Class Description: 

YouTube can be an incredible tool for food bloggers, expanding your discoverability and increasing your income, but it comes with its own unique set of rules. It took YouTuber Joanie Simon from The Bite Shot two channels and all of the mistakes a person could make to figure these lessons. But, within one year of launching her second channel, applying the lessons learned, she was able to turn YouTube into a highly profitable arm of her overall business and found an audience that feels like a family. Learn how to build a channel that creates impact, attracts your ideal audience and adds to your bottom line. Spoiler alert: You don’t need a video to go viral to make a living as a YouTube creator.

Presentation Material:

What I Wish I Knew Before Starting A YouTube Channel - Joanie Simon - EFC2019.pdf 2.06 MB

Presented by Joanie Simon

Joanie Simon is a freelance food photographer, food blogger, and educator and shares her foodie photog knowledge on her YouTube channel, The Bite Shot.  Self-taught, her food photography career was born out of her food blogging journey and today she creates craveable images in her kitchen studio for a wide variety of national food brands and restaurants. When she’s not behind the camera, Joanie is busy keeping track of her two young boys alongside her husband, Ryan, on their “Ranchito” in Phoenix, Arizona.