How to Get Video Topic Ideas: Copy From Other Niches
Avoid the intra-niche circlejerk
When you first start a YouTube channel for your business you usually have a bunch of ideas in mind for what videos you’ll create.
The topics seem obvious. You’ve been thinking about them for months or years while you were dilly-dallying about getting started.
That initial burst of ideas gets you through the first few months.
But once the fountain runs dry…you’re left with nothing.
The first thing most people do is copy their competitors.
“If you can’t innovate, steal” is a tried-and-true method. But everyone does it. That’s why niches turn into circlejerks where all the channels are exactly the same.
Asking ChatGPT can yield some ideas, but they will be basic AF. If you’re creative enough, those bland AI-generated topics can spark something within you and make you think of other (much better ideas).
But that well runs dry quickly as well.
By far the best way to generate ideas is to look at channels in completely unrelated niches and reformulate their most successful videos for your own niche.
“The Different Tiers of Watchmaking Fully Explained”.
You can do that video in ANY niche.
The Different Tiers of T-Shirts Fully Explained
The Different Tiers of Protein Powder Fully Explained
The Different Tiers of Fountain Pens Fully Explained
Any business in any niche that has different price tiers and quality tiers (aka literally any product in existence) can make this same video for themselves.
Most WiFi Money bros become myopically obsessed with their own business. They think about their competitors and their niche so much that they forget there’s a larger world out there.
The potential topic ideas flow endlessly once you start watching videos from niches that are COMPLETELY unrelated to your own.
This is the answer to the “I have no ideas” problem.
It prevents your business from being consumed by the intra-niche circlejerk.
You’ll stand out from your competitors and become a true first-mover, someone who’s viewed as the innovative leader in your niche because you’re always first.
And the best part is: you’ll never run out of ideas again.