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Just realized I blew $300 on a 'premium' question research tool that was useless
I was trying to find new things people ask about for my business, so I bought a year of this tool called 'AskDigger'. The sales page made it look like it would find hidden questions from forums and social media. After I paid, I found out it just pulled the same basic stuff from Google's free tools, but with a fancy dashboard. I spent hours trying to make it work, putting in different keywords, but the results were always vague or old. The worst part was their support, which took three days to reply and just sent me a link to their help page I'd already read. I feel like a total sucker for not checking reviews better. Has anyone found a good, honest way to find real questions people are asking online?
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johnson.eva6d ago
Ever try @rowanw91's method on Quora instead?
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rowanw916d ago
I saw a thread on a marketing forum last week where people were just using Reddit's search. You type your topic and then add "question" or "why" to find real threads. It's manual but free and actually shows what people are stuck on.
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That method sounds good in theory but it's a mess in practice. Reddit's search function is famously broken and returns irrelevant results half the time. You'll waste hours sifting through old, closed threads from five years ago. Automated tools that scrape multiple platforms at once give you cleaner, usable data much faster.
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