I always assumed that food and travel writing didn’t pay well.

It just seemed crowded with writers. And as media companies started to fold, this category felt like a starving artist’s (no pun intended) worst nightmare.

But I recently met someone who challenged these assumptions. Her name is Kate Kordsmeier and she’s my guest in this week’s show.

In this interview Kate will explain why there’s still a very good income opportunity in food and travel writing...

For a long time, it seemed like WordPress was the only way to go.

It certainly wasn’t the only option for freelancers who needed a website. But it seemed as if it was the only practical option.

And then suddenly a whole group of website builder platforms started gaining serious steam. Platforms such as Squarespace, Strikingly, Weebly, Wix and others.

At first I thought it was a passing fad. Or maybe an option for people who were dabbling or needed an extremely simple, one-page website.

But the more I looked into these options, the more I realized that there was something to this movement.

My guest this week is Lisa Mullis. Lisa is a principal and director of marketing and outreach at Blue Marble Creative, a design communications firm. I’m not an expert in this area, so I wanted to bring in someone who works with both options every day. 

There’s a lot of passion in each camp—the Wordpress camp and the website builder camp. So I suspect this episode will create some controversy...