Finance Mini-Series: Investing in Your Business with Megan Porta

The Food Blogger Pro Podcast

Investing in Yourself and your Business, managing seasons of burnout, and the importance of time tracking with Megan Porta.

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Welcome to episode 498 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Megan Porta from Eat Blog Talk and Pip and Ebby.

Investing in Your Business

You might recognize Megan Porta from her podcast, Eat Blog Talk (chances are, if you listen to this podcast, you also listen to hers)! Megan has also been a food blogger herself for over 14 years at Pip and Ebby and knows a lot about balancing her time between her many areas of focus.

In this podcast interview, Bjork and Megan chat about all things investing as an entrepreneur. Megan shares her strategies for making decisions about investments, how to invest in yourself, how to invest in your business in the early stages, and how investing in yourself and your business can help you overcome plateaus and avoid burnout.

Three episode takeaways:

• How to invest in your business (when you don’t have any money to do so) —Bjork and Megan chat about how to approach investing in your business when you’re in the early stages and hesitant to spend the money and how to make decisions about investments.
• How to get started investing in your business — Megan suggests starting by time tracking and reflecting on the current pain points in your business. You can then begin your investment journey by investing in solutions to remove those pain points.
• How to get through seasons of burnout — Investing in your business (and yourself) is a critical component of avoiding and overcoming plateaus, burnout, or even quitting. Megan shares more about her personal journey with this and her strategies for managing seasons of burnout as an entrepreneur.

Resources:

• Pip and Ebby
• Eat Blog Talk
• Easy Breakfast Ideas 101
• Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire
• Big Band Software
• Riverside
• Intentional Spark
• 045: How to Use Facebook Ads to Reach the Right People with Tony Rulli from IntentionalSpark.com
• Clariti
• Nathan Barry
• Kit
• Toggl
• Hard Seasons and Wild Hearts
• Eat Blog Talk Investment Download
• Follow Eat Blog Talk on Instagram and Pip and Ebby on Instagram
• Join the Food Blogger Pro Podcast Facebook Group

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This episode is sponsored by Cookie Finance.

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