Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Check in any time before 8:30 and join us for a delicious breakfast to kick off Day 1!
Our Day 1 breakfast buffet will include fresh fruit, yogurt parfaits, waffles, scrambled eggs, stewed peaches and applewood smoked bacon.
Grab a seat in the Main Area! Megan & Melissa will welcome you to the event.
Let's cook up some SEO magic! Ty Kilgore from Everything Digital Marketing will help you discover the next steps for winning SEO optimization strategies.
Take a quick bathroom break and talk to some new people!
Bring all your Youtube questions to the table. Andrew and Larisha will share how they've successfully grown multiple Youtube channels to be one of their top income streams and increase page views to your website while growing a loyal community.
You'll walk away understanding how to monetize, research, and understand exactly what your audience wants!
Check out the sponsor area and grab a coffee!
2025 Flavor Media sponsors:
Liz Wilcox from LizWilcox.com
Ty Kilgore from Everything Digital Marketing
Joe Rodichok from Phynite Solutions
Ansley Beutler from Peach Perfect Financials
Ben Jabbawy from Grocers List
Sarah Gilbert from Lulu
Getting subscribers but no idea what to do with them? Join Liz as she shares a simple 3-step approach to turning your new leads into customers with a wicked simple welcome sequence. Walk away with something you can actually go do in less than an hour. BONUS: Your email list will be primed to buy. Complete with sound effects and gifs.
Grab a delicious plate of lunch! The Day 1 lunch buffet will include Herb & Garlic Seared Chicken, Seared and Sliced Petit Filet, Quinoa & Blueberry Stuffed Sweet Potato, Salad, Seared Brussel Sprouts & Roasted Baby Potatoes with Sweet Tea, Un-Sweet Tea & Lemonade.
2025 Flavor Media sponsors:
Liz Wilcox from LizWilcox.com
Ty Kilgore from Everything Digital Marketing
Joe Rodichok from Phynite Solutions
Ansley Beutler from Peach Perfect Financials
Ben Jabbawy from Grocers List
Sarah Gilbert from Lulu
Once you've been adequately fed, visit the sponsor booths! Our sponsors have been carefully chosen and all of them offer services that can help your business run more efficiently.
Instagram is NOT dead. Stop throwing spaghetti at the wall and learn how to create content that connects with your audience. In this session, we will talk about how to grow on Instagram without relying on "hoping to go viral," cultivating a community who sees your value proposition and looks to you as the expert, and how to create a loose content schedule that fits your creative desire. We will do a deep dive into some analytics and talk about why trends work. This session will have a hands-on portion, so come ready to create some great content along with me.
Grab a drink from the beverage station (Sweet Tea, Un-Sweet Tea & Lemonade) and a snack from the Snack Bar!
Learn what being self-employed really means and how to set up your business for success. We'll touch on how to best plan for taxes and strategies to mitigate your liability.
Take a quick bathroom break and talk to some new people!
Shaunda Necole will teach you to view Pinterest as a search engine and a valuable tool for developing an effective keyword strategy. This approach can help promote your products and drive traffic to your blog. With a Shopify integration that includes automatic Pins, you can discover new methods to diversify your income through free, organic Pinterest marketing!
What was missing from the day? What loose ends do you want to tie up about Pinterest, SEO or other topics? Let's talk! We're going to open up the discussion so you can ask the questions you came to ask.
Let's mingle, with cocktails and mocktails!
Thursday, April 24th, 2025
Main Area
Breakout Room
Join us for a delicious breakfast to kick off Day 2!
Our Day 2 breakfast buffet will include fruit smoothies, fresh baked pastries, shakshuka, scrambled eggs, roasted potato hash and beef sausage.
Sit next to a new friend in the Main Area! Welcome to Day 2 of Flavor Media Summit 2025! Grab a coffee or a water and settle in for another value-packed and fun day of learning and connecting.
Join us at this email marketing panel to learn the latest strategies for getting and keeping email subscribers.
Take a quick bathroom break and talk to some new people!
Join Ben in this workshop designed to educate you on the emerging playbooks the top food creators are using for audience growth and to increase affiliate sales from amazon and grocery delivery services.
Check out the sponsor area and grab a coffee!
2025 Flavor Media sponsors:
Liz Wilcox from LizWilcox.com
Ty Kilgore from Everything Digital Marketing
Joe Rodichok from Phynite Solutions
Ansley Beutler from Peach Perfect Financials
Ben Jabbawy from Grocers List
Sarah Gilbert from Lulu
Join us for this Pinterest panel to get all of your burning Pinterest-related questions answered!
Jeanelle will break down her structure for short-form videos on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, and how it fuels her product sales. Learn how to create videos that grab attention and sell your products effectively. Jeanelle will walk you through her go-to storytelling techniques, calls to action that work, and real tips that have helped her sell her own musubi molds and art stationery.
Grab a delicious plate of lunch! The Day 2 lunch buffet will include Rosemary Seared Chicken, Seared Local Grouper, Wild Rice Stuffed Zucchini Boat, Salad, Agave Roasted Carrots & Green Beans with Sweet Tea, Un-Sweet Tea & Lemonade.
2025 Flavor Media sponsors:
Liz Wilcox from LizWilcox.com
Ty Kilgore from Everything Digital Marketing
Joe Rodichok from Phynite Solutions
Ansley Beutler from Peach Perfect Financials
Ben Jabbawy from Grocers List
Sarah Gilbert from Lulu
Once you've been adequately fed, visit the sponsor booths! Our sponsors have been carefully chosen and all of them offer services that can help your business run more efficiently.
Bring all your Youtube questions to the table. Andrew and Larisha will share how they've successfully grown multiple Youtube channels to be one of their top income streams and increase page views to your website while growing a loyal community.
You'll walk away understanding how to monetize, research, and understand exactly what your audience wants!
Take a quick bathroom break and talk to some new people!
Learn how to harness AI and emerging tech to grow your blog, explore the unique benefits of tech vs. brand partnerships, and gain insights into adapting recipe content for broader reach. This session offers a toolkit to turn your blog into a revenue-generating powerhouse across platforms.
In this workshop style session, we’ll explore the critical balance between ads and reader experience in food blogging. While advertising revenue is vital to your business, it can impact how readers interact with your website. During this session, we’ll chat through ads and other annoyances your readers may have and improvements you can make to improve your readers’ experience on your website. You’ll have plans for a website that supports your business while also gives your readers a place to come back to again and again.
Grab a drink from the beverage station (Sweet Tea, Un-Sweet Tea & Lemonade) and a snack from the Snack Bar!
Learn what being self-employed really means and how to set up your business for success. We'll touch on how to best plan for taxes and strategies to mitigate your liability.
Publishing a book is the best way to build credibility, increase visibility, and monetize your brand. In this session you’ll learn about the three paths to publishing, how to determine which one is best for you, and why a book is the most powerful tool for growing a business built around content.
A book is a tool for growth; from landing more collaborations, to leaving a legacy of your best content, to building a community of fans around your brand. Get the lowdown on one of the fastest-growing ways for creators to grow their businesses and their bank accounts. We’ll cover several ways to use a book as a growth tool and show you how to go from an idea, to a book in hand, with several real world examples along the way.
3 Key Takeaways:
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The 3 paths to publishing and which is best for you
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Why publishing a book is not just about making money directly from that book, but about creating more opportunities for your brand and business (revenue, audience, etc…).
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How publishing a book can elevate your authority in a field or topic and add legitimacy to your brand/business.
Let's start to wrap up and talk about how to retain the information you've gleaned over the past few days.
Take a break and be back in your seats by 3:45 for a fun surprise!
Our time together is coming to a close! Let's recap our best moments, partake in a fun surprise and say goodbye!
Let's mingle, with cocktails and mocktails!