The Food Writers Business Lab is an online community for food writers who want practical, affordable guidance for growing their businesses, expanding their audience, and building sustainable careers.
Here you’ll find classes and workshops taught by experienced food writers who understand the unique challenges and opportunities of this industry. It’s education for food writers taught by food writers.
How the Food Writers Business Lab Works
The idea is simple: practical, hands-on workshops designed to help you make meaningful progress in your business.
Throughout the year, experienced food writers will lead workshops on topics like SEO, food photography, cookbook publishing, platform building, creative recipe writing, video, organizational strategies, creating digital products, and other skills essential to building a sustainable food writing business.
Each workshop is divided into two parts.
Part One: Learn
The first session is a 90-minute live Zoom class focused on teaching practical strategies you can put to work immediately. You’ll leave with clear instruction, real-world examples, and homework designed to help you apply what you’ve learned to your own business.
Every Part One session is included with your Food Writers Business Lab membership. For $150 a year you can attend as many live classes as you’d like, or watch the recordings later if you can’t make it in real time.
Part Two: Working Session
One to two weeks later, participants have the opportunity to join a small-group working session.
This is my favorite part.
Bring your homework, your questions, your roadblocks, and your challenges. Together, we’ll review what you’ve implemented, troubleshoot challenges, exchange ideas, and get thoughtful feedback from both the instructor and other food writers working toward similar goals.
Rather than simply learning new concepts, you’ll leave with real progress already underway.
Participation in the hands-on working session is optional and costs $50. Every dollar from these sessions goes directly to the instructor leading the workshop as compensation for their time and energy.
Membership
The Food Writers Business Lab is available through the paid subscription tier of Mastermind for Food Writers.
An annual membership costs $150 and includes:
Unlimited access to every Part One instructional workshop throughout the year
Access to recordings of every instructional session
The opportunity to register for optional Part Two working sessions for $50 each
A growing library of practical education created specifically for food writers, by food writers
Whether you’re building your audience, improving your photography, writing a cookbook proposal, strengthening your SEO, or creating new income streams, the Food Writers Business Lab is designed to give you practical education you can use immediately and a community of people who understand exactly what you’re building and why you’re building it.
Upcoming Class Topics
The Food Writers Business Lab is self-funded. This means that the income generated through paid subscriptions directly supports the instructors who teach the classes. So, the number of classes scheduled are dependent on the number of paid subscriptions generated. New classes are added as funding is made available.
It’s just one more way we can support one another.
Upcoming topics include:
SEO for Food Writers
Food Photography
Brand & Platform Building
Writing a Cookbook Proposal
Cookbook Marketing
Organizational Strategies for Food Writers
Creative Recipe Writing
Self-publishing
Video for Food Writers
Creating Products & eBooks
Teaching Paid Cooking Classes
Check out the class calendar for all scheduled classes. Classes are free for paid subscribers, but registration is required.