I've been hearing a lot of negativity about the app market lately. Many people are wondering if, with so many daily app uploads, it worth creating apps at all. In this week's episode, I give my opinions (and my experience) on how well the app market is doing. For more information, visit http://www.overpass.co.uk. About Overpass: Overpass is a mobile app development company based in the UK that actually makes money from its own apps as well as creating money-making apps for clients. We have our ideas and build them. We can build your ideas too. If you haven’t started creating your mobile app yet, and need a UK App Developer, give us a call. Our team consists of developers and designers with years of experience in various business sectors. We build apps in native iOS, Android, and Corona SDK. We are based in Wantage, Oxfordshire. Find out more about Overpass at www.Overpass.co.uk. Check out our educational games such as Mandarin Bubble Bath, Agent X, and Deep Sea Typing. Check out our spy apps like Ear Spy, Alarm Spy, and Eye Spy. If you are looking to get an app developed and want to discuss it, give us a call on 0845 834 1008 (+44 Country Code). Or email us at info@overpass.co.uk. Overpass on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+OverpassCoUk/ Overpass on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OverpassApps Overpass on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OverpassLtd About Eric: Eric Wroolie is the owner of Overpass. He has built software and web-based solutions for very many large and small companies including Macmillan Publishing, RibbonFish, BNP Paribas, Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank, BBC Worldwide, CircData and Omega Logic. Before that, he was a Chinese Mandarin and Vietnamese Linguist for the US Army and then a school teacher. Now, he makes apps. Eric on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EricWroolie Eric on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+EricWroolie Add me on Snapchat! Username: eric.wroolie https://www.snapchat.com/add/eric.wroolie Excerpt: So I kinda wanna address this issue this week. Do I think the app industry is dead? No. I mean, this is why I release new apps all the time. Overpass releases one a week or at least a couple a month. And we're constantly innovating, we're trying to come out with new stuff all the time. I'm a one hundred percent into it. I'm a full on app developer. I make more money now than I did two years ago. I make more money than I did a year ago. I make more money than I did six months ago. So I'm a full believer that you can make money with apps. I make money with apps. I'm a full time app developer. However, I know other people who, a couple of years ago, who made apps as well, when I talk to them now, they're kinda out of the game. So it's different. And they say the same thing, "Oh. you can't make money with ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtYim6Fkh_0

Your app screenshots are one of the most important tools in your App Marketing arsenal. With Ear Spy, I started out with poor screenshots and then later optimised them. When you are developing and designing your apps, don't ignore the power of the screenshots. And don't stick to the rules and just show what's on the app. Get away with as much as you can! Sorry for my voice this week . . . I'm just getting over a bad cold. About Overpass: Overpass is a mobile app development company based in the UK that actually makes money from its own apps as well as creating money-making apps for clients. We have our ideas and build them. We can build your ideas too. If you haven’t started creating your mobile app yet, you are already behind. Our team consists of developers and designers with years of experience in various business sectors. We build apps in native iOS, Android, and Corona SDK. We are based in Wantage, Oxfordshire. Find out more about Overpass at www.Overpass.co.uk. Check out our educational games such as Mandarin Bubble Bath, Agent X, and Deep Sea Typing. Check out our spy apps like Ear Spy, Alarm Spy, and Eye Spy. If you are looking to get an app developed and want to discuss it, give us a call on 0845 834 1008 (+44 Country Code). Or email us at info@overpass.co.uk. Overpass on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+OverpassCoUk/ Overpass on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OverpassApps Overpass on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OverpassLtd About Eric: Eric Wroolie is the owner of Overpass. He has built software and web-based solutions for very many large and small companies including Macmillan Publishing, RibbonFish, BNP Paribas, Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank, BBC Worldwide, CircData and Omega Logic. Before that, he was a Chinese Mandarin and Vietnamese Linguist for the US Army and then a school teacher. Now, he makes apps. Eric on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EricWroolie Eric on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+EricWroolie Add me on Snapchat! Username: eric.wroolie https://www.snapchat.com/add/eric.wroolie Hi, this is A Minute of Overpass. My name is Eric and I make apps. Now this week, I want to talk about the importance up your app screenshots. Okay. So this week, I want to talk about screenshots. Now the app screenshot on the App Store or Google Play are probably one of the most overlook piece of marketing that you can have. So, when you think about.. when you release an app, the biggest problem you're going to have is people finding. The next biggest problem you're going to have is people downloading it. Just because your app is free doesn't mean that people are gonna be willing to download it. They need to be enticed even further. So, you need to.. one of the things you could do is use your screenshots a little bit ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H-rxW8_8hA