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- Oct 20, 2012
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Type this into google (change amazon.com with what ever website you want to research):
site:amazon.com inurl:forum -faq broken | not working|fix | hate | why can't | how do I | how come | annoying | irritating | much better | I wish | if only | i need help | right now | asap | desperately | urgently | urgent | they should | got problem
Don't know have any websites in mind... here are a list of forums you can target.
The more urgent the problem is, the better. The fewer options/solutions to the problem the better.
So the best problems will be those where the problem is so painful and so urgent that a person would pay almost anything to have it solved....
i.e If your car is stolen and you can't get to work and there is no public transportation, if you lose your keys and can't enter your house, if your computer screen breaks and you can't do any work from home, if your home window is broken and its winter. You can't just ignore these problem because they are too painful and urgent.
But go 1 step further and look for problems where there are not a lot of options for the consumer then you might just be on to a winner. If you are the only one that can fix a house window the same day within a 30 mile radius... then you're in the sweet spot. That's where you want to be.
Also, there is a difference between WANT and NEED. Make sure you understand the difference. You want to focus on NEEDS not wants. I want an ice cream on a hot summer's day, I NEED my house window repaired ASAP unless I want to risk getting burgled in the middle of the night.
Once you've found a NEED you want to either interview those people to make sure its a real problem they have, or create a MVP and sell it to them, or create a landing page and pre-sell your solution (best option - 100% proof you've found a need).
site:amazon.com inurl:forum -faq broken | not working|fix | hate | why can't | how do I | how come | annoying | irritating | much better | I wish | if only | i need help | right now | asap | desperately | urgently | urgent | they should | got problem
Don't know have any websites in mind... here are a list of forums you can target.
The more urgent the problem is, the better. The fewer options/solutions to the problem the better.
So the best problems will be those where the problem is so painful and so urgent that a person would pay almost anything to have it solved....
i.e If your car is stolen and you can't get to work and there is no public transportation, if you lose your keys and can't enter your house, if your computer screen breaks and you can't do any work from home, if your home window is broken and its winter. You can't just ignore these problem because they are too painful and urgent.
But go 1 step further and look for problems where there are not a lot of options for the consumer then you might just be on to a winner. If you are the only one that can fix a house window the same day within a 30 mile radius... then you're in the sweet spot. That's where you want to be.
Also, there is a difference between WANT and NEED. Make sure you understand the difference. You want to focus on NEEDS not wants. I want an ice cream on a hot summer's day, I NEED my house window repaired ASAP unless I want to risk getting burgled in the middle of the night.
Once you've found a NEED you want to either interview those people to make sure its a real problem they have, or create a MVP and sell it to them, or create a landing page and pre-sell your solution (best option - 100% proof you've found a need).
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