According to Yahoo! entertainment...
HER OWN IPHONE APP
At the height of the show's popularity, Chia, Edwin Goh and Ian Fang, the three teens who starred in the hit drama, were mobbed by about 1,000 fans during a meet-the-fans session at Orchard Cineleisure last September.
Reflecting on the experience, Chia said, "I was so overwhelmed but it was an eye opening experience."
Such is her popularity that she has her own blog and even launched her own iPhone app, "Kimberly-Chia" at the start of the year
The free app, which was among the top 50 featured apps when it was launched, allows fans to interact with Chia easily real-time.
"My iPhone app is like a social media aggregator, anything I update on my social media accounts, like Twitter and Facebook will go straight to the iPhone app so fans can get my latest updates under one place," said Chia.
Notice something? I have highlighted my point in yellow. Although it's a free application, the purpose wasn't to make money by selling any thing but to create a platform for her fans to connect with her. I think she's one of the first celebrity who have her phone application. Do you know how much does this single four tab application cost?
You can check out the website developer portfolio on this here. Alternatively you can also check out this application on AppStore here and check out the application for yourself.
Getting back to the question, it would be easily thousands and thousands of dollars for such. If I am not wrong, she paid about $25,000 for that single application. Do you think it will be great enough to learn how to develop such simple four tab application and charge half of what they charge? You will be learning how to do develop a better application with much more features in the future post with zero programming skills.
You will be able to go up to celebrity, companies or anyone who wish to own such an application and tell them Kimberly paid $25,000 for a simple four tab phone application and I am asking for $5,000 or maybe $10,000 for companies.
In addition, do you know that Kimberly Chia charges $0.99 (USD) for exclusive pictures and frames from the free application?
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