How to Choose a Profitable Niche

Re:How to Choose a Profitable Niche by BigBalli on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @01:35PM (#5633672)

Hey Trevor,

great second post.

I agree with most of what you say but have to point out that you left out a big technique: search trends.

what you describe is finding apps that are already there and competing against them.

A different approach would be analysing search trends and match against niches with no apps.

For example, I remember discovering that paddling was a huge "industry" (as a sport) with ZERO apps.

For this, you would use services such as SearchManSEO or mobileDevHQ to identify niche "hotness" or the oldschool SEO way using GoogleTrends/Keywords.

hope it helps, Giacomo

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Re:How to Choose a Profitable Niche by diziet on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @07:34PM (#5635581)

Also check out https://appstorerankings.net for App Store Optimization services.

The model Trevor used for DL estimation is pretty good, actually.

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Re:How to Choose a Profitable Niche by trevmckendrick on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @01:38PM (#5633700)

Excellent point. There is a lot of data out there for sure. I just wanted to cover in this post how to identify profitable niches.

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Re:How to Choose a Profitable Niche by tocomment on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @02:15PM (#5633931)

How exactly would you use GoogleTrends/Keywords to identify niches?

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Re:How to Choose a Profitable Niche by waterside81 on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @02:17PM (#5633943)

I think they mean if you have a hunch on what might be a trend, check out the search trends on Google. If it's going up and to the right, you might be on to something.

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Re:How to Choose a Profitable Niche by areeve on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @06:25PM (#5635263)

You can also use something like Market Samurai to do keyword analysis. But by god, do NOT give them your daily email address, they will spam the crap out of you. Handy tool though.

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