Archive for Video Posts
Written on January 8th, 2009 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse
How to Create Great First Impressions on New Readers and Convert Them Into Loyal Readers
This video has been around for over a year now (I made it just after ProBlogger was last redesigned) but I think it’s particularly relevant for this time of year when many bloggers are looking at refreshing the look and feel of their blog.
First impressions matter both in real life face to face interactions with new people that you meet AND the first interactions you have with new readers. In this video I examine 5 ways you can improve the impression that you leave on first time readers and give three questions to ask when thinking about how to leave good impressions on readers.
Of course overarching all of what I mention is that your content needs to be of the highest quality to create a good first impression. Your design, titles, tag lines etc can all be amazing but unless you’ve got something useful and unique to say – the first impression will not be as good as it could be.
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Written on December 11th, 2008 at 07:12 am by Darren Rowse
More Blog Tips from Blog World Expo – Part 3
Here’s the final part in a series of tips that I’ve been showing over the last couple of months from Blog World Expo where a number of bloggers share some quick blog tips.
This video features Lee LeFever (Common Craft), Josh, Matt and Nate (UniqueBlogDesigns), Tim Flight (Shopzilla) and Rick Calvert (BlogWorldExpo).
The Video was shot on a Flip Mino.
See this video at full size at Revver, Blip.tv, Viddler and YouTube.
Get more Blog tips from our Blog Tips for Beginners series.
Tags: blog tips, BWE08, Lee LeFever, Rick Calvert, Shopzilla, Tim Flight, Unique Blog Designs, Video PostsWritten on October 31st, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
3 Successful Bloggers Share their Blog Tips [VIDEO]
Here’s another compilation of blog tips from three prominent bloggers – Jeremy from Shoemoney, Steve Pavlina and Andy Wibbels.
The video was shot at Blog World Expo 08 on a Flip Video Mino Series Camcorder.
See this video at full size on YouTube, Blip.tv and Viddler. See the last video in this series with another 4 bloggers here.
Get more Blog tips from our Blog Tips for Beginners series.
Tags: Andy Wibbels, blog tips, Jeremy Schoemaker, shoemoney, Steve Pavlina, Video PostsWritten on October 2nd, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
Blog Tips from Blog World Expo [VIDEO]
Last week at Blog World Expo I had the opportunity to speak with hundreds of bloggers of all topics, backgrounds and levels of experience. One of the things that quickly became evident as I spoke with these bloggers was that collectively the bloggers who had gathered together in Vegas for those few days had a vast amount of knowledge.
I decided to do my best to capture some of this on video and used my new Flip Mino Series Camcorder to interview 15 or so of them. Here are the first 3 interviews – Chris Brogan, Patsi Krakoff and Denise Wakeman and David Peralty.
Thanks to Business Week Exchange for sponsoring this video.
For a larger version of this video see it on YouTube, MySpace, Revver, Blip.tv, Facebook and Viddler.
Get more tips on blogging in our Blog Tips for Beginners series of post.
Tags: blog tips, blog world expo, BWE08, chris brogan, david peralty, denise wakeman, patsi krakoff, problogger videos, video tipsWritten on September 9th, 2008 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
Present a Consistent Brand in Your Blogging
In this video post I reflect upon the one of the downsides of changing your blog’s brand and/or design.
While updating blog design, logos and avatars in social media sites can bring a lot of life to a blog and present you with an up to date and fresh web presence – one of the negatives is that you can actually stop the momentum that you might have already created with your previous branding.
This is a lesson that applies when thinking about blog design but also even the simple avatars you choose for your Twitter and other social media profiles.
I’m interested to hear your experiences of both how changing your online ‘branding’ has led to confusion but also how you would suggest bloggers do it in a way that builds upon previous branding.
This post was brought to you by Business Week Exchange.
PS: sorry for the audio quality on this video. I recorded it in a public space and there was a little too much background noise.
Tags: brand, branding, social media, Video PostsWritten on August 15th, 2008 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
Using AideRSS to Help Identify Hot Topics to Cover On Your Blog
View the full sized version of this video at Blip, YouTube or Viddler (you’ll probably want to to see the text of what I’m talking about).
Yesterday I wrote about how to choose a topic to write about for blog posts and today in this video post I want to follow up this topic with a video demonstration of how I use a great service called AideRSS to analyze previous posts on my blog and observe trends in both the topics and styles of writing that can help to decide upon future topics to cover.
You won’t simply want to repeat past topics that have done well but will probably do better to extend upon them.
AideRSS can be used in lots of ways to track other blogs and help find great content on other blogs but for me this analysis of my own posts has become a valuable tool. I hope you enjoy this screen cast.
Tags: AideRSS, blog topicsWritten on July 25th, 2008 at 04:07 am by Darren Rowse
How to Make Your Blog More Personal
It has been a while since my last video and in this one I’ll show you the reason why – my son Henri who arrived just a few weeks ago has been taking a lot of my attention of late.
In this video I want to talk about adding a personal touch to your blog and want to introduce you to some of the ideas that I cover in my previous series – Adding a Personal Touch to Your Blog.
I’m not talking about starting a personal blog where you share lots of personal information – what I’m focusing on here is building a blog that connects with people in a more personal way around your niche topic.
Over the last few years of blogging I’ve found that readers really respond well to when you approach your blogging in a more personal way.
Some of the ways you can add a personal touch to your blog include writing in the first person, blogging with emotion, sharing stories using humor, talking about real life activities, using bylines, featuring video and images, being honest about your mistakes and failings, taking personal notice of readers and blogging with a conversational voice.
When you do these types of things over the long haul readers get to a stage where they feel that they ‘know’ you and a blog becomes more than just a place where you dispense information and it becomes a place where people begin to connect.
I’d love to hear how you add a personal touch to your blog in comments below.
Written on June 5th, 2008 at 04:06 am by Darren Rowse
The Power of Commenting On Other Blogs [VIDEO]
You’ve probably heard the age old ‘how to find readers for your blog’ advice that goes:
“Leave Comments on Other Blogs”
It was one of the first tips that I was given on how to find new readers for my blog five years ago and it’s one of the first pieces of advice that I hear most people giving still today. It’s so common in fact that I think that many of us gloss over it looking for a ’sexier’ way to drive readers to our blogs.
But today as I analyzed the post featured in this video I saw something that drummed home to me the power of leaving relevant comments on blogs as a way of driving traffic.
The tool I’m using in this screencast video is CrazyEgg – a click tracking tool that creates a heatmap of where readers click when on your blog.
I do want to emphasize again – that the strategy of building traffic to your blog by leaving comments on other blogs only works when your comments ad value and are relevant to the post. If you don’t adhere to this you’ll just end up hurting your reputation.
See the Full Sized Video at YouTube, MySpace, Blip.tv and Viddler.
Written on May 28th, 2008 at 01:05 pm by Darren Rowse
ProBlogger on the News
As mentioned in my last post – today saw Karen, Neerav and myself featured in an Aussie national news story on channel TEN.
Many international readers have asked to see the story so Neerav has posted it on Google Video for you. If you’d like to see the full sized version of the story you can do so here.
If you’re new to ProBlogger and have arrived after seeing the story please check out my last post – a welcome to you which has some introductory information for you on where to start with blogging.
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