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Running a Mobile App Dev Business: The Complete Guide
Introduction
Course Overview (9:30)
First thing to do (0:58)
7 reasons to start a mobile app development business (10:35)
The Sprintkick story (4:58)
Section 1 review material
The Essentials
The startup timeline (9:56)
How does this work as a programmer / non programmer? (5:20)
iOS versus Android (10:56)
Native versus hybrid (10:51)
Build yourself or contract? (5:21)
In house hiring or out house? (8:27)
In country or out of country? (4:44)
Section 2 review material
Setting up your presence
Focus on 80/20 solutions for your online presence (4:30)
Looking at other studios (11:26)
Going further into depth looking at studios (11:59)
Picking and configuring a template on Templatemonster (18:05)
Picking and configuring a template on ThemeForest (9:45)
Selecting a name (14:08)
Advanced: Upgrade your presence with custom design (6:00)
Section 3 review material
Finding subcontractors
What makes a good long term partner? (3:52)
Intro to Elance (19:33)
Intro to Elance 2 (2:44)
Intro to Upwork (19:40)
Intro to Upwork 2 (5:53)
Intro to Freelancer (9:01)
Finding freelancers elsewhere (5:40)
Section 4 review material
Building a portfolio
How important are portfolios? (5:54)
Use these tricks to grow your portfolio faster (4:38)
Thoughts about portfolios (4:06)
Buying testimonials and case studies (7:44)
Section 5 review material
Getting clients
Strategy: Email scrape and blast (11:18)
Strategy: Offer adjacent services to those hiring in house (11:33)
Strategy: Discount offers to groups (11:04)
Strategy: Use your affiliations (4:10)
Strategy: Tag your work (5:01)
Strategy: Sell things that require maintanence (3:15)
Strategy: This sucks let me fix it (4:47)
Strategy: The perpetual discount (4:13)
Strategy: Build something and give it away (6:58)
Strategy: Making tutorials strategy (8:39)
Section 6 review material
Building proposals
Our technique, just in depth costs of everything (7:34)
Types of proposals (15:05)
Components of proposals (19:19)
Tools for getting proposals done faster (17:57)
How much do you customize? (7:51)
Ballpark estimate versus exacto (6:07)
Strategy: Introduce ideas and see if they stick (5:10)
Section 7 review material
Managing clients
Keep the right distance from clients (8:38)
Confidence is key (8:35)
Just enough jargon (8:12)
Sniffing out their budget (12:40)
Speed is important with clients (6:28)
Client budgets and what difference they make (4:38)
Do you deliver what's good or what the client likes? (5:14)
Don't talk about problems, say what's happening (2:20)
Is the client always right? (7:30)
Section 8 review material
Best Practices
Should you submit the app for your client? (6:54)
Under promise, over deliver (10:12)
What is agile? Should I use it? (8:12)
Price per project, price per hour (8:00)
Should you worry about competition? (4:37)
Hedging your launch date (4:06)
Beautiful design makes beautiful development (5:48)
Running without contracts (6:47)
Red flags for bad clients (10:04)
Rich clients versus successful clients (3:53)
Tell when you're getting fizzled (7:59)
Don't quote off the top of your head (4:24)
Meeting in person (9:50)
Is there a benefit to delivering early? (2:42)
Repeat customers are the best (3:38)
Avoid assumers (5:03)
Section 9 review material
Internal management is crucial
Intro to Asana (12:37)
Getting more into depth with Asana (10:19)
Making Asana work for you (13:47)
Section 10 review material
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