Are you having trouble coming up with content
ideas for your blog or your video channel?
Worry no more!
In this video I´m going to have you swimming in an
endless sea of ideas and we´re starting right now.
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Content Is still king and it´ll always reign supreme
because if we stopped creating new content the
world would fall into a deep,
sad, depressing,
darkness.
Because we wouldn´t have any new information
to consume and we love consuming new
information, don´t we?
I mean that´s what content is anyway right?
It´s just information or an an art form that we transfer
from our thoughts into a consumable format like
music or writing,
or videos or painting, and so on.
A lot of people look at creating content like this
big mystical thing but just like anything else
if you apply a system to it,
you mix in a little bit of inspiration,
it´s actually pretty easy to come up with new ideas.
And if you want a free checklist to keep in your phone
to help remind you of the steps
that I´m going over in this video and more,
you can find the link down in the description for that.
New content ideas can easily be found in the details
of your niche or niche depending on where you grew up.
Let´s say for example you have a blog or
video channel about cleaning house.
The first thing that you need to do
is break everything down into parts.
So for that, as an example,
we can break it down into windows, floors,
stairs, doorknobs, and so on.
For each of those items you can create sub-items,
and then sub-sub-items,
until you exhaust each option or each
detail that you´re working on.
Let me elaborate on that for you.
Let´s say we start with the topic of cleaning
underneath cleaning, let´s say your subtopic
would be stairs.
Within stairs, you have uh let´s say wooden stairs.
And then within wooden stairs,
you have ways to clean different kinds of wooden stairs.
Within stairs you also have carpeted stairs.
So let´s say you have different ways
to clean different types of carpeted stairs, ways
to preserve the color in the carpeted stairs,
and so on. If you just sit down
with a piece of paper or your computer,
and you work through all the details
that are involved with cleaning stairs you would be
surprised at all the different ideas that you can
come up with because
you have the surface of the stairs,
you have how to keep wooden stairs uh
from getting slick when you clean them so that
nobody falls down your steps. (laughing)
Um you can go into
how to clean the bannisters on the stairs
how to keep the walls clean as you´re
going up and down the stairs.
Then, once you exhaust each item,
like how to clean a tile floor for example,
then you can try to come at it from a
totally different angle.
For the tile floor example,
you can spin that off into the
best surfaces to get that are still visually appealing,
but the easiest to clean.
And then, you can break down each one of those surfaces
into the best way to keep it clean.
Or with keeping the tile floors as your topic,
you can spin outside of that and make
a post or a video about how to keep
the rest of your house clean when you´re having
new tile floors put in.
This technique works for pretty much everything
so break out a piece of paper or your computer
and appy it, and see
how many topics you can come up with.
Now, if you apply that system
and you´re still coming up dry,
now it´s time to hit the internet.
Forums are a wealth of content ideas
because it´s filled with people that are looking for
solutions to their problems or faster and better
ways to do things.
We all know that providing solutions to problems is
a great way to bring people to your content.
As a matter of fact the video that you´re
watching right now was inspired by
a post on the Warrior Forum where a user was
asking how to come up with new content ideas.
So I didn´t even have to look for this idea
it actually found me which is great because
all I was doing was doing my daily checkins to
the WarriorForum to kind of see what´s going on
and somebody made this post about
how to make content and VOILA!
Now I have a content idea to this
video that you´re watching right now.
Youtube and Reddit are also great places to
look for inspiration because the community´s so huge.
But you have to be careful because
both of them are extremely distracting.
So use both of those sites with extreme caution
when you´re looking for inspiration.
When using these sites for inspiration, don´t just
look at the videos and posts that other people
are making and try to copy them,
look down in the comments and see the problems
that people are having or the questions that they´re asking
and find solutions and answers to them.
The comments section alone for just one video
or Reddit post could possibly give you content ideas
ideas for the next month or two.
Slideshare is also a great place to find
inspiration because there´s so much content
pouring into there.
Just go to the search option, type in your niche
and see all the different options that come up for ya.
If nothing comes up, then maybe you should
put up some slides for your stuff so that people
can find you through SlideShare as well.
Another great and enjoyable idea to help
you find content ideas is:
get away from your desk for a little bit.
Sometimes just going for a walk can
loosen up your brain a little bit to where you´re
thinking about other things instead of
trying to make something happen so bad that
it just doesn´t happen.
So if you´re having trouble coming up with content ideas
and the other steps in this video
haven´t worked out for you,
or you´ve just completely exhausted them, don´t be afraid
to take that break, but make sure you take your
phone with you so you can jot down any
ideas that you do have.
Something that you don´t want to do
when you´re taking a break is
you don´t want to go see a movie or
or you don´t want to play video games
or something like that to where it´s going to
occupy your mind and just completely
blow past time for you.
What you want to do is you want to
do an activity that let´s your mind wander,
let´s your mind be free a little bit to kind of refresh
you and let you come up with something new.
Another tip that I have to give you
is make a content schedule. Take the time to sit down
and figure out what it is that you´re going to
write about or make videos about for the next
month or two so that it takes a little bit of the
pressure off so you know what you´ve got to make
and when you´ve got to post it.
instead of having to come up with
what it is that you´re going to make.
As a side note, the content schedule actually
saved me recently because I had a hard drive fail but
it didn´t fail I actually dropped it and it broke
into a bunch of pieces so I lost all the videos
that I had premade on there.
So what I had to do is I had to consult my phone the-
my content list that I had in my phone
and I keep it backed up to my computer, uh
so that I know what videos that I have to remake
instead of having to come up with brand new content ideas.
Make sure you hit the subscribe button down below
and if you want to help other people come up with
new content ideas leave the methods that you use
down in the comments or any questions that
you might have about
coming up with new content ideas.
And for more sites that you can use for inspiration
and a checklist that you can keep in your phone
for when you´re struggling with ideas,
click the link down in the description below.
Thanks for watching.
I ´ll see you next time.
And as a personal public service announcement,
I want to remind you to back up your data now.
and I´m not trying to sell anything I just want to remind you:
back up your data now because I lost my hard drive
like I told you earlier in the video and
can´t explain the inconvenience and the lost
time that it´s cost me. So make sure that you
back up your hard drives and make back ups
of your back ups, right now if you can.
See you next time.