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Edge

Build, Run, and Sell Your Apple Consulting Practice

Business and Marketing for iOS and Mac Start Ups

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-4842-3834-9
Verlag: Apress
Erscheinungstermin: 10.08.2018
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Starting an app development company is one of the most rewarding things you’ll ever do. Or it sends you into bankruptcy and despair. If only there was a guide out there, to help you along the way. This book is your guide to starting, running, expanding, buying, and selling a development consulting firm. But not just any consulting firm, one with a focus on Apple. 
Apple has been gaining adoption in businesses ranging from traditional 5 person start ups to some of the largest companies in the world. Author Charles Edge has been there since the days that the Mac was a dying breed in business, then saw the advent of the iPhone and iPad, and has consulted for environments ranging from the home user to the largest Apple deployments in the world. Now there are well over 10,000 shops out there consulting on Apple in business and more appearing every day.

Build, Run, and Sell Your Apple Consulting Practice takes you through the journey, from justan idea to start a company all the way through mergers and finally into selling your successful and growing Apple development business.

What You'll Learn
  • Create and deploy grassroots as well as more traditional marketing plans
  • Engage in the community of developers and companies that will hire you and vice versa
  • Effecively buy and sell your time and talents to grow your business while remaining agile
Who This Book Is ForBusiness owners looking to grow and diversify their companies as well as developers, engineers, and designers working on Apple apps who would like to branch out into starting their own consulting business.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781484238349
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-4842-3834-9
  • Verlag: Apress
  • Erscheinungstermin: 10.08.2018
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2018
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 715 g
  • Seiten: 441
  • Format (B x H x T): 155 x 235 x 26 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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Chapter 1: Building the Offer

Chapter 2: Beyond Services

Chapter 3: Hiring and Human Resources

Chapter 4: Accounting 101

Chapter 5: Buying Software to Automate the Business

Chapter 6: Making Friends: Developing Partnerships

Chapter 7: Engaging in Free and in Guerilla Marketing

Chapter 8: Using Public Relations

Chapter 9: Advertising

Chapter 10: The Art of Selling

Chapter 11: Diversifying Your Portfolio

Chapter 12: When to Stop Growing

Chapter 13: Selling the Company

Chapter 14: The Part Time Owner

Chapter 15: Buying a Companies

Chapter 16: Running a Consulting Practice Inside a Larger Company

Appendix A: Getting into A Rythm

Appendix B: Common Apple Terms

Appendix C: Sample Managed Services Agreement

Appendix D: Using Trendlines in Excel

Appendix E: Common Job Titles

Appendix F: Device Scorecard

Appendix G: Additional Reading