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The Funnel

How Trend To Sourcing Works: From Curiosity To Production

Trends are only useful if you can turn them into real products. This funnel shows how Sourcy takes you from curiosity about trending products to validated ideas, feasible sourcing, and actual production.

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Trend Radar
🔥SPF stick
🔥Lip oil
Cargo skirt
🔥Pimple patch
Acrylic organizer
🔥Biker shorts
Hair serum
🔥Body butter

The Trend To Sourcing Funnel In Four Steps

Sourcy's trend-to-sourcing flow looks like this:

1

Curiosity

You notice something starting to move: a product, category, or aesthetic catches your attention.

2

Validation

You check if this is a real pattern, not just a one-off spike.

3

Feasibility

You confirm whether it's realistic to make, ship, and sell at your target price and timeline.

4

Production

You move into sampling, manufacturing, and shipping with vetted suppliers.

Instead of jumping straight from 'this looks cool' to 'place a PO', you use this funnel to systematically choose and develop winning product ideas.

1

Curiosity – Spotting Early Trend Signals

Curiosity is where everything starts. You or your team notice:

  • • Repeated mentions of a product on social
  • • Customers asking about a new format or category
  • • Search terms and content around specific product types
  • • Competitors testing something that feels new

The goal here is to build a shortlist of interesting ideas that might become winning products later, not to decide yet.

2

Trend Validation – Check If The Idea Is Real

Once you have a shortlist of ideas, you need trend validation. This is how you move from curiosity to evidence.

Validated trend

Growing, multi-channel, fits our brand.

Niche test

Interesting, but limited or early. Good for small pilots.

Too noisy or too late

Overcrowded, declining, or misaligned with our brand.

This is where you're genuinely finding winning product ideas, not just copying what you see.

3

Feasibility – From Trend Idea To Real-World Constraints

A validated trend still needs to pass feasibility checks. This is where sourcing reality meets marketing ambition.

Manufacturing

  • • Are there suppliers who already make similar products?
  • • Is this a simple adaptation or a complex new development?

MOQ and pricing

  • • Can MOQs fit your cash flow and risk appetite?
  • • Does the target unit cost make sense at your retail price?

Lead time and timing

  • • Does manufacturing lead time align with seasonality?
  • • Can you use air, sea, or mixed shipping without killing margin?

Compliance and quality

  • • Are there certifications, tests, or safety requirements?
  • • Do these change cost and timing significantly?

This is the heart of trend insights sourcing: trend data drives the idea, feasibility checks decide whether it's a smart move for your brand right now.

4

Production – From Feasible To Manufactured

Once a trend-driven idea passes feasibility, you move into production.

1

Detailed brief and specs

Tie your trend concept to concrete details: format, materials, finish, or formula.

2

Sampling and refinement

Use structured sampling to check quality, fit, and usability.

3

Confirm production and logistics

Book production slots with vetted suppliers and plan shipping.

Trend validated
Sourcing brief
Samples approved
Production
Shipment

You move from trend validation and winning product ideas to actually owning inventory you can sell.

FAQ: How Trend To Sourcing Works With Sourcy

Ready To Turn Trends Into Real Products

If you want a clearer system for finding winning product ideas and turning them into sourced, manufactured SKUs, use Sourcy's trend-to-sourcing funnel. Start with curiosity, validate what matters, check feasibility, and move into production with vetted factories.

*It's Free. No credit card required.

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