Example report · Live sessions as a side income
📣 MarketingA focused live community: Marketing for people who want results, not another feed
With 20,000 monthly searches in the US for "digital marketing course" and a 21.9% year-on-year increase in interest, there is significant engagement in the marketing community. Among 27 communities in this category, only 9 publish a monthly price, with a median of $49. This indicates that pricing is mostly unpublished, making any community that clearly states its price stand out. Your offering of live sessions and video, targeting your warm audience, fits well within this landscape where the pricing approach is largely undefined. You can dedicate under 5 hours per week to this endeavor.
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The gap: Pricing here is mostly unpublished: 9 of 27 Marketing communities show a monthly price, and 3 of those 9 are free or under $25 a month.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.
TLP Collective121 members · Circle$13.32/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.
Unlock with your email ↓Where to build it
Because you want members on camera, which is its default interaction model.
Because low-ticket volume is the model it is tuned for.
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
- Discussion-led, to a warm audience
- Mixed format, mid-sized audience
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.