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How to Master Anything (Interview w/ Tim Ferriss)

I was honored to interview New York Times Bestselling author, Tim Ferriss. As many of you know, Tim’s first book, The 4-Hour Work Week, changed my life when I read it recovering in the hospital. And more recently the strategies and tips I’ve applied from The 4-Hour Body have helped in my body’s recovery to this day. His advice and …

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5 Factors to Sell Your App Company for the Highest Offer

I’m a huge advocate of planning. Whether for your personal life or your business, you need to have a vision for 3 months, 6 months, and even 2+ years down the road. Not only is this beneficial to your moral and motivation, it’s an important step for handling all the possible curve balls life throws at you. For example, I …

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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 …

How Can I Get App Funding? 4 Platforms You Should Know

Ideas alone will not make a successful app. App success is all about execution. A great idea can be a complete failure, and a seemingly bad or simple idea can make it to the top charts. Just look at some of the top apps right now. Many of those apps sound silly in theory – flying birds knocking out green …

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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? …

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Recycling Apps — Quadrupling ROI

This guest post is part of our “App Flipping” series by Carter Thomas. I want to start off by telling you a story about what I did before I started flipping apps. Then I want to show you exactly how I figured out how to build assets in a way to dramatically increases ROI potential. I haven’t always been interested …

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App Flipping: The Fastest and Cheapest Way to Make Apps

I’m really excited to introduce our guest series this week featuring Carter Thomas. Some of you may recognize Carter from our “Secrets of the App Store” interview. He’s got incredible tips and an extremely successful strategy called App Flipping. I particularly love this strategy as it brings me back to my real estate days when I flipped houses. Instead, we’re …

Marketing Metrics: 3 Ways to Split Test Your App

You’ve probably heard me say this a thousand times, but it’s one of those lessons that will NEVER be outdated: test everything! With certain products, little details might not matter as much. Good enough can sometimes be enough. However, with apps, every little detail counts. Apps are mini billboards, advertising, and stores in one compact environment. Thus, little changes make …

Increase Your Freemium Revenue: Ad Strategy in Games

Ads are a huge part of your monetization strategy in the current market (i.e. freemium market). Most successful apps practice this model, and thus users are used to seeing ads even in their favorite games. For the most part, they accept ads as part of the “price” of a free game. Statistically, we are seeing a shift towards more IAPs …