Category: Apps

    Create Apps Even If You Can’t Code

    You may be wondering how in the world you can create apps, and ultimately sell apps, if you can’t even code. But, the truth is, you can. There are two ways to deal with not being able to code. You can find apps with reseller rights, or you can hire a coder to create an app for you. Both are good choices, and depend on the availability of reseller rights as well as how you want to sell the app and your budget.

    Reseller Apps

    A reseller app (sometimes also called a white label or private label app) means that, at least as far as the particular license covers, you can sell the app as your own. There is some advice you should follow when embarking on using reseller or PLR apps.

    * Check the Licenses – Each creator crafts different licenses. Because of this, be sure to check the license before purchasing so that you can be assured that you’re allowed to do with the app what you need to do with the app for your audience.

    * Find Reputable Dealers – It’s very important to check the reputation of any dealer in private label rights or resell rights applications. You don’t want to purchase apps from just anyone who might have stolen the work of someone else.

    * Determine If Support Is Available – If you aren’t a coder, it can prove problematic to provide customer service to your audience. Therefore, you need to know if the creators will support your customers or if you need to pay for support for your customers.

    * Is It in Your Budget? – What is the cost to be able to be part of their reseller program and can you afford it? How many sells will you need to make to break even? Can you tell how much other resellers are selling the apps for and how they’re doing?

    Answering these questions for yourself will help you be more successful as an app PLR seller, because there is more to it than just getting the app. The app must work as described, look professional, and be affordable enough that you can return a profit easily.

    Hiring a Coder

    Another way to get an app made without being able to code is to hire a coder. You can find coders relatively simply and the cost may be a lot less than you think when it comes to having simple apps made for you to sell to your audience. Here are some things you want to know before proceeding.

    * Experience Level – How long has the coder been working and what type of certification do they have? Some coders offer simple coding and others more complex services, including getting your app listed on iTunes.

    * References – Of the people who’ve hired the coder, how many have given positive responses and feedback? Who will give the coder a good reference and is the reference someone you can verify as real?

    * Iron-Clad Contract – Be sure to craft a contract that spells out that the coder has no rights to the finished product and cannot ever claim rights over it. You may also want a non-disclosure clause or other elements in the contract that help you to ensure your rights with the app.

    * Is It in Your Budget? – This is based on how many apps you believe you can sell at a particular price to become profitable.

    There is another option, which is to use an app builder such as BuildFire.com, Como.com, Appsbar.com and others. These are good options too. You can build the app and then sell it to your audience. As normal, check the terms of service to find out what you’re allowed to do with the app you create. Also test out the app to ensure that it works as expected.

    As you see, anyone can create an app if they want to – even if they can’t code.

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    Getting Started Creating Apps

    Today, you don’t have to be a coder, or even a professional app designer, to create your own apps. The barriers to entry into this marketplace have been drastically lowered due to technology. There are now apps to help you create apps that you need to market to your audience. You just need to know where to find the software to help you make your ideas come to fruition.

    * MIT App Inventor for Android – This app inventor runs with Google Labs and enables people who are not coders to invent and create apps. It has awesome tutorials to teach you want you need to know, and anyone can use it. It used to be called Google Apps Inventor but was abandoned and now MIT has taken it over.

    Link – http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/

    * BuildFIRE – Using this builder you can create your own mobile apps, or even hire a BuildFire app developer if you don’t want to do it at all or you have a more complicated app that you want to build.

    Link – http://www.buildfire.com/

    * Como – Also a mobile app builder, it takes things one step further and offers marketing and selling features too by helping you publish in the Amazon App Store. They also have features that help you market your app on Facebook, plus other business features like payment gateways.

    Link – http://www.como.com/

    * Appsbar.com – Create Android, iOS, Windows Phone and more easily with a choice of themes, buttons and more. It doesn’t offer as many selling features as Como, but it does offer the ability to build and sell your apps as well as distribute them via their marketplace.

    Link – http://www.appsbar.com/

    * Appypie – This is a fully-featured app builder that builds apps for all platforms, and even offers many business features that you need to promote, market, and sell your apps to your audience.

    Link – http://www.appypie.com/

    * WPAppStudio – Make your own WordPress plugins without any PHP coding, and also get support for selling your apps and making a business of it. There is a fee per website but you can also get free domains for each app when using their software in development.

    Link – https://wpas.emdplugins.com/

    * Windows App Studio – If you have an idea for an app, you can use Windows App Studio to help you create your app using their templates, code and more. Once it builds the app for you, you can get the code and even edit it later.

    Link – http://appstudio.windows.com/en-us

    * AppMakr.com – Using drag and drop technology, you can build your mobile app for any platform. They also have tools to help you monetize your apps which make it super easy to make money.

    Link – http://www.appmakr.com/

    As you can see, the lack of coding knowledge will not keep you from creating an app if that’s what you want to do. You can make an app that your audience needs to use on a daily basis that keeps you at the front of their mind. Apps can become a new income stream that adds to your bottom line exponentially.

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    Marketing Your Apps

    Once you create an app, if you want to get people using it, and make money, you’ll need to market it. Marketing is the process of educating your audience and getting attention directed toward your app so that you can make sales. There are a number of ways in which you can market your app.

    * Build an Email List – One thing every marketer should always be doing is building an email list. They don’t tell you that the money is in the list as a joke; it’s true. Using creative landing pages, webinars, freebies and more, work on building up an email list full of targeted customers.

    * Blog about Your App – Even if your app is not done, you can still blog about the problems that your audience has and potential solutions to them, so that when your solution is finished you can bring it out.

    * Tease Your Audience – It’s a great idea to hint about your coming app to whet the appetite of your audience. Start a countdown to launch date, and create a series of blogs or email messages that let your audience know that something big is coming to solve their problem.

    * Promote on Social Media – Create a Facebook page for your plugin to promote it and run Facebook advertisements. On that page post links to your sales pages, landing pages, videos, blog posts and so forth.

    * Build an Awesome Sales Page – A good sales page is essential to selling your app. The sales page should include all the benefits of the app, plus testimonials, and even video demonstrations of the app.

    * Make a Product Demo Video – When you do make a demo video, you don’t have to just leave it on your sales page. Putting it on YouTube is an excellent way to get an audience from there too.

    * Host a Webinar – A great way to market an app is to have a pre-launch webinar. The idea is that many of the people who come to the webinar will buy the app at a lower price, provide a testimonial and kick off sales.

    * Send Out a Press Release – Every new product that you create deserves a press release. The press release will get the information into the right hands, and also provide more information for interested parties when they do a search online.

    * Ask for Reviews – After some people have tried your app, it’s important to follow up and ask for testimonials. Most people will like to give you one, especially if they get their picture and URL noted on your sales pages.

    * Recruit Affiliates – Many people who are your early adopters will also make good affiliates. An affiliate will promote your products for a percentage of sales on their own websites, social media networks and blogs.

    The more you can do to get the word out about your new app, the better. You want to direct everything you write and produce to your audience and those who will find the app useful. Remember to always focus on the benefits of the app and name the problem it solves for the user rather than features. On the website you’ll list features, but focus on benefits in all copy and you’ll be successful.

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    Why IFTTT is the Perfect App for Improving Your Productivity





    No matter what kind of business you run, IFTTT is an incredible app that can likely help you to get a lot more done a lot more efficiently. While it has been around for a little while now, it’s still only just starting to gain popularity, so there’s a good chance you won’t have already heard of it and won’t yet be taking advantage of what it has to offer.


    Read on and we’ll look at how IFTTT works and why it’s such a boon to your productivity and to your business as a whole.


    What is IFTTT?


    IFTTT stands for ‘If This, Then That’ and essentially allows you to set up interactions between your various different online accounts. What this means is that you can make it so that an event occurring on one account becomes a ‘trigger’ for something else happening on another.


    The most basic example of this would be to set up a relationship (called ‘recipes’) that fired when you uploaded a post to Facebook and then just tweeted that same post on Twitter. Right away, this recipe could help you to save time on your social media marketing by meaning you have to update only the one account rather than two.
    But the power of IFTTT goes much further than that because it also lets you work with Google Drive, Todoist, Gmail and much more, creating almost limitless possibilities…


    The App


    IFTTT began life as a web app but is today available for the phone too. This increases its potential list of uses exponentially by letting you link in the various features of your phone as well. For instance, you could text a certain number in order to tweet, or you could set up your phone to bring up your to-do list when you get home. You could even have it bring up your work e-mail as soon as you arrive at work!
    Really though, the power of IFTTT is limited only by your imagination. Examples of the sorts of things you can do with it include: having e-mails added to your to-do list, saving various materials automatically to DropBox, or automatically populating Google Calendar.
    If you’re looking for a way to automate a lot of the administrative tasks that you do on a day to day basis and you want a way to organize yourself and your information better – sign up for an account now!

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    Why and How to Create an App for Your Business

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    If you are looking to get more out  of your smartphone as a business owner or entrepreneur, then you might start looking for apps that can do particular jobs for you on the Android Google Play Store or on the iTunes App Store.

    But what if you don’t find what you’re looking for?


    One solution is to build your own app. And as it happens, this decision can benefit you in more ways than one and might just be easier than you expect…


    Top Reasons to Build Your Own App


    The first reason you might want to build your own app is     to extend the functionality of your phone. If your business has specific requirements, then by adding a custom built piece of software to your smartphone or the smartphones of your staff, you’ll that way be able to work wherever you are. This will increase your speed and flexibility several fold and it can even prevent errors if it means that your team can update information ‘in the field’ rather than waiting to log it on their return. Bear in mind that apps on a mobile device will also work on tablets, which allows for ‘upright computing’.


    At the same time, this kind of functionality is something that will always impress potential clients and customers. It makes your business look more cutting edge and that’s something that you shouldn’t underestimate.


    Meanwhile, you can also consider building apps for your partners, clients and customers. If you run a takeaway restaurant this might mean letting your customers order food through their device, or if you provide a service then the app could help to improve the quality of that experience. Again, this can impress your customers no end but it also helps them to use your company more quickly and easily thus encouraging increased sales.


    How to Build an App


    So how do you go about building an app?


    Essentially there are two options which are to either outsource the process to a third party, or to do it yourself. Each has their strengths and weaknesses of course.
    If you are going to outsource app development then you should look for a company that specializes in this and that has experience. Ask to see previous samples of their work and do be willing to pay a little extra for quality (some cheap developers on sites like Elance will cut corners).


    If you build it yourself, continue adding a new department to your team, or see if there are easier methods you can use. For instance if you’re making an Android app then using ‘Basic4Android’ may well save you time.

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