Validating willingness to pay for your product

Kashif Hameed
Jan 20, 2021

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If you ask users either they are willing to pay, you will surely get a positive answer.

Now,

If you ask people to show money & pay for it, almost nobody will pay!

Validating people are willing to pay requires a piece of strong evidence!

Once you have proof of the customer’s willingness to pay, you have nailed the first dot of Product-market-fit.

Let’s see different techniques, markets, product segments and how we can validate them. We can use the following methods to validate a new feature, subscription, validation of new service.

For each kind of business, customers, the market could be different. So, let’s understand which method or combinations of methods could be used.

Explain and offer your future product, service through classified ad
Fundraise for product development or for production
sell service manually before building its digital version
Allows users to place orders for items which has not been released.
statically estimate users psychological trade-offs through surveys
Make specific user experience difficult to use for analyzing user interests.
Present sales pitch of your product to potential customers.
Sell the future feature before implementing it.

It is very important to understand the willingness of customers before build some unknown new service.

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