5 Tips on Leadership

Last month, Howard Schultz, Starbucks’ director, gave an interview to The New York Times. What are the key ideas to remember?

1. Start with core values

When you start an enterprise, it is essential to establish values and culture that will support the marketing and manufacturing of your products. Building a business is like building a house, you must establish a foundation to support the rest of the project.

2. Train your teams

When employees have understood the corporate culture, another key point is to ensure that your team works well together. They must be mutually supportive and have trust between each other. Cohesion leads to creativity.

3. Be vulnerable

People believe that when they become managers, they must know everything and never show weakness. In fact, one of the strengths of a great leader is to demonstrate the vulnerability, which brings people around you. Be open and honest when giving your ideas, tell people honestly things you fear and opportunities you see.

4. Stay humble

“When you are humble

Attainment is a surprise.” — Lao Zi, father of Taoism

Never forget where you come from. There is no good to sit in an ivory tower waiting other poeple to flatter your ego. Try to stay close to your colllegues and clients, being one of them, you’ll gain much more.

5. Celebrate success

There are always space for improvementl. Find people that enhance your business in one way or another and celebrate! With recognition and support you will get more people working for you.

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How to Promote your Business on Facebook

Social media is an easy way to meet people all over the world. You can show your business to the potiential customers that you could not otherwise reach.

Facebook, the world No. 1 social networking website, has  been sweeping the planet as Google and Youtube used to be.

Facebook is a site that allows you to:

  • Find friends
  • Communicate with them

Facebook to promote your business?

There is much debate on whether or not your business should to be present on Facebook. Does it worth your time and effort you put on it?

The answer is obviously yes: most Facebook users are consumers, not businesses.

“The most successful marketer becomes part of the lives of their followers. They follow back. They wish happy birthday. They handle problems their customers have with products or service. They grow their businesses and brands by involving themselves in their own communities.” – Marsha Collier, speaker and business author

Promote your business on Facebook is not as difficult as many people think. It is simply to be present, credible and inform your potential customers. Just build a community of “friends” who will love your presence and listen to you. Here is a list of 10 factors of success on Facebook which might hopefully give you some inspiration.

1. Create a clean and concise page

Do not feel obligated to fill everything but provide the relevant information in the profile section. Add some photos, which will makes your business more human. People prefer doing business with a human being, rather than a company without a soul.

2. Do not mix your business profile with your personal profile

Do not mix your hobbies and your friends with your corporate account. You’re not here to entertain yourself, but for marketing purpose.

3. Plan what to say

What do you want to achieve? How to get your target audience interestd in you? How will you respond to criticism and compliments? Plan a communication strategy which will ensure you build good customer relationships.

4. Create the identity for your business

Reproduce the image from your website: logos, images, but do not overfill. Add contact so people can reach you.

5. Communicate and interact in a friendly manner

Join groups relating to your business. Provide tips and advice. Reply To those who ask questions.

6. Encourage your fans to talk .

For example, use surveys to ask whether they like or dislike your company. Start discussions on “Top 10 Ways to …” and asked them to share their ideas.

7. Tell your fans about your offers

Internet communities are supposed to be active. A good way to be active on Facebook is to offer discounts or special promotions. This will also bring new friends.

8. Stop selling

If your topics are limited exclusively to your products or services, people will find you uninteresting and you will grow weary very quickly.

9. Be regular and constant

Login daily if possible and write something. If you have nothing special to tell, then participate in discussions. If you are not present often enough, very likely people will forget you.

10. Learn to handle negative conversation

If someone is negative towards you, answer him courteously . People have the right to criticize. Be patient and answer them in a professional and friendly manner. You can not please everyone, but be sure to provide a positive image.

Follow these 10 tips and you will be successful on Facebook.

Why not share your ways to use Facebook in the comments below?

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5 Steps for Success

To realize your dreams, you must meet the following conditions: a strong desire, a clear goal, high self confidence, positive thinking and persistence. These are the ingredients of true success!

If you follow the five steps below, you will certainly be successful!

1. Strong desire to succeed

It is not just a desire to get something, but a real passion for success. The passion is really the starting point and without it nothing can be achieved.

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”   — Bill Cosby

2. Specific goals

Without goals, you may dance around without ever touching it, the existence of a specific purpose will give you a purpose and the strength you need. A target shows you where to go and your desire takes you to the end. If you can visualize your dream, you have every chance of achieving it. The more concrete and detailed your goal is, the easier your path will be! The presence of goals gives you energy and brings you closer to your dream.

“Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people’s criticisms carry out your plan” — Paul Meyer

3. Trust yourself

Become aware that you deserve to realize your dream, you have the desire and means to achieve it. You may have not known how to go about it but be aware that you will learn to succeed step by step.

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”  — Golda Meir

4. Positive thinking

What would be another necessary condition for success, apart from passion, purpose and confidence? It’s undoubtedly positive attitude! The most beautiful dreams, deepest desires and most clear objectives do not take you anywhere without the attitude. If you’re the type to see everything in black and fear the worst, do not expect to have happiness. On the other side, if you show a positive attitude, the whole universe will become your partner and help you realize your dream.

“For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else”  – Winston Churchill

5. Do not forget persistence

It is also easy to start something as well as to abandon it. It is persistence that keeps you making constant progress. Have you ever experienced the joy of knowing an answer after years of hardworking? After all, no one can succeed over one night.

“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”  – Elbert Hubbard

Hope you will realize your dreams!

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7 Effective Ways To Attract Visitors To Your Website

There are many ways to hold the attention of your visitors so they will happy to revisit your blog. Here I will show you 7 ways which proves to be quite effective. Of course you can combine them to yield better results.

They are:

1. Provide your visitors rich and fresh content

Your content will be more attractive to your visitors if it is updated regularly. You can also offer people the opportunity to reproduce the contents to their e-zine or website.

2. Propose your visitors a free ebook

You can also include a download link to a free ebook and allow your readers to distribute it to others. If you do not have time or knowledge to write one, you could ask other writers’ permission to use their articles.

3. Include a free online directory

Directory may be full of interesting ebooks download, videos, e-zines, websites … If people find your directory contains valuable resources they will revisit.

4. Offer an e-zine with a free subscription

Almost everyone uses the publication of an e-zine everyday. It is therefore important to give something extra with free subscription. You could offer a gift or information when people subscribe.

5. Hold free seminars and online video conferencing

They could be provided in your website on a chat. The idea of “live” communication will certainly encourage people to visit your website. You will become recognized as an expert on the subject.

6. Give free advice to your visitors

You can offer your knowledge by e-mail or telephone. People see this as having tremendous value because consulting fees can be very expensive sometimes.

7. Offer your visitors an online forum

People like to belong to a group, why not your online forum? You can also book a free e-zine for forum members.

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Ways for Kids to Make Money

Need to buy yourself something cool but don’t have enough money? That happens to all kids. How can kids make money? Here are 21 ways for kids to make money.

1. Help with parent’s work

Some of your parent’s work doesn’t require much skills, get paid to help them.

2. Do chores for your parents

Negotiate for a good price doing chores for your parents.

3. Yard cleanup

Make money helping people clean their yards.

4. Snow shoveling

Good tip for kids to earn money in the cold winter.

5. Babysitting/Mother Helper

Sit the babies when their mothers go work in the day.

6. Errand runner

Ask people in your neighborhood if they need your service.

7. Moaning Lawns

Ask your neighbors if you can moan their lawns.

8. Lemonade stand

You can make some money selling cool homemade lemonade in the hot days.

9. Garage Sale

Sell your things you don’t need.

10. Wash cars and bikes

Offer people your washing service. Do a good job so they will hire you the next time.

11. Make handmade cards

Get a talent writing and drawing? This is a good way to make some money.

12. Do a paper round

Diliver papers to people in your area.

13. Open a food stall

Make some food and sell it.

14. Open an ice cream stand

A great way to make money in a hot summers day.

15. Toy rentals

Rent your toys to other kids and ask for a fee.

16. Tutor

Good at maths? There maybe some kids need your help.

17. Advertiser

Ask a local shop if they need you to deliver pamphlets.

18. House sitting

Take care of your trusted neighbors house while they are on vacation.

19. Cake stand

Make cakes, muffins, slices, cupcakes and more and sell them.

20. Pet sitting

You can make money by sitting your neighbors’ pets while they are at work or on vacation.

21. Dog walking

Walk your neighbors dogs if they are too busy to do that themselves. It will give you much fun if you love dogs.

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How to Customize Twenty Ten Theme

Twenty Ten is the default theme for wordpress 3.0 and above. It´s simple, fresh and quite elegant. I have tried many different themes and finally I decided Twenty Ten is the right one. However, Twenty Ten, like other wordpress themes, may need some customization to meet your personal needs. Here is what I have learned through trials and errors, hope it will save you some time.

Remove Page Title from Static Front Page in Twenty Ten

If you set a page like “Home” as the static front page, the page title still shows under the header, which makes the front page quiet unnatural. To remove the page title, the solution is simple, open Page Template (page.php) remove the the line,
<h2 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

Remove “posted on” and “by” in Twenty Ten

Go to your wordpress dashboard, click Appearance then Editor, you will find a list of templates on the right sidebar. Open Single Post (single.php), delete the code,

<div class="entry-meta">
<?php twentyten_posted_on(); ?>
</div><!-- .entry-meta -->

Then click the Update File button at the bottom. By doing this you will remove “posted on” and “by” on your single post. If you want to remove “posted on” and “by” on the blog homepage and category section, then open loop.php, find the the following code,

<div>
<?php twentyten_posted_on(); ?>
</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
<?php if ( is_archive() || is_search() ) : // Only display excerpts for archives and search. ?>

Delete these lines:

<div>
<?php twentyten_posted_on(); ?>
</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
Click Update File button and check out the changes of your blog.

Increase the Sidebar Width of Twenty Ten

The default sidebar width of Twenty Ten is 240 pixels, which is a little bit narrow for many bloggers. If you want to widen your sidebar from 240 pixels to 260 pixels like this blog, it’s pretty simple. Click Appearance then Editor, open the Stylesheet(style.css), find the following code,

#container {
float: left;
margin: 0 -240px 0 0;
width: 100%;
}
#content {
margin: 0 280px 0 20px;
}
#primary,
#secondary {
float: right;
overflow: hidden;
width: 220px;
}

Change it to,

#container {
float: left;
margin: 0 -260px 0 0;
width: 97%;
}
#content {
margin: 0 280px 0 20px;
}
#primary,
#secondary {
float: right;
overflow: hidden;
width: 260px;
}

Click Update File button then you are done.

Change the Post Font Style of Twenty Ten

Open the Stylesheet(style.css), find the following code,

body,
input,
textarea,
.page-title span,
.pingback a.url {
font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif;
}

Replace “Georgia, “Bitstream Charter”, serif;” with the font family you like. Then save the changes by clicking Update File button.

Change the Font Size of the Widget Titles in Twenty Ten

If you feel the default font size of the widget titles is too small, you can change it in the Stylesheet too. Open the Stylesheet find the following code,

.widget-title {
color: #222;
font-weight: bold;
}

Add the font size you desire, for example,

.widget-title {
color: #222;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 17px;
}

If you want to change the font size of the entries under widget titles as well, then find,

.widget-area a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
}

Add the font size like,

.widget-area a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 15px;
}

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How to Make Money Blogging

Blogging is not a new thing in today’s information age. If you google some keywords, at least more than a half search results come from blogs. Millions of bloggers  publish tons of articles every single hour. But some successful bloggers make 500 dollars a day when most bloggers simply get less than 10 visitors a day and make nothing out of their blogs. If you consider seriously to make some extra money from blogging or make a decent living from blogs, you need to know the exact steps how to create a successful money making blog.

Step One: Find a Profitable Subject or Niche for Your Blog

Most people create blogs to record their daily lives. Can you make money out of this type of blogs? The answer is highly impossible. You must choose a profitable subject and focus on it. But how can you tell a subject or niche is profitable or not? It is simpler than you think, just go to Google Keyword Tool and search your subject keywords. In your Search results there will be Estimated Avg. CPC, Advertiser Competition and Approx Avg. Search Volume.  The Estimated Avg. CPC means the estimated average cost per click of the relevant Adwords ads, the Advertiser Competition means the intensity of the advertisers’ competition, and the Approx Avg. Search Volume tells you the monthly average number of searches for the keywords. If you want make serious money from blogging, choose the subject with higher Estimated Avg. CPC, intense advertiser competition and high search volume. In addition, it is better if you choose a subject or niche that you are familiar with or have passions for, it will be more fun to enjoy what you are blogging about.

Step Two: Choose a Domain Name for Your Blog and Host It

Ok, now you have chosen the subject for your blog, the next thing to do is to buy a domain name. Your blog will have a potential higher search engine ranking if you include your blog subject keywords in the domain name. For example, in case you have decided to blogging about “make money blogging”, you may want to choose a domain name like www.makemoneyblogging.com or www.makemoneybloggingtips.com. You can go to Instant Domain Search to check the domain availability. Most likely you will find that the ideal domain names for your future blog have already been taken. Don’t worry. For example you can add “the”, “your” in the front of your ideal domain or “central”, “journal”, “mag”, “magazine” to the end of it and see if it is available. The cost of a top level domain per year is about 7 dollars, you can buy it from Godaddy or Namecheap. Webhosting for blogs won’t cost you much money either. There are a bunch of companies provide hosting for blogs, among which are Godaddy, Bluehost, JustHost, Hostmonster, Dreamhost, Media Temple and Laughing Squid. Personally I recommend Godaddy for domain registry and webhosting.

Besides self-hosted blogging there are some blogging platforms available, Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr for example. If you are serious about making money blogging, just forget about the blogging platforms, they have many restrictions and you are not able to customize your blog as you like in most cases.

Step Three: Set Up Your Blog

WordPress is the most popular free open source to build blogs nowadays. You can customize your blog to your personal need with thousands of themes and plugins. Most webhosting companies support automatic wordpress installation, with a few clicks your wordpress blog will be installed. Then you can choose your favorite theme for you blog and add some necessary plugins. From my personal experience, the must install plugins are Akismet, Revision Control, Category Order, Ultimate Google Analytics, All in One SEO Pack and DB Cache Reloaded. Do not add too many plugins, they will slow down your blog.

Step Four: Writing Posts on Your Blog

You have a fresh blog now and you are on the bright road to make money blogging. Google will index your blog two or three days after it comes online. You can google site:yourdomainname.com to see whether Google has indexed your blog and how many pages have been indexed. Ok, all you need to do now is to keep writing posts on the subject and update your blog on a regular basis. In order to attract more traffic, use Google Adword Tool to find the long tail keywords relating to your subject. For example, if your subject is “make money blogging”, you might found there are many people search “how to make money blogging”,  “make easy money blogging” and “make money blogging fast” , then you can write posts titled “how to make money blogging”,  “make easy money blogging” and “make money blogging fast” with the exact long tail keywords dispersed in the articles.

Step Five: Promote Your Blog

The main way to promote your blog is building incoming links. Of course if other people find your blog is very useful they probably will link to you voluntarily. Besides writing quality content to attract incoming links, you need to build incoming links yourself.  Here are some major ways to build incoming links:

  • Submit your blog to as many the social bookmarking websites as possible
  • Write to article directories like Hubpages and Ezine Articles with a link to your blog at the end
  • Create free blogs at Blogger and WordPress.com then write some brief articles with a link to your blog
  • Comment on other peoples’ blogs
  • Create signatures at the end of any posts you make to internet forums
  • Ask other bloggers or webmasters for reciprocal links

Step Six: Make Money Blogging

Finally we come to this step: make money blogging. There are many ways to monetize your blog. The first choice is to put advertising on your blog, which is the most common and easiest way of making money.  The advertising you can put on your blog include, Google Adsense Program Ads (Ads by Google), which pay you based on clicking on ads by visitors to your blog,  Affiliate Programs ads, which pay you a commission when people buy a product after clicking your referring link, or banner ads that pay on the base of impressions shown.

Google Adsense is the chief source of income for most bloggers. You may as well use a combination of these different forms of advertising. Here is a basic list of widely used advertising programs,

  • Google Adsense: Contextual ads based on clicking on ads by visitors to your blog
  • Clickbank: Affiliate program sales model which pays a commission based on the value of the sale.
  • DoubleClick: Another widely used affiliate program by bloggers. Double Click is owned by Google
  • Commission Junction: One of the leading affiliate marketing companies on the internet
  • Amazon: I bet you know this one. Now you can make a commission by referring people to buy products on it.

How Much Money Can I Make

Hard to say.  With my own experience I can assure you that if your blog have 600 visitors a day, you will get at least 30 dollar from Google Adsense only.

Good Luck!

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How to Make Money Selling EBooks

Ebooks is a soaring business on the internet now. In 2009, the sales of ebooks reached $169.5 million and it is predicted to jump to $1 billion in 2012.  The ebook industry is growing really fast, but you don’t have to invest much money to enter this business, which is a good news. All you need to do is write a quality ebook and sell it in a proper way, then your ebook will continuously generate income for you even while you are sleeping!  Ready to make money by selling ebook? Simply follow 5 steps and you can start your ebook business right away.

Step One: Before You Start

Before you start writing a ebook, you are going to need to gather all necessary tools. Here is a list of essential tools of successful ebook writing:

  • A word processing application: use Microsoft Word. In case you don’t have one, I recommend Open Office, which is free.
  • A PDF editor:  like Adobe Acrobat Reader. Your ebook need to be in PDF format.
  • An automatic digital content delivery service: enables you deliver you ebook to the clients instantly after the payment.
  • A Pay Pal Account: it need to be a verified Business or Premier Paypal account. If you don’t have one, just upgrade it, it won’t cost you anything.
  • A blog or website: You can market and sell your ebook through your website

Step Two: Find your Topic

There are thousands of topics on which you can write an ebook. For example you can write a ebook on weight loss, making money, beauty tips, blogging and much more. Before you decide the topic of your future ebook, you have to make sure:

  • How many people are interested: the more people interested in your topic, the bigger your potential sales volume would be. You don’t want to choose a topic few people care about. Here is a simple way to determine whether your topic is hot or not is: just go to Google Keyword Tool and check out the search volume of your topic keywords.
  • Use your expertise: basically you are better at two or three fields compared to average people. If you are a doctor, writing a ebook about health issues would be a lot easier than writing some topic you have little knowledge.
  • Do you have passion on you topic: if you have deep interest or passion on your topic, your writing would be more efficient and content quality will definitely be a lot higher. On the other side, it is a great fun to enjoy writing things you like.

Step Three: Write Your EBook

This is the tough part. Writing is a not easy task, especially when you want to write some content which is unknown by the general audience so they are more willing to pay for your ebook. Take a look at the following writing tips, which can hopefully make your writing less painful.

  • Talk to experts: Besides gathering the writing materials from books, magazines and the internet, talking to experts on your topic will definitely enrich and refresh your ideas. You can interview experts directly or communicate with them through online communities.
  • Outline your ebook first: before you start writing your ebook, it’s better to have your ebook outlined. A concise outline can have your Ebook organized in order, which also enables you to make a writing plan and then fills the chapters step by step.
  • Go to a Coffeehouse: Take a cup of coffee in a quiet Coffeehouse, relax and think about how to write better content.
  • Turn off all distractions: Just focus on what you are writing about. The focus of attention will make you more productive.
  • Ever think of outsourcing? Yes, you can outsource your chapters to the freelance writers after you have outlined your ebook. Go to Elance to hire one.

Step Four: Market Your EBook

After you finish your ebook, the next job to do is to market it. There are many ways to market a ebook, among which the following have been proven to be quiet effective.

  • Write articles: Write articles on your topic and add a link to your ebook at the end.  Submit your articles to article directories and post them on relevant forums.
  • Write a blog: if people read your posts daily they can get a feeling that they know you and trust you. It also makes easier to market your ebook through search results.
  • Ask for reviews: try to ask the influential voices on your topic to write a review for you.
  • Use PPC: drive traffic to the page via PPC, Google Adwords for example.
  • Send Emails: if you have a list of emails whose owners might be interested on your ebook. Send them emails to introduce your ebook.
  • Add your clients’ picture and testimonials: the pictures and testimonials will make your ebook look more credible.

Step Five: Sell Your EBook

Now it’s time to sell your ebook and receive the fruits for your hard labor. There are ways to sell your ebook, you can sell it on your own website, or you can sell it via other websites. In case you sell it on your own site, write a sales letter and add a paypal checkout button at the bottom. You can also sell your ebook on the websites bellow.

  • Ebay.com: the world’s largest online market place. You can sell anything legitimate, including ebooks
  • Clickbank: a popular websites to sell ebooks
  • Ejunkie: another major player on selling ebooks
  • Amazon: world’s biggest online bookstore, you can also sell your ebook there
  • Lulu.com: one of the most popular online ebook stores
  • Apple ibookstore: a new place to sell your ebooks.
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Make Money Building Websites for Small Businesses

If you look around there are thousands of small businesses in your local area. Most of these small business owners have little, if none, knowledge about building websites and online marketing, still they are eager to have a presence on the internet. If you have some website building skills, then you can make money quite easily by helping them build and promote websites. Ok, here I mean some website building skills, you don’t have to be an expert on it, some basic skills would suffice. Most websites of small businesses are pretty simple, some of which only have several pages.

A piece of advice: Don’t provide website building service alone, offer a service package including website building and maintenance, SEO, search engine marketing, video marketing, social networking sites marketing.

Small local businesses are easy to reach. Use the following ways,

  • Yellow Pages: there are yellow pages online as well as printed version.
  • Google Maps: an easy way to find local businesses, you can search companies within specific area.
  • Door to Door Visits: Walk to find them yourself, ask them if they need your service. It is hard work, but it works.

Once you have a list of small local businesses, call them first to see if they already have a website. In case they already have websites, then ask how do they feel about the websites and the online promotion. Tell them how you can do to help get more orders from the internet. If they show some interest in the conversation, make an appointment with them and your chances to make a good deal is quite big now.

You can also make clients reach you by launching a website to promote your website building and online marketing service. Then people who need such service will find you through search engines results. Make sure your website looks professional to make them feel they can trust you. Don’t forget to demonstrate some of your successful cases and add testimonials from your clients.

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How to Make Money with iPhone Apps

There are many stories of successful iPhone Apps developers who make more than $1000 one single day. Ethan Nicholas, the developer of iShoot, had earned $800,000 in his first five months. Think of becoming one of the top Apps sellers making huge money? Here is what you have to do.

Before You Start

You need some essential tools before you start developing the iPhone Apps. Here is a list of what you are going to need.

  • A Mac: you will need a Mac with Leopard version of MacOS X to develop your Apps.
  • Software Development Kit(SDK): Apple provides the Apps developers free SDK from its Dev Centerhttp://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action. The SDK will give you development environment Xcode, the iPhone Simulator for testing, performance analysers, interface builders and the full documentation reference library.
  • Objective C: Objective C is the primary language to develop iPhone Apps. You will need to have some basic Objective C programming skills.

Hint: What if I know nothing about programming? Simple, go to Elance.com hire an iPhone SDK specialist to develop the app for you.

Step One: Get an iPhone App Idea

What kind of iPhone Apps will make you a great fortune? Here is what you can do to get and improve your app idea.

  • Go to App Store and check out the top apps, try to find out why they become so popular
  • Talk to iPhone users and ask them what apps they would like to have
  • Are there similar apps in App Store? If so, what difference will your app make?
  • How much value you can give to the buyers with your app?
  • Tell your friends your app idea and ask them whether they are willing to pay for it

Step Two: Write Your App

Not familiar with Objective C, Cocoa, and OpenGL? Many developers aren’t either. You can constantly improve your programming skills while trying to developing your app. I have some advice for beginners like you

  • Make it simple: simplicity is a virtue and simple apps will sell
  • Focus: focus on the main function of your app and make it perfect.
  • Make it entertaining: people will pay for apps which bring them enjoyment
  • Make it small: small apps will run faster
  • Make it pretty: a good looking interface is the first step to big success

Step Three: Submit Your App to Appstore

You need to use an Apple service iTunes Connect to submit your app to the App Store. First, you have to pay a $99 fee to join the iPhone Developer Program. Becoming a member is a requirement for submitting your app, and the membership also allows you to access sample code, development tools, and FAQ guides. After you submit your app, it will  appear in the App Store upon Apple’s approval. To maximize your chances, carefully test your app and make sure it functions well.

Step Four: Market Your App and Make Money

Submitting your app to the App Store is the first step to making money. You have to market your app to generate more sales. The marketing ideas bellow have been proven quiet effective.

  • Participate the online gaming communities and forums
  • Create a blog to promote your app
  • Send press releases to iPhone news websites like Pocket Gamer, FingerGaming and Touch Arcade
  • Mail people who might be interested
  • Use social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook
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