Tools I Recommend for Recording Your Cooking Show and Building It Into a Business

 Equipment for Recording

• Smartphone Tripod Adapter

• Smartphone Wireless Monitor (so you can use the high quality camera on your phone and still be able to see yourself)

• Tabletop tripod

• Dedicated Video Camera + High-Quality Lens

• Wireless Mic

• Pro mic accessory that you'll want (this is how the pros mic up)

• Video light

Books I Recommend

• The Food Stylist’s Handbook

• The Ultimate Guide to Food Styling

Tools I Recommend for Building Your Cooking Show Business

• Systeme (for hosting your website, your email marketing, and your digital cookbooks)

• Mighty Networks (for hosting your paid membership community)

• VidIQ (for YouTube optimization)

• Taja (for YouTube optimization)

• Ecamm Live (Mac only) or Restream (Windows or Mac) for livestreaming…especially if you want to show more than one camera angle

• Calendly (for scheduling appointments, including paid consultations)

• ClickUp (for project management because a cooking show is a project with lots of tasks that must be managed)

• Tally (for creating questionnaires that save you time by screening out the people who would waste your time)

• ThriveCart (to make it easy for people to pay you)

• PitchDB (to get yourself booked on podcasts)

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