Blogging Athlete

Try your best to produce the best quality video possible.  The Internet is filled with amateur video bloggers and video content producers.  Do your best to stand out in the crowd.  Create a video that is easy for viewers to see especially after they have been compressed.

Shoot your videos in the best quality lighting possible.  Always use a well lit room or, if that is not an option, natural light.  Create your video during the day and open up windows, blinds, etc. until you are sure that you have plenty of good quality light available for shooting your video.  Also shoot your video using the highest resolution setting possible.

Many new digital camera and camcorder owners do not know how to adjust their resolution settings and accidentally film using the lowest resolution settings creating low quality film.  Read your user manual to find out how to change your resolution.

Always remember to entertain your viewers.  Even if the information you are presenting is by nature a bit boring or dull do what you can to liven it up.  Viewers are not coming to your video blog to stare at a person sitting in front of a computer making a vapid observation before quickly fading out of view.

Interact with your invisible audience in the same manner you would if they were with you.  Smile, be animated and energetic.  If you do not seem to care about what you are talking about neither will anyone else.  Do not be afraid to use visuals such as books, videos, or CDs that relate to the topic of your video blog post.  Not only will this give you something to do with your hands, it will also help with your over all presentation.

One of the primary complaints viewers have about video blogs is the fact that the blogger will forget what they are talking about.  I have already mentioned that it is hard to memorize even a four minute blog post but people always try to do it anyway.

Video bloggers want to appear authentic and spontaneous but think of things this way.  Some of the most popular video blogs on the Internet feature people who are using scripted or pre-rehearsed parts.

While you might not want to pre-rehearse what you are going to say you do want to at least write it down and keep notes some where handy.  Try to use your computer screen as a teleprompter by scrolling text across it or post notes of what you want to discuss behind your camera.  Do what you can to help jog your memory and prevent your video post from being filled with “Umm..  Like… Uhh..”.

You might feel like you are cheating viewers out of an authentic video blog but trust me, they will enjoy watching your scripted video journal better than an improved one. .

One of the benefits of running a video blog for profit is that they are easy to manage and extremely popular with subscribers all over the Internet.  In addition to being popular with subscribers they are very search engine friendly.  Since vlogs are run on the same platform as a traditional blog they are optimized for maximum search engine performance.  They also give you a chance to connect with your audience in a much more effective manner than writing ever could.

There are many ways to make money by posting videos to your blog and honestly the only limit is your imagination.  The following are popular, tried and true methods that can turn your video blog into a profit making machine.

Ad Revenue
There are several ways for you the earn money on your video blog with the help of sponsored ads.  Most people concentrate on earning money from ads based on the visitors going to the website of the sponsor.  Since video blogs receive a lot of traffic, focus on earning money through pay per impression advertisement programs.  These programs pay you, the vlog owner, based on the number of times their ad is displayed on a visitor’s page.
Pay per impression programs include TribalFusion, FastClick, CasaleMedia, ValueClick, MaxOnline, BurstMedia, and RealTechNetwork.

These programs are great since they pay you for ever 1,000 times your page is loaded.  They do not depend on the action of the visitor meaning you will still earn money even if your visitor doesn’t click on a link, sign up for a program, or anything else.  This is a great, easy, way to benefit from the traffic that your vlog will receive.  Successful vlog owners often receive $40.00 each day in ad revenue alone!

Pay per click ad campaigns are another way to earn money from your blog.  These often pay more than pay per impression programs but they depend on the user clicking the advertisement or visiting an outside site.  Popular pay per click programs includes Google, Yahoo Publisher Network, Clicksor, All Feeds, Fast Click, Veoda, Bidvertiser, and Revenue Pilot.

Those that have not had much luck with pay per click programs in the past might not be to eager to use these programs.  It is true that it can be hard to earn a decent amount of money with click through programs but what many do not realize is that video blogs have a much higher click through rate than traditional blogs and websites.  Many video blog owners have a click through rate of at least 25%.