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7 Hot Posts on My Blog this Month, and Why They Were Successful

5/22/2012 1 Comment

I always find it fascinating to look at which posts go viral (or at least, which get shared the most) on my blogs. It isn’t always the ones that you expect! Here are a few of the recent posts on dPS that have done better than others over the last month, along with some reflections [...]

How to Use Data to Enrich Your Content

5/21/2012 10 Comments

This guest post is by Conor Powers-Smith of Factbrowser.com. Blog posts, whitepapers and other shareable content rely on supporting data—not because people just love a good color-coded pie chart (though they are pretty), but because numbers give stories shape. They add scale. They provide perspective. They quantify that something meaningful is happening. Think about it: which [...]

Use Monroe’s Motivated Sequence to Call Your Readers to Action

5/21/2012 8 Comments

This guest post is by Sean Davis of SDavisMedia.com. Blogs do not produce income. Simply writing and publishing content does not increase your bank account balance. The idea that money is a direct result of blogging is a myth that the best bloggers have dismissed, but most choose to treat it as a law of [...]

Video Starting Points: Make and Share Your First Video

5/20/2012 26 Comments

This guest post is by Neil Davidson of My Web Presenters. In November of 2011 David Hsieh, VP of Marketing at Cisco famously stuck his neck out by proclaiming that 90% of internet traffic will be viewing video in three years’ time. The actual figure is already 51% of traffic, and it’s climbing fast. For [...]

Blog Better by Slowing Down

5/19/2012 47 Comments

This guest post is by Timo Kiander of Productivesuperdad.com. Are you afraid that you’ll never reach blogging success? Are you working your backside off on top of your day job to produce articles, ebooks, videos, and podcasts, and learn everything about Pinterest (or any other social network for that matter)? Do you feel you are [...]

The Technical Setup Behind My Videos on ProBlogger

In my last video post I spoke about the benefits of using talking head video posts on a blog. Today in this video I want to respond to many questions I get about the technical setup that I use for my videos here on ProBlogger.

My set up is very basic (and I’m sure it can be improved), but the results seem to work well. I get a lot of comments on them, and questions about factors like which camera I use, what lighting I have, whether I use a microphone, and so on. As I say, I’m no tech-head so I go with the basics, but I hope you find it useful.

I’d love to hear what setup you use for your talking head videos too!

Related video: What Camera Am I Using for My Videos?