Nick Campbell on why Christmas is the best day to sell iPhone Apps and the convincing reason as to why he thinks he sold so many extra copies of ShakeitPhoto on that day alone -
With internet use during christmas being as low as it is, and without an article or an ad to promote my product, what was doing all the selling? People! People were selling ShakeItPhoto by showing their friends during the holidays.
As a family member pulls out their iPhone during Christmas, they want to show off the device to their nephew, aunt, mom, whatever.
This happens all the time when I’m around family. “Have you seen this” or “Check this out” is a common phrase as somebody loads up a new piece of software or app. So why does this sell so many apps? Word of mouth SELLS!
I couldn’t help giggle as I read this because lord knows how many times I’ve done this before in social gatherings especially around people who just own an iPhone but who are not really immersed in the community, so their reaction is priceless when they find out about an app they like and had no idea existed so they buy it on the spot before they forget.
The beautiful thing about photographs is that they are not just exciting to take, to share or to decorate an area with but equally they’re very inspiring when the one thing you’re looking to get from them is a carefully crafted color palette to use and ColorSuckr is by far the best tool to let you do that.
It’s essentially an online service that creates color schemes based on photos for use in your artwork & designs. You can either enter a photo url or use their handy bookmarklet and ColorSuckr will return the 12 most common colors along with hex and RGB references, plus loads of features including Flickr integration, swatch downloads and palette suggestions.
If you’re more a Firefox user, there’s also a plugin you can use.
The site is aimed at photographers, web & graphic designers but of course anyone can benefit from it even if you’re at lost in deciding what color to paint your room and need inspiration.
Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with making money, but that mindset has led an entire generation of photographers to concentrate on what sells, not what moves them.
~ C.J Chilvers on What is a Lesser Photographer? (via Patrick Rhone)
Every person has a year ingrained in their mind that stems out more than another and as it is a habit for one to reflect back on one that’s coming to an end, I feel compelled to write down a small reflection on 2009.
The most obvious and gratifying of changes in my life has been that I got married. Without sounding too melodramatic, the term love to anyone is just a word until you actually find someone that gives definition to it and Vanessa has done just that.
In time, I’m hoping to reach that point in our marriage where people stop asking how the married life is going not because it’s annoying but because I’m runnning out of refreshing answers to describe that I’m loving every single moment of it. As for that next undeniable question that a newly couple gets, we do already have plans in extending the family for 2010 God willing.
As I’ve written before and for those that know me personally, they can all attest to how much traveling and photographing I’ve done this year. Not only do I thank my wife for having that innate passion for exploring destinations that people only fantasize in visiting but for also putting up with my doggedness in wanting to capture all of with the camera.
I love photography and the only worst part about a treasured life experience is not having something tangible to produce evidence that it happen and that’s why I shoot what I see and value what I capture.
I’m more than appreciative of all the positive feedback I’ve received from my photography in 2009 that I refuse to let 2010 pass by accumulating more of it and not heeding people’s advice in doing something further with the images and the passion I have in taking them.
So for the new year I’m commiting myself to taking the plunge and muster the courage to take on at least two paying gigs that will employ me as a photographer and to stop presenting myself as someone who’s “just into photography.”
I’ve been employed with the same company for the past 8 years and along the way I’ve had the pleasure of working and meeting some wonderful people. In 2009 I received 2 promotions and not at one point did I ever let a “title” obscure my performance because in the end it’s what I know and not what’s on my badge that’s going to determine my existence in the position.
Setting a resolution for the new year is comparable to opening up a gym membership. Most of the fluff exist in publicizing that you’ve done it while already knowing that you won’t fully commite yourself to it. I’ve never set a few for myself before but I’ve compilled a short list of random commitments that I expect to succeed in and writing them down legitimizes the dedication.
As much I enjoy blogging and the encouraging community that comes with it, I have never once sat in deep thought about how I can monetize from this habitual activity. It’s not to say that no one should but this just hasn’t been the case for me. If anything, my photography has been the one to instill the belief that I can do more with it while blogging being the road to getting me there by networking.
Nevertheless, I still enjoy reading up on how some people have managed to fully establish themselves as online superstars by performing something they would otherwise do for free but instead are making a profit out of it and that’s what this new eBook entitled Beyond Blogging is about.
It’s an eBook that consists of interviews, stories and case studies of 15 A-list bloggers, revealing the strategies and work these people have put into their blogs, effectively making their blogging a solid foundation for profitable business.
I have not personally bought the eBook and still not sure if I would but if I did, the purchase would be driven in wanting to read the case studies of people whose blog I already admire and whose tweets I follow. Of course if money came, I wouldn’t deny it but I’m not personally breaking my heading in trying to make it.
I can think of many more bloggers that should have been included in this list of successful people with John Gruber and Jason Kottke being two of them.
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