We started a movement!

Do you also want to make the world a more healthy, social, open, efficient, fun place to live and work in? Lets start an app movement! 

We can remember when we posted our first official pitch. Since then, we have had support from 262 investors together raising an astonishing 400k EURO. It’s not only money we’ve raised, we have had a vote of confidence from thousands of people subscribing to our service. We’re on the verge of launching our web platform for the private beta crowd and it doesn’t harm to do some preparations for the launch.

Our investors are from 151 cities in the world. These are ‘only’ our investors, our subscribers are in more than 1000 cities in the world. That’s remarkable! You all want to make this happen, just like us… Below you can see where all the investors come from:

Only together can we make this happen. By collaborating and sharing thoughts. How can you help us? We have three simple challenges where you can help us with. If you only do one you’re already helping us immensely. 

  1. You, our fans and investors are our eyes and ears. We’re blessed with you being here because you can spot local app creatives/entrepreneurs who could become app producers on SellanApp. All you have to do is tell them about us. Show them the homepage and how we work. We will take them from there. 
  2. We ask you to start an App Community with this surprisingly simple tool: Meetup.com. When you bring people from your city with ideas together, there can only be more and better projects and ideas. What we ask you is to start an app community in your city, and find out how many people in your city are interested in meeting up. Go to our Meetup page and make a community for your city. If there is already one in your city, you can join it! We’ll let you know when we do a global meetup or when we’re coming by to meet you.
  3. Asking local developers to start considering the opportunity to join our developers pool. They can contact Dylan Evans, our Chief Operations Officer, directly on d@sellanapp.com

We are really excited to Make This Happen with you! These simple steps can make a huge difference. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have questions, you can do that via our Facebook, Twitter, email or our support community. 

Acts not ads

Don’t you like being around people with an urge to do what they love? Following their passion? They have this idea in mind and are doing everything they can to make it a success. Moving heaven and earth. That is genuine entrepreneurship I guess. I  believe that that is the only way you can convince and motivate other people to start a journey with you. The road to a great product, service or event. 

Companies should act on the same base when building their brand and community. Their goal should be to start motivating people for the cause of why they exist, instead of just making a profit by selling products. Make a change and people will remember you by what you did.

A firm believer of this idea is Polle de Maagt. His urge of world domination consist of convincing companies to be more about acts than ads. “Because in these times, brands aren’t defined by what they say, but what they do.” he declares. 

His believes are pretty infectious and that’s why he has big companies like KLM and Nike to working with him. I love his way of thinking.

With SellanApp there are a lot of opportunities for companies to ignite authenticity for their brands. I’ll try to clarify. People without resources or skills to build apps themselves often have great app ideas. At SellanApp, we call them producers. SellanApp offers them the possibility to fully design and fund these ideas. And herein lies an opportunity for businesses.

As a company you can become an investor in the apps of Producers, and receive a share in the revenue plus additional benefits. You could fund the app and invest in apps that distinguish you as a company. For example an internet skateboard shop or manufacturer could invest in a skateboard app. I think investments could be money, but also content and time. You can bring that in front of your marketing as a sponsor or-partnership. So your investment is well spend because you even share the success of the app.

The additional benefits that you receive are part of the ‘bigger plan’ of the app producer. They can offer partnership to support the apps cause. For example, your company has useful content and/or knowledge that is worthy for an app. Another example is that you can spread the word and make the app a success together. On Kickstarter.com you have great examples how producers of good ideas make rewards for companies and people.

As a partner of an app Producer, you can help bring their idea to life, you can publish and spread the app and by that brand your business when the app becomes successful. Making great ideas happen is what I think a great way to grow your brand within the right target groups. The SellanApp platform gives you the chance to communicate with these entrepreneurs (producers) and the supporting community.   

At SellanApp we’re at the dawn of building a fun, social and efficient way for people and businesses to jump in to the world of apps. If you like, you can join in for a partnership and supports our cause at Symbid.

In my next blogposts I will tell more about businesses making their own apps with the community.