The last few weeks have been an immensely challenging time for teachers, parents, and students alike. With the world of education thrown into chaos because of the coronavirus pandemic, parents and guardians are having to balance working from home with home-schooling, while teachers face the enormous task of keeping an anxious and remote classroom engaged and productive.

 to guide parents and help teachers (like 

), and alongside these stands YouTube, one of the most accessible and comprehensive libraries of educational content around the world.

 (video below) are publishing structured, exciting and insanely informative videos that provide invaluable knowledge and advice to specific, as well as general, audiences and age groups.

But YouTube presents two opportunities here. It’s a learning resource for sure, but it also offers __limitless opportunities for educators to turn online and offer up their expertise to others. __

And beyond YouTube, there are also a huge number of ways for creators to turn their unique skillset into a way to generate revenue and possibly turn their profession or hobby into a way of earning a living full-time.

Turn Your Profession or Passion into an Online Resource

So how do you turn your skillset into something you can create online video content around? Whether you are starting from scratch, or have a YouTube channel but you’re not sure what your strategy should be, there are two things you should be doing right now:

Picking up inspiration from other creators in your space

Learning to succeed at YouTube is the only way to stand a chance of earning a decent living from the platform. Luckily, vidIQ is a creator-obsessed resource with an enormous amount of content to guide you through your journey. Check out the other articles 

. Wherever you are on your journey, we have an answer to your question (and if we don’t, please reach out so we can find the solution for you).

__We even have a vidIQ Academy, with courses dedicated to every aspect of building and growing a YouTube channel. __

Right now our most popular Academy course ‘

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It’s an in-depth walkthrough of everything you need to know to hit the ground running, so sign up today to hit the ground running. Now on to the second point:

How Other Creators are Using YouTube to Teach Others

While we HIGHLY discourage copying what other channels in your vertical do for many, many reasons, it would be odd if you didn’t identify who your competitors were, the kind of content they are publishing, and how engaged their audience is with that content. You can be sure that when your channel is successful enough, you’re competitors will be watching you.

The tutorial/how-to genre on YouTube is one of the biggest, one of the broadest, and one of the most valuable. We can’t cover every creator, but we can check out some who are doing great things in the space right now.

For traditional educational topics like science, maths, languages, social studies, and history you have the heavy hitters like 

But there are millions of other creators publishing content around very specific educational and informative topics, and their channels are generating massive views and subscribers.

 for example who attracts significant views for her videos on sex education, body-positivity, relationships, and disability. Make sure to check out her video on 

, and how she uses YouTube to promote her work as an author:

” offers up a ton of advice around living with ADHD as an adult. It’s an incredible example of a creator with first-hand knowledge of their subject creating educational and informational content on how to thrive.

And how about this channel as an example of how to teach others some incredible life skills? 

 has generated nearly 3.8M subscribers by creating content around building confidence and laying the foundation for good relationships with everyone in your life:

Beyond YouTube: How to Make Money for Being an Expert

Do you have an aptitude for teaching a particular skill and want to explore how to build a successful career around that? Of course, as a teacher or a professional in another field, there are clear career paths that you can follow to achieve those goals.

But for millions of people around the world, this pandemic has stirred up a great many fears about those traditional career paths. Being furloughed or even worse, losing their job security entirely, has unlocked the desire to control their own careers going forward.

On the flip side, many of those who have been lucky enough to keep their jobs but have been working from home, are now dreading the return to a stressful commute and the 9-5 drudge.

 series, we’ve interviewed some incredible creators and industry experts about creating a career around a particular set of skills.

Jess Catorc from Teachable offers extensive advice about building a community on YouTube around your educational content but 

then utilizing other platforms to sell courses

. In the last few years, there has been an explosion in sites that allow you to create your own online courses, and sell lessons around your expertise. These include:

For teachers, Gabby Wallace, a YouTuber with 1.6M subscribers offers advice on how to leverage the 

huge demand from users to learn new skills

, plus how to monetize your educational content on the platform.

Finally, Josh Horton is a professional juggler, with over 500K subscribers on YouTube, tells us the fascinating story of 

how he turned a passion of his into tutorial content

Whatever skill you have, there will be someone out there willing to learn from you. And if you're passionate enough, you could turn those tutorials and online lessons into a full-time career. Why not make a start on that dream career path today?

If you want to take your YouTube channel to the next level and 

 then make sure to download vidIQ. Join over 1 million other users and use vidIQ to help you research YouTube, analyze videos, audit your own channel, and take actionable steps 

And if you’re really serious about growing your YouTube views and subscribers, sign up for exclusive access to the 

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