![]() Some of our best-performing apps just, you know, one of them you take a picture of a person and then a picture of a second person and it sort of splices those two people together to make a really silly, ugly-looking baby. Like I said, we were very inspired by Joel and his app, so all of our apps were sort of silly apps. As far as all of our ideas and where they come from, I will say that for the app business that we have specifically, I mean when you think about it, it's LOLer Apps Laugh out Louder Apps. We found some developers later that we trusted and we messaged, we talked to before we actually hired them, and those went really well. That was a huge learning lesson for myself and my business partner at that point. Well it took six months to complete, and a lot more money. That app that we had created, which ended up … we were told it was going to take maybe six weeks to complete. We were so excited to get started that we ended up hiring the lowest bidder just because we didn't have very much money at the time and we wanted to get started right away. Now, I will say that our first experience was terrible. We got on Elance and we found a developer there who built iPhone apps for us. My friend was a computer engineer, but we didn't know C++ or whatever the, I don't even know what the program language is for iPhone apps. Not like a fart app, but why can't we create an app? Just come up with silly ideas and see how they go!” Of course, my buddy and I, we weren't programmers. My buddy and I, when we heard this, we were like, “Wow, why can't we do something like this. He was making $20,000 to $30,000 a day on this 99-cent farting application. This was an app that made headlines back in the late-2008, early-2009 era, when he was one of the people to talk publicly about how the app was going and how many sales it was making-and it was making incredible sales. He also has an app that many of you may have heard of called iFart. A lot of you might know him he's big in the online in the authorship space. ![]() Specifically, there was a guy named Joel Comm. Well, how do we come up with our ideas? Our ideas were influenced by a lot of the success stories we heard at the time. Like I said, it's a really interesting part of the business, and right now it's a lot harder to get into the app business than it was before when we got in in 2009. As you mentioned now, I'm generating anywhere from $1,500 and $4,000 depending on the season and depending on apps that come out and things like that. Since 2009 my business partner and I, the business partner I have just specifically for the iPhone app company that we have, we've been making up to five figures a month back in the early days with the iPhone app company. It makes up a real interesting sort of segment of my passive income portfolio. You know, I love talking about mobile apps because it's a really interesting part of my business. Pat Flynn: Steve-hey, what's up? Thank you so much for the question. Love the podcasts! Keep doing what you're doing. I wanted to know how you come up with the different app ideas and how you go about marketing the apps. ![]() Young from the Mobile App Chat Podcast, and I see that you're generating a four-digit income just on mobile apps. Now, today's question comes from Steve, and it's about iPhone apps, or applications on mobile devices. Seriously, if you go to and enter “AskPat” in the “How did you hear about us?” section, you can try … the AskPat listeners can try FreshBooks for free for 30 days. You can create professional-looking invoices, track your time, get real time business reports with just a couple of clicks. With FreshBooks, you can, on the cloud, on any device, track and manage all of your expenses. If you don't know what FreshBooks is, you're missing out. Today I want to thank FreshBooks for sponsoring this episode. As always, I'm just so happy to be here to help you by answering your online business, blogging, podcasting, entrepreneurship questions, all those sort of things, five days a week for you. Pat Flynn: Hey! What's up, everybody? Pat Flynn here, and welcome to Episode 64 of AskPat.
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