Annoucements: iCaption Mobile, Audio Guide, and More

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First of all, I’d like to congratulate Toph for winning the $20 Target Gift card for comment #16 from the last post about How will you know when you’ve reached financial success? The winner was selected at random based on the random number generator at Random.org. If you ever need to generate a random number for something (i.e. a number of different comments), it’s the perfect tool. Toph, I will be sending you an email to get your details very soon.

Thanks to everyone who left a comment. They were really inspiring to read, and they provided me with lots of motivation the last few days because as I at times I would get tired from working on all of these projects at the same time.

iCaption Mobile

One of the projects I’ve been working on, as you may or may not know already, is the iCaption Mobile iPhone Application. Based on your initial responses from my sneak peek a couple posts ago, it seems to have a LOT of potential. So, I’ve been spending the last few days working with the developer (who is actually from Japan), and a legal dude to get everything together for the apps’ launch.

I hired the legal dude (via elance) because this app has a lot to it. I wanted to make sure my butt was covered from all angles (that sounds weird), and that my company would own the rights to all of the things people submit to us through the app, such as captions, taglines, photos, etc. Why? Because it would be really easy to take some of this content and turn it into a book. Personally, it would make a really nice coffee table book, or one that you stick in the magazine rack next to your toilet. However, the app needs to be successful first – so we’re just doing everything we can right now to give it the best chance to be just that.

Personally, I’ve been working on designing iCaptionMobile.com – the app’s website. I actually missed doing some html and css stuff myself, so I am proud to say most of the work done on there was done by yours truly, although it is based off of a free wordpress theme. If you take a look, you can witness the very first post I did on iCaptionMobile.com, as well as some new screenshots and the story behind the app. Oh, and if you look at the overall design of the website – it’s supposed to mimic the iPhone app. For example, the header at the top with the “Home” button looks like it’s from the iPhone, and a lot of the designs come straight from iCaption Mobile itself. Hopefully the continuity between the website and the iPhone app will add to it’s success. We’ll see, but I’m glad you’re following me on this journey.

There’s a place where you can submit your own ideas and photos to be captioned. You are all invited to participate if you’d like – you don’t have to have an iPhone or the application in order to do so.

Audio Guide is Finally Finished!

In addition to all of that, the voice talent I hired to create an audio guide for intheleed.com just delivered the final product to me tonight. I’m really excited to get that out and on sale again, because the first time I released an audio guide, it nearly doubled my monthly income. This you can see in the spike from my income reports graph. Obviously, I’m hoping this will happen again.

Now that the audio is finished, I can turn that and my eBook into an online class on my website. Then, maybe my income will quadruple if I do it right. It will take a lot more time because this is something I can’t really outsource, and I’ll be creating some slides via software that I never used before, but looks REALLY impressive. Check out SlideRocket when you get a chance. It just received 5 mil in venture funding, and has been said to be WAY better than powerpoint.

Some Final Words

So, that’s where I’m at now. While working on all of these projects at the same time, I’ve learned to stay very organized. I have a three ring binder with dividers that section off each of my projects. Within each, I keep track of everything I’m doing on a timeline, and have to-do lists and notes in there too. It really helps you regain focus when you lose it sometimes, especially when there is potential to mix things up. Luckily, each of my projects are pretty unique, so I’m keeping things separate, even in my head. I could keep track of these things on a computer, but it’s nice to get away from the computer sometimes and actually write something again – with a pen and paper.

Oh, and if you have something to do on your to-do list, focus on that and don’t even worry about anything else until that is finished – or else it will never get finished at all.

A Must Read

Lastly, I read a post from J.D. at Get Rich Slowly, who wrote about how you can manage a budget when you have an irregular income. This was a perfect post that was right up my alley, and maybe you’re too. Enjoy!

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