diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1faf781..255c626 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ To see this in action a demo server has been provided based on `Flask`. To run i
 
 ```
 python -m venv .
-pip install -r requirements.txt
 . bin/activate
+pip install -r requirements.txt
 flask run --debug #optional
 ```