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Product Validation at WooThemes with Patrick Rauland – WPCAST034

01.28.2015 - By David Hehenberger and Doug YuenPlay

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In this episode, Patrick Rauland (WooCommerce Product Manager) shares how the WooThemes team validates product ideas.

The Core

* This week, Doug didn’t join us (he’s on vacation)

* Patrick Rauland (Twitter: @BFTrick), WooCommerce Project Manager

* Patrick’s Blog – Speaking in Bytes

* WooCommerce Cookbook (coming soon), published by Packt Publishing

* Nathan Barry (great content on self-publishing)

* Patrick’s WooCommerce Extension – WooCommerce Terms and Conditions Popup

* Patrick has built multiple Ninja Forms Extensions, including PDF Form Submissions

* 300+ WooCommerce Extensions

* 80/20ing your business WPCAST.FM Episode

* WooCommerce Roadmap

* Product validation

* Survey existing customers

* Uservoice Idea Board

* Be strategic about what features to build: eg. idea board where customers can vote (so you have data on what to build next).

* Develop for WooCommerce

* David’s business – Fatcat Apps (WordPress plugins that drive conversions).

* Easy Pricing Tables.

* Basecamp (37signals)

* Airplane Mode WP plugin by Reaktiv

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