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One Of The Easiest Ways Of Creating Fresh New And Powerful Content For Your Blog

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I’m just going to explain to you how you can create content for your
blog, or your website really, really quickly.

A few weeks ago I got an email from a friend asking me for an email
interview. If you don’t know what this is, this person asked me to
answer a bunch of email questions with email. He wanted me to reply
back with some text.

I enjoy writing but I enjoy speaking and being in front of a camera
more. I find that it is easier for me to create content using a camera
and talking to you “face to face”.

I figured, what the heck, I’m not going to write anything back, I’m
going to create a video about it and turn it into an interview. So,
acting like it is an interview so it looks like the person is actually
interviewing me live but in fact it was just me sitting there in front
of the camera!

I want to show you the set up I have for that so you can do it too because
I think it is a really easy way of creating blog content really fast and
getting some really good content out there at the same time.

Here’s what I did…

I had the questions from my friend on my laptop just in front of me. I was
sitting on the chair in front of my laptop so I could seethe questions on
my screen all the time. Then I had a light at about a 45 degree angle to
my face. I had the camera just in front of the light at the same height as
my face waswhen I was sitting down.

This is the approximate positions I used for the light and the camera. If
you are sitting in a well lit room you probably don’t needan extra light,
depending on how good your camera is. I decided to use one of these fancy
lights to make it look a little bit better and I was recording at night
so I actually needed the light.

The other thing I did was, instead of lookingat the camera while I was
recording (because then it is obvious that no one is interviewing you) I
looked at another place directly in front of me. I looked 45 degrees to
the directiont he camera was pointing in – another place in the kitchen,
the fridge, while I was talkingand acting like I was speaking to the
person interviewing me. On the camera it looked like there was someone
else sitting directly in front of me, interviewing me. But I was in fact
sitting there looking at my fridge!

Something I did that helped a lot was to puta picture of someone that I
could focus on in front of me so that it looked like I was speaking to
someone else. You could do something similar. That’s a really cool tip,
you could put a picture of someone’s face there so that it brings your
interview to life and it makes it come across a lot more real. You’ll
see in the interview that I had in the other video with Louis how that
comes across…

I start off that video with an introduction using a splash screen with
some text and then I get straight into the first question. So instead
of Louis asking me the questions live I have the questions as text.
Everyone else assumes the other person, in this case Louis, is sitting
opposite me asking me the questions and I’m just answering. But, in
fact it’s just me looking at the screen at the questions.

I wanted to share this technique with you as a really cool and easy way
of creating content for your blog. You don’t need someoneelse to ask you
these questions. You can come up with a bunch of questions yourself.

If you are going to be putting your video on YouTube, keep it brief.
Probably just three or four questions. Try to keep your video between
three to five minutes. That way, your videos are the most powerful and
most likely to go viral. The interview I did was a bit longer but I had
to answer those questions but you don’t have to. You can do less
questions about a certain topic of your niche. Maybe the top five
questions that you get asked in your niche. Or, whatever it is your
audience is interested in.

You can write those questions down and have them in front of you and then
just hit record.

Afterward you do your editing and upload itto YouTube and send it to your
list or put it on your blog and make it come across really interesting.
The other thing about interviews is they are more interesting than you
just speaking directly to the camera. Having a bit of variation is a
good idea.

This technique is something I’ve done a few times now. It’s really easy
and as you can see, it gives you a pretty good result and it makes you
come across a lot more like an expert as well.

That’s it from me and I’ll see you inside the next post.

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