- App Review Site: After iPhone Apps has been approved by App Store, it is important to attract prospective customers with good reviews. Thus, submit your app to popular app review site and get review done by experts. Publish the links of these reviews in your personal website to promote them.
- Newsletter Marketing: This is one of the most popular and effective way to promote your apps. Create an attractive newsletter and send to both your present and prospective customers as well. Make sure that your newsletter conveys the message in an apt way.
- Interactive participation: With the popularity of iPhone Apps, there are numerous site dedicated and invites comments & views. Select websites matching your apps and discuss about your app and offer the link of your iPhone App so that you can make the best from flying users. Offer informative and simple answers to questions posted on website and discuss your newly developed apps in every possible way.
- Social Networking:Announce about your app with different social networking sites and let friends spread your latest creation with just few clicks on mouse.
- Blogging: This is one of the best informal ways to promote your iPhone apps. Write a blog about your latest iPhone development and publish the same not only on your website but also on different type blogging sites. Make sure that you are submitting your blog to best possible available category.
How to Promote iPhone Apps?
Posted on June 11th, 2010 by Amalendu Hajraa
App Store just approved your iPhone apps? Congratulations. But you also must remember that it is important to promote iPhone apps in every possible way. The success of your iPhone apps also depends on how well they are marketed. Here we discuss some of the ways to promote iPhone Apps successfully.
Promoting an iPhone App is not a daunting task if done with proper marketing strategy. Keep your target audience in mind and your iPhone apps will be a great success.
Here Comes iPhone 4G
Posted on June 11th, 2010 by Amalendu Hajraa
On 7th June, 2010, “magician” Steve Jobs launched iPhone 4G or Fourth Generation of iPhone. Most of us are all aware of iPhone, so let’s check some of the features of iPhone 4G at a quick glance. There were several rumors before the official launch of iPhone 4G, but here are the actual features of iPhone 4G and its specifications.
The hardware design of iPhone 4G is almost the same like previous iPhone. But the battery life has increased in every aspect. Another interesting feature is that the hardware components are all in the same chip thereby consuming less battery. When we are talking about interesting features here is another, its operating system. The present operating system of iPhone 4G can now easily support multitasking, video chatting, improved file & folder management, iBooks, latest iAd Platform.
The latest iPhone 4G is available in black & white with two different storage options of 16 and 32 GB. This much awaited gadget will be available from 24th June, 2010.
Features & Specifications
The first feature that deserves to be mentioned is its powerful battery and upgraded camera system. Powered by A4 CPU, iPhone 4G offers 3.5 inch screen of 960x640 resolutions partnered with dual mics and HD video recording & audio capabilities. Other features and specifications include:- iPhone 4G is 9.3mm thick, which means it is 24% thinner from iPhone 3G.
- 326 ppi display, four times more than previous iPhone.
- Front-facing video chat camera
- Split buttons for volume and other buttons like power, mute are all metallic.
The hardware design of iPhone 4G is almost the same like previous iPhone. But the battery life has increased in every aspect. Another interesting feature is that the hardware components are all in the same chip thereby consuming less battery. When we are talking about interesting features here is another, its operating system. The present operating system of iPhone 4G can now easily support multitasking, video chatting, improved file & folder management, iBooks, latest iAd Platform.
The latest iPhone 4G is available in black & white with two different storage options of 16 and 32 GB. This much awaited gadget will be available from 24th June, 2010.
Tips to submit iPhone apps to App Store
Posted on June 7th, 2010 by Amalendu Hajraa
In the field of mobile computing, the market for iPhone apps is emerging and to keep pace with the same iPhone apps are developed simultaneously. There are many apps that could attract customers around the world. An iPhone app can taste its commercial success only after it is approved by App Stores. But there are some steps that developers must follow to get approval of the App Store discussed in detail.
- As a first step to submit apps, one must use iTunes Connect, a service available in Apple website. Secondly, the developer is required to become member of iPhone Developer Program for a fee. In fact, after registration, a developer can not only submit their apps, but also access to latest software development tools, handy guide and different sample codes.
- Before you begin submission process ensure that you have read all terms & conditions and other guidelines to increase the chances of approval. This also includes describing the details of the apps and providing unique icon.
- It is extremely important to test the app to detect any bug to ensure that apps are working just perfectly. In many cases, apps face rejection because it fails to work smoothly. Thus, checking and rechecking is very important for the approval of any iPhone app.
- Another important tip to submit apps to App Store is to ensure that photos, music, videos and other content of software are not violating the copyright law. Inappropriate use of copyright protected materials can end up with rejection.
Tips to Develop Successful iPhone Apps
Posted on June 7th, 2010 by Amalendu Hajraa
With more than 10,000 iPhone apps, iPhone developers must ensure that the apps they are developing are developed properly and most important successfully. So, it is important for the developers to enhance their skills in developing iPhone apps. Along with skills there are other factors also that developer might consider to guarantee the success of iPhone apps like:
- Work on existing Concepts:
If you want to your iPhone to click commercially, it would be a wise decision to stick to existing concepts, instead of trying something new. This tip is important for a new iPhone development company who are trying to make their presence feel in the market. But this does not mean that developers will prohibit themselves from developing innovative apps. Developers can research on existing concepts and contribute more to set a popular trending concept. After the concept is being finalized, developers can then work more on it for perfection. - Understand your community or target audience:
Success of an app is solely dependent on feedback target audiences. Thus, it is important to make sure that apps are developed after understanding the requirement of their target audience. To achieve this, a market survey can be conducted to understand audience's mind better and develop apps accordingly. - Consider the features:
As the iPhone offers different features thus iPhone apps must be developed in a way allowing user to take advantage of all the features simultaneously. However developers must keep in mind that features are well balanced with apps. Otherwise forced applications will make the application clumsy and never meet with the expectation of target audience. An example will make this point clear. Sometimes developers totally ignore the sound feature of iPhone. But if used effectively and with great plan this feature might become the X-factor of an app, especially game apps. But with effective planning it can be used for other apps also.
Recent Trends in Web Designing
Posted on May 18th, 2010 by Amalendu Hajraa
With the invasion of Internet into our lives, websites played an integral part of our lives. World’s first web page was a plain document of simple text by Tim Burners Lee. Since then Internet experienced many aspects of web designing. Looking back into history we will come to know that in 1990’s websites came into existence with attractive colors and text effects. Here are some recent trends of web designing:
- Attractive headers & images: Over sized headers & logos is one of the dominant trends of web designing. In fact, today major companies prefer to use colorful, crisp and original images to maintain a right professional look of their website. Similarly, hand drawn images or sketches are also fast catching up with the trend in web designing.
- Change in Typography: Right from the beginning of web designers played with fonts and still today the trend is maintained by them. Today playing with fonts and making them colorful us encouraged by most of the site owners. With the help of JavaScript & Flash, typography is enjoying richness and thus is very popular among the web designers.
- Change in Layouts: In recent times, newspaper and magazine layout is fast becoming popular. In the initial period, the trend was catching the fancy of bloggers only, but we may say in near future many corporate sites will think about magazine layout for their official website. This is because most of the people aim is to keep layouts perfect but simple.
