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Market research is useful, but you don't have to spend months doing it.
Take a 7-day http://Ahrefs.com trial instead.
Here is everything you can learn, for less than $10, and in 2 hours
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Are people interested in my solution? 
Go look at the keywords search volume.
From experience, the absolute number is not very precise, but you can use it to compare your niche to a very successful one.
My gold standard is "email marketing":
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Go look at the keywords search volume.
From experience, the absolute number is not very precise, but you can use it to compare your niche to a very successful one.
My gold standard is "email marketing":
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Is this niche competitive?
This time, you should focus on the keyword difficulty instead.
<15 not very competitive
15< normally competitive <50
> 50 very competitive
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This time, you should focus on the keyword difficulty instead.
<15 not very competitive
15< normally competitive <50
> 50 very competitive
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How valuable my customers will be?
Looking at CPC is very helpful here.
Looking at how much your future competitor pay to acquire one customer will give you an idea of how much your margin/revenue per customer should be
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Looking at CPC is very helpful here.
Looking at how much your future competitor pay to acquire one customer will give you an idea of how much your margin/revenue per customer should be
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How established is the competition?
This one is less precise than the previous ones but still relevant.
Take a look at the ranking history for popular keywords.
Flat lines mean that the ranking hasn't been changing in a while.
You're looking for roller-coaster lines
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This one is less precise than the previous ones but still relevant.
Take a look at the ranking history for popular keywords.
Flat lines mean that the ranking hasn't been changing in a while.
You're looking for roller-coaster lines
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Next time I have an idea, I know Ahrefs will be one of the first things I check.
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Of course, that is not enough and you should cross-check your insights with other sources, forums, users, etc..
But for $7 and less than 1 hour, this is unbeatable.
Next time I have an idea, I know Ahrefs will be one of the first things I check.
6/6
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