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Discover the Secrets of 9 Productive Bloggers: Blog Wise

2/24/2012 Leave a Comment

79% of ProBlogger readers identify ‘finding time to blog’ as one of their biggest challenges. Last year I ran a survey among ProBlogger readers to identify what the biggest challenges that bloggers face are. A number of common themes emerged – one of the strongest can be summed up in these comments from readers: I [...]

What Did You Think of Blog Smarter?

2/24/2012 7 Comments

Today marks the close of our Blog Smarter mini-series of posts, which explain a variety of techniques for scalable blog monetization. In case you missed them, the posts were: Blog Smarter: Don’t Just End Up Trading Hours for Dollars Blog Smarter: A Step-by-step Guide to Boost Your AdSense Earnings Blog Smarter: Turn Your Blogging Skills [...]

Blog Smarter: Invest in Your Own Success

2/24/2012 14 Comments

This guest post is by Jeff Nickles of MySuperChargedLife.com. My blog grew by leaps and bounds in 2011. It was exciting! But it wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t made a few smart investments in my blog—investments, you could say, in my success. I’m a regular guy and a part-time blogger just like many of [...]

Blog Smarter: 5 WordPress Plugins to Help You Make Money From Your Blog

2/23/2012 29 Comments

This guest post is by Louise of MoneySupermarket.com. Why do we blog? Perhaps you feel you have things to say which the world would be interested in, or maybe you’re very passionate about a topic and your friends are sick of hearing you talk about it! I have a blog like that; it’s simply a [...]

Blog Smarter: 9 Ways to Make Money from WordPress … Without Having a Blog

2/23/2012 19 Comments

This guest post is by Sean Platt of outstandingSETUP. The Internet is flooded with too many blogs. It probably doesn’t need yours. It’s not that you don’t have anything to say—you probably do. And it’s not that you couldn’t develop an audience, or eventually monetize that audience—you probably could. It’s definitely not that you’re not [...]

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?