Spencer Marketing Blog
Hey everyone,
I'm getting back into the swing of things writing on this blog…I know it's been sporadic the last couple months but I'm back and in charge.
I wanted to share with you some of the places I go for market research.
So here goes…
1. Amazon Best Sellers
I love using this source of data. Best of all it's free. Here's the link.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers
This information is updated every hour so you can know what people are buying in any niche you're researching.
This data is worth a ton.
2. Dummies.com
This is the website for the Dummies series of books. If they have a book on it…it's a niche worth considering.
3. Google Forum Search
Type "Niche+ Forum" into Google and start finding forums in your niche. The threads that are "hot" (some programs make a flame right next to the thread after 20 posts) are good little ways to find out what people are struggling with.
4. Popular Blog Posts
One of the easiest ways to legally and ethically hijack ideas are to scan the "most popular" posts sections of the blogs in your niche. There are plugins which make a list on the toolbars of blogs that show the most commented, most read, or "author's favorites" type of things.
Read these posts and read between the lines. This takes a bit of inferring but it's well worth the minor amount of brain work 
These are 4 of the main research methods I use. There are many more but they're usually just modified versions of these. Basically, look for what's popular and then look at market data in Amazon. The little parts that are both popular and are selling are the things that you should be creating products on.
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