I am interested to hear people's comments too. I have been using the same company's SEO Elite software for a while now and it is a very useful tool. I'm sure their keyword tool is also extremely useful. Personally I just use Google's keyword tool right now.
Do you really need Keyword Elite? In my opinion, you don't, because you can found profitable / high paying keywords for free in the internet. You can also find traffic for a certain keyword with google adword tool. You can easily know that investing website has high paying adsense. I'm quite happy with my free tool.
No you probably don't need keyword elite. These kinds of tools do things that can also be done manually. It's more about saving time and organizing things better.
yes, that's the point of keyword elite, niche inspector and other tools like these withe same amount of capabilities. you don't have to manually do the work. it makes it a lot easier to use a tool that does all the things you need it to than to haunt down five different tools, search five different sites and try to filter out what you believe are competitive. tired all that before and I like niche inspector myself. way easier than doin it for free. been there, never going back!
I use Keyword Elite and have for a year or so. I really like it and recommend it. It makes finding profitable keywords easier and faster. I used to do keyword research manually but it was so time consuming that I had little time to do anything else. Keyword Elite makes this task so much easier and I am more productive now and making more money. I think it is a good investment. The investment has been paid back many times over.