Video Interview With Darren Rowse of ProBlogger
by Eric and Sean on February 3, 2009
in Interviews
Darren Rowse of ProBlogger, Digital-Photography-School and Twitip shared some time with The Blueprint discussing blogging and voice in our video interview.
All we can say is, MAN, that guy knows his stuff. Truly a gentleman as well; an absolute pleasure to talk with.
ENJOY!
The BB Team
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Writing a post on a comment (around 5:50 onwards)? I wonder whoever has that much time to do something like that!
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I enjoyed that interview. You’re doing a cracking job getting the big names to talk to you.
Churning out the same old stuff is a real problem in blogging. I mean, how many peopel really have anything new to say? Sometimes I just think why bother, there are so many people out there who can do this better than me – but then, as you demonstrate here, it’s often the personality behind the words as much as the words themselves that gets people engaged. I feel sure that Darren could spend a couple of weeks writing absolute tripe, and no one would worry too much because they’ve invested in HIM the person, and not necessarily his websites.
I suppose the trick is to let the engaging side of your personality shine through, and if you can back it up with great content.. all the better.
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Wow what a video. As far as content I’m braver about being me and my own voice. I wasn’t comfortable disclosing as much in the first month or two. I think it comes from working as a psychologist in the past. It’s about the client not you.
Now it’s about me or the reader is bored.
I also need to get more posts in reserve! Company is coming next week and I better prepare.
Keep the great interviews coming!!
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What a coup! You guys deserve success for doing the one thing that all great bloggers do – using your unique voice(s)to ENGAGE people. You’ve already made this site feel like a good place to be, a place where we can get to know folk and feel connected as well as learn a lot. Thanks!
I guess Darren is a great example of an e-dad at home!
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Nice interview. I’m still not much into watching video on blogs, though I’ve started using pre-existing videos on occasion. You guys are doing it well. I think the reason that I like it is that you are doing it in a discussion format rather than just a talking head.
As a former — and, now, sometimes — classroom instructor, Eric, I noticed that you do seem to have one habit that is a little distracting and that’s the use of the phrase “you know.” It’s a little thing, but once I noticed it, I saw that it was occurring often. This is intended to be constructive criticism. Like an earlier discussion on the use of grammar in written material, limiting little things like this in video will result in a tad bit better presentation, though it will be harder in a discussion format. I guess the main reason I noticed it is that I get similar comments in classroom critiques from management, except the comments for me are excessive use of “uh.”
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Haha…I had been thinking about “finding my voice” last night when I couldn’t sleep because I was too exited about all my future plans for my blog. And then I find you with this tagline.
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Excellent interview. Really fun watch.
@Daniel: You’d be surprised.
@Dave: Thanks, Dave! I know what you mean. It can be discouraging to say the least. Personality is key. Otherwise, the audience is forced to connect with the ideas alone.
@Tess: Thanks! The posts in reserve thing is definitely something I need to work on as well. I just feel like I never have the time. I’ll just have to make it happen, though, because I occasionally blank and need a backup.
@Janice: WOW! Thanks so much for the kinds words! That’s what we’re aiming for. It’s good to hear we’re hitting the mark.
@Ben: Good point!
@Mike: Thanks! Both for the complement and the constructive criticism. I know I have my common phrases. Something to work on.
@Yemoonyah: Wow, that’s great to hear. Glad you found us!
@Bamboo Forest: Thanks! Eric
Interesting interview. Anyway I am not going to write a 500+ words comment.
I like Darren because he has less hair than me and that’s good enough.
I don’t wish to add to the echo chamber, but nice interview
It’s so true what Darren said at the end, that you should be satisfied with where you are now and be open for more success.
So many people are complaining about their current success level and this way they block themselves from achieving more.
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@Marc: Thanks! I won’t hold it against you.
@Tim: Hey….hey….hey….Tim….Tim….Tim….
Ok, so I get the award for the corniest joke ever to be made in the comments section, but I digress.
You know, you can actually add digital hair while you’re in iChat?! Maybe you could be our next interviewee and I could give you a afro? Something to think about…
@Simona: I’m with you Simona. It’s hard to do sometimes, but we’ve GOT to appreciate where we are if we are EVER to be satisfied. Very true. Eric
You look starstruck.
Mike G. “you know” is a great and useful expression, unless your talking with Caroline Kennedy… You know!
On a serious note… I just discovered your blog and have been hear reading for 20 minutes or so… And now your bookmarked!
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This is another engaging and useful post. I like the idea of finding places where potential readers already gather. It’s making me wonder if my potential readers may be hanging out online outside of the blogopolis. Perhaps I need to extend beyond the world of blogging. Has anyone here been successful with online forums?
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Great interview. As a relatively new blogger, I have sort of “adopted” Darren as a mentor. This video is even further proof of why I, and many others, feel he has a lot to offer.
I use Twitter regularly and I’m gaining a larger following each day. Although I follow a lot of people, I only have a handful that come directly to my phone. It seems like Darren and a few others consistently provide tweets that add something to my knowledge base, everyday.
Just by watching expert bloggers like yourself and Darren, a new blogger can see the genesis of your success, great content that adds something of value to your readers.
Thanks for a great video! (talk about adding value!)
Alan
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I just think Darren is great… Plus, who can resist the Aussie accent?
Cheers guys, great to hear these tips from such big name bloggers…
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Great interview. I think we all know we should try to make sure our writing is valuable, but it’s easy to get lazy and re-hash another post.
The next time I’m tempted to do that, though, I’ll have Darren’s voice in my head asking me if this is post is “something that someone else can really use?” So thanks for the video.
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It’s always good to hear an interview with a good interviewer like this…it makes me think that when I eventually get around to interviewing that I’ll just screw it up…nice to hear Darren with his usual round of blogging advice.
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Darren who? Just kidding.
I like that “…even if it’s viral for another person…”, when Darren was talking about making your post good enough from someone to pass on.
There’s still good angles on something that’s been reworked. I ran into a great post on delicious and before I read it I thought, “Do I need to read this?” since there are plenty of articles on delicious around the web. But, with delicious’ website updated and how people use delicious I was glad I read it.
Finding your voice comes with time and patience and you can look at it as your rss subscribers count example and the enough money example. Once you find your voice you might not know it, and if you do, you keep searching for it which hopefully along the way becomes unique for your readers.
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Gwen, Thanks, I’ll try to keep it interesting.
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Nice interview mate! Great tips from Darren, as usual.
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Excellent interview, many thanks. I have learnt loads from Darren, not only about blogging, but also general SEO and website marketing and as such he is always worth listening to.
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Eric,
Great interview! It was strange, that’s the first interview I’ve seen/heard from him, I usually just read so the accent was kind of weird – nice but weird.
It’s a good change of pace from reading the Problogger blog and the book to hear it literally “from the horses mouth” because it adds a reality to it. There are definitely points that hit home that I am NOT doing that I need to do or do differently.
BTW, I’m making some changes on my site that have sort of stemmed from reading your “stand out in a crowd” post. Right now they are just aesthetic, but then hopefully everything else will follow. You’ve stirred me up for sure.
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Wow! Thank you so much for doing that great video and sharing it with us. It really was very informative. I’m a new blogger and I am researching everything I can about blogging and this is just the kind of direct, helful info I’m looking for. I hope that one day I can have a great blog like you and Darren but I’ve got a long way to go yet:)
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