Getting Started

Getting Started

Marketing your App:

Step 1

Step 2 – Enter email and password

Step 3 – Account Settings

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  Click on “Account Settings”
  
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  Scroll down to “Change Password”
  

Step 4 – Create an App

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  Create your app name – Click in “Your App Name” and enter app name.
  
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  Click “View” on the selection of template styles available until you find one you’re happy with OR create your own by using the “blank” template.
  
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  To confirm your choice of template click “Use it”.
  

TIP 1: Remember to allow for your menu buttons.

Step 5 – Adding graphics

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  Click on “DASHBOARD”.
  
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  Click “Design” to add your graphics and “decorate your app”.
  

Step 6 – Graphics (how to add)

• To add a graphic - click on “Upload a file”.

Appsmakerstore supports PNG, JPG and GIF formats: Size requirements are:

Logo - 320 x 30 pixels

Photo – Front Page Graphic or Dashboard graphic 320 x 240 pixels

Portrait – 1536 x 2560 pixels

Landscape – 2560 x 1536 pixels

TIP: Remember to allow for your menu buttons.

Step 7 – Graphics (add or edit the app icon graphic)

• What is an app icon?

Tip: The bigger the photo the slower to load. Make the image square. The system will compress to fit.

Step 8 – Gadgets

Gadgets enable you to tell your clients all about business, the services you offer plus much more! Let’s take a look at each gadget.

Basic Information
About us	Information
About is the description where you add your Company information and your locations that will be showing in the map in this Gadgets with "navigate me to", "Find the nearest office to me", send to a friend and share options. This is also where you type in your primary contact information as E-mail, phone, fax and social media.	The information gadget is where you can add general information about the services your company or community delivers or has. This with various photos, links and other relevant information you would like to add with "send to a friend", "contact us" and share options with social medias.
Employees	Go to web
The gadget where you add owners or employees with or without photos with background, position and relevant contact information that easily can be imported to the customers address list.	Add a link to your regular web page for users that want to browse your full web site on their phone.
iFrame
With the iFrame gadget you can add web links (URL/www/http://) to be viewed in your App, without your end-user leaving when new page is open.

Step 8 – Gadgets (continued)

Shopping
Mobile shopping	Goods and Products
The products catalogue is where you upload your products with or without photos linked directly to your web-shop, e-mail quote and share options with "send to a friend" and "social media". If you only deliver a general service, you should choose the "information" gadget that support general information.	The products catalogue is where you upload your products with or without photos linked directly to your web-shop, email quote and share options with "send to a friend" and "social media". If you only deliver a general service, you should choose the "information" gadget that support general information.
Take Away
The unique Take Away gadget provide a full customer management tool (CMS) for Mobile Take Away orders. Add your own response and delivery emails based on order status, menus with sub menu options, text, pricing and add beautiful product photos with fully integrated shopping ability for cash or card orders. All with easy communication between your App users and you directly.

Step 8 – Gadgets (continued)

Management
Events	Booking
The guest list is where your customers can be updated with different events that you are planning. This can be easily managed at your admin site where you can approve or decline any customers that are applying to your event. This will also be shown with direct push mail to your application where the customers can use the iPhone as reference to a VIP event or a special discount.	This gadget allows you to receive bookings from your customers. Arrangements can be setup for time intervals and different resources amount. Gadget can be used only once.
Mail List	Live Chat
A mailing list is a collection of addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients	This gadget is designed to display LiveChat Inc in application. Gadget can be used only once
Form Editor	Collected Stamps
Create a form with custom fields set and get answers sent to different emails or export all in handsome format.	Allows you to set your own terms for rewarding your loyal customers. How it works? You define how many Stamps your customer needs to collect in order to receive his free gift or a discount. Your client gets a new Stamp after each purchase. If your app is password protected, you can also trace all clients’ Stamps.

Step 8 – Gadgets (continued)

Media
Twitter	FaceBook
Add your Twitter account so that your mobile app users can easily read all your Twitter updates.	Add your Facebook FANPAGE and link this directly in your mobile app. In this way the customers easily can read all your Facebook upgrades and you can marked your fanpage with one more highly effective marketing channel.
YouTube	Podcasts
Add one or more YouTube videos or a direct link to subscribe to all your YouTube  videos.	A podcast is a series of digital media or video that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication, here you can add your Podcast address.
Share	Flickr
Allows your users to share your mobile app.	Here you can share your photos and videos from Flickr by adding the Flickr RSS. This will make sure that all your shared photos or videos will be automatically updated from your Flickr account.

Step 8 – Gadgets (continued)

News and Feedback
Reviews	RSS
The reviews is where your application users can read and add reviews about experience with your company. This will be shown with a star rating system for overall experience, service, price, and delivery. You can remove any comments you don't like at your admin site. Updates will be done once a day. Gadget can be used only once.	A newsfeed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content, here you can add the address link to your new feeder.
FaceBook Like Button	Weather
The Like button lets a user share your content with friends on FaceBook. When the user clicks the Like button on your app, a story appears in their newsfeed with a link back to your mobile app. Gadget can be used only once.	Add weather forecasts to your mobile app.

Step 8 – Gadgets (continued)

Entertainments
Radio	Photo
Stream radio to your App with this gadget (iPhone users only).	Add your photos to a photo gallery.
Blog
The Blog gadget is where you can post your posts.

Step 8 – Gadgets (continued)

Marketing and Ads
SponsApp	QR Code
Communicate between federations, clubs, members, partners, employees or family within a closed community. SponsApp® increases the value in your organisation by making available unique offers to your community. Create the world's most unique market place for B2C. SponsApp® is an additional subscription to your regular subscription.	The QR code gadget is where you generate QR codes for your links.
Google AdSense
The gadget is designed to display Google AdSense advertising within the mobile app.
Map, GPS and Push
POI Push
You can pinpoint GEO location that will alert your App users by push in App when they are near. Per POI (point of interest) you can set actions like videos, instructions, links, text, QR codes and more. You can add and change as many times as you want from our system. The gadget require PREMIUM subscription for sending push to your App users.

Step 9 – Gadgets (how to add)

• To add a gadget – click on the “+” or on the gadget itself. It will appear on the right-hand side of the screen.

TIP: Remember if you can say it in a few words, then do so!

Step 10 – Gadgets (how to edit)

Gadgets tell your story. Use them to your advantage!

TIP: If you can say it in a few words, then do so!

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Step 11 – Change your App shortlink name

• Go to “Dashboard”

• Click on the “pencil icon” to change the app url

• Hit “enter” to confirm

Step 12 – Preview your App

What will your app look like on a mobile? A tablet?

• Click on various tabs below (standard and landscape formats)

No? Go back to “Dashboard” to make your changes.

Step 13 – Publish your App!

Almost there! This is the publish site where you can pick and upload the information needed for the different App platforms that you can publish to.

• For iTunes, Android, Windows or FaceBook, please follow the steps required.

• When done press “Save”

Step 13a - Publish using HTML5

Step 14 – Publishing your App after you’ve made changes

• Click on the “light bulb icon” to submit your latest changes

• Your App will be published across all the platforms you have published on

Step 14 – Share your App!

Use the marketing strategies provided with your Training documentation.