Blogging can help you from average nutrition student to star! Here are some tips and tricks for publishing your best material for the internet to see.

Blogging, it seems, is the new thing. Students, interns, and dietitians alike are taking to the internet to share their passion. Now you can, too! While starting a food blog may seem overwhelming, it can be as easy as making a dietitian-approved meal. Below are tips and tricks to help you succeed.

Find your platform.

Whether you want to purchase a domain name and create your website, you want to focus solely on social media such as Instagram, or you want to team up with a few friends and create a Facebook group, find your platform first. If you choose to make an internet blog, check out easy SquareSpace, Weebly, or WordPress templates.

Determine your style.

Find inspiration from other blogs and see what makes them tick. Is it their focus on quick and easy meals, their attention to detail, their adorable photos, their focus on a specific health concern or population, or their everyday upkeep? Once you understand the niche you want to focus on, it’ll help you know where to begin. Once you find an aesthetic you like, own it. Make your style yours.

Create your content.

Before getting your foodie blog live and running, make sure to create content ahead of time for the next few weeks or months. This helps your blog jumpstart early, and it allows you to be posting new and relevant information on a revolving basis. Plus, this gives you time to work and re-work your layout, ideas, and materials.

Go live!

Finally- publish your work! Please share it with friends and family, your professors and mentors, even your peers at college. By going live and sharing your information, you’ll be sure to gain a following.

Connect with others.

Make sure to interact with your readers and viewers by replying to comments, shares, and every interaction they make. This will help grow your following as well as connect with others interested in your work. You never know what opportunities or friendships could come out of a simple “thank you.”

Keep working!

After your nutrition blog is live, the work isn’t over. Maintaining a blog is a regular job that requires social media skills, communication, work ethic, and knowledge of nutrition and dietetics. Please include new recipes or facts in your blog and share them with your followers as you learn new recipes or facts. Work hard on making your blog better than ever before, constantly.

While creating and maintaining a successful nutrition blog may sound easy, it requires dedication, determination, and inspiration. This project can be as small or large as you want it to be! If you work hard enough, it can even become your entire career. There will be trials along the way, but using your nutrition knowledge with other skills and passions, you can make it work — an RD2BE can do anything!

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