Wyrd Wayfarer
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Hello! I was wondering if anyone could give some advice regarding this whole niche thing...
So here are my circumstances, and why I'm in two minds about it;
I've recently decided that I'm going to scrub an old channel I've been working on for two years or so. It wasn't growing and I know a lot of that was down to me and my own misjudgements. I changed the channel's name about 4 or 5 times in this period and I wasn't very focused on what I was doing. Some videos were of a good quality and others were admittedly dreadful. Also my content was a bit... random, sometimes.
I think another reason for my last channel's lack of growth was that I stopped posting regularly about 10 months ago because my son was born, and that, for obvious reasons, has cast a downer on the old channel's performance since.
The thing is though, as I sit here trying to formulate some kind of plan for this new project I actually hate the idea of having a niche. My primary purpose for making videos is to have fun, not to see it as a second job I'm not being paid to do. Now whilst I know the main topics that I'll be covering fit together reasonably well (hiking, camping, survival, wildlife and ecology) I'm also very interested in history, folklore, as well as aviation and local events like Steam Galas', (old steam train displays) etc.
In addition to all this though, I do have a bit of a secondary objective which is selling books. I'm in the process and have been for a while (albeit slowly) of writing about local history and I'd like to get them publish ed one day. Having a half-decent number of subscribers would at least make it more likely of being published and or selling to people with similar interests.
So... would you go with an emphasis on the mish-mash of local history, wildlife and hiking which to be honest sounds like it does mix reasonably well, or perhaps present all of this eclectic material as more of a vlog, incorporating basically anything I'm doing that week or month as part of the content? If I were already famous the vlog thing seems to work, but seeing as I'm starting from zero with little to no online support from any community, I feel the vlogger option sounds unfeasible.
What do you good folk think?
So here are my circumstances, and why I'm in two minds about it;
I've recently decided that I'm going to scrub an old channel I've been working on for two years or so. It wasn't growing and I know a lot of that was down to me and my own misjudgements. I changed the channel's name about 4 or 5 times in this period and I wasn't very focused on what I was doing. Some videos were of a good quality and others were admittedly dreadful. Also my content was a bit... random, sometimes.
I think another reason for my last channel's lack of growth was that I stopped posting regularly about 10 months ago because my son was born, and that, for obvious reasons, has cast a downer on the old channel's performance since.
The thing is though, as I sit here trying to formulate some kind of plan for this new project I actually hate the idea of having a niche. My primary purpose for making videos is to have fun, not to see it as a second job I'm not being paid to do. Now whilst I know the main topics that I'll be covering fit together reasonably well (hiking, camping, survival, wildlife and ecology) I'm also very interested in history, folklore, as well as aviation and local events like Steam Galas', (old steam train displays) etc.
In addition to all this though, I do have a bit of a secondary objective which is selling books. I'm in the process and have been for a while (albeit slowly) of writing about local history and I'd like to get them publish ed one day. Having a half-decent number of subscribers would at least make it more likely of being published and or selling to people with similar interests.
So... would you go with an emphasis on the mish-mash of local history, wildlife and hiking which to be honest sounds like it does mix reasonably well, or perhaps present all of this eclectic material as more of a vlog, incorporating basically anything I'm doing that week or month as part of the content? If I were already famous the vlog thing seems to work, but seeing as I'm starting from zero with little to no online support from any community, I feel the vlogger option sounds unfeasible.
What do you good folk think?
