I get a lot of comments, questions and emails from you guys about my videos.
Some of you love them while others say you don’t. One thing I have learned through blogging is that you will get mixed responses to just about everything you do.
However for those of you with questions on how to actually start vlogging…. THIS POST IS FOR YOU!
Hopefully most of your questions will be answered here so I can just refer emailer’s to it in the future.
What Makes A Great Video?
This is probably the most asked question I get, everyone wants to know what makes a good and great video. Answering this is hard because there are so many things to a great video, rather then list the hundreds to you, I’ve picked my top ones that I would focus on if I was starting out.
All the others are small and will come to you in time, anyways… Here is the list of things you should focus on!
1. Make your video short, between 2-5 minutes in length! People don’t want you to waste their time and the 2-5 minute videos always do the best on the net!
2. Make it funny / comical if possible! People love to laugh and have a good time, if you can capture that in a video you should get views easily.
3. Look at the camera! Some many times I see people who do videos not looking at the camera. Its really annoying because it makes me think they are looking past me when I’m watching them. Engage your audience and stare them straight in the face!
4. Make sure your sound is good! I see so many poor quality sound videos because they either don’t know how to compress the audio for a small but good file size or they just have no clue how to edit there sound for better results. Do a little research and take some time to learn your camera and editing apps for audio and video. It will go a long way!
5. Don’t use to many transitions! Believe it or not transitions are of the past, the new way of video editing is to cut it choppy. What I mean is lets say you ask the viewer a question like “Why did the chicken cross the road?” instead of transitioning to the answer just hit them with the answer, cut right in! (You can see an example of this method in nearly all the videos I make, mainly my intro’s).
Where Do I Upload My Video?
There are many places you can upload your videos but the most popular is probably YouTube. Its popular because its easy to use and they don’t plaster you with ads all over the place! Not only that but YouTube has a really big and fairly nice community of vloggers.
You just need to focus on getting plugged in to some of the other like minded vloggers and you will be set!
If your like me, I am more after providing good visible videos to my readers so I have chosen to use Viddler for all my videos because it allows me to upload HD quality videos if I want. YouTube does have a high-def setting but they take hours to get the videos up whereas Viddler takes 20-30 minutes!
YouTube is more accessible though so its a coin flip depending on what your after!
How Do I Get More Views?
This is one of the most widely asked questions I hear. The funny part is that its really not that hard to get decent views on your videos. I guess the main tip I would like to point out here is one for YouTube, not many know about but its actually how a TON of big YouTubers with several thousand subscribers got started.
Video Responses! There is a feature in YouTube called video responses where basically you can “Respond” to someones video with another video. Now obviously this means a little bit of work on your part but here is the basic premise behind this technique.
Lets say I made a funny video about getting a hair cut and I want to get more views on it, well I type in something like “Funny Hair Cuts” on the YouTube search. I find a video that has a medium view count on it already. I then post my HairCut video to that funny video that already is getting views.
Now you may be asking why do I pick a video with Medium View Counts when there are some with way higher view counts? Simple, because you want to get views, the videos with the SUPER high view counts have already been seen by everyone but the second video may not have been seen yet. (Its just basic math people!)
How Do I Get More Subscribers?
This question may even be asked more then the above but luckily for you I’m telling you all my secrets and all you have to do is return the favour by subscribing to my blog!
Anyways…
To get more subscribers especially on YouTube you simply have to ask for them. Yup it is that simple! Go to anyone on youtube with thousands of subscribers and look at what is on the end of nearly ALL their videos?
You will see a message like…
- Please Subscribe
- Subscribe Now
- Click The Subscribe Button
The moral of the story is “Ask and you shall receive”.
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This is a very nice article Shannon with very
useful informations.
Thanks a lot for sharing.
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GREAT tips! I’m just getting into the vlogging over at my site and you have some good info here! Thanks!
No problem Jake and Mario!
Glad to be of help!
I have seriously been thinking about video posts. I started posting videos (totally unrelated to blogs at all) and I liked it a lot. So every day I’m just getting closer to doing it.
I have thought about vlogging…then again, I doubt anyone would want to see my ugly mug on their computer. Good advice nonetheless
I think the greatest videos that I like to see are the ones where people are expressing their true personalities and opinions. People tend to put on a front when doing videos because they want their audience to act or think a certain way
Nice tips that you have discussed. These tips make your post as best as your video.
Uploading of video is a difficult task for me, i don’t have patience.
Fantastic post there. Really well covered points. I guess need to implement one at a time.
The trend of blogging slowly turning into video blogging. This is perfect guide for video blogging. Excellent idea.
Vlogging is awesome to because it lets the readers see something visual!
Very helpful post. The video response tip was very useful. thanks.
i was thinking of starting a video blog and needed information about it, and this post provided me all the best tips to do that, now i am sure to set up a good video blog
wow, thx for the helpful post
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This is a very interesting article, I think video is really going to take off in 2009. It can be used in so many ways from delivering your content to advertising. I heard that You Tube just topped Yahoo in being the second largest search engine next to Google. Thats big!! This really shows the importance of video.
Great article. I have around 322 videos in youtube but I still miss some of your tips…
Video advertising is one of the most effective advertising today… I have a lot of videos in youtube giving me steady visitors.
Great resource… funny videos always catches attention.
If you are not doing video advertising, you are missing a big opportunity.
I really like this post and thought it was helpful. I have some videos and they havent got many views so I’ll try that tactic out….
thanks again..
This is a nice and helpful post. Reading this post was very refreshing.
I like the part “Look at the camera!” I agree with you, once I watched video a man inside it look the other way while talking, I felt he’s hiding something therefore he’s not dare to face the camera (audiences) then I lost trust on him, and canceled to purchase his product.
Haha.. i always wanted to do vblog but somehow i still dont have time to actually learn it
this is a great tips. you are blogging expert. thanks this a very helpful post
this is really nice tips thanks
It is the good medium of interaction and can also be called as hot media.
It is just you need follow the few basic steps and guidelines that’s it.
Excellent written post to learn video blogging basics.
Well thought out tips. I need to forward the link to this blog to a few friends now. Hopefully they will digg it and follow it.
I want to video blog and podcast (yes I realise that they are two different things) with a friend. What stuff do I need?
I started posting videos (totally unrelated to blogs at all) and I liked it a lot. So every day I’m just getting closer to doing it.
I don’t really agree about the transitions. Some lately are chopped every 3 seconds and it looks cool.
I started posting videos (totally unrelated to blogs at all) and I liked it a lot. So every day I’m just getting closer to doing it.
Yea when I watch videos after I make a video, it seems very mundane.
Also, it’s really hard for me to stare and look at a camera and act like I’m talking to a person. I don’t know why. Any tips?
Also, I’m not good at acting. People say I don’t have enough “feeling” when acting.
So I don’t know how to make my blog any more interesting, or how to look directly into the camera for long periods of time without feeling weird.
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