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Is it necessary to build a mobile version product website in order to promote mobile app
I was wondering, is it necessary to build a mobile version product website, in order to promote your mobile app? I take Evernote for instance, I do not see they provide a mobile version product ...
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Funding Campaign Guidance
I just launched a funding campaign at SellAnApp. I am emailing multiple blogs and forums to help me spread the word and gain some great traction but I am running out of ideas. If this was you running ...
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How to market mobile apps?
I've been a developer at startups before, but I've never been involved in marketing. I'm now trying to sell a few of my own mobile apps, and I'm hitting a brick wall. Two months ago I released an ...
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Prioritizing: more features for a web version or mobile app first?
We are in a pretty early stage. We have a beta of our web app ready, some user testing finished, and we're just about to do a launch. At this point we have two options:
Add more features to the web ...
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From freelance to CTO: conditions
I am currently working as a Freelance mobile programmer for a start-up since the project started, but I have always given my opinion and advise about business development (for free),
and it came to a ...
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How to confirm Mobile App Idea? [closed]
I've created a few apps before but most have had little to mild success. For my new app, I want to confirm that it's indeed useful and people would use it. Kind of a market verification step.
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What are some good ways to promote a paid mobile app?
I have an Android app that costs $4.95. It is a business app that is worth the money.
What I am looking for is insight into some paid-marketing approaches where I can advertise this app.
I ...
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What are the practices for putting social sharing widgets on a mobile apps?
I have a mobile app on which I want to put Facebook and Twitter share buttons.
What I am wondering is whether I should put those buttons on my marketing website only? Or do people put the social ...
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Targeting Admob ads on Android
I have an Android app with Admob banner ads. Currently the banners show ads for things that aren't very relevant to my audience. I've seen other mobile apps serving the same niche where the Google ...
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using GREE mobile platform (aka openFeint)
I uploaded two days ago my new game to the Andorid platform.
so far, I don't have many downloads.
I introduced with GREE which is kind of social network for mobile gamers
I think it's something ...
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Help with mobile app monetization
I have a free iOS app that's popular in a modest sense. Daily active user count has been growning steadily: it's approximately doubled over the last 6 months. At the moment it's around 2100 daily ...
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How do I get in front of the right people to share what my business does?
I'm a 22 year old mobile marketer and QR designer. I can create artistic branded qr codes for musicians, mobile app companies, and other mobile based companies.
How do I go about getting in touch ...
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CPM for mobile ads
I'm wondering what influences the CPM for ads in mobile apps. I'm fairly new to the whole ad game so any insight into CPM basics is helpful. For example monthly, annual and seasonal variations.
I ...
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How to determine the monetization sources of a startup web service
I am "Russian" by nature, and maybe due to that I am finding it hard to see what may seem obvious to a western person. I read a lot of investment stories on techcrunch.com about "what it seems ...
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Revenue from iOS apps with Apple's iAds
I have a free iOS app with about 2000 daily active users. I just submitted an app update that includes Apple's iAds. Now I'm curious about how much revenue I can generate with this user count.
I ...
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What exactly is a mobile ad exchange and how is it different from admob , Greystripe or iAd?
We are in the process of developing a mobile app on the iPhone that we are looking to generate suplimental revenue by having advertising (banner maybe) but more video based would be best. I have seen ...
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Advertising campaigns that drive mobile downloads
I want to run an advertising campaign that will drive downloads of my mobile app. I'm open to AdWords, Facebook ads, Reddit self-serve ads, AdMob ads that appear on mobile devices etc. The mobile apps ...
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Should I ask my users for thei facebook account from ver.1.0/day 1?
I am about to launch my mobile app which should be useful to many users. It is free of charge to download and use.
I have a dilemma where I am not sure whether I should ask my users to login (either ...
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Using Google AdWords to increase mobile app sales
What are some tricks and tips for Google AdWords campaigns intended to boost mobile app sales? This presentation touches on some gotchas for people running their first campaign. For example positive ...
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Starting development company, how to start?
We are a team of 3 people who are developers. We would like to offer services like
website / webapp development
mobile app development
desktop app development
We are only coders, we dont have ...
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Using guitar solos (cut from commercial music tracks) inside your mobile app
I would like to know about the legal side of using guitar solo cuts inside a mobile app.
The solos will be cut from commercial music of rock bands.
The app will be free.
Can I use solos like that?
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Is developing a backend for a mobile application costly?
I'm developing mobile apps for a time and I feel I'm spending nearly 50% of my time for backend development, choosing the technology, etc.
Now I have a new idea for a mobile startup. I want to ...
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Options for targeting advertising on iOS devices
I'd like to put targeted ads in my free iOS application. My app serves a relatively niche group (say hobby fisherman). What's the best ad network to use?
I've used Admob and Apple's iAds in other ...
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Mobile Web development environment; build or buy?
I already publish apps for the major platforms but our mobile development has lagged behind. I have my developers working on enhancements to our mobile site functionality, but I'm not sure whether to ...
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Business phone service, Cell vs Landline
My understanding is that consumer landline use is steadily dropping off, but I'm wondering for a business where emergency service is not required, customers getting a voicemail is okay, etc --why ...
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HP Touchpad/WebOS Apps?
I just bought a HP Touchpad on the cheap. I'm really loving WebOS, and I'm thinking about doing some WebOS development.
Are there any statistics/case studies about developers that have made money in ...
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Marketing tips for mobile applications
Looking for developers (companies) in the mobile applications area who can comment and hopefully give examples of the best marketing strategies for mobile applications. Please only comment if you have ...
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What are the key factors in the initial promotion of a lean startup?
I've made my first effort to promote my soon to be released mobile application, by making a landing page for it and posting to reddit.com and now, stack exchange.
The application is a special kind of ...
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mobile market book [closed]
is there any good book on amazon about the mobile market: what market share does iOS,adnroid, and others have, how does the android app market vs the iOS market work, how are they going to evolve, ...
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Best online places to find UX/UI designers?
A local start up team here in Taiwan is looking for mobile application UX & UI specialists... but here on the ground while there are great designers not many have mobile UX experience.
If they're ...
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How do I get the word out about my SMS Reminder Service startup? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How Do I Promote My Business
I launched an online SMS appointment reminder service about 6 months ago. So far the users have been quite happy with the service and the ...
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Mobile Software Pricing - How do I find the right price?
My startup is developing a mobile web application for an established enterprise ERP/CRM software package.
The software is essentially a mobile web application that is installed on the customers ...
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Question about timeline for our company [closed]
So we launched our website almost exactly one and a half months ago. We have about 900 unique visitors in that time. Not nearly as many as we all would have hoped, but hey, it's still early, and we ...
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Is there any mobile app distribution service? [closed]
Due to country restrictions and bureaucracy, I can't sell apps on Android Market and Apple Appstore.
There are music distribution services like TuneCore and CD Baby that place your music on several ...
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Is it a real pain? Should I spend a couple of month of my time on it?
I always hear that a good idea is to solve people's pain. Here I have one:
Pain: When I really want to talk
to some one. His/her phone is always
busy/no answer/please leave message
... etc. So I ...
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In designing a new product is important to look modern (post 2.0)?
I've got a short snappy name and url, an end user focused mobile app/service that uses user generated content and a wireframe of a minimum viable product that I'm pretty happy with. I'm in the process ...
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Ratio of Reviews to Downloads in the iPhone App Store
Anyone have any market data that would indicate the ratio of reviews to downloads in the iPhone App Store? Does the ratio of reviews to downloads change significantly if an app is free or paid?
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Does my CMS choice limit the scalability or types of services I can integrate?
My start up business will be a social service that also hooks to a mobile application. I want my users to be able to interact with my service over their phones or on their PCs. Naturally I'm thinking ...
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take payments from mobile phone?
I have noticed on sites like facebook that they allow you to buy facebook credits by entering in your phone number on the website in the payment options screen.
How does this work?
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what is the best way to develop for mobile devices? is it too saturated?
These days, I hear apps everywhere. App for everything.
So I'm curious how hard is it to develop for a mobile device? which to develop for? android? apple?
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How can I charge a cellphone carrier company?
I run a web service. I receive payments / donations through paypal and I'm considering mobile payments.
http://www.boku.com/ and paymo do this.
I would like to see if it's beneficial for me to skip ...
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What should a small company charge for development of a mobile (Android) app?
The context of this question is a small web design company that wants to branch out to do mobile application development. I am wondering two things:
What average hourly fee do you charge a client as ...
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Android and iPhone CPM Networks
I am working on an Android and an iPhone application. I was hoping to support these applications with advertisements. However, I want to get paid based on the number of ad impressions that appear. ...
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Revenue sharing in Software Product Collaboration
My friend and I are planning to collaborate in developing a mobile application. We are on to the discussions on the revenue sharing. Following are details to be considered.
My friend is the owner ...
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UI is done, but who can recommend a shop to help polish our mobile apps for graphics? [closed]
We have finished the user-flow for our mobile apps but they can use some polish for branding purposes. It seems like it would be helpful to work with a firm that has experience specifically designing ...
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Taxes for Android / iPhone developers?
I'm an Android developer, but this question is pretty much the same for an iPhone dev.
I'm based in the USA, and I'm looking for any tips regarding taxes for app sales. Since apps sell in over 30-90 ...
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What is a typical salary for a mobile developer?
I am trying to gauge the general salary to pay a mobile developer.
In this case, the developers' skills would include a year or more of Android and iOS experience, with proven apps in the market or ...
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What are some strategies for marketing applications on a mobile marketplace?
It would appear that there is a huge market out there for small mobile applications. Obviously this is both good and bad. There is a lot of potential, as well as lots of noise and competition. What ...
