One of the first decisions you need to make when developing your app idea is which devices you want your app to run on. Do you want to make it universal for both iPhone and iPad? Here’s my experience!
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Should You Make Your App Universal?
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Getting Online Reviews And Mentions
If you think all the hard work is done now that you’ve launched you app, and all you need to do is sit back and count the money as people download your app…you are going to be extremely disappointed. Your app isn’t going to sell itself. Nor will the App Store. The only way you are going to be a success is by getting online reviews and mentions…and I’ve found this can be a very frustrating experience. Read more
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Help! I Need Somebody!
When you are a newb app developer like me with very limited programming skills, you will run into problems that you can’t figure out on your own and you will be screaming for help!
There is an amazing amount of resources online and people willing to help. But you have to ask for it the right way. Read more
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Social Me-Duh Part 4! Trying To “Go Viral” And Other Failures
It’s all about “going viral” today, getting everyone talking about your video or online posting that will bring people to your app, or product. As I’ve found out, trying to spread the word yourself just ends in suspended twitter accounts and getting banned from posting on Facebook, and emailing entire continents.
I have two experiences with attempting this….both of which I would suggest were failures. I think I’d have better luck catching the ebola virus.
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Six Months Since App Launch…Reality Check Time And Saying Thanks!
Well, it’s now been six months since the release of my Photography Assignment Generator Apps, and I figured it was a great time to take a second to look back at how things have gone. Why the quote/image from “Oh the Places You’ll Go” by the great Dr Seuss? Because it’s an awesome tale about the highs and lows of life.
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Social Me-Duh! Part 3: How to alienate friends and get banned on Facebook
Facebook is great place to connect with people and one of the prime ways to use social media to promote. Your friends, acquaintances, people you went to high school with who you never really knew…when you’ve got an app, it’s a built in market. But as I’ve found out the hard way, you’ve got to be careful with how you use it.
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Social Me-Duh! Part 2: How Tweeting About Meteors Got My Twitter Account Suspended…Twice
Look up in the sky…is it a bird? Is it a plane?
No…it’s just Noel getting banned from another social media platform…
Yep. Twitter account was suspended TWICE. Both times had absolutely nothing to do with promoting the apps. I was posting about METEORS for crying out loud!!! But I still managed to screw up my social media efforts.
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Social Me-Duh Part 1: How To Get Banned From Emailing A Whole Continent
Yes. I was completely banned from emailing the entire continent of Australia. While most wouldn’t consider email as part of the social media sphere, it is a major way to get the word out about your apps. But it’s also an easy way to get hit with the spammer hammer. Read more
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Social Media And Promoting Your App
Going to be frank here…if you think that you can just put an app on the App Store and it’s going to sell itself…think again. You gotta market this thing. If you’ve got the capital, you probably have a marketing department who knows what they are doing. If you are a solopreneur like me, you are the marketing department…the secretary…public relations…and the janitor. So it’s up to you to develop your social media strategy. But you have to do it right…
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App Annie: Your New Best Friend For Tracking Your Apps
The iTunes Connect portal is great for getting a quick look at your sales and downloads for your apps. I check it first thing every morning to see where my apps are at. I should probably stop, because lately it’s been depressing. But if you want deeper analysis, you’ll need to go somewhere else. A completely free service I recommend is App Annie. Here’s why:
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Learn Photo365 Photography Assignment Generator Apps
TOTALLY UNIQUE apps about IDEAS and INSPIRATION for your photography are now available now on the app store.
Taking part in a 365 day challenge or just looking for inspiration while shooting with your SLR, point and shoot, or iPhone/iPod Touch? These apps have over one hundred individual assignments and hundreds of thousands of random ones.
Click on photo for more info or download the free version to try them out on the App Store here Android versions under development