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Marketing with Facebook Part 1 - boosting a Facebook post

In the past couple of months, I have done something that I have wanted to do for the last year or so since I released My Day To-Do , some paid MARKETING. In this post, I will share some thoughts on the marketing platforms I considered, some results and analysis from my Facebook marketing campaign.  Background Ever since I started working on my app on a full-time basis, social interactions have often proved challenging. Hmm, let me try and explain that with an example, I was at a party where I met someone the conversation led to the inevitable "what do you do?"so I replied "it's been a few months since I left my full-time job to work on my app". Once I clarified what my app is, I was given a ton of suggestions on what I should do (including marketing) with my app to achieve success. Now the person telling me obviously meant well, but I already knew of every suggestion that I was given and it was already on my to-do list. To-Do list, get it? sigh, ok may...

Promoting your product for public hospitals in Australia

In this post, I will talk about my experience of trying to have my open-source application to streamline Post Traumatic Amnesia (PTA) assessment to be used across public hospitals in Australia. Background So before I started working on my first mobile(iOS) app or came up with this architecture to build iOS apps , I was recovering from a rather serious accident from which I had a brain injury. You can read about what happened to me in the about page of my PTA app website. Anyway having a serious head injury means that there is potential for certain risks for which you have to exercise caution. In my case it meant that even after being discharged from the hospital or rehab, I could not go back to work for almost 2-3 months. So I had no choice but to stay at home.  The PTA app I love writing code and I love building software, so not going to work was something difficult for me to deal with at the start, but then I came up with a solution. I thought "hmm I know how the p...