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3 Common Mistakes When Creating New Products

Any business that will survive in the long run needs to adapt and evolve over time. This usually means developing and offering new products. The best way to make new products is a hotly contested topic that every professional has an opinion on. However, there are some common mistakes when creating new products that plenty of businesses make without even realizing. Below are some of the more egregious errors you’ll want to avoid for your business.

Not Focusing on a Specific Niche

Developing a new product means tackling a new issue that your business wants to solve. Whether that problem is big or small depends on what you sell, but many businesses fall into the trap of not focusing hard enough on one issue. All too often, they try to make new products that solve every single problem their customers have, leading to overdevelopment.

Identifying the specific niche your new product needs to fill will lead to success far more often than trying to be everything to everyone at the same time.

Pushing to Production Too Quickly

A very common mistake businesses make when creating new products is trying to rush them into mass production so that they can start generating revenue. The problems with doing this are apparent right away. How can you be sure that the product does what it says it will or has the right level of quality?

Multiple rounds of prototyping are the safer bet in this case. By iterating and improving on each prototype, you’ll eventually work out the kinks and find something successful. Rushing a new product into production can lead to serious backlash if there are issues you didn’t anticipate. And this negatively impacts how customers view you and your products.

Refusing To Incorporate Feedback

In smaller companies, new product development tends to be spearheaded by individuals with big ideas. This is usually a good thing, but it can turn sour if the ones in charge don’t take criticism or feedback into consideration. You can’t treat a new product development like it’s a personal project because it affects the company as a whole.

Understand that feedback, especially negative feedback, is essential to developing a good product. Successful products incorporate feedback into their design to better address the issues they’re trying to solve.

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