15 Youtube Video Ideas for 2018

You're ready to start your YouTube channel, but you just aren't sure what video you should get started with. You feel a little uncomfortable, so you want to start with something easy. So what's an idea to get started? Well, in today's video, I've got 15 first video ideas you can do for your channel. Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Just the Tips. My name is Trena and I help creative business owners like you get a YouTube channel started for their business. This is a brand new series I'm kicking off here on my channel every Thursday for the next five weeks. It's all about coming up with video ideas and the videos that work best for your business. So make sure you click subscribe down below and even click that little bell button because that's going to let you know when I post a new video. Like I said in today's video, we're going to talk about 15 videos you can get started with today for your first YouTube video. The first idea is a creator story. Your creator story is how you got started. What's your why? Why are you doing what you're doing? If you can give people the backstory, they're much more likely to relate to you and be much more interested in your content. Follow you, buy from you just be that loyal following. Could you do a creator story about how you got to where you are? The second idea is a Draw My Life so so I can link some of these below, but these Draw My life videos were huge on YouTube a couple years ago, but they're so fun to let your audience get to know you more. You don't have to be like this professional drawer. You can just draw stick figures and tell your story through drawing on a whiteboard. The third video idea is an opinion piece and opinion pieces really help you stand out as a leader in your niche. So if there's some hot button item or some topic that people always talk about in your niche, you give your opinion on it. It doesn't have to be right or wrong, it's just how you feel. It's going to connect to your audience a lot more than just some generic video. And like I said, it's going to make you stand out as a leader in your industry. Next video idea is a tutorial teach people how to do something. A lot of people are on YouTube to search how to XYZ. So what can you teach people to do on your channel? The next one is kind of fun. It's a what's on my phone. You could walk people through what's on your phone. You could also use a software that shares your phone screen to show people the apps that you use a lot. Now, this could be very industry specific for me. I do a lot of video. I would show my imovie app and different apps that I use to edit video or record video. Maybe you're an Instagram professional. Maybe you could share the apps that you use to edit photos, take photos. Or it's just a fun way to let people to get to know you by showing what's on your phone. Because we all have phones and we all have favorite apps, right? The next video idea is a day in my life. Just take the camera along with you and share with people what you do in a day. I actually did one of these videos a couple weeks ago. I will link it in the card above so you can watch it. And I mean, it's nothing super exciting. It's me working with clients, me working on a launch plan. But it lets people get to know you behind the scenes, behind the makeup, behind the perfectly staged background, and it allows them to connect with you on a new level. Another video is a how to video. So how to do something. We talked about a tutorial video, but maybe you could show people how to tie a shoe or how to post an Instagram picture from your computer. You know what can you teach again? Teaching videos are really great on YouTube. Favorites video. Share your favorite business books, your favorite entrepreneurs, your favorite podcast. People are always wanting recommendations on what to read, what to listen to. So share your favorites tips. Everybody wants tips for success. Tips for Instagram, tips for YouTube, tips for blog posting. Whatever your niche is, people always want tips on how to do it better. An office tour. Now, you don't have to have a perfectly curated office, but again, it shows people a little behind the scenes of what it looks like where you work. Now, this doesn't have to be like your home office. Maybe you could do a home tour or show people, hey, this is where I work. I sit up in my kitchen table, my laptop sits here, my notebook sits here, and this is how I do work every day. Again, it's just a video to connect with your audience. It's a community piece. It helps build that community by showing people what real life looks like. Think we're on to idea number 11. And that's advice. Again, goes back with tips, tutorials, how to these all revolve around educational pieces that do so well on YouTube. So what's some advice you can give people? I did a case study a couple Months ago on posting every Single Day on YouTube and I gave my advice on what I learned from that. You can watch that video. I'll link it below. But I gave a lot of advice to people just starting on YouTube and what really worked and how you should start incorporating YouTube. What's an advice video you could do? You don't have to go out and do a huge case study like that, but give some advice. Business advice, life advice, dating advice, whatever your specialty is, this next one is a big one. And people love watching these videos. It's mistakes. So mistakes you've made, whether mistakes you've made on Instagram, mistakes you've made in business, people love hearing about mistakes. It makes us seem more human. We may be on video. I may be on video here. I may look perfect, the background may look perfect. But guess what? Life ain't perfect. And I've made plenty of mistakes. I actually talked about this a little more in a couple videos of YouTube mistakes that I've made. And I will link them for you to watch. Because I'm not perfect and I'm always learning how to do better here on YouTube and things that I've done that were just not right. So what's a mistakes video you could do? Review videos. So whether it's equipment review, course reviews, I know here in the creative industry we take 100 courses, right? Share your experience, whether it was good or bad. I mean, maybe you don't want to share a bad experience, but share your experience. Did you like the way they taught? Did you like the Facebook group? Or review a book, review an app you're using? What can you review that's industry specific to you to let people get to know about that app that could possibly help them out. A goals video. So I know a lot of bloggers do monthly goals. Allie Dene at the Social Walker Agency is, is always posting a blog post about the goals she set and whether she reached them or not. So maybe you could share your goals for a quarter or your goals for that week or your month. But sharing goals just resonates with people because we all have so many and we just want to connect with somebody else who's setting goals and knowing how they're reaching them. And the last video idea I have for you is creating a channel trailer. I really suggest that you have a channel trailer here on your YouTube video. It just lets people know what you're about, why they should subscribe. It doesn't have to be long, 90 seconds max. I have an entire video to walk you through how to do a channel trailer, if you want to check that out below. But it's so important to have that channel trailer because that's the video that will automatically play to non subscribers when they find your channel. So those are 15 video ideas. Which one stood out most to you? Which one are you going to create? Let me know below. I'm definitely thinking about doing a goals video, so I'm even going to use some of these videos to incorporate into my video strategy as well. If you like me giving you video ideas like this, make sure you gave this video a thumbs up and you click subscribe, because I've got a lot more videos coming up on Thursdays all about video strategy and how to come up with those video ideas specific to your niche. So make sure you come back, click subscribe. And thank you so much for watching. I'll see you next week. Bye.