By now all Family Cookbook Project Editors should have received a invitation to help us improve the FamilyCookbookProject.com site and tell us what you think.

Unfortunately, some of the surveys sent by SurveyMoney, an outside service called we used to send the surveys, mixed the name field with the wrong email address.

In no way is your cookbook account effected by this. It is a separate system that is being used for the survey.

Please take the survey if you have not done so already even if the name is wrong in your email. The only time your name and email will be recorded is if you leave it with your comments.

If you’d like to take the survey now, you can do so by clicking on this link.

We thank you in advance for your continued support and look forward to making FamilyCookbookProject.com the best cookbook creation site available!

Not to Do Check List

At Family Cookbook Project, we have been helping people create custom cookbooks for more than 15 years. We have learned a lot in that time and we wanted to point out some of the things not to do to make your personal cookbook a success.

Mistake #1 -Thinking that everyone in the family will be interested in participating. While it is always a good thing to invite as many people as possible to contribute to your family cookbook, expecting everyone to participate is simply unrealistic. There’s a lot of people in every family that just don’t like to cook, think they are too busy or simply forget and miss the deadline.

It’s important that once you invite your contributors that you keep them motivated by sending messages using family cookbook project reminder tool on a regular basis. You also can have them contacted when new recipes are added to the cookbook.

Mistake #2 – Making the One Final Perfect Family Cookbook. let’s face it, family cookbooks are living documents that are currently evolving just like the families themselves. my family is already on its third volume of recipes. A lot of people also add and use recipes online.

So the bottom line is don’t hold up the entire cookbook waiting for one or two specific recipes or contributors.

Mistake #3 – Making the Family Recipe Book Only About Recipes. Sure the cookbook will have great recipes, however what people really like to read are the personal notes about the recipes and why they are important to the people who contributed them. Family photos are another great way to make your cookbook truly your family cookbook.

Mistake #4 – Bad Proof Reading. One of the most important jobs as editor is reading all of the recipes activate been submitted to make sure the format is consistent and any miss spelled words are corrected.

Luckily Family Cookbook Project has created an “editor edit mode” which allows you to go through each recipe and make changes to them quickly and efficiently. You browser’s spell check will also point out questionably spelled words.

We would add a fifth mistake – not using Family Cookbook Project to organize and print your family cookbook!

Bill Rice is publisher of the Family Cookbook Project. His family cookbook, the Donovan Family Cookbook is now in its third volume. Follow us on Facebook and Pinterest!

One of the hardest things about creating a cookbook fundraiser is planing for how big your cookbook needs to be to generate the profit you wish to raise. Our new Cookbook Fundraiser Profit Calculator at CookbookFundraiser.com lets you change variables to help you determine the scope of your project.

Click on the Green bars and enter the details for your Cookbook Fundraising project and see how much potential profit your fundraiser. Click the link above and give it a try.

Bill Rice is the Co-Publisher of Family Cookbook Project and it’s sister site CookbookFundraiser.com,  websites that helps people create personalized cookbooks for families, friends and fundraising efforts.