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b2b and consumer, no audience needed

outcome not stated

confidence

low

evidence

2 claims · 1 articles · 2 receipts

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2016-08-252016-08-25 · nothing since 2016

a single source, nothing corroborates it

Mine a funded publisher's categories for your niche

A niche publisher that has just raised money has already done the market research, and its category list reads as a forecast of the searches about to exist. Treat each category as a candidate standalone site. Where a site publishes its own pageview counter, paying a developer around a hundred dollars to scrape it hands you the whole archive ranked by popularity.


The method

  1. 01

    Read the category list of a freshly funded niche publisher as a forecast of the searches about to exist.

  2. 02

    Pay a developer to scrape a site that publishes its own pageview counter, and you have its entire history ranked by popularity.


What it returned

  • $1.25m

    UploadVR raised over $1.25m seven months into its first year, and Glen Allsopp treats each of its categories, from Google Cardboard to VR advertising, DIY VR, VR cameras and VR jobs, as a standalone site.

  • $100

    UploadVR shows a pageview count on every article, and Glen Allsopp puts the job at around $100 to a programmer hired on Upwork.


Sources


the second source

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