Your App Idea: Instant Hit or Epic Fail?

I published my first app in 2012, following the process laid out in Chad’s book. My dream was just to make a little extra passive income each month, maybe $500 or $1,000. After a couple months, the app started to generate some decent revenue. We invested everything back into the business, improving apps and building new ones. Within 6 months our …

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8 Tips for App Success (from 5+ years of trial & error!)

The Apps Market is growing faster than ever and with so much competition, it’s getting even harder to find app success. Recent research shows that over 90% of mobile apps are abandoned within a year. Only a select few will make it through to become indispensable to a number of users – and even fewer will become global sensations. So …

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iOS 8, the new iPhones, & Watch: Top features to get excited about

With Apple’s newest announcements yesterday, you can expect some exciting changes in the next couple months. Surprisingly for the first time the iPhone wasn’t the center of the announcements. With Apple’s release of the Watch (not iWatch as we all assumed and will continue to call it anyways), they delved into a new product category for the first time since …

App Math — Simple methods to know market numbers

The App Store is such a vital tool to your success. It’s unlike any other industry in that there’s a TON of information readily available for you. You can see the popular trends, successful graphics, top apps, companies making the most money, and customer feedback all in real time. However, to really understand the market you need to also do …

3 Tips to Be a Hot Shot UI/UX Expert

— This is a guest post by Cliff Viegas, owner of Kerofrog, a mobile app development company dedicated to quality iOS apps and design. —Did you know that Apple keeps track of user retention? Also known as the amount of times a user uses your app, and how often they come back. And of course, the longer they are using …

3 Ways to Pick App Keywords for Killer ASO

Keywords have always been a tricky thing for most people because there’s not one “right way” to pick your keywords. If you read my newsletter yesterday on “3 Things You Need to Know About ASO,” you know how fickle Apple’s algorithm can be, but also how important ASO is to your app’s success. You need to always try new ways …

Top App-Building Mistakes: Six Figure Error To Avoid

People like a lot of definitives when it comes to advice. What is the MOST important thing I should do? What are the TOP mistakes not to make? What is THE best strategy on marketing my app? So I tried to sit down and think what is the ONE thing I can tell people about their apps…but I think that …

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How to Buy Source Code — Lower App Development Costs

This guest post is part of our “App Flipping” series by Carter Thomas. “If you could do it all over again, what would you do differently?” That’s one of the most popular questions people like to ask anyone in business who has made an exit or moved to a new level. With that new perspective, what advice can they give? …