When you first start your YouTube channel,
you usually have a ton of ideas of things
you want to talk about, videos you want to make.
But after you've burned through that list of ideas,
how do you keep generating new ideas that
will keep your subscribers and your audience coming
back for more?
I'm going to share with you guys a little behind the scenes
look at my process for how I never
run out of new video ideas.
Hey guys, my name is Tim Schmoyer,
and welcome to Video Creators.
This channel is all about helping you guys
as creators be able to grow out your YouTube audience
so you can spread a message that reaches people
and impacts their lives.
In order to reach them and impact their lives,
you have to keep publishing new videos all the time.
Great question here from Esha [INAUDIBLE]
who asks this-- how do you never run out
of ideas for your videos?
Because I always do.
I do it a few different ways, and I'm
going to share with you what each of them are.
But the general overarching principle
is that you need to put a system in place that
will automatically generate new content ideas for you.
What does that look like?
Well, here on the Video Creators channel,
for example, I have three things that generate ideas.
Number one is comments like this from you guys.
You guys are constantly always leaving questions
and giving great advice and leaving tips and ideas
in the comments of these videos.
And I read those and I say, that's a good one,
like this one here today, and I say
I'll make a video about that.
And so in one way, you guys are a system
that continues to generate content ideas for me.
A second system that I have here at Video Creators
is that about once a week, I read through thousands
of articles about updates and changes
happening in the online video news space,
and different tactics people are trying,
and different results people are getting
by doing different things.
I study all of that, and I get tons of different content ideas
from that too.
So if I read an article, I'm like, that would
make a good tip video.
Or I never thought about that before.
And I combine them all together.
And you guys have seen those videos
done here before by where I talk about some
of these stories and things and share them with you.
And so staying up to date with what's
happening on this platform also generates
a ton of ideas for me.
And number three for me is just paying attention
to what I'm doing on this own channel and other channels
I'm a part of.
And just whatever I'm learning there,
I'm like, oh, I just learned this about better titles
or thumbnails, for example, I'll share that with you guys.
I'll make a note of that.
Or maybe some of the business side of the things
that I'm learning about growing a business around my audience.
Some of those things I'll be like,
oh, I just learned a really important lesson here.
Let me make a note of that and I will bring it to you guys.
So how do I make notes?
Well, you can literally put any system in place
that works for you.
The way I use it as far as keeping track of these ideas
is Evernote.
I have a notebook just inside Evernote.
And I just create new notes, or I
have some that are just really long notes full of ideas.
Whenever I have something, I'll pull out my phone
or I'll stop and open my computer or whatever, and just
quickly type in some thoughts.
And sometimes it ends up drafting like entire videos
very quickly as I have it in my head right at that moment.
I like Evernote because it makes it really easy to do that.
Plus I can easily copy and paste screenshots
of your comments from YouTube videos into Evernote.
I can paste links and articles from other places
and jot down notes, lots of things.
So Evernote worked great for me, but it really doesn't matter.
Whatever system works best for you is fine.
But
Maybe you don't have an informational teaching training
type channel like I do here at Video Creators.
And that system that I use maybe doesn't work for you.
So what I did is I talked to many other creators,
and I'll put a couple of videos down in the description below
you can go check out, asking them
what your creative process for how do you
generate new content ideas?
And how do you stay creative on your channel?
And then another one on how do you break through creators
block when you just can't think of anything creative anymore?
You're running out of ideas, what do you do?
What do you do to take that next step to spark new creativity,
new ideas?
A lot of those suggestions, ideas
you find from those other creators
will be super valuable and helpful for you, so all those
are linked up in the description below,
or cards popped up around here that you can click on those
and go check them out as well.
And after you've checked those videos out,
I want to hear from you in the comments below.
How do you continually generate new content ideas
for your channel?
What does that system and process look like for you?
And the rest of you guys, check out those comments.
I know I we'll be digging into them myself.
I always learn a ton from you guys.
So let's help each other out and learn from each other
down there.
I'm looking forward to seeing what you guys have to say.
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So thank you for letting me be a small part of that.
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