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Every Sunday, The Sunday Spark explores one practical, location-independent business idea designed specifically for digital nomads, remote workers, and entrepreneurs over 50.
This week’s Spark is built around something you may have been doing informally for decades.
Knowing where to look.
A company needs three potential manufacturers in Portugal.
A consultant needs an expert who understands a highly specialized industry.
An entrepreneur needs to know which software platforms serve a particular market.
A writer needs credible sources for a complicated subject.
An investor wants a quick overview of an unfamiliar industry.
Someone could spend days figuring all of this out.
Or they could pay you to do it.
That is the premise behind an Expert Research & Sourcing Service.
You become the person clients call when they need to know:
Who should we talk to?
What are our options?
Where can we find this?
What should we know before making this decision?
AI has made research faster, but it has also flooded the world with questionable answers, generic lists, and information that looks authoritative without necessarily being trustworthy. That makes human verification and judgment more valuable, not less.
You are not simply selling research.
You are selling a faster path from “I don’t know” to “now I know what to do.”
What a research and sourcing business actually looks like
The niches where clients will pay for good research
How to package research into something more valuable than a Google search
How AI can dramatically increase your productivity
How to find and verify credible sources
What you can realistically charge
How to land your first clients
A practical 30-day launch plan
If you are naturally curious, good at finding things, and enjoy going down research rabbit holes, this could turn something you already enjoy doing into a remarkably flexible business.
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