Connect and communicate with your fans and readers in a new, personal way with your own iPhone App
Mobile Roadie’s innovative platform is a simple and inexpensive way for Morgan James authors to build and manage their own app for less than $500. Why do you need an iPhone app? To sell your books, promote your tour, share resources with readers, and to engage your fans on a personal level. Sound good?
Right now Mobile Roadie is giving Morgan James authors a 10% discount off their base setup fee. Please put “morganjames” in the referrer field. Hope you like it! The Morgan James iPhone app will be released shortly.
Get started here: http://www.Morgan-James.com/mobileroadie
What you get
Books & Publications
Promote your books with excerpts, synopsis, reviews and links to purchase online or in stores. Get your readers involved in your new releases the moment they hit the shelves.
Tour & Appearances
Allow your readers to follow your book tour dates and other appearances. Link to any ticketing site so your fans can purchase tickets from their phone (if applicable). “I’m Going” link blasts out fan activity to Facebook, and fans can upload their pics from the appearance.
Audio
Stream your podcasts, interviews and audio books plus link to purchase in iTunes (if available) directly from your app.
Videos
Link to your YouTube videos (or channel), Brightcove videos, or host your own videos. Fans can view and comment within your app.
Photos
Upload new photos whenever you want from your CMS, or link your photos section to your Flickr account to update automatically. Fans can upload pics on the fly to the Fan Wall and Tour sections.
Social Network Integration
Deep Facebook Connect and Twitter integration allows fans activity to go viral. Comments and Tweets are blasted back out to their online profiles.
Store
Sell your books and other gear and link to your existing ecommerce website that opens right inside your App.
News
Post news stories with pictures and links. Also integrate your Twitter and RSS feeds — we support multiple feeds, so integrate as many as you’d like.
Customizer
MoRo is fully configurable. Upload your own images, choose your own colors, and dynamically update your content. Feel free to rearrange and rename the sections
Push Notification (+$200 setup)
Contact fans within a geo-tagged radius of a city to send notifications about your tour and other marketing campaigns. Fans can also see exactly how many items have been updated since last opening the app.
Viral Tools
We provide you with a dynamic fan wall widget and download badges to embed on your presences across the internet.
Links
Integrate all your online social profiles within the app. Fans can browse your myspace, facebook, imeem, etc. profiles right in your app.
Stats
In depth reporting from the number of downloads, to what excerpts are getting the most plays.
Add ons
If you want to build on top of the Mobile Roadie platform, you can! Have an idea for a game, animation, custom music player, or contest? Talk to us about your idea.
Mobile Roadie allows anyone to create and manage their own iPhone App at a reasonable price. Find out more at http://www.Morgan-James.com/mobileroadie and get started building your own custom iPhone app today!
And if you still need a little convincing (or you’re just curious to see the app in action), check out the video:
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