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$80,000 a Month in App Sales by Outsourcing Everything

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Re: $80,000 a Month in App Sales by Outsourcing Everything

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Post by epo »

kranner wrote: post #84
spitfire wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you go to the freetheapps site it is _so_ used-car salesman. When you go to leave the page it has a Javascript popup that begs you to stay with yes/no dialog. My already very low view of Andrew Warner just got even lower. slimy get-rich-quick guys give me the shivers.

Freetheapps is not Andrew Warner's site. Mind explaining your low view of the guy? It seems to me he provides a great resource to the tech entrepreneurship community in Mixergy and hardly deserves to be called a 'slimy get-rich-quick' guy.

I think slimy get rich quick was referring to the snake oil peddled by the interviewees.

If Andrew can be accused of anything, it is for writing a sloppy puff-piece and not submitting these fantasy claims to any scrutiny.

Re: $80,000 a Month in App Sales by Outsourcing Everything

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Post by kranner »

epo wrote: post #91
kranner wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Freetheapps is not Andrew Warner's site. Mind explaining your low view of the guy? It seems to me he provides a great resource to the tech entrepreneurship community in Mixergy and hardly deserves to be called a 'slimy get-rich-quick' guy.

I think slimy get rich quick was referring to the snake oil peddled by the interviewees. If Andrew can be accused of anything, it is for writing a sloppy puff-piece and not submitting these fantasy claims to any scrutiny.

If I recall correctly, in previous interviews Andrew has talked about running background checks and verifications on reported incomes.

Overall I think he's a great interviewer.

Re: $80,000 a Month in App Sales by Outsourcing Everything

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Post by atleta »

run4yourlives wrote: post #57
mattmanser wrote: post #54

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What food for thought? Choose to throw your life away on meaningless shit so you can say you made some money, or do something you care about? Most of us here could easily make a $200k consulting a year. Does it make you happy? No. Would making shite apps and essentially scamming people make most of the people here happy? No. You gotta remember that the kind of person who does this kind of shit is basically a bit of a…

I think making massive money on crap that enables you to spend time on things you actually do value - be they other apps, a family, hobby or passion to save the world - is a perfectly valid way to live life. Your post sounds like nothing more than sour grapes.

Depends... making money on crap (that the market and people want) is OK as long as you use it to spend time on things that you think would be useful for people, the society. Spending this time (i.e. money) on yourself (family, hobby, whatnot) is not ethical.

Re: $80,000 a Month in App Sales by Outsourcing Everything

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Post by mise »

stevenp wrote: post #13

Hey Andrew! Curious why your podcasts don't show up in the iTunes feed until a few days later. I'm having to manually download this one because I'm so excited about it. :)

I don't know what the RSS feed for the podcast is. The advertised one http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mixergy-blog doesn't seem to have audio information, but I could be wrong.

Re: $80,000 a Month in App Sales by Outsourcing Everything

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Post by atleta »

davidedicillo wrote: post #20
d_r wrote: post #12

It would be interesting to see more people chime in here about using sites like Elance. Have you had good/bad experiences with this approach? Outsourcing seemed to work great for these guys (good for them!) Is it because the apps were fairly simple, or did they get "lucky" with picking the right developer(s)?

When I started 39 (my company) I was outsourcing my iPhone development via Elance to a firm in Ukraine. We got some good simple apps out and made some money. But quickly they weren't reliable; they fit your job in a pipeline with other jobs, so you can't just tell them "today just stop whatever you are doing and work on this important stuff". Also you need to be very lucky with the people you hire.

I hope it didn't come as a surprise. What you do when you outsource is not only you hire cheaper workforce from the other end of the world but you also spare on not having a permanent employee/consultant. It's cheaper because you only pay for what they do and not their availability (i.e. you don't pay if you don;t have anything to assign to them). Now on the other end of the business there are people who can only make a living if they are highly utilized. So they'll have a pipeline for sure. (I.e. they won't pay what you don't pay, the availability.)

So if you want an employee or permanent contractor then hire one, even from the other end of the world. Most freelancers will be more than happy to have a longer term contract with a fixed income. But you have to pay the bill...

Re: $80,000 a Month in App Sales by Outsourcing Everything

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Post by chr15 »

klochner wrote: post #52

I'm not a marketing expert, so correct me if I'm wrong here ... Let's assume an iphone app gets CPM of about $1 [1,2] So if their first app grossed $100k, that means about 100M impressions. That sounds insanely high to me - 100 impressions each for 1M users? 10 impressions for 10M users? When I then see that they're trying to sell books for $99 a pop so you can cash in on their winning techniques [3], it rings of lat…

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