Posts Tagged ‘iphone apps’
What Makes A Great App?
posted by Michael Schneider (Mobile Roadie CEO)What makes a great app?
I don’t believe that people should make an app just to have an app. Here are a few things I believe make a great app.
1. Quality design. The user experience is important. Everyone has “ADD.” The way things animate, slide in and out, are readable (or not), and function in a “natural” way has a direct correlation to your user’s enjoyment of the app. Attention to design detail matters.
2. Great content. This may be a given but it’s vital and worth repeating. Don’t put last year’s videos, or audio, or photos, or events in the app. Upload your best stuff. Add exclusive app-only content. Engage your users inside your app on a regular basis and they’ll come back often.
3. Use location. Knowing where your users are is a huge advantage over the web. Use this to your user’s benefit. Send them relevant geo targeted push notifications. Offer them location-specific content. The future is all about personalization and location is a huge part of it.
4. Add some personal flair. This could be a custom design theme. Or your own personal top 10 video list (Ashton Kutcher’s doing a great job of this with his A+ list of top videos updated weekly). Or a weekly show (Taryn Southern’s weekly show on Ustream is streamed into her App). Whatever your personal flair is, Mobile Roadie gives you the tools to express it.
Mobile Roadie is the most powerful, viral, and customizable app platform out there. Take advantage of our tools. Be beautiful, interesting, location-specific, and express your personality in your app. That will keep your users coming back.
EL Media Group To Give Away Mobile Roadie Apps
posted by Michael Arcand
EL Media Group provides custom background music as well as audio and video design and installation to some of the world’s top retailers, restaurants and hotel chains. They are, by definition, a high-end company providing a top quality service to their customers. So what do they have to do with Mobile Roadie, you ask?
They are currently sponsoring a talent competition over on Sonicbids where three winners will receive their very own Mobile Roadie iPhone app and one talented winner will get 15 hours of recording time in the studio with Grammy nominated Ernie Lake in New York City. The contest is open to musical artists in a variety of genres, with everything from Acoustic to Soul and R&B.
As if that wasn’t incentive enough, between now and February 28th, any Sonicbids artists can get $50 off the price of their own Mobile Roadie iPhone app simply by entering the promo code “sonicbids” during checkout. In addition, two runner-ups will be awarded a free iPhone app in the Pop/Rock and Hip Hop/R&B categories.
The submission deadline for the contest is February 25, 2010, so don’t delay in getting your entry submitted. While it does cost $10 to join Sonicbids and submit your entry, you are guaranteed to get a response from EL Medial Group by March 25, 2010, or you get your money back. So why the fee in the first place? Sonicbids considers it something akin to quality control. By putting a few bucks where your mouth is (in this case, your music), they can filter out hundreds of entrants who are not serious about the contest. This way provides money for the music community on Sonicbids and helps to connect promoters with artists who are serious about their work and genre.
Don’t Get Frustrated, Put MobileRoadie to Work for You
posted by Michael ArcandTalk to any iPhone app developer or do a few searches on Google and it becomes readily apparent that one of the biggest issues surrounding iPhone app development is the approval process and the waiting time. Sometimes apps can be rejected for reasons that are later overturned after an appeal to reason. There are many examples of this type of rejection, but what can be even more disheartening to first-time developers or new business owners who want to get their own app into the Apple store is the waiting time. Some folks have waited six weeks or more for their app approval or rejection. At least two developers have quit projects in the last few weeks because of the iPhone app approval process, most notably Joe Hewitt who was working on the Facebook app. So where does that leave the band or business that is looking to put their name out there with an iPhone app?
We know you don’t want to have to go through all that frustration, and we know what it takes to get the job done. In fact we can happily say that MobileRoadie currently has a 100% approval rate with MobileRoadie apps submitted to the iPhone app store, with approvals averaging two to four weeks.
That’s why we think you shouldn’t let yourself get frustrated by the process, just put MobileRoadie to work for you and let us get the job done right – the first time.
