So are you trying to come up with what type of YouTube channel you should have? I know it can feel overwhelming when you think about investing your time and your money and your hard work into coming up with a YouTube channel and from being on YouTube for over 5 years, helping grow a YouTube channel to over a million subscribers, and helped thousands of creators narrow down and get clarity on their YouTube channel. I am here to help you today. You gotta just press record if we're just meeting my name is Heather Torres. And I'm art of the think team, and our mission is to help you build your influence with online video. And this is just a couple of the students we've helped with online video, learn what channels are working, what channels aren't working and help them go to over 100000 subscribers be able to quit their job and go full time. That's the mission that we are on here at think. And I'm excited to share with you today the 3 YouTube channel ideas for beginners. We're going to start with number one, which is probably one of the most so popular types of channels that people think about, which is a vlog Channel. Let me know in the comments below if you have a vlogging Channel. But this is channel idea at number one. And we're going to be going through the pros and the cons of each of these different types of channels, because I really think it's important when you were getting into YouTube when you're starting that channel to really identify, you know, is this worth it? Is it worth putting my time and my energy and all of the hard work that's going to go into it?
I'm not fully against Vlog style channels, but if you are trying to do this as a side hustle, if you're trying to make this into a full-time career, then as a YouTube coach, I want to coach you and say, vlogging might not be the best way to do it. And here's why, because it's hard to batch, produce your content. Now, what's batch producing will batch producing is something that I myself have to do when I'm creating content, because I'm a mom of three. I'm a homeschooling Mom. I'm running a media company. I'm working with a team of doing all these things. There's no way I would be able to produce a vlog every single day. I do content in batches, meaning I sit down and all film, not just one video, not just two videos, usually three to five videos. Anytime I'm going to sit down and put my makeup on anytime. I'm going to sit down and scripted video. I'm going to do more than one, because my content can go further. Now if you have a vlog style, it really is kind of real-time content, right? You're behind the scenes. You're telling the story of what's happening in your life, but that is every single day. That's what you're doing every single day with Vlog style content. So you can't batch Vlog style content. It can also take longer to build influence, you know, Vlog style content with the way the YouTube algorithm Works isn't necessarily discoverable content. It's harder to get discovered in the content in the YouTube algorithm when you have Vlog style content. And that's just really related to the titles and the thumbnails and the topics of the video that aren't as easily found by people who are coming to the platform that are putting in a search type, putting in a search in the search box and looking for something. So it's it takes longer to build influence. Now, are there horns on the on the platform? Absolutely right? You'll have people that will come on all of a sudden they're, you know, getting all these views that is very rare. And if you're someone who is just starting on YouTube, as someone who has been on the platform for a while, I want to make sure that, you know the pros and cons of this type of content.
The last is it can take a little bit longer to make money. If you're on the platform, and you really want this to be a career like, let me know in the chat right now, are you? Are you serious about YouTube? Do you want YouTube to be your full-time job? You want to be able to create content when you want, where you want work with cool Brands work with good people, they become a creative entrepreneur. If that's your goal, then a vlog style channel, it's going to just take longer to get to the money part of YouTube. Now you can make money through AdSense. You can make money through brand deals, but being able to build that influence first, that's usually the hardest thing. And the money is usually harder on the backside. Now, can you be successful on YouTube app? Absolutely as a vlogger Benji. Travis is one of our part of the video influencers and him and his wife, Judy, have been bloggers for years. They're very successful. It's the job that they do. But I want you to know the pros and cons of vlogging your content if you are, a vlogger is actually about you instead of being about them. So when you're thinking about if blogging is what you'd like to do, if turning the camera on you and taking them along through your day is what you want to do. Remember, it's harder to break true, because your content is about you and not about them. Number two, you can actually start a review channel. So this is a really great type of channel to have on the platform, because YouTube loves channels that help people. And here's an example right here, Marquis Brown. He does let me know if you know who this is. He does cellphone reviews, and he is such an artist and a great creative. And he's built his channel to 12 million subscribers.
There's a ton of review channels on the platform, and they can be very successful. So let's go through what are some of the pros and cons I've review channel number one, it can lead to income streams. Meaning when you start doing a review Channel and you sign up for, say, Amazon Affiliates or other affiliate marketing programs, you can start making money off of very low view count type videos. So it's very easy to go from reviewing the product to actually making an income on that product with a review Channel. Also, it's really helpful information. And one thing that YouTube loves is channels that are answering questions. Remember, YouTube is owned by Google, which means that they are a searched based system. The algorithm. The machine behind YouTube is all about what people are actually typing into and what they're actually interested in. And so if you're reviewing, Say, watches or cars, or, or cell phones, or whatever it is that you're reviewing, you can be the answer to someone else's problems. Now, what about the the cons? Well, the cons is actually, how do you get those review items? We've had people in our community that have tried to, you know, reach out to companies and get items, and it's just not as easy. So unless you already have a lot of the things you want to review, it's not really the easiest type of channel to get started with. But number three of the video ideas that I want to give you today is an educational Channel. And an educational channel is our favorite type of YouTube channel. I'm going to tell you why, but let me show you. This is think media. I think media is one of the channels that we run, and we help people with the tips and the tools for growing their influence online. We help them with the cameras and the gear, and we do a lot of how to videos how to is education. What about my other channel, which is a homeschooling channel? It's how to home-school. It's the it's the how to get started. It's a educational Channel.
Now, this can be in so many different niches. And we're going to talk about that, that but here's Mary's Nest. You saw Mary at the beginning, she just passed 100000 subscribers this year. She's now at 290 thousand subscribers. Mary helps with traditional cooking for the modern pioneer. She does things like broths and sourdoughs. She is a how to Channel A educational Channel. And then there's total dog. They're a local business in Las Vegas, and they help you with your dogs obedience. They help train dog to kind of get left to the side because they're overly aggressive, or they're just not able to be trained. This is a company that helps you with your dogs there, how to help you train your dog. Now, this is fly ride. Chris has a company where he helps you with the lighting of your car. Custom lighting is what Chris has built his entire YouTube channel on. And with that, he's gone full time with less than 100000 subscribers. That's right. He was able to quit his job and go full-time with his YouTube channel just on custom lighting. Are you seeing the value of an educational Channel? Now, here are some pros. Let's walk through the pros. You can go full time faster with a smaller Channel, if you don't know Sean, the CEO of think he was able to go full time on YouTube with less than 20000 subscribers. Why? Because he's an educational Channel. You can have multiple streams of income. What I love about educational channels is right away. You yourself up to being able to be hired as a coach, or set yourself up for affiliate marketing, or create your own by bun, your own online education program, right? You have so many ways, right off the bat to be able to have multiple streams of income, which would mean that you're leveraging your time so that you can work less and do more, right? You're able to batch your content. I told you that myself, as a mom of three, trying to run a company and do all the things. There's no way I could have a channel that would not allow me to be able to batch produce content. So you're able to create multiple videos at one time. And then you can create content that solves a problem. Here, me think this is critical. Our job as entrepreneurs is to solve a problem.
So my question to you is, well, what problem do you solve? And who do you want to help? When you think about choosing a niche? And you think about what it is, how do I figure out what the channel is? I love so many different things, right? Let me know, are you like me? And you love so many different things. You could start five channels right now. But if you had to pick one, if you're just getting started and you choose either a vlog Channel review Channel or my favorite and educational Channel, and then you decide what Niche you want to be in. I want you to really think about this and write this down. Who do I help? And how do I help them? What community do I want to serve? And how do I want to serve them best? When I think about about going back and starting my home school Channel, I was so scared, I was nervous. I never produced videos on YouTube yet, but I knew that there was so many hours as a new home school mom that I really just was spending researching. And I just wished that there was someone answering the questions that I had. I was a working mom, and a lot of the homeschooling moms that I was reading about that was the only thing they were doing. So I didn't feel like I could relate. I also am an Lauren, and I think differently, right, kind of outside the box of normal traditional education. And I was finding a lot of other moms that were thinking that way, but they weren't producing video content. I was reading blogs, and I was on Pinterest, but I wasn't seeing it on video. And so when I started my YouTube channel, I knew that I wanted to pick a niche that I could serve. Now you might be thinking, well, I mean, I'm not an expert and hear me, friend. I'm not an expert in homeschooling either either. But what I am is I am a friend. I am a guide. And when I think about what you should be choosing for your Niche, you want to choose something that's proven and profitable. And why did I decide homeschooling will? Because education is proven and profitable, right? And so when you think about where should I go? If I'm starting an educational style Channel, I want you to think, who do I help? And how do I help them? And again, think about is this a even and profitable Niche? What is proven mean proven means are other people doing what I want to do. You know, we get customers here or community members here at think, and they'll say, yeah, but there's already this type of Channel, or there's already someone doing that, and I go, that's great. That means is proven. That means there's an audience that means that your voice could be another voice in that community. And what about profitable? Well, I mean, our other people selling things things. Are you buying things in that Niche, right? Like I think about someone that came to us, and he loves biking like he loves like dirt biking and all that. And he's like, I think I'm going to talk about, I think I talk about taxes I'm like, but you own like seven bikes, right? Like let's go into something that is proven and profitable. You're able to make money off of that. And so thinking about what that looks like.
