While this is how I start one of my success articles, in this case I mean, you as a blogger.  I can not see you.  I can read your words, I can guess your particular inflections.  Perhaps I even guess what you look like, and what you sound like.

This is what your readers do.

Video blogging can help you get more traffic by giving readers a more natural representation of you.  Reading your words viewers may get a different feel of who you are than when they see you and hear you.   With video blogging they can hear your passion, they can know what excites you and they get to know you better.

Your picture tells them one part of a story.  They see you.  They see your single expression. Look at my image above.  When you see a picture you read the facial expression, the eyes, the smile, and maybe some body language.

A thousand words times thousand

With the video blog the readers see all of the above and hear your voice, your inflection, they see your body language and your nature. They hear where you get impassioned and where you think the emphasis is.  You nor them may be able to tell anyone why, but we are trained from birth to read the subtle signs of body language and these are seen in video blogging.

You can see a video below.   Please tell me what you think.

Hope you enjoy!

Live ♥ Laugh ♥ Love

MJ Schrader

PS I added a video to yesterday, I was out of town. Using Videos for Online Business Success

Tomorrow: Video Wednesday during a week about video blogging

Today’s post is a bit of humor.  Based on Jeff Foxworthy’s, “You might just be a redneck, if…”  this is going to be “You might need to quit your job…”

You might need to quit your job if wake up hating your job and it is your day off.

You might need to quit your job if you think blind monkeys can do your job with an arm tied behind their backs.

You might need to quit your job if you resent everything related to work down to the coffee.

You might need to quit your job if your boss is yelling at you, and rather than listening you wonder “what would she’d do if I stood up and walked out without saying a word?”

You might need to quit your job if you have time to socialize with your co-workers and you would rather chew your leg off.

You might need to quit your job if no one cares about your privacy, bosses and co-workers tell you what you need to do, or what you did wrong if you at your desk or on the toilet.

You might need to quit your job if you think living under a bridge might be better than going to work.

You might need to quit your job if these jokes feel like they are right on target.

So what can I do if it is time to quit. Well the four posts before this one are about passion. First you need to know Why Passion Helps Your Online Business Success.  Then you need to Find Your Passion and Online Success and then you will want to Turn Your Passion Into Business.

And in case you are curious how it works for someone else you can read My Passion Revealed

It resulted in me researching and writing.  Writing is my number one passion.  Researching is a sideline of a couple of my passions.

Another one I have, because I seem to be gifted in it, is studying online tools and presenting their use in a simple and easy format for others to learn from and use.   It makes me happy to hear from you when you say… “Wow!  Thank you I know how to use …”   Because helping others has long been something that makes me come alive.

So writing, researching, helping and encouraging others and online tools.  Those are my passions toward business.  I also love silly English Cocker Spaniels but that’s just a personal issue…

But my websites… all of them… are based on combinations of these elements.  Rockstar Guide Books is designed to help, encourage and motivate you while teaching you online tools.  This requires that I write and research.  Happy Camper.

365 Online Tips is 365 days of encouraging and motivational tips to help people succeed.  This requires writing, researching various methods to encourage others and the fabulous daily quotes.  There are some absolutely fabulous ones that Kelly and I have come across.  While there are some favorites, the one I want to share is sweet and hopefully will make you smile!

Bunny slippers remind me of who I am. You can’t get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can’t lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they’re so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, ‘Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can’t be silly and frivolous.’ If I died and found myself in Hell, I could endure the place if I had bunny slippers. ~ Dean Koontz

Now if you are thinking the quote is sort of random, then you should have a conversation with me.  My brain is rather overflowing with information, and sometimes random things spill over. 

Following the topic of passion, you may be curious how you can turn your passions into an online business. There are actually a number of ways you could. It just takes some thought. Here are some questions to help you think of ways to turn your passion into a business.

Do people need help learning how?

Are products for it easy to find?

What are the best products?

Do people want help doing the hobby?

Would people rather buy it complete?

What do people want?

What do they need?

What advice do people seek?

Look for forums and see what people are asking for, wanting or needing.

Ask your friends and family if they would buy something from you related to your hobby.

Is there a way you can work with someone else to turn it into something profitable? ~ Many business partnerships have been created because the individuals wanted to live their passion and by combining formed powerful businesses.

Life is short and while money may pay bills if you are not living life full of joy and hope then you are not really alive. When you live life full of passion, creating a business to share that with others then you help the world live better.

~ MJ Schrader

Tomorrow’s Post: My Passion Revealed

Passion and You

Following your passion in business helps you reach for greater heights. You will have more incentive and tenacity to grow and learn more. It also motivates and encourages you and makes you feel enjoy life better.

Passion and Your Online Business Success

Going into business requires that you are able to push yourself. If your business is something that makes you feel alive then you will have a greater desire to persist when things are hard. You will be more likely to work the longer hours that starting a business normally takes.

The biggest advantage of being passionate about what you do in your online business is that it makes you a better person. You feel more confident which pulls people to you and they feel your passion and it makes them want some of that for themselves. They want your products and your services because they can sense your joy and almost everyone wants more joy in their lives.

~ MJ Schrader

Tomorrow: Finding your passion … (tell me your passion in the comments today and tomorrow and I will share a story about my passions!!!)