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El. knyga: Business of iPhone App Development: Making and Marketing Apps that Succeed

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  • Išleidimo metai: 26-Aug-2010
  • Leidėjas: APress
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781430227342
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  • Išleidimo metai: 26-Aug-2010
  • Leidėjas: APress
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  • ISBN-13: 9781430227342

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The phenomenal success of the iPhone and the iPod touch has ushered in a “gold rush” for developers, but with well over 100,000 apps in the highly competitive App Store, it has become increasingly difficult for new apps to stand out in the crowd. Achieving consumer awareness and sales longevity for your iPhone app requires a lot of organization and some strategic planning. This book will show you how to incorporate marketing and business savvy into every aspect of the design and development process, giving your app the best possible chance of succeeding in the App Store.





The Business of iPhone App Development was written by experienced developers with business backgrounds, taking you step-by-step through cost-effective marketing techniques that have proven successful for professional iPhone app creators—perfect for independent developers on shoestring budgets. Although there are a few iPhone app marketing books on the horizon, they appear to tackle the subject from purely a marketer’s perspective. What makes this book unique is that it was written by developers for developers, showing you not only what to do, but also how to do it, complete with time-saving resources and ready-to-use code examples. No prior business knowledge is required. This is the book you wish you had read before you launched your first app!
Contents at a Glance iv
Contents v
Foreword xi
About the Authors xii
About the Technical Reviewer xiii
Acknowledgments xiv
Seeing the Big Picture in a Crowded App Store Marketplace
1(10)
Why a Business Book for iPhone Developers?
2(1)
Tackling the New World of Mobile Marketing
2(1)
Rest Easy---This Is Not Your Typical Business Book
3(1)
Planning Your Own Success Story
3(2)
How to Use This Book
5(3)
Getting Started with Your First iPhone App
8(1)
Already in the App Store? It's Never Too Late to Boost Sales
9(1)
Developing iPhone Apps for Clients
10(1)
Ready to Dive In?
10(1)
Doing Your Homework: Analyzing iPhone App Ideas and Performing Competitive Research
11(26)
Fulfilling a Need
11(6)
Discovering Untapped Markets
12(2)
Enhancing the Mobile Experience
14(2)
Competing with Similar Apps
16(1)
When to Avoid Over-Saturated Categories
17(2)
Assessing the Competition
19(7)
Alternative App Directories for Competitive Research
21(1)
Analyzing App Ranking Statistics
22(4)
Finding Inspiration in Your Competitors' Customer Reviews
26(4)
Learning from the Mistakes of Others
27(1)
Going Beyond the App Store's Customer Reviews
28(1)
Taking Your Competition for a Test-Drive
29(1)
Defining Your Differentiator
30(1)
What's in an App Name?
31(3)
Registering Web Site Domain Names
34(1)
Building a Unique Identity for Your iPhone App
35(1)
Making Progress
35(2)
Protecting Your Intellectual Property
37(24)
What Is Intellectual Property?
38(1)
Determining Your Intellectual Property Strategy
38(12)
iPhone Apps Are Different
39(1)
Developing an iPhone Specific Game Plan
39(2)
Copyrighting Your App
41(1)
Filing Trademarks for App Icons and Logos
42(3)
Trade Secrets
45(2)
Patents
47(3)
Addressing Intellectual Property in Contractor and Employee Agreements
50(2)
Hiring Contractors
50(1)
Hiring Employees
51(1)
Inbound Licensing of Third-Party Intellectual Property
52(2)
Document Your Inbound Licenses
52(1)
Know What You Are Getting
52(1)
Avoid Viral Licenses
53(1)
Don't Use Apple's Trademarks
53(1)
Creating a Custom End User License Agreement
54(2)
The Purpose of a EULA
54(1)
Apple's Default EULA?
55(1)
How and When to Pursue Legal Action
56(3)
First Steps Toward Dispute Resolution
57(1)
Prelitigation
57(1)
Litigation
58(1)
Summary
59(2)
Your iPhone App Is Your Most Powerful Marketing Tool
61(46)
Getting Your Foot in the Door: First Impressions Are Everything
61(2)
Playing by the Rules in Apple's Sandbox
63(2)
Creating an Effective App Icon and Logo
65(9)
Designing a Custom App Icon
65(6)
Don't Forget About a Logo
71(1)
Maintaining a Consistent Brand Identity
72(2)
Interface Design: Think Like a User, Not a Developer
74(13)
The Immense Value of Prototyping
75(5)
Pushing the Envelope with a Custom Interface
80(3)
The Comfortable Familiarity of UIKit
83(3)
Designing for Accessibility
86(1)
Tips for the Artistically Challenged
87(4)
How You Like Me Now? Encouraging User Reviews Within Your App
91(3)
Check Out This Cool App! Tell a Friend with In-App Email and Social Networking
94(11)
Earning Your Stripes
105(2)
Money for Nothing: When It Pays to Be Free
107(38)
The Benefits of Free to Promote Paid Versions
108(16)
Choosing a Path: Lite Version vs. In-App Purchase
109(1)
Playing It Safe: Lite Version Restrictions
110(1)
Can a Free Lite Version Really Boost Paid App Sales?
111(1)
They Won't Buy the Cow If the Milk Is Free
112(3)
Perfecting Your In-App Sales Pitch
115(5)
Bulletproofing Your Lite Version
120(1)
Migrating Data from the Lite Version to the Paid Version
121(3)
Securing Market Share: Give It Away Now, Up-Sell Later
124(2)
Monetizing Free with In-App Advertising
126(10)
Taking a Hard Look at the Numbers
127(1)
When to Use In-App Advertising
128(1)
Which Ad Network Is Right for You?
129(6)
Building a Business with Ad-Supported iPhone Apps
135(1)
Strength in Numbers: Building Synergy with In-App Cross-Promotion
136(6)
Setting Up Shop
138(1)
United We Prosper
139(2)
Rolling Your Own Solution
141(1)
Enthusiasm Is Contagious: Get Your Users Talking with Third-Party Social Platforms
142(2)
Shifting Gears
144(1)
Exploring New Business Models with In-App Purchase and Affiliate Programs
145(42)
Loyalty Pays: Existing Users Make the Best Customers
146(3)
Supporting the Long Tail: Monetizing Continued Development
146(1)
The Challenge of Changing User Perception
147(2)
When and How to Use In-App Purchase
149(8)
The Power of Simplicity
150(5)
Presentation Is the Key to Success
155(1)
Finding the Sweet Spot
156(1)
Configuring In-App Purchase in iTunes Connect
157(6)
Setting Up an In-App Purchase Test User Account
157(2)
Creating In-App Purchase Items
159(4)
Managing Your In-App Purchase Items
163(1)
Preparing Your Test Device
163(1)
Tapping into the Store Kit Framework
164(11)
Setting Up the Basics
165(2)
Does the Consumer Allow In-App Purchase?
167(1)
Fetch Available In-App Purchase Items
168(3)
Requesting a Purchase
171(1)
Receiving Payment Status
172(1)
Providing Access to the Purchased Content
173(2)
Restoring Paid Content
175(1)
Delivering and Managing In-App Purchases
175(6)
Unlocking Built-In Content
175(2)
Downloading Content from Your Server
177(3)
Finding Help in the Cloud
180(1)
Mining Additional Revenue with Affiliate Programs
181(3)
Digging for Gold
184(3)
Testing and Usability: Putting Your Best Foot Forward
187(52)
Preventing the Majority of One-Star Reviews
187(4)
Avoiding Common Pitfalls
188(1)
Soliciting Direct Feedback
189(2)
Preventing User Frustration with In-App Help
191(15)
Planting Knowledge Seeds with On-Screen Tips
192(1)
Instructional Videos: The Double-Edged Sword
193(2)
Show, Don't Tell, with Integrated Demos
195(2)
In-App Web Help: A Little HTML Goes a Long Way
197(9)
Provisioning: Setting Up a Development Device
206(14)
Establishing Your Test Device in Xcode Organizer
206(1)
Verify That Apple's WWDR Certificate Is Installed
207(1)
Launch the Online Development Provisioning Assistant
208(2)
Request a Development Certificate
210(1)
Generate and Install Your Provisioning Profile
211(2)
Download and Install Your Development Certificate
213(1)
Run Your Xcode Project on Your Test Device
214(2)
The Limitations of Wildcard App IDs
216(3)
Managing Multiple Provisioning Profiles
219(1)
Beta Testing: Navigating the Complexities of Ad Hoc Distribution
220(13)
Acquire the Device IDs of Your Beta Testers
221(2)
Request a Distribution Certificate
223(2)
Install and Backup Your Distribution Certificate
225(1)
Generate and Install an Ad Hoc Distribution Provisioning Profile
226(1)
Configure Your App for Ad Hoc Distribution
227(4)
Create the Entitlements File
231(1)
Compile Your iPhone App
232(1)
Distribute Your App to the Beta Testers
233(1)
Knowledge is Power: Tracking App Usage Through Analytics
233(4)
Answers from the Source
234(2)
Evaluating the Players
236(1)
Sitting Pretty
237(2)
Get the Party Started! Creating a Prerelease Buzz
239(64)
The Final Countdown: Preparing for Lift-Off
239(6)
Marketing Requires an Audience, So Invest the Time to Find Yours
240(1)
Crafting Your Elevator Pitch
240(2)
Additional Prerelease Marketing Materials
242(3)
Your iPhone App Deserves a Well-Designed Web Site
245(27)
Establishing a Web Site Infrastructure
246(6)
Anatomy of an iPhone App Web Site
252(19)
Before Selling, Start Collecting
271(1)
Why Site Compatibility with Mobile Safari Is So Important
272(7)
``I''m Ready for My Close-up, Mr. Viewport''
273(1)
Using Browser Detection to Deliver Targeted Content
274(3)
Dynamically Replacing Flash with iPhone-Compatible Content
277(1)
Home Screen Bookmarking Made Beautiful
278(1)
Let's Make Some Noise: The Power of Blogs, Twitter, and Social Networks
279(17)
Blogging
279(2)
Twitter
281(9)
Facebook
290(5)
Other Social Networks and Bookmarking Sites
295(1)
Commenting on Forums, Groups, and Blogs
296(1)
But Not Too Much Noise: Maintaining a Professional Reputation
296(2)
Everyone Loves a Winner: Collecting Prerelease Press and Testimonials
298(4)
Passing the Baton
302(1)
Keys to the Kingdom: The App Store Submission Process
303(42)
The Politics of Pricing
304(4)
Analyzing Similar Apps
304(1)
Room to Maneuver
305(1)
Sustaining a Long-Term Business
305(2)
Perceived Value and Consumer Resistance
307(1)
Improving App Discovery: The Art of Keywords and Names
308(4)
Assigning Keywords
308(2)
The Name Game
310(2)
Perfecting the Sales Pitch of Your App Description
312(3)
What Is It?
312(1)
Awards and Testimonials
313(1)
Features and Benefits
314(1)
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: The Importance of Screenshots
315(3)
Choosing the Primary Screenshot
315(1)
When a Screenshot Is More Than a Screenshot
316(2)
Preparing Your Application Binary for the App Store
318(5)
Verify Your Distribution Certificate Is Still Installed
319(1)
Generate and Install an App Store Distribution Provisioning Profile
320(1)
Configure Your Xcode Project for App Store Distribution
321(1)
Compile Your iPhone Application
322(1)
Are We There Yet? Submitting Your App in iTunes Connect
323(17)
Ensure Your Contracts and Payment Settings Have Been Processed by Apple
323(1)
Add a New Application in iTunes Connect
324(1)
Submit Your App's Metadata
325(7)
Assign a Rating to Your App
332(2)
Upload Your App Binary, Large Icon, and Screenshots
334(1)
Set the Availability Date and Price
335(2)
Supporting Multiple Languages
337(1)
Confirm and Submit Your App for Review
337(1)
Submitting App Updates
338(1)
Managing Your Own Expectations
339(1)
Try, Try Again: Dealing with App Store Rejections
340(1)
Approved! Making It to the Promised Land
341(2)
Analyzing Your App Store Sales Statistics
341(2)
Rev Your Engines
343(2)
Increasing Awareness for Your iPhone App
345(32)
Dedicating As Much Effort to Marketing Your App As You Put into Developing It
345(2)
The Art of Crafting Effective Press Releases
347(10)
The Essential Ingredients of a Press Release
347(5)
The Virtual 24/7 Press Room
352(1)
Who to Notify and How?
353(4)
Issuing Promo Codes: Soliciting App Reviews on Influential Blogs and Review Sites
357(5)
Providing Review Materials
357(2)
Obtaining Promo Codes
359(1)
Publicity Requires Planning and Patience
360(2)
Using Promotions and Giveaways to Improve App Discovery
362(3)
Timing a Good Sale to Rejuvenate App Downloads
365(1)
Contemplating Sponsorships and Product Placement Deals
366(3)
Connecting with Customers: Delivering App Updates and Quality Support
369(2)
Additional Tips for Sustaining Momentum in the App Store
371(4)
Banking on the Prestige of Awards and Endorsements
371(1)
Share Your Knowledge
372(1)
Participating in Interviews and Podcasts
373(1)
Can Advertising Sell Apps?
373(2)
Looking Toward the Horizon
375(2)
Index 377
As the founder of Electric Butterfly, strongDave Wooldridge/strong has been developing award-winning web sites and software for 15 years. When he's not creating Mac and iPhone apps, he can be found writing. Dave is the author of emThe Business of iPhone App Development: Making and Marketing Apps that Succeed/em and has written numerous articles for leading tech publications, including a monthly software marketing column for emMacTech Magazine/em. Follow Dave on Twitter @ebutterfly.