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Running a Mobile App Dev Business: The Complete Guide

Learn how to start and grow a mobile app development business. Get up & running in less than 1 week.
Bestseller
Rating: 4.3 out of 54.3 (1,087 ratings)
35,411 students
Created by Evan Kimbrell
Last updated 3/2021
English
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Choose the most effective platform strategy for your business
  • Understand the advantages and disadvantages of Native vs. Hybrid and iOS vs. Android apps
  • Predict the timeline for starting your business and effectively allocate your time
  • Decide between hiring in-house employees or contractors
  • Choose whether or not to offer generalized or specialized mobile services
  • Understand the different types of contractors and where to find them
  • Recognize the core components of successful mobile development firms
  • Discover cheap and professional ways of creating an online presence
  • Select a name that's attractive and conveys your core messaging
  • Master the biggest platforms for contracting: Freelancer and Upwork
  • Use advanced search techniques to find specialty contractors
  • Create and organize a professional and effective portfolio
  • Use uncommon techniques to grow your portfolio faster
  • Utilize 15 different strategies to find and attract potential clients
  • Create different types of proposals (using Proposify and Nusii) and understand when to use each
  • Use ballpark estimates to strategically to close clients sooner
  • Manage clients effectively and use your time efficiently
  • Keep client retention rates high and minimize churn
  • Sniff out a client's budget before they tell you
  • Use advanced best practices to maintain your businesses growth
  • Figure out the optimal pricing configuration for your rates
  • Learn how to handle client meetings in person
  • Make long term decisions about which clients to retain and which to lose
  • Integrate Asana into your workflow to increase transparency and efficiency

Course content

12 sections • 89 lectures • 16h 53m total length

  • Preview09:30
  • Join our community on Slack!
    00:00
  • Preview10:25
  • The Sprintkick story
    04:58
  • Section 1 review material
    24 pages
  • Review sheets & resources - all in one PDF
    00:01

  • The startup timeline
    09:56
  • How does this work as a programmer / non programmer?
    05:20
  • iOS versus Android
    10:56
  • Native versus hybrid
    10:51
  • Build yourself or contract?
    05:21
  • In-house hiring or out of house?
    08:27
  • In country or out of country?
    04:44
  • Section 2 review material
    58 pages

  • Focus on 80/20 solutions for your online presence
    04:30
  • Looking at other studios
    11:23
  • Going further in-depth looking at studios
    11:57
  • Picking and configuring a template on Templatemonster
    17:12
  • Picking and configuring a template on ThemeForest
    09:43
  • Selecting a name
    14:08
  • Advanced: Upgrade your presence with custom design
    05:58
  • Section 3 review material
    26 pages

  • What makes a good long-term partner?
    03:52
  • Intro to Elance
    19:20
  • Intro to Elance 2
    02:37
  • Intro to Upwork
    19:38
  • Intro to Upwork 2
    05:51
  • Intro to Freelancer
    08:59
  • Finding freelancers elsewhere
    05:38
  • Section 4 review material
    23 pages

  • How important are portfolios?
    05:54
  • Use these tricks to grow your portfolio faster
    04:38
  • Thoughts about portfolios
    04:06
  • Buying testimonials and case studies
    07:42
  • Section 5 review material
    21 pages

  • Strategy: Email scrape and blast
    11:15
  • Strategy: Offer adjacent services to those hiring in-house
    11:31
  • Strategy: Discount offers to groups
    11:02
  • Strategy: Use your affiliations
    04:10
  • Strategy: Tag your work
    05:01
  • Strategy: Sell things that require maintenance
    03:05
  • Strategy: This sucks let me fix it
    04:47
  • Strategy: The perpetual discount
    04:13
  • Strategy: Build something and give it away
    06:58
  • Strategy: Making tutorials strategy
    08:39
  • Section 6 review material
    56 pages

  • Our technique, in-depth costs of everything
    07:38
  • Types of proposals
    15:08
  • Components of proposals
    19:23
  • Tools for getting proposals done faster
    18:00
  • How much do you customize?
    07:54
  • Ballpark estimate versus exacto
    06:07
  • Strategy: Introduce ideas and see if they stick
    05:10
  • Section 7 review material
    00:00

  • Keeping the right distance
    08:38
  • Confidence is key
    08:35
  • Just enough jargon
    08:12
  • Sniffing out their budget
    12:40
  • Speed is important
    06:28
  • Client budgets and the difference they make
    04:38
  • Do you deliver what's good or what the client likes?
    05:04
  • Don't talk about problems, say what's happening
    02:20
  • Is the client always right?
    07:30
  • Section 8 review material
    65 pages

  • Should you submit the app for your client?
    06:54
  • Under promise, over deliver
    10:12
  • What is agile? Should I use it?
    08:12
  • Price per project, price per hour
    08:00
  • Should you worry about competition?
    04:37
  • Hedging your launch date
    04:06
  • Beautiful design makes beautiful development
    05:48
  • Running without contracts
    06:47
  • Red flags for bad clients
    10:04
  • Rich clients versus successful clients
    03:53
  • Tell when you're getting fizzled
    07:59
  • Don't quote off the top of your head
    04:24
  • Meeting in person
    09:50
  • Is there a benefit to delivering early?
    02:42
  • Repeat customers are the best
    03:38
  • Avoid assumers
    05:03
  • Section 9 review material
    107 pages

  • Intro to Asana
    12:15
  • Getting more in-depth with Asana
    10:01
  • Making Asana work for you
    13:50
  • Turning Asana inside out
    08:09
  • Section 10 review material
    21 pages

Requirements

  • No pre-requisites necessary.
  • Programming experience is helpful but not necessary.

Description

The mobile app development industry is growing at a blazing 43% per year and shows no signs of slowing down. This represents a huge opportunity for you - bigger than it's ever been before. Whether you want to code or not, you can capitalize on the over 16 billion dollars of money spent per year on mobile app development services. Part-time or full-time, you can build an awesome portfolio and an even better income taking on mobile app development projects. 

Over the last four years I've personally overseen the launch of over 100 apps from concept to deployment. I've grown my business from one small client to over 100. Today, we make apps for big name brands such as Walmart, GNC, Dick's Sporting Goods, and other Fortune 500 companies.

I created this course to teach you how you can hit the ground running by starting a mobile app development business - no coding necessary. I see a lot of people floundering to start or grow their mobile businesses because they don't have the mentorship or the guidance to do it right. This course is my answer for all of you who have reached out for help. I've piled everything I know and everything that has made my business successful into this course. I'm going to show you how to jumpstart your business, grow it quickly, and manage your business like a professional - all from the comfort of your laptop.

Who this course is for:

  • Mobile app developers who want to learn how to expand their skills into a business.
  • Non-technical entrepreneurs who want to start a business building mobile apps.
  • Established freelancers who want to add development services to their offerings.
  • Marketing, strategy, and SEO consultants who want to expand their business and offer more to their clients.

Instructor

Evan Kimbrell
Founder of Sprintkick | Ex-VC | Ex-startup founder
Evan Kimbrell
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 76,360 Reviews
  • 593,449 Students
  • 22 Courses

                  Hi, I'm Evan Kimbrell. Thanks for checking out my course. 

**My courses have been featured in Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur Magazine, BusinessInsider, BuzzFeed, Mashable, TheNextWeb, The Daily Beast, & Techcrunch**

        Currently, I'm the Founder and Director of Sprintkick, a full-service, referral-only digital agency based out of San Francisco. Over the past four years I've overseen the development and launch of over 100 web and mobile apps. Clients range from two-man bootstrapping startups to multibillion dollar Fortune 100s like Wal-Mart, Dick's Sporting Goods, and GNC. 

Prior to Sprintkick I worked as a VC for a new firm called Juvo Capital, based out of L.A. I spearheaded the firm's expansion into Silicon Valley and into the Consumer Web tech category.

                  In the long long ago, I was a co-founder for an educational software startup called ScholarPRO that raised a ton of money and then spectacularly blew up (in the bad way). Before it exploded like the Death Star, I went through five tech incubators (yes, five): Tech Stars, Excelerate Labs, MassChallenge, Babson Venture Program, and Sparkseed. 

                  Hope you enjoy my courses!

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