Do you ever have an idea that you think will sell? Maybe even those around you think it’s a cool idea and people will definitely buy it? I have had those for many years, but most of the time I thought there wasn’t much I could do about it. After all I didn’t have a [...]
Well I’ve pretty much broken a rule of running a successful blog and that is by not blogging. And from what I’ve read in other places you should also never tell your audience that you haven’t been around. Oh well. I’m more of a, “ya I screwed up and I’ve been shitty to [...]
I have just finished what I think to be a great book for where I’m at right now. It is called Quitter, by John Acuff. I’ll highly recommend it if you have dreams outside of your day job but it basically discusses how being the best you can in your day job will ultimately lead [...]
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I knew things would get slow but I had no idea how slow. The week or so leading in to Christmas as well as the week after I pretty much did nothing around my online pursuits. I had to finish up year end things for my 9-5 job and I really just wanted [...]
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Well hopefully everyone has had wonderful Holiday and a Happy New Year! As I sit here this morning clearing the cobwebs out of my head after all the food and wine, I’m beginning to understand a few very important things about iPhone app success. Not that they are new ideas, I just [...]
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So, I’m looking back and I can see that I bought my first domain name on October 15th. Since then I have purchased 19 more for exactly 20 domains. In keeping with most things I do I like to dive right in and go full force as I did here. Unfortunately in this [...]
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$3,346.06. That is how much it cost me to get my iPhone app out.
In keeping with my promise of transparency I am putting down to the penny how much I have spent to this point on my iPhone app. I am lucky to have a supportive wife who isn’t wondering [...]
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So, before I launched my own iPhone app I used to try to figure out what realistic numbers were for downloads per day and if you are in a top 10 category roughly how many downloads does that equal. Well, now that I have my own top 10 Lifestyle app I can [...]
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My app launched last night. At around 8:30pm I received an email from Apple stating that my app was available for sale. This began the whirlwind over the next 24 hours.
First thing I did was immediately send an email to my virtual assistant alerting her to the fact that it had been [...]
Continue Reading →On both of my projects right now, it seems like all I’m doing is waiting. It’s very frustrating, especially because I know how valuable getting a cooking app out before Thanksgiving could be. As it stands at this point it’s going to be very close. I received a beta version on friday that was very [...]
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