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So I have a niche market that has messy data around all around and I was thinking of cleaning and packaging that data from multiple sources into 1 and sell it to the sales managers or BI teams for the companies within the industry but it’s just been an idea in my head.

Can anyone provide advice on how I should package it and sell it or any advice towards adding extra value?

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Is it proprietary data or web scraped? This might change the strategy. If proprietary, with enough history, and relevant for the market you cover (and this market has listed companies operating in it), you shall consider selling it to hedge funds. There is an entire ecosystem for the so called "alternative data" you should look at. But big money is for 1) proprietary data 2) long historical trends

I’m interested in hearing more about this. It might not pertain to the data I’m thinking specifically as it would be scraped but finding out where the holes are and creating proprietary data around that would be a consideration. However, I’m interested in diving in deeper on alternative data if you have some solid sources I can brush up on.

It all depends on where/who you are, but I have thought about trying to get things listed on the Snowflake Marketplace https://other-docs.snowflake.com/en/collaboration/provider-b...

Thank you for this!

Very hard to give any advice here without telling us what this data is. Is it customer lists of technologies or products? Is it contact data? (Before you say you’re afraid to give your secret sauce away, nobody cares or has the time to implement your idea)

It’s less about the data specifically and what are some common add ons or ways to add additional value, knowing my target audience would be sales managers or key decision makers on the sales side of the industry. Obviously fancy dashboards are nice, and historical data is a want, but is there any other generalistic add ons one could add?

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