How To Make Money from iPhone Applications

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How To Make Money from iPhone Applications

You've undoubtedly heard that there is money to be made making iPhone applications.

Why?

Because the age of carrying your computer with you has arrived. As a result, people are looking for ways to make their lives easier and more convenient. What better way to do this but to have everything you need with you at all times?

There are already thousands of applications out there for iPhones and iPod Touches.

You should check out the iTunes store to see what's already out there.

However, there are a million applications ideas that HAVEN'T been made yet.

This is where you come in and save the day!

Contents at a Glance

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First Way to Make Money from iPhone Applications
A Timely Book

Second Way to Make Money from iPhone Applications
Apple has a Tribe You Can Sell To
iPhone Development: Books You'll Want

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What You'll Find on This Lens

Other Lenses You Need to See!
First Way to Make Money from iPhone Applications
A Timely Book
Second Way to Make Money from iPhone Applications
Apple has a Tribe You Can Sell To
iPhone Development: Books You'll Want
Best Free iPhone Applications
iPhone Development Central
Getting Traffic To Your Site
The Most Important Thing to Keep in Mind
Highly Recommended iPhone Development Books
Learning Objective C and C++
iPhone Programming Tutorials
Things You Need to Read
A Little Favor
Learn from the Best
Show the iPhone Some Love
What's the Best Way?
Leave Feedback Here!

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What Should iPhone Applications Cost?

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Learn to Program for the iPhone

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First Way to Make Money from iPhone Applications

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The first approach to making money from iPhone applications is both "easy" and "hard."

The first rule of thumb that you can abide to is this:

1) Create small applications and sell them for cheap.
I'm talking anywhere from $0.99 to $3.99.

2) Repeat over and over.

The key here is VOLUME. Since you are selling your applications for less money than other people, you have to sell more to make more money from iPhone Applications.

The good news: It will take you less time to make one iPhone application.
Bonus: Once it's up, it's up for good so no other work is required.

The bad news: You will have to make lots of them in order to make money.

A Timely Book

Technology happens fast. Luckily for you, there are brilliant people out there who are trying to make it easy for YOU to make money from iphone applications.

This book is great if you want help getting started with making iPhone applications since that is exactly what the book is about. You'll be getting the information you're looking for.

Zdziarski has a lot to say when it comes to creating quality applications.

Zdziarski is known for his work in cracking the iPhone and to port the first open source applications. He created the first application to utilize the portable Nintendo Entertainment System emulator.
Pretty sweet, huh?

iPhone SDK Application Development: Building Applications for the AppStore

by: Jonathan Zdziarski, Zdziarski Jonathan

Amazon Price: $23.09 (as of 01/01/2010)

Second Way to Make Money from iPhone Applications

Marketing!

There other approach for how to make money from iPhone applications is to create them and give them out for free.

But wait, you say. Isn't this about making money?

The wonderful thing about people having access to the internet more often is that they spend more time surfing the net.

This is where MARKETING comes in. Like night follows day, marketing is always there.

So the plan is:

1) Make an application that will allow a client to market their products from. Allow your application to get your clients name out to people looking for that product.

The good news: It's mostly good news for the businesses who will want to market on your applications. It's good news for you because you never have to worry about pricing. Your only job is to make a good iPhone application.

The bad news: You are working from commissions so the monetary aspects of your applications will need to be well thought out.

Apple has a Tribe You Can Sell To

iPhone Development: Books You'll Want

Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK

by: Dave Mark, Jeff LaMarche

Amazon Price: $26.39 (as of 01/01/2010)

iPhone Application Development For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

by: Neal Goldstein

Amazon Price: $19.79 (as of 01/01/2010)

iPhone SDK Development (The Pragmatic Programmers)

by: Bill Dudney, Christopher Adamson

Amazon Price: $25.71 (as of 01/01/2010)

Sams Teach Yourself iPhone Application Development in 24 Hours

by: John Ray, Sean Johnson

Amazon Price: $22.04 (as of 01/01/2010)

Best Free iPhone Applications

Want to find more cool (and free!) applications for your iPhone?

Check out this lens for a top 20 pick and more!

Here's my favorite link:

iPhone Development Central

Getting Traffic To Your Site

Think of what the iPhone really lets people do. It lets people have access to the internet in place that they didn't use to.

What does that mean for you?

That means that there are just more people surfing the net.

For you, as an entrepreneur, that means good news.

You can create iPhone applications (free or not) that directly link the player/viewer to your website. Whether your are an affiliate or selling your own product, iPhone applications can be a great way to get traffic to your site.

Basically what I'm saying is that you can do both of the steps I mentioned above and make quite a bit of money doing it!

The Most Important Thing to Keep in Mind

When thinking for how to make money from iPhone applications

Making iPhone applications is still a business.

Your number one goals should always be:

MAKE THE CONSUMER HAPPY

happier consumer = happier you

Don't skimp on quality and expect to charge $9.99 per download. It doesn't work that way!

Highly Recommended iPhone Development Books

There is sure to be one that fits your needs.

The iPhone Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK

by: Erica Sadun

Amazon Price: $26.39 (as of 01/01/2010)

Mobile Web Development: Building mobile websites, SMS and MMS messaging, mobile payments, and automated voice call systems with XHTML MP, WCSS, and mobile AJAX

by: Nirav Mehta

Amazon Price: $35.39 (as of 01/01/2010)

Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming: Building Applications for Mobile Safari (Wrox Professional Guides)

by: Richard Wagner

Amazon Price: $29.19 (as of 01/01/2010)

Learning Objective C and C++

All of these books come very highly recommended by people programming for the iPhone.

They can be incredibly useful for people at all stages of programming because they can be used to learn from but they can also be great reference sources.

Programming in Objective-C

by: Stephen Kochan

Amazon Price: (as of 01/01/2010)

Objective-C Pocket Reference

by: Andrew Duncan

Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 01/01/2010)

C Programming Language (2nd Edition)

by: Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

Amazon Price: $44.71 (as of 01/01/2010)

Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (3rd Edition)

by: Scott Meyers

Amazon Price: $32.69 (as of 01/01/2010)

C++ Primer Plus (5th Edition)

by: Stephen Prata

Amazon Price: $37.79 (as of 01/01/2010)

iPhone Programming Tutorials

This is a good tutorials about the SDK from Apple and how to start using it.

There are quite a few instructional videos on YouTube about programming for the iPhone that I highly recommend watching. The problem with lots of the videos is that you can't see the words very clearly but that's ok, because you most just want to listen to what they are doing.

It's most helpful to watch these videos with one of the books I recommend above because you can instantly look up things that you don't understand in the videos.

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Contents at a Glance

Contents at a Glance

What You'll Find on This Lens

Other Lenses You Need to See!

First Way to Make Money from iPhone Applications

Volume!

A Timely Book

Second Way to Make Money from iPhone Applications

Marketing!

iPhone Development: Books You'll Want

Best Free iPhone Applications

Here's my favorite link:

Getting Traffic To Your Site

The Most Important Thing to Keep in Mind

When thinking for how to make money from iPhone applications

Highly Recommended iPhone Development Books

Learning Objective C and C++

iPhone Programming Tutorials

Things You Need to Read

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Learn from the Best

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