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When I created my first YouTube video, I became keenly aware of how much better other creators were than me on camera. Over time I’ve gotten much better, and I’ve come up with 9 tips to help out first-time YouTubers get the most out of their videos. 1) Talk To The Camera Like It’s a […]

Sometime after 2010, Quora supplanted Yahoo Answers as the defacto Q&A site online. Quora dramatically increased its market share by performing well with Google. Bloggers saw Quora’s rise as an opportunity to promote their blogs. Some bloggers wrote posts about how they were driving traffic to their sites through the platform. Now many bloggers think […]

Should you be obsessed with making 4k YouTube content when 99% of your audience watches on non-4k devices (iPhones, iPads, and cheap LCD computer monitors)? Is there any point to it? Let’s find out! What’s The Max Resolution of an iPhone? Almost 0 of the popular devices your audience watches you on can display 4k. […]

I regularly see new bloggers making the following terrible mistake. Find all the competitors in their niche through Google. Plug competitor’s sites into keyword research tools. Lazily spin their top content. Profit?!?? This Doesn’t Work! In theory, if you rank for all the top site’s top content, you’d be wildly successful. So why doesn’t it […]

What sets Final Cut X apart from other editors are the plugins. Plugins can easily speed up your workflow. Things that would have taken hours in other editors can take seconds with the right plugin. It’s really a solo YouTubers dream. You just have to know which ones are worth it. 1) Cinema Grade $99 […]

Blogs typically sell for 20 to 30 times their average monthly revenue over the past 6 months. If your blog earns $1,000 per month, then in theory, you can sell it for upwards of $30,000. On its face, that seems like a lot of money. But, I’m going to make the case that blogs are […]

After a few years of blogging, I’ve become very against comments sections. Here are 7 reasons why you shouldn’t have comments on your blog. 1) 99% of WordPress Comments Are Spam I wrote a long post about how to obliterate WordPress comment spam. The idea is that most spammers are trying to gain a backlink, […]

When I first started making videos for YouTube, I was terrible at it. I was filming on an iPhone 6s with a failing battery. I didn’t understand how to edit my videos. I didn’t understand lighting, audio, or really anything about making a video. Despite my videos being garbage, I began making them anyway. I’d […]

When you first start blogging, nobody will visit your website, and you’ll be desperate for traffic. You’ll inevitably discover Medium.com, think it looks like a decent source of traffic, and then want to try it out. But you shouldn’t, and here’s why. Your Medium Post Will Out-Rank Your Website I found several instances of authors […]

I’ve been there. I wanted to start this blog while working an incredibly demanding full-time job as a software engineer. I eventually succeeded, but it was not easy. Here are 7 lessons I wish I knew when I got started on that endeavor. 1) Success Can’t Be Measured With Time. What will make your blog […]

I wrote an entire post a while back about what filming in log is and why you should do it. The gist of that post is that it helps you fit more luminance values into the same amount of disk space. This gives your shots more dynamic range at no cost to you and allows […]

When I first got into YouTube, I was terribly confused about which camera I should buy or how cameras worked in general. So I decided to put together this post to help new aspiring creatives out. The problem with writing a post like this is that “best” is subjective. I’m going to start with the […]

I went out and bought a 2020 M1 Mac with a 1 TB hard drive because I figured that’d be plenty for doing video editing in Final Cut. So I filmed a YouTube video, imported about a Gigabyte of video files… And by the time I was done editing, my library took up 500GB of […]

Once you start getting into video production, you could buy so many things that would make your day. Here’s a list of my favorites ordered from least expensive to most expensive. 1) 1/4 Inch and 3/8 Inch Adapter Screws You don’t realize how badly you need these until you do. All video/audio gear works with either a […]

The other day I needed to Airdrop a 2GB video clip from my 2018 iPad Pro to my 2020 M1 Macbook Air. It took maybe 15 seconds, if that. Wait, what? How could it possibly transfer a 2 GB file so fast? What’s the Bottleneck with AirDrop? Airdrop uses Bluetooth to establish a peer to […]