A few of you will remember the government’s latest initiative to get the people of the UK starting their own businesses. The so called “Startup Britain Bus” has been touring the UK offering advice to potential new business owners. At least that’s what it says on the tin.
Last week I drove into [...]
I recently made a small app to speed up the invoicing process at Applingua. As the majority of our customers are European, I must validate their EU tax number before zero-rating their VAT invoices. The EU provide a portal to do this validation, but anyone who has used it will know just how frustrating it [...]
Applingua Ltd’s second ever quarter ended on 30th June 2011 and, as promised in my Q1 ROI post, I’ve got some numbers to report.
Q2 was incredibly different from Q1. Clients, developers and friends started referring to Applingua as an organisation in its own right and not as “Rob’s new project”. Revenue also increased and [...]
During the recent The Big M Conference, Raam Thakrar of Touchnote gave a talk on app distribution and monetisation. While there were many great points to take away from that day, one thing Raam said has played on my mind since: ROI on Time.
Perhaps it’s my fault ROI on Time had [...]
While working on Applingua I wanted to make it as easy as possible for a potential customer to get in contact. I began with a Contact Us page including a standard contact form, a Skype button and an AIM/iChat link. I figured Skype and AIM would cover the gross majority of my customers [...]
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I'm Rob, Founder of Applingua Ltd. With the help of my great team of translators, we localize apps for some of the best developers worldwide.
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