- Course Overview
- Join our community on Slack!
- 7 reasons to start a mobile app development business
- The Sprintkick story
- Section 1 review material
- Review sheets & resources - all in one PDF
- The startup timeline
- How does this work as a programmer / non programmer?
- iOS versus Android
- Native versus hybrid
- Build yourself or contract?
- In-house hiring or out of house?
- In country or out of country?
- Section 2 review material
- Focus on 80/20 solutions for your online presence
- Looking at other studios
- Going further in-depth looking at studios
- Picking and configuring a template on Templatemonster
- Picking and configuring a template on ThemeForest
- Selecting a name
- Advanced: Upgrade your presence with custom design
- Section 3 review material
- What makes a good long-term partner?
- Intro to Elance
- Intro to Elance 2
- Intro to Upwork
- Intro to Upwork 2
- Intro to Freelancer
- Finding freelancers elsewhere
- Section 4 review material
- How important are portfolios?
- Use these tricks to grow your portfolio faster
- Thoughts about portfolios
- Buying testimonials and case studies
- Section 5 review material
- Strategy: Email scrape and blast
- Strategy: Offer adjacent services to those hiring in-house
- Strategy: Discount offers to groups
- Strategy: Use your affiliations
- Strategy: Tag your work
- Strategy: Sell things that require maintenance
- Strategy: This sucks let me fix it
- Strategy: The perpetual discount
- Strategy: Build something and give it away
- Strategy: Making tutorials strategy
- Section 6 review material
- Our technique, in-depth costs of everything
- Types of proposals
- Components of proposals
- Tools for getting proposals done faster
- How much do you customize?
- Ballpark estimate versus exacto
- Strategy: Introduce ideas and see if they stick
- Section 7 review material
- Keeping the right distance
- Confidence is key
- Just enough jargon
- Sniffing out their budget
- Speed is important
- Client budgets and the difference they make
- Do you deliver what's good or what the client likes?
- Don't talk about problems, say what's happening
- Is the client always right?
- Section 8 review material
- Should you submit the app for your client?
- Under promise, over deliver
- What is agile? Should I use it?
- Price per project, price per hour
- Should you worry about competition?
- Hedging your launch date
- Beautiful design makes beautiful development
- Running without contracts
- Red flags for bad clients
- Rich clients versus successful clients
- Tell when you're getting fizzled
- Don't quote off the top of your head
- Meeting in person
- Is there a benefit to delivering early?
- Repeat customers are the best
- Avoid assumers
- Section 9 review material
- Intro to Asana
- Getting more in-depth with Asana
- Making Asana work for you
- Turning Asana inside out
- Section 10 review material
- Our $4k NDA. Yours free.
- Our standard Development Contract Template