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Best Friends for Frosting - Personal Blog Turned into Profitable Business

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Best Friends for Frosting blog, or BFFF, was created in 2011 by Melissa Johnson from Land Park area in Sacramento, CA. This blog was launched as a dessert-focused blog in 2011 and then was expanded into a lifestyle blog in 2013. The rebranding turned the personal niche blog into am influential  "lifestyle website dedicated to celebrating joyful and wholehearted living" as described in the blog's About page. According to Sacramento News & Review, BFFF blog owned by a young couple (Melissa and her husband) made enough money for them to buy a new home. As the blog grows, they started to hire employees to help create contents, manage the systems, and develop business relationships. Even though the BFFF is no longer a personal log, it still stays with a personalized tone. It is the personal touch that catalyzes the traffic and facilitates the growth. Best Friends for Frosting blog is a typical example that a personal blog manifests a profitable full-time business. https://...

From Private Chef to Money-Making Blogger - Dinner Then Dessert

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Sabrina Snyder was a chef; she is now a professional blogger. While she is still a chef to provide personal chef services for private events, her Dinner Then Dessert blog has become a much more profitable business. Her blog started in 2015, and quickly got a share of profits from the popular food and recipe blogging. Dinner Then Dessert blog reaches  three million monthly page views now, and the blog makes enough money for Sabrina to hire assistants for content development and social media marketing. As chef, Sabrina knew little about blogging. She didn't believe a blog could generate income by placing advertise since she used ad blockers to get rid of all ads.  As she said, “It genuinely didn’t occur to me that bloggers could make money.” But when she built it, money came. She must have done something right. https://dinnerthendessert.com/ Style and Impression It looks like a typical recipe blog, coming with close-up photos of various foods. The layout is clean,...