This is the third post in a series of articles that will detail the process of determining what to sell online and getting started in ecommerce. In the coming weeks we'll be posting further in-depth articles on other aspects of evaluating products to sell online.
With thousands of products available to sell online, narrowing down your choices to a single product can be overwhelming. In our first post in this series, we learned eight strategies for finding your first product and in our last post we discovered 10 places entrepreneurs go to find product ideas.
Since then we've gone through all of those resources ourselves and have selected 10 products – one product from each resource category that looked interesting and caught our eye. As a very quick product demand test we cross checked all of them in Google Trends. All of the 10 product ideas we selected have a strong upwards trend.
Making this list is just a starting point. Once you've chosen a product you'll need to go through a complete evaluation process to determine demand and product potential.
Let’s get started.
Disclaimer: Keep in mind, these are not suggested products to sell online, there are merely items that caught our attention and are trending upwards according to Google Trends. Before selling anything online you must first do your own due diligence to determine market demand and potential.
1. Paleo Bars
The only industry that may have more trends than nutrition, is fashion. The nutrition and health industry is always changing and there’s always opportunity for new products to cater to the latest fad or diet. One of the bigger trends in the last few years is the Paleo diet. If you don’t know, the Paleo diet is a modern nutritional plan based on the presumed diet of Paleolithic humans that lived 15,000 years ago.
Here in the Shopify office we have a handful of employees on the Paleo diet which originally sparked the idea.
1. Paleo Bars
Taking a look at Paleo energy bars in Google Trends, we can see a massive spike beginning at the tail end of 2010.
Check out the graph below: