{"id":11138,"date":"2015-05-04T10:40:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T14:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11138"},"modified":"2015-05-04T10:42:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T14:42:17","slug":"app-business-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/04\/app-business-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"App Business Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dancounsell.com\/articles\/thoughts-on-increasing-app-revenue\">Dan Counsell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/dancounsell.com\/articles\/thoughts-on-increasing-app-revenue\"><p>Listen carefully to your customers, pick out the feature requests that keep coming up and implement those. Don&rsquo;t spend all your time building fancy features no one has requested.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Consistency is the key here, keep delivering timely updates. Somewhere between every 3-6 weeks is perfect. It can be hard to keep this up constantly, especially for smaller teams or those working on multiple products. Even if you don&rsquo;t achieve it, having this goal gives you something to aim for. If you do manage to update anywhere near as often as I suggest, your users will love you for it. In turn they&rsquo;ll talk about your app more, and those regular updates you keep pushing out will translate into an increase in revenue each month.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>More widely known as App Store Optimisation. I always feel slightly dirty even mentioning this phrase, but ASO works - it&rsquo;s not a magic bullet, but it does help.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of services out there that offer translations. Over the years, I&rsquo;ve used two different companies and have been very happy with both. If you&rsquo;re looking for a personal service go with <a href=\"http:\/\/applingua.com\/\">Applingua<\/a>, for something more automated use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneskyapp.com\/\">OneSky<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dancounsell.com\/articles\/3-things-every-indie-business-owner-should-know\">Dan Counsell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/dancounsell.com\/articles\/3-things-every-indie-business-owner-should-know\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realmacsoftware.com\">Realmac<\/a> is still guilty of having different product lines that don&rsquo;t benefit the same type of customer. I&rsquo;m slowly changing things so all of our products fall into one major category. This change will take some time, it&rsquo;s not going to happen overnight but we&rsquo;ll get there. I just wish I&rsquo;d figured it out earlier.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In the first few years of hiring people I honestly never once thought that these people might one day leave. It just never crossed my mind. [&#8230;] I got over it, you have too. The business adapted and changed, and things worked out. When someone decides to leave a business, it&rsquo;s a waste of time trying to convince them to stay. They&rsquo;ve made up their mind and if they stay they&rsquo;ll end up being unhappy and resent you and the business.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Counsell: Listen carefully to your customers, pick out the feature requests that keep coming up and implement those. Don&rsquo;t spend all your time building fancy features no one has requested. [&#8230;] Consistency is the key here, keep delivering timely updates. Somewhere between every 3-6 weeks is perfect. 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