Step 2: Validate your product by making sales

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Course content (3 lessons)

3 steps to start an online business

Step 1: Find a profitable niche5:06

Step 2: Validate your product by making sales3:55

Step 3: Focus on marketing 4:55

3 steps to start an online business

Step 1: Find a profitable niche5:06

Step 2: Validate your product by making sales3:55

Step 3: Focus on marketing 4:55

Now it’s time to validate your product.

There are many different ways to validate your product idea, though making sales will give you the most confidence to turn your product idea into a business.

Watch the video to discover five ways to validate.

After watching, click the Next Steps tab to discover ways to start selling even if you haven’t created your product yet.

Activate Shopify free trial to access apps to validate your product.

There are many ways to validate through sales using apps available in the Shopify App store.

Here are a few highly recommend apps you can try:

Pre-order Now: Automatically swap “Add to cart” buttons with “pre-order” buttons for out-of-stock items, or just display a Pre-order button for coming-soon products. Includes extra features like badges, emails, tagging, mixed cart alerts and discounts.

PreProduct: Full disclosure—This is my app. PreProduct is a ‘pay later’ pre-order app based around testing and making Sales for future products. Allowing brands to capture orders at any stage in the new product development process, then send out payment links when they’re ready. Features include customizable email campaign, pre-order analytics and management, as well as a customizable cart.

Crowdfunder: If you already have an established store, you can avoid the fees of third-party crowdfunding sites by raising money with the Crowdfunder app. Offer pre-orders while displaying your funding goal on the product page and your current supporter count.

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