iPhone & iPad Application & Game Development Along with Android & Blackberry Development. iSites – Create your app right now. Revise on the fly.
AppGreen.com - Build you mobile catalog in iPad today! Location. Locavore for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad on the iTunes App Store. MightyMeeting. StartupCafe. If I had a penny for every time that I heard the phrase – “I have this great idea, but I don’t have the coding skills to build it” – I would very rich by now. Over the past 3-4 years that I’ve been hanging around the entrepreneurial scene, I’ve met a lot of people who have ideas, but lamented about how difficult it is to get a developer on-board to help them.
Unfortunately, techies are in demand – there’s a no shortage of people looking for good developers that are experienced and able, but (sparked by reading Jennie Lee’s post about Entrepreneur School for non-technical founders, and an upcoming Interface3 project) I thought I would share some top tips to help any non-technical entrepreneurs to find a techie to get involved in their project. (BTW, I’m assuming that you don’t have much money to pay the developer, if you do, then you don’t need to read this, but merely get your cheque book out) 1. Have a clear idea of what you want to build!
2. 3. Like this: Like Loading... Facts Tell but Stories Sell!!–Tell Me A Story : Small Business B. Our culture loves a good story. Stories are how information, principles, traditions, historical events have been passed down for generations. Oprah has built a billion dollar mega corporation simply by telling ‘stories’ of the human kind. Ronald Reagan, considered by many to be one of the greatest politicians was a master story teller. The unconscious mind seems to work more with patterns that details, so stories and metaphors can be very useful to communicate ideas to the unconscious mind.
When it comes to selling or print material the same holds true. Whether you are creating a short ‘pitch presentation’ or creating a sales letter-story telling is a must. If you are trying to sell a prospective client or create some marketing collateral be sure to include stories and metaphors. For example, an advertising account executive used a story to win his client’s cooperation before landing a big account. Use ‘Testimonial Stories’ Testimonials are stories- the success stories of your clients.