10 Hot Sources of Free Market Data

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Here are the 10 sources of Free Market Data anybody can use, anytime.

These 10 sources of market data are valuable tools to help you predict the profitability of a niche without second guessing. They are all valuable tools. Use them to determine first hand if you will be making a killing in a particular niche market or whether that niche could actually kill your business.

eBay Pulse – Shows the hottest trends in eBay. There’s the most popular searches, the largest ebay stores, and the most watched items. Use the information there to determine the public’s interest for certain niches or the lack of it.
Clickbank’s Marketplace – this site is mostly for digital products like ebooks, ecourses, tutorials, and softwares. Visit this site if you want to get some information regarding downloadable products. You’ll find out what types of info products are selling in your market. You’ll even find out hot buttons from sales pages and the type of information people are willing to pay for.
Amazon Bestsellers – You can basically use Amazon bestsellers to research trends for almost all products since Amazon carries almost all types of products now. However, their best seller books list is a good tool if you want to check popularity of certain books in your niche. Take a look at their Tables of Contents. Couldn’t you also have a bestselling info product with similar subject matter?
Paypal Shops – Shows a list of all shops that uses paypal as payment processor. It shows a list of stores based on category and sales volume. If you are checking out if a particular niche is profitable, simply go to paypal shops, look for a similar store and check out how it ranks compared with the others. This could give you a clue if the niche is an easy money market.
Lulu Top 100 Best Sellers – Lulu is focused on books. You can check whether there are books on your niche that are best sellers. If there are, then you have yourself a hot market.
Shopping.Com Top Searches – This shows the consumer demand index from shopping.com, like eBay Pulse, you can pretty much check any niche you want here.
Magazine.com – Use this to check if a magazine publication is catering to your niche. Having several magazines catering to a niche means a lot of people are reading about the niche and it also tells you that a lot of companies are advertising on that niche too.
National Enquirer – are there advertisements for your niche in the National Enquirer? More people read the National Enquirer than the Holy Bible. It costs an arm and a leg to advertise within. If there’s an ad that shows up across several issues, then you may discover a market to tap into, sales points, and angles.
Long Running Informercials – Long running infomercials are profit drivers. Companies cannot run an infomercial for long without getting a return on investment. Infomercials also teach you how to sell like a CHAMP!!!
Standard Rate and Data Services – This is one of the best tools you can use for market research. It provides media rates and data for advertising. If there’s a list inside, then there’s interest in that market.