Example report · Discussion-led, to a warm audience
📣 MarketingA premium community: Marketing for people who want results, not another feed
With 20,000 monthly searches for "digital marketing course" in the US and a 21.9% year-on-year increase, there is significant interest in this topic. Among 27 Marketing communities, only 9 publish a monthly price, with a median of $49, indicating that pricing is mostly unpublished. Your discussion-led format with weekly Q&A can appeal to those seeking engagement and support. As you draw your first members from your warm audience, you can position your community to meet the needs of those interested in digital marketing.
The evidence
Live data from the Marketing category on Community Teardowns.
- 27
- communities indexed
- $49/mo
- median published price
- 9 of 27
- publish a price
| Price band | Communities |
|---|---|
| Free | 0 |
| Under $10 | 1 |
| $10–25 | 2 |
| $25–50 | 3 |
| $50–100 | 1 |
| $100+ | 2 |
Search demand
US · measured 72 days ago- digital marketing course↑ +22% year on year20,000/mo
- seo training4,400/mo
- facebook ads course350/mo
24,750 searches a month across these terms. Ranking difficulty 0/100, unusually soft for a topic this size. Search volume measures interest in the subject, not willingness to pay for a community about it. Treat it as the size of the room, not the size of the business.
The gap: Pricing here is mostly unpublished: 9 of 27 Marketing communities show a monthly price, and 3 of those 9 are free or under $25 a month. Anyone who states a price plainly is already unusual.
Based on 9 listings with a published price, last recomputed 72 days ago.
Proof the model works
Real communities from the index, nearest your suggested price band.
Groundswell Inner Circle999 members · Mighty Networks$44/mo- 2 more comparables in the full report
Suggested model
What to charge, the format to run and the weekly cadence that fits your hours.
Unlock with your email ↓How to get the first members
The three channels that fit your audience, format and hours, with a first step for each, and the ones to avoid.
Unlock with your email ↓Narrower niches worth going after
Narrower segments inside your category, each with the search term and difficulty behind it.
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Because threaded spaces keep a long discussion readable, and owning the brand end to end supports premium positioning.
Because a thread there can be answered with video or voice, and video-first trust is what earns a premium price, plus it runs under your own brand.
Swarm is operated by Growth Maps Media Ltd, which also operates this index. The scoring used is a fixed, independent rules table that applies no preference to Swarm, and ties are broken away from it.
Other Marketing examples
- Premium and live, from a standing start
- Low-ticket course to a large audience
- Mixed format, mid-sized audience
- Live sessions as a side income
Generated from the same six answers the Idea Finder asks, against live data from the Marketing category. No real person’s report is published here.