDT

7. The Kitchenista

Angela Davis is a self-taught cook and food blogger. Her Instagram features a variety of creative recipes to try at home, mixed in with glimpses of her family life. For example, this trout recipe is created from only four main ingredients.

A photo posted by Angela Davis (@thekitchenista) on Feb 9, 2015 at 2:36pm PST

8. Jehan Can Cook

Food blogger & recipe developer, Jehan showcases simpler meals on her Instagram account. This South American always gives her followers something new and creative to try for their next meals.

A photo posted by jehancancook (@jehancancook) on Jan 22, 2015 at 10:29am PST

9. Spoon Fork Bacon

This LA-based duo consists of a food stylist & photographer who feature gorgeously plated meals. From simpler treats like hummus and deviled eggs to one pot meals, enjoy this stream’s beautiful photos and tasty ideas.

A photo posted by spoonforkbacon (@spoonforkbacon) on Dec 22, 2014 at 4:22pm PST

10. Tamara Peterson

New York City-based Peterson captures gorgeous urban photos, including many of the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan skyline, in addition to mouth-watering pics of New York’s best food. Her followers enjoy the best of NYC’s restaurant scene as well as shots that will have them craving the city life.

A photo posted by @_tamarapeterson on Mar 8, 2015 at 9:04am PDT

11. A Beautiful Mess Official

Elsie and Emma of A Beautiful Mess share homemade recipes as well as tempting, sugar-themed photos that could be the next Katy Perry album cover. Pacman murals blend with pastel pops of color for a happy Instagram stream.

A photo posted by Elsie + Emma A Beautiful Mess (@abeautifulmessofficial) on Apr 6, 2015 at 11:48am PDT

12. Sally’s Bake Blog

As baker, author, and photographer, Sally captures desserts and baked goods that have her followers craving a homemade treat. Browse the appealing selections and then head to her blog for the recipes.

A photo posted by Sally (@sallysbakeblog) on Apr 5, 2015 at 9:07am PDT

13. Smitten Kitchen

Deb Perelman’s popular blog also has the perfect Instagram stream, which features her gorgeous food shots. Her clever captions are always bound to brighten the most dismal day.

A photo posted by smitten kitchen (@smittenkitchen) on Jul 7, 2014 at 8:51am PDT

14. Culinary Brodown

LA-based Josh Scherer is a man’s answer to Pinterest. Rather than fill his stream with culinary perfections, Scherer features a feed full of meats, sandwiches and hearty creations.

A photo posted by Josh Scherer (@culinarybrodown) on Nov 24, 2014 at 6:29pm PST

15. How Sweet Eats

Author of Seriously Delish, Jessica’s closeups of her recipes mix hearty meals and sweet treats. Plus, her cute son gives the Instagram stream a nice break from food-only shots.

A photo posted by jessica (@howsweeteats) on Apr 2, 2015 at 4:07pm PDT

These food photography Instagram accounts inspire us to find exciting angles to capture and share our favorite dishes. Know any other food photographers that should be on this list? Let us know in the comments section.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

50 Content Marketing Blogs to Read and Follow

Content marketing is all the rage at the moment. Whether you’re a small business manager, a large company CEO, or a freelance designer, content marketing is something you should be aware of and able to leverage. Getting it right can be tricky though, so you need to read up. Fortunately, there are tons of great resources out there on this very topic. Here are fifty of our favorites.

1. Kissmetrics

Kissmetrics covers a wide variety of topics including analytics, advertising, blogging, Facebook and more.

2. HubSpot

HubSpot covers a wide variety of marketing topics for the individual, sales team or agency. Discover everything from A/B split tests to landing pages and agency pricing.

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3. Simply Measured

Simply Measured is on the cusp of social media marketing and analytics.

4. Sprout Social

Sprout Social discusses the best social media practices.

5. SEOMoz

Follow as SEO rock star Rand Fishkin and his crew discuss the latest with Google, SEO tactics and creating content that’s perfect for both.

6. Optimizely

Founded by former Google product managers (Dan Siroker and Pete Koomen), Optimizely gives you the latest on optimizing the best marketing content for your brand.

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7. SEER

Founded by Wil Reynolds (out of his apartment), SEER Interactive has grown into an SEO powerhouse in the USA. Get the latest from Reynolds and his team on SEO, Google and PR.

8. Unbounce

Not sure how to convert users? Discover the best landing page techniques at Unbounce.

9. AimClear

Aimclear is the master of click bait and out-of-the-box campaigns. Give your team a reboot by visiting Aimclear’s blog, where you’ll find info on their trials, as well as high-quality tutorials.

10. Raven Blog

Raven is a popular suite of extremely powerful analytics and marketing tools (similar Moz), but they also have a very insightful blog that is constantly posting great tips for content marketers.

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11. Alex Houg

Alex Houg’s blog may not wow visitors like the fancy formatting of other resources, but his content and interviews provide insight to creating stellar content.

12. Trackmaven

TrackMaven helps you understand why people are sharing your Facebook posts and why they’re so engaged on Instagram. It’s crucial for every marketer.

13. Zack Onisko

Creative Market’s own Gead of growth, Zack Onisko, runs his own blog and frequently posts great insights on marketing strategies that we put into practice as well as how they’ve affected our site.

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14. Matt Cutts

If Google makes a change to its algorithm, who are you going to call? Matt Cutts! Cutts is a Google employee who provides insight about why Google is ranking what. It’s essential to knowing how to write your content.

15. Search Engine Watch

Don’t ignore Bing, Yahoo and Amazon. Search Engine Watch gives you the best ways to capitalize all search engines.

16. Copyblogger

Copybloggers gives even seasoned writers new tactics to gain traffic and readers.

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17. Social Media Examiner

Unsure of how to write content, make podcast or create other content? Social Media Examiner covers all things social media.

18. Convince and Convert

How do you know if your content will be shared? Convince and Convert provides you with cutting-edge tactics.

19. Post Advertising

Gain insight about storytelling, consumers and best practices with Post Advertising.

20. EConsultancy

EConsultancy goes beyond digital marketing to a wide variety of topics on social media, online pricing and more.

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21. Marketing Interactions

Discover how to create content and market to B2B customers with the Marketing Interactions blog.

22. Brian Solis

Brian covers a wide variety of content–and where it’s going next–to help you stay on the cusp of the best.

23. MailChimp Blog

Mailchimp does more than deliver High Fives. They deliver amazing content strategies in their blog.

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24. Marketing Profs

Get insight on memes and marketing challenges with the Marketing Prof.

25. Content Marketing Institute

Content Marketing Institute provides more than just a website – it includes how to guides, a huge social media following and education to stay on top of content marketing.

26. Brafton Blog

Brafton’s blog takes on the creative side of content marketing, with themes like the 12 Days of Content and how brands can learn from small business Saturday.

27. Velocity Partners

Although Velocity Partners is based across the pond, they still keep tabs on USA marketing events. Stop over on their website for breaking new tools, recaps of industry events and what you need to know as a creative individual.

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28. Chris Brogan

Chris Brogan not only helps business owners, but shares how to master the art of storytelling for a variety of audiences, from digital content to podcasts.

29. Heidi Cohen

Cohen focuses on content marketing specific tactics to boost results, shares insider secrets and is on the cusp of groundbreaking tactics.

30. Content Strategist by Contently

Contently has eye-catching visuals to coincide with its innovative content marketing posts.

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31. B2B Marketing Insider

Get insights on content marketing, strategy and social beyond content and into leads and advertisements.

32. Buffer

Buffer focuses on Social, Open (transparency) and Engineering (technical) side of compiling your content marketing for lasting results.

33. Scoop It Blog

Scoop It provides content marketing insight from their writers, CEO and more with interesting tactics.

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34. QuickSprout

Discover how to make your website high quality and increase traffic with QuickSprout’s Blog.

35. Atomic Reach Blog

Atomic Reach goes beyond content marketing tactics in order to justify tactics and programs to the C-suite of your company.

36. Seth Godin

Seth Godin is popular with marketers and experiments with a variety of content strategies on his blog, too. You know what they say about imitation and flattery…

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37. Search Engine Journal

Search Engine Journal covers a variety of topics from search engines, paid search, entrepreneurship and WordPress. However, its Content Marketing column includes ways to challenge your blog intros and the biggest mistakes you’re making.

38. King Content

Take a hint from the land down under and challenge yourself with another perspective on content marketing from one of Australia’s top content marketing agencies.

39. Conversion Scientist

Discover how to use content marketing in conjunction with Google Analytics, social media and more with the Conversion Scientist’s tactics.

40. Outbrain

Outbrain explains top content marketing strategies as well as shares news sources and advice for agencies.

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41. Smart Insights

Find out about content marketing ideas with case studies that back up how others made it work.

42. Content Science

Content Science publishes biweekly but offers expert opinions so you can stay on top of your game.

43. Find and Convert

Whether you need to hone your brand strategy, keep up with the latest technology or social selling, Find and Convert offers new information through its blog and provides webinars, presentations, eBooks and more to round out its offerings.

44. SEO Copywriting

Whether you’re freelancing or working in-house, Heather Lloyd-Martin shares copy writing strategies for success.

45. Content Wrangler

Scott Abel often uses slide decks to move you through content management and social media tactics.

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46. Content Mastery Guide

Discover how to optimize your business blog (or know when to outsource) with the consistent advice of Linda Dessau.

47. Idea Launch

Bryon White gives guidance on business regarding marketing, emails, data and more.

48. The Portent Blog

Whether you’re more concerned with Google or WingDings symbols showing up in your email subject lines, Portent addresses off-the-cuff topics to keep you on your toes.

49. Sprout Content

Balancing inbound and content marketing, Sprout Content offers analogies to the Wild West and when to say no to your customers.

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50. Wishpond Blog

Find out how to write great content and appropriately distribute it through tools like Google Adwords, Google Ads and retargeting.

What Did We Miss?

There you have it, 50 awesome content marketing blogs that you can bookmark and read regularly to get the best advice in the industry for crafting an unbeatable content marketing strategy. If you know of any great content marketing sites that we missed, leave a link in the comments below.

50 Content Marketing Blogs to Read and Follow

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

10 Tumblr Blogs To Follow For Great Writing Tips

Few websites are friendlier to creatives than Tumblr, a place to scroll through, like, and reblog posts like there’s no tomorrow. It’s not surprising, then, that hundreds of writing blogs have popped up all over that site faster than you can say “dashboard”.

With so many to choose from, it can get a bit daunting when trying to figure out which you should pay attention to. Therefore, I’ve gathered here 10 of the best must-follow Tumblr blogs for writers. Whether it’s helpful feedback or just some inspiration that you need, these sites can help you keep on writing.

Recommended Reading: 10 Helpful Writing Sites For Fiction Writers

1. The Right Writing

“A tip a day keeps writer’s block away.” This, in a nutshell, is The Right Writing‘s tagline (if it had one). Unlike most writing blogs, TRW does its best to give more than generic writing advice such as “Set a daily writing quota” or “Just keep hammering away at your keyboard”. Instead, it gives specific, actionable tips on how to craft a first line, how to describe a character, how to craft an eye-catching title, etc. The blog also occasionally posts interesting, writing-related links.

2. Quotes From Books

Whether you need life advice from the world’s greatest writers, or inspiration for writing awesome lines, Quotes from Books is the blog to follow. The site also provides book recommendations, in case you’re looking for something new to read. After all, writers need to read as much – if not more than – they write, right?

3. Writing Quotes

If “writer’s block” is bugging you (again), check out this site. Writing Quotes dishes out tips straight from the greats themselves on how to write, how not to write, how to read, and “all sorts of wordy things”, as the blogger put it. Pro-Tip: You can reblog the quotes that resonate the most with you, and tag them “writing quotes”, so you can refer back to them later when you need them. More Tumblr tips here.

4. WordStuck

One of a writer’s greatest weapons is an expansive vocabulary, and WordStuck does a wonderful job of filling that need. The site regularly posts about words from around the world and their respective meanings, framed in beautiful graphics created by the blogger. It’s especially fun when the site posts words that have no direct English translation – and you’re a native speaker of the language that uses that word!

5. Yeah Write

Yeah Write doesn’t just dish out writing advice, post daily prompts, and write about industry news, it also encourages writers to come together as a community through their “workshopper” program, where people can publicly offer their editing / proofreading / workshopping services. Whether you need any of these services or not, Yeah Write is a must-follow site.

6. Writing Problems

Ever felt that you’re the only one who suffers from (insert writing problem here)? Don’t worry; Writing Problems is here to let you know that, yes, you’re not the only one who types a word, presses “Backspace”, types that word again, and presses “Backspace” again. Scroll through their posts for a dose of side-splitting, “Hey, I can relate to this!” humor, and feel your writing-related stress melt away.

7. Fix Your Writing Habits

Writers have a nasty habit of doing everything except – irony of ironies – writing. Douglas Adams, for instance, was notorious for missing deadlines, and had to be locked up in hotel rooms to have any of his work done. (In case his name doesn’t ring a bell, he’s the man behind The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.)

As the blog’s title implies, Fix Your Writing Habits tries to give you the best advice possible for getting you back on track, as well as vanquishing the Procrasti-Monster forever. The site is run by multiple authors, who put their money where their mouth is by posting on the blog regularly.

8. Reference For Writers

If you’re a writer who constantly works under tight deadlines, Reference For Writers is for you. The site posts comprehensive lists and links to research materials that would have taken you hours to find on your own. Occasionally, it posts the usual writing-blog material: tips, ideas, and inspiration for wordsmiths.

9. The Writing Café

Don’t want to clutter your dashboard with too many writing blogs? Just follow this one, then. The Writing Café is your all-in-one resource for writing advice, writing resources, links to research materials, etc. The blogger is friendly enough to answer questions, and patient enough to direct you to existing links if you ask a question that’s already been answered.

10. Your Favorite Author’s Tumblr Blogs

It’s difficult to link to just one author, since there are so many of them, and each of them caters to a specific taste. Personally, I follow Neil Gaiman for updates on his work, as well as Joe Hill, the eldest son of Stephen King and a formidable horror author in his own right. You can find more author blogs when you click “Find Blogs” on your dashboard, and click “Writers” in the Spotlight tab.

Conclusion

These blogs are just the tip of the iceberg. As writing keeps evolving as a craft, it’s inevitable for new writing blogs to mushroom all over the web (not just on Tumblr). If you know other writing blogs that haven’t been listed here, please do share them in the comments section.