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App publishers: learn from our experience and download the free guide to App Marketing. We cover all the angles you need to know about, from App Store Optimization to tactics on getting better reviews. Learn about email lists and how to start one. See why you need a website for your app and what SEO basics you should be aware of.

The guide is free and yours to download today.

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Studio Neat have updated their iPhone tripod mount and stand, the Glif, for the iPhone 5. The new Glif is like the previous version you know and love, just… 5-ier.

Additionally, their highly praised wide grip iPad stylus The Cosmonaut is fully in stock and ready for the holidays.

Both the Glif and the Cosmonaut will make excellent holiday gifts, and if you spend $40 or more at studioneat.com worldwide shipping is free. Order soon to ensure delivery before the holidays!

Thanks to Studio Neat for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed this week. I love my Cosmonaut, and everyone who tries it instantly wants one.

Boom is a Mac volume booster and equalizer that improves audio quality system-wide. It increases the system volume and can enhance audio with a graphic equalizer to produce better-quality sound from your Mac’s built-in speakers.

Boom is simple to use! It won Macworld’s prestigious Best of Show award for its simplicity, elegance, and well-crafted interface.

Improve your audio quality and volume when doing anything on your Mac, including watching movies, listening to music, and video-chatting, without using external speakers.

Boom is just $6.99 from the Mac App Store or the Global Delight store. There’s even a free 7-day trial, so try it today.

Thanks to Global Delight for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed this week.

Igloo makes software for humans. Humans that need to work together. Humans that need to share files, talk to each other, and get shit done. Humans that are, infallibly, human.

That means Igloo can help you connect with your employees, or engage your customers with your braaand. And with Q, Igloo’s latest release, it’s become much easier. Q is a free update for all Igloo customers. And with over 25 new features, like email-enabled posting, it works the way you do.

Want to write a blog? You can do it inside the Igloo web interface (you can even add your own HTML). But what if your old-school project manager doesn’t know what a blog is? That’s okay, they can post a blog via email. Rich text, cat pictures and all. Boom.

Learn more about how Q makes Igloo easier for humans, or get started with a free trial. Oh ­ and, unlike some apps, Igloo is 100% white label. Marco.

Thanks to Igloo Software for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed this week and actually listening to my podcast.

App publishers: watch website visitors turn into app users. If you have a mobile or desktop app, your website may be a neglected resource. Tapstream ties your website visits to app actions like activations, In-App Purchases or sign-ups. Watch which site pages or external sites drive app activations and which social campaigns are working best, or simply split test landing pages to find the winner. Made for iOS, Mac OS, Android, Windows Phone, and Windows 8 apps.

And this week, Marco’s readers get a deal on any Tapstream tier: 50% off for a full 6 months. Try it today.

Thanks to Tapstream for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed this week.

Adobe Revel is a photo app for your Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Organize your memories using albums, event tags, and captions. Crop photos and apply photo filters to easily create amazing photos. And share photo albums privately on AdobeRevel.com or publicly on your favorite social network. Best of all, everything you do in Revel is automatically synced across all your devices — so you always have access to your latest photos and photo edits no matter what device you’re using. With Revel, you have all of your memories with you wherever you go, and you have everything you need to make your photos look great.

Thanks to Adobe Revel for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed again this week.

Adobe Revel is a photo app for your Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Organize your memories using albums, event tags, and captions. Crop photos and apply photo filters to easily create amazing photos. And share photo albums privately on AdobeRevel.com or publicly on your favorite social network. Best of all, everything you do in Revel is automatically synced across all your devices — so you always have access to your latest photos and photo edits no matter what device you’re using. With Revel, you have all of your memories with you wherever you go, and you have everything you need to make your photos look great.

Thanks to Adobe Revel for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed this week.

You want to do great work. Let Harvest take care of the other work required to run your business. With Harvest, you can track time from anywhere with one-click. Start a timer from your mobile device, desktop, or web browser. Visual time reports help you get your project done on time and within budget. Ship what you’ve built along with a professional invoice and get paid for your craft.

Focus on delivering your best to clients. Create a free 30-day trial today. If you don’t fall in love, simply let the trial expire.

Thanks to Harvest for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed this week.

Audio editing should be fast and easy. With Rogue Amoeba’s Fission, it is.

Crop and trim audio, split a long file into many, or join multiple files together, all in seconds. Best of all, Fission works without the quality loss caused by other editors, so you can get perfect-quality audio even when editing MP3 and AAC files. And if you want to convert between audio formats, Fission can export or batch convert files to the MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, FLAC, AIFF, and WAV formats.

Download a free trial to your Mac now. Marco.org readers can even save $5 off the purchase of Fission this week, with coupon code MORG201209.

Thanks to Rogue Amoeba for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed this week. I’ve used almost all of their software for many years, and not only is it incredibly useful for both casual and professional audio work, but it’s made to high-quality standards by high-quality people.

Squarespace is a state-of-the-art website publishing platform with breakthrough features that make innovative web design more accessible than ever before. The platform lets anyone create and maintain professional, high-quality websites regardless of technical ability. Squarespace websites feature responsive, mobile-ready designs, complete social integration, fully customizable templates, and more.

Try Squarespace today – free 14-day trial.

Thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed again this week.

Design a visually rich website with magazine-quality layouts that scales to any screen size – all without touching a line of code. Squarespace 6 is a revolutionary new website creation platform with over 50 new features. Squarespace’s breakthrough LayoutEngine technology allows anyone to create visually-rich pages with any configuration of text, images, or blocks by dragging items exactly where you want them.

The platform comes equipped with 20 new, fully customizable templates and offers sophisticated media management, a robust blogging engine, deep social network integration, real-time statistics, multiple author support, and more.

Try Squarespace 6 today – free 14-day trial.

Thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed this week.

Igloo made an infographic to help explain why you need enterprise cloud security for your braaand. Sign up for a free 30-day trial and you could win an AeroPress.

Thanks to Igloo Software for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed this week.

Introducing Due: a contraction timer that doesn’t suck.

Thanks to Due for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed this week. Not expecting? Check out Tall Puppy’s other apps.

Your X-ray glasses for App Store sales: Tapstream helps iOS, Android, and Mac developers see which sites, tweets, emails or web ad units are getting you more users instead of just web visits. It allows you to finally put Google AdWords or Facebook Ads to work with an eye on real user acquisition. See how social engagement translates into app activations and which referring sites best drive converting traffic.

Tapstream’s web-to-app analytics is completely free. Larger publishers will appreciate Google Analytics integration and our unique customer lifetime value (LTV) metrics that help you identify the most valuable web traffic sources.

Thanks to Tapstream for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed this week.

Adobe Revel is a photo app that gives you one place for all your photos that you can access from your Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Revel combines a set of easy-to-use organizing and editing tools with a cloud service designed specifically for photos, so everything you do in Revel is automatically synced across all your devices. Organize your photos using event tags. Crop and apply photo filters to get professional-quality results without all the work. And post photos to your favorite social network to share with your friends.

With Revel, you always have access to all your photos no matter what device you are using, and you have everything you need to make them look great.

Thanks to Adobe Revel for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed for this five-week span. Here’s the last tip, for now: Revel is much faster than the built-in iOS Photos app when browsing a large collection. I like to keep my last two years of photos in Revel (published there by Lightroom) and it doesn’t slow down at all.

Adobe Revel is a photo app that gives you one place for all your photos that you can access from your Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Revel combines a set of easy-to-use organizing and editing tools with a cloud service designed specifically for photos, so everything you do in Revel is automatically synced across all your devices. Organize your photos using event tags. Crop and apply photo filters to get professional-quality results without all the work. And post photos to your favorite social network to share with your friends.

With Revel, you always have access to all your photos no matter what device you are using, and you have everything you need to make them look great.

Thanks to Adobe Revel for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed again this week. Here’s another tip: you can have multiple users editing and contributing to the same Revel collections, which is especially useful within couples and families who want a shared library. More next week.

Adobe Revel is a photo app that gives you one place for all your photos that you can access from your Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Revel combines a set of easy-to-use organizing and editing tools with a cloud service designed specifically for photos, so everything you do in Revel is automatically synced across all your devices. Organize your photos using event tags. Crop and apply photo filters to get professional-quality results without all the work. And post photos to your favorite social network to share with your friends.

With Revel, you always have access to all your photos no matter what device you are using, and you have everything you need to make them look great.

Thanks to Adobe Revel for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed once again this week. Here’s a little tip: Revel is a publishing target in Lightroom 4, so you can quickly publish all of your photos to Revel to try it out. That’s how I’m trying it, and I like it so far. More next week.

Adobe Revel is a photo app that gives you one place for all your photos that you can access from your Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Revel combines a set of easy-to-use organizing and editing tools with a cloud service designed specifically for photos, so everything you do in Revel is automatically synced across all your devices. Organize your photos using event tags. Crop and apply photo filters to get professional-quality results without all the work. And post photos to your favorite social network to share with your friends.

With Revel, you always have access to all your photos no matter what device you are using, and you have everything you need to make them look great.

Thanks to Adobe Revel for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed again this week.

Adobe Revel is a photo app that gives you one place for all your photos that you can access from your Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Revel combines a set of easy-to-use organizing and editing tools with a cloud service designed specifically for photos, so everything you do in Revel is automatically synced across all your devices. Organize your photos using albums, event tags, and captions. Crop and apply photo filters to get professional-quality results without all the work. And share albums privately on AdobeRevel.com or publicly on your favorite social network.

With Revel, you always have access to all your photos no matter what device you are using, and you have everything you need to make them look great.

Thanks to Adobe Revel for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed this week.

CocoaConf is an exciting multi-track conference series for iPhone, iPad, and Mac developers. We start by bringing together some of the best developers, authors, and trainers in the community, giving them the freedom to cover the technologies that they are most passionate about. Next, we sell a limited number of tickets, which provides for an incredibly low attendee-to-speaker ratio. Then we throw in some interesting keynotes and fun, informative panels. And we do it all in a manner that is designed to maximize your learning and networking experience.

Our next CocoaConf event will be held on August 9–11, 2012, in Columbus, Ohio. Registration is now open, and the Early Bird rate is good through July 6th. We will have 18 great speakers, including Daniel Steinberg, Bill Dudney, Chris Adamson, Mark Dalrymple, Josh Abernathy, and more. Get all of the details at CocoaConf.com. When you register, use the coupon code MARCO for a 20% discount.

To hear about future CocoaConf events and other interesting information, follow us on Twitter at @cocoaconf.

Thanks to CocoaConf for sponsoring the Marco.org RSS feed again this week. (And I’m from Columbus. Great city.)