Comments on: How to test the viability of your online business idea

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:32:31 +0000

…doesn’t acknowledgment rock! :)
I so love and yes, kinda need/crave, feedback!

So here’s yours; I loved the article, and I will implement your ideas and get back to you!

Thanks!

best~

By: Andriy

Andriy — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:17:00 +0000

Thanks for the great post!

Testing a business idea this way could seem like a lot of work, but it is a MUST for a beginner entrepreneur.

Here is a mistake that I did, and let’s hope no one else repeats it: I spent three months of hard work and 3.5 thousand dollars to start online business. Then I realized that nobody clicks on my ads and people are generally not interested in the super cool product that I developed.

How much easier it is to create a mock web site!

May the people who click on my ads forgive me :-)

By: Link dump for June 24th | The Queue Blog

Link dump for June 24th | The Queue Blog — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:05:43 +0000

[...] How to test the viability of your online business idea | Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli – a run through of testing your product before it exists as described in 4HWW. [...]

By: Spring feed reader cleaning (Small Business E-commerce Link Digest – June 11, 2010)

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:30:41 +0000

[...] Magazine has an extraordinary article on getting started with selling online, which, paired with this post about testing your online business idea may get some of you still offline to reconsider. If those don’t change your mind, maybe this [...]

By: Parag Shah

Parag Shah — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:54:52 +0000

Thanks for sharing these insights. I am going to try these for my next website.

By: Norio

Norio — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:51:27 +0000

Great example of Tim’s methods. I really enjoyed reading it and seeing the live example! Thanks :)

I’ve read the 4HWW and developed http://www.just1.co.za as my muse. It’s 99% automated and makes about a sale a day. I’m now moving onto my next muse and plan to use your example to test the market. Very well done. I’m sure Tim would be proud to read your article :)

By: Aymeric

Aymeric — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:47:43 +0000

omer > http://weebly.com is a free website builder

ghh1 > yes you can get cheap traffic, but it depends on your target market (if your product is around insurance or credit cards, you probably won’t be able to get cheap traffic). You have to be creative in the way you target people. Long tail keywords, supertargeted facebook ads, etc…

By: Alexis Perrier

Alexis Perrier — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:25:18 +0000

I have read Tim Ferriss book and found it very interesting. Thanks for adapting his method to an online idea. I needed the reminder.

By: Rollo Tomazzi

Rollo Tomazzi — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:51:51 +0000

Thanks for sharing this Aymeric, I have definitely enjoyed your post and learned from it.
I think I’ll get a copy of the ‘four hour work week’ now.

I’d like to read your next post on how to get a cheap and targeted traffic, so pls consider this as an up-vote.

Thx again,
Rollo

By: ghh1

ghh1 — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:39:25 +0000

Re: targeted AND cheap traffic

Is there anything that resmebles cheap traffic nowadays when it comes to advertising?

I have no direct experience with it but I learned while talking to friends who run ads for their own businesses, that it is actually quite expensive, sometimes they pay double-digit dollars for each word.