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Figure 1-5. Do you have any idea how many of these you can make? By building a few one-page sites, you can get a ballpark figure of the number of people who are interested in paying you to solve their problem. And the great thing is, you can start doing this before you start building anything. This means if nobody shows any interest in using your product, you can keep looking for new product approaches very cheaply until you find something that people are interested in using. To be clear, I’m not just talking about direct-to-consumer Internet products here. Although you’re using the Internet to advertise your ideas, you don’t have to be building the next Amazon. Have a concept for a premium day spa for pets? Why not build a website for it first and see how many people try to make reservations for Poodle Pedicures? It’s a hell of a lot cheaper to build a landing page than it is to get salon chairs designed to fit a variety of dogs. With landing-page tests, you can start to validate both your market and your product. By advertising a real thing (or several real things) that you are going to be selling, you’re getting the best kind of feedback that people are willing to pay you for what you’re making. You can also get a sense of which version of your product has the biggest potential market, which can be a huge advantage in deciding what to build first. 12 Part One: Validation www.ATIBOOK.ir