Topic summary
The discussion explores strategies for selecting new products to add to an online store.
Key Approaches Mentioned:
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Data-driven flexibility: Balancing planned product roadmaps with real-time customer response data and analytics. This involves adjusting between products initially scheduled for different timeframes based on actual market signals.
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Customer-business alignment: Finding a middle ground between business ideas and customer preferences, rather than forcing either perspective.
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Validation methods: Using trend analysis, direct customer feedback, and small-scale testing to identify products with genuine sales potential before full commitment.
The conversation emphasizes responsive, evidence-based decision-making over rigid planning, with participants agreeing that market validation should guide product selection.
Many times, we have to switch between what we are seemingly supposed to add next and the products we are supposed to add next month or even next year. Watching the dynamic of responses and dashboard analytics is really interesting. We can’t force our ideas on customers and vice versa; we need to try to find something in the middle.
I pick based on trends, customer feedback, and small tests to see what really sells.