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Video Starting Points: Make and Share Your First Video

5/20/2012 1 Comment

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. <iframe src=”http://blip.tv/play/goRrgtq7MQI.html?p=1″ width=”480″ height=”390″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” src=”http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#goRrgtq7MQI” style=”display:none”></embed> The actual figure is [...]

Blog Better by Slowing Down

5/19/2012 13 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 [...]

What Blog Tasks are You Embarrassed to Admit You’ve Overlooked?

5/18/2012 11 Comments

Over the last few days we’ve been talking about taking your blog to the often-elusive “next level.” We’ve seen tips for developing your voice and message, creating stronger calls to action, and increasing traffic. If you’re already working on those aspects of your blog, and are happy with your approach, you’ll probably be hungry for [...]

How I Increased My Search Traffic by 200% in 6 Months

5/18/2012 13 Comments

This guest post is by Bamidele Onibalusi of YoungPrePro.com. Guest blogging is currently among the most popular marketing tactics, and you can be sure find guides on guest blogging almost anywhere you go online. The problem with guest blogging is that it is being used by so many people today that if you donít have [...]

5 Effective Tricks to Create a Killer Call to Action

5/17/2012 21 Comments

This guest post is by Greg Digneo of Sales Leads in Thirty Days. Here’s the dirty little secret: there are actually two steps to building an extremely popular blog. The first and most popular step is to drive traffic by guest posting, social media, and SEO. The far less sexy step is to convert that [...]

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?