You probably thought that only skilled and experienced developers with loads of programming knowledge could create those stylish little apps for the apple iphone and get them into the iTunes App Store, and in the past you probably would have been right. But now anyone with a little bit of creative flair can create high quality apps without any programming knowledge whatsoever. This can be great fun - of all the entrepreneurial small business ideas that I have involved myself in over the past few years (and there have been, and still are many - I like to have my sticky fingers in a lot of pots!) this is definitely the most fun - but it can also be a great way to make money and you can even use it to help you to build brand identity and promote any other businesses you are involved in.

You are probably familiar with a website builder - as a simple user control panel which uses menus or drag and drop or something similar to allow anyone to create a website without having to have anything to do with the actual programming code - well know My App Builder has applied the same concept to making iphone applications, allowing anyone to create as many as they like without any programming whatsoever.

There are a huge number of different things that you can use My App Builder to create, so anyone with a but of creativity about them should have no problems coming up with ideas. But just to get you thinking here are some of the most common categories:

• Video and mulitmedia: Make your video and flash available for people on their phone, or create new 'how to videos' or flash cards, multimedia presentations, entertaining clips.......
• Create a quiz or fun test
• Create a book, manual or catalogue
• Promote your music and other audio
• Create a slideshow or photo album

These are just a few ideas to give you a flavour of the kind of options available to you if you have a go at this. There are plenty of other things you could do instead. It's easy and affordable, so try it out now!

You can submit them to the iTunes store, and if they are good enough then they will be made available for people to buy and promoted for you by apple to make you money.

You can also have them for yourself and give them away to friends and family!

Using a tool like MyAppBuilder with its templates and easy to follow control panel can be a great way to get into app building to begin with, and is also an effective way to make money from making iphone apps without having to invest large amounts of time into the venture. But if your feeling a bit more ambitious and have a bit more time to invest in this as a money making project then the best way is always going to be to make them yourself from scratch by writing the code for them. Learning how to write the code for making applications like this will take you a bit of time, especially if you have no experience of programming whatsoever, but it isn't massively difficult and anyone should be able to get a handle on how to do it within a few months if your willing to put a bit of time into learning. If you are a complete beginner when it comes to developing phone applications then I would say the best way to learn is using the 'For Dummies' series of books, of which there is one specifically on this subject - see the link on the top right of this text to get it from Amazon.com.

You can also learn how to make facebook apps without needing to know any programming at all. There are two different ways that you can make money from facebook applications - either by making them yourself or by buying, monetizing and then marketing professionally designed and developed applications, and both methods are covered on the hub I made - just follow the above link. So many people use facebook that it is great being able to make your own apps for it, and this does have some good revenue potential even for smll entrepreneurs, but in my humble opinion you probably won't make as much money as you can through iphone applications, but if its' not an either or then doing both can help you to build up a really significant app business for yourself.

If you would rather create something to go on a website, blog or social networking page then you might want to take a look at widgetbox.com too. This site gives you an online widget builder which you can use to create widgets using your rss feeds, flash, video etc. which can then be placed on another site just by copying and pasting a small piece of code. They will help you to promote the widgets that you make on their site, and they offer a basic free service as well as a 'pro' version which gives you extra options for making something more stylish and sophisticated as well as giving your creations a more prominent postition on their site, for a small monthly fee. It doesn't take long to make something, and it can be a great way to get extra traffic to your site, as well as to help with brand buidling for your online business.