One of my two “apps mentors,” Chad, truly has created a formula for building a successful “smart phone apps” business. Follow the formula, and you’ll succeed:
How To Convert Downloads To Money
In case you don’t know the story: I never dreamed of creating my own iPhone app. Being non-technical, the idea never even occurred to me.
Then a friend of a friend asked if I’d help promote his apps- making course. I told him I never recommend anything without examining the product firsthand, so he gave me full access to his course.
Soon I realized, “Wow, I really could publish an app.”
Almost immediately I had an idea for an app that simply didn’t exist elsewhere.
Although I knew that was not a good sign (it’s much smarter to choose an existing market), it seemed like such an obvious (and handy) idea that I decided to give it a try.
Following the instructions in that original apps course, I began in December, 2011. I released my PhotoVoice app in February, 2012…despite approximately 3 weeks “down time” for the holidays, New Year’s, and a week-long seminar trip to Japan.
Since then:
– PhotoVoice has been downloaded in 72 countries.
– Apple says as of April 30, 2013, it’s been downloaded 15,349 times. (Apple hasn’t yet updated my “stats” from May.)
– PhotoVoice has been featured in the “What’s Hot” listings in the iTunes stores in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, France, Canada, the United States, Brazil, Croatia, Iceland, Kenya, Mali, Mauritius, Nigeria, Pakistan, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (that’s how it’s listed in the App Store).
– I’ve been approached by a European app maker to do a joint venture, and a company in Texas contacted me to see if they could pay me to create an app for them.
Let me repeat that: I’ve made one app, and a U.S. company wanted to hire me to make one for them.
– Something I never anticipated: You wouldn’t believe how impressed people are when they learn I created my own iPhone app. They look at me in awe— probably because to most people it sounds like such an impossibly complicated thing to do.
My Confession
When I created PhotoVoice, I didn’t know HALF of what Chad teaches in his new apps-making program. (I knew maybe 10%.)
I gave very little thought to “monetizing” my app. I just impulsively jumped into it.
Y’see, I keep jumping around from project to project. (The way I work always reminds me of those plate-spinning people we used to see on TV variety shows.)
Imagine how much more successful PhotoVoice would be if I’d followed a real plan…a formula for success.
Maybe you’re like me, and having just one successful app would be rewarding enough for you.
But if you’d like to have your own app business — something that generates ever-increasing income and frees you from the tyranny of employers’ whims — follow Chad’s apps business formula.
It really does work.
The moral of this story? If I can do it, you can do it.
P.S. That course I originally was asked to evaluate? It’s no longer available. But it turns out the guy who created that course and built his own hugely successful apps business…
…was mentored by Chad.
P.P.S. If you decide to join us in this exciting “new frontier” adventure, be sure to sign up via this link...and let me know as soon as you do, so I can invite you to join my private Apps Mastermind Group.
