Check out photos from Application Developers Alliance event in SF 3/28/13 on Discoverability: How to get noticed in a marketplace overflowing with Apps

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App-Promo was pleased to participate at the Application Developers Alliance recent event held in San Francisco on March 28, 2013 at Yelp’s corporate offices. The event was held during the Games Developer Conference and the room was packed with developers from around the world. The lively panel answered many of the developers questions and based on the response from the audience there will definitely be more sessions planned in the future.  Thanks to all for a great event!



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TIP: Know Your Audience to Make App Marketing Decisions

Use international chart tools like PositionApp and Distimo Monitor or AppAnnie to understand what other markets your app is seeing success in. Pinpointing the geographical hot spots of your app will help grow the your understanding of your target audience and should be fed back into ongoing app marketing decisions.

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Every Tuesday App Promo will be providing tips on app marketing and promoting applications based on their experience leading marketing campaigns for applications across platform. These tips are like regular marketing vitamins aimed to boost discovery and visibility for app publishers to better succeed in the business of their apps.

App-Promo speaking in San Francisco at (GDC) Game Developer Conference – March 27-29th, 2013


Screen Shot 2013-03-13 at 5.29.21 PMApp-Promo is pleased to be attending The Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, CA- Wednesday March 27-Friday March 29, 2013.  Tweet us @Apppromo or email gary@app-promo.com to setup times to meet. App-Promo will also be speaking at the Developer Alliance evening event

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App-Promo is proud to be speaking at the Application Developers Alliance event on Discoverability: How to Get Noticed in Stores Overflowing with Apps. Join us on Wed March 27th at Yelp’s headquarters in San Francisco -706 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103 from 6:00 pm-8;30pm PST. Best of all the event is Free! thanks to the Application Developers Alliance and Yelp!

If an app drops in the store and no one is around to see it, does it make a profit? The answer is no, and therein lies one of the major challenges facing application developers today.

Developers can make the most innovative app of the year or perhaps the decade, but if consumers cannot find it because of marketing obstacles, all of the engineering prowess will be for naught. What good is an angry bird without gamers to fling it from a slingshot or an Instagram without amateur photographers to capture nostalgic memories and share them?

The Application Developers Alliance Emerging Technology & Research Working Group is working diligently to answer this question for developers. Join us for a presentation of the latest information on how to get your app noticed, climb app store search results, and grow your business. We’ll be presenting our findings, hearing expert insight and analysis from the industry’s leaders, and answering your questions to help you grow your business.

All attendees will be enrolled in the Application Developers Alliance. Check out DevsBuild.Itfor resources to grow and build your app business.

Join us for a presentation and discussion with:

Jarah Euston, Director of Analytics at Flurry (Moderator/Presenter)

Alex Moazed, President & CEO at Applico

Gary Yentin, CEO and Founder at App-Promo

Joel Emans, Attorney at Hughes Media Law Group

Agenda:

6:00-6:30pm – Registration, food, and welcome remarks

6:30-7:00pm – Whitepaper presentation by Jarah Euston, Director of Analytics at Flurry

7:00-8:00pm – Panel discussion and audience Q&A

8:00-8:30pm – Networking

80% of App Developers Don’t Make Enough Money: The Reality of Mobile Today

App Promo is pleased to post a recent article on Techvibes Written by Joseph Czikk

It’s a mobile-first world and businesses must ensure that they’re along for the ride. That was the resounding message from Gary Yentin, CEO and founder of App Promo. Yentin spoke during last week’s Dx3 2013 conference in Toronto.

Currently there’s an over-saturation effect on smartphone users, with over two million iOS and Android apps combined. Unfortunately about 80 per cent of people who make apps do not make enough money to cover their cost of development.

“A lot of people have very good applications but discovery is really the challenge,” said Yentin. “They do it for their creativity and they want to get noticed, but at the end of the day they have to make money.”

Yentin offered five key points that brands and startups need to know about mobile.

1. Changing Brand Dynamics: Companies need to follow where their customers are, and customers are on their phone. Yentin told the crowd about a recent trip to Barcelona, Spain where the majority of people access the Internet solely through mobile. Agencies and brands need to understand that a mobile strategy is as important as a digital strategy and consumers largely depend on their information through their phone.

“Mobile becomes a 24/7 part of your environment and if brands today want to reach that audience they’re going to find them on the phone,” he said.

2. Shift in Demand for Emerging Apps: Apps have an interesting life cycle, peaking for a short period of time and later forgotten. While tablet users like apps they’re actually more browser-oriented, likely because they have more time. But if the brand or the individual wants a rich experience it’s going to be through an application (which are both expensive to maintain and require consistent support).

“The demand for that content is rising and I think we’re going to see even more people use their phones for different retail and commerce purposes,” said Yentin. “It’s really going to affect us in day-today life from the morning to the evening.”

3. Mobile is Our Everything: If companies are preparing to go in the app space they must develop a strategy, have a plan and do some marketing. Content that was traditionally accessed over print, radio and television is available on mobile and companies need to be aware of that. Apps intersect every part of our lives, so there’s not much one can’t access via mobile. “The one thing that I saw in Barcelona is the single way people communicate is through their phone,” said Yentin. “That changes the whole pattern of how they value and use the phone.”

4. Mobile is Influencing Shopping in Canada: Those in retail must have a mobile strategy, as consumers demand the ability to do the research before they make the purchases. A real shift is occurring in consumers making purchases via mobile rather than the web. Several top retailers are reporting that they’re receiving 65% more mobile sales than online.

5. Wide Adoption is Impacting Use: Carriers are going to realize that they’ll be marginalized in this space. Yentin cited the change in SMS demand after wifi accessibility combined with game-changers like iMessenger, BBM and What’s App bypassed its business. Furthermore, the demand for consumption of content on mobile devices is increasing enormously and this will put pressure on bandwidth in the future.

 

App-Promo to represent SendBoo #MWC13 (Mobile World Congress, Barcelona 2/25-28, 2013)

App-Promo is very much looking forward to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, Feb 25-28, 2013 in Barcelona, Spain. App-Promo will be representing our client SendBoo a realtime messaging and translation application. Please email info@app-promo.com if you would like to setup a time to meet and learn more, (Looking forward to meeting Carriers, OEMs, Brands and especially VC’s )

 

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Being a Good App is Not Good Enough. Discovery Advice with App Promo #AppDevChat 2/14/12 at 10am PST

Being a Good App is Not Good Enough. App Discovery Advice with Guest-Host App-Promo #AppDevChat http://blog.tapfortap.com/being-a-good-app-is-not-good-enough-app-discovery-advice-with-guest-host-app-promoappdevchatBeing a Good App is Not Good Enough. App Discovery Advice with Guest-Host App-Promo #AppDevChat

 

Appdevchat returns this week at 10am PST with guest host @AppPromo. We’ll be discussing the best practices for app discovery, download, and monetization.

App-Promo is an innovator in app marketing and app strategy. Their goal is to assist developers and app owners in succeeding in the business of apps. They provide services to increase discovery, optimize revenue and better position applications to set them up for success. Their mission is to educate and empower the app community at large on the necessary strategies and tactics required to make a business out of app development – something often forgotten in the development process. Start a conversation with App-promo on Facebook and Twitter.

Questions:

1. Does PR really help in my App launch strategy?

2. Why is ASO (App Store Optimization) so important?

3. Why are SDKs so important to include in my app for my app marketing campaign?

4. How is Facebook changing the game in mobile app acquisition?

5. How do i figure out what to do with paid media?

What is Split Testing and How Do I Use It?

If you are thinking about purchasing paid media to advertise your mobile application to increase downloads, you are definitely going to want to spend your dollars wisely.

To ensure that you are getting the best bang for your buck, you will want to employ a common technique in the digital ad space called Split-Testing. By employing this technique you will drastically improve your app marketing efforts.
What is Split-Testing

Split-testing also known as A/B testing or bucket testing is a marketing technique to test out variations of an ad in order to compare results to determine what ad elements works best to get maximum results.

Basically, split-testing is when you run two ads competing against one another to determine which one produces the best results and is ultimately the one to continue trafficking.

To properly split-test, you will want to create variations of your ad that include changes to elements such as copy, images, font style and size, colors and layouts. Comparing results between the ads will confirm whether your change has made a positive or negative impact. You will want to continue with the ad that is doing well and stop with the ads that are performing less.

Split-testing is done to help you better your results from your ad campaign. By better understanding what is working and what is not with your ads, you can make immediate adjustments to improve results and your ultimate return on investment.

 

How to Split-Test

To split-test you will need to first start with an ad. Create an ad for your campaign that is compelling and conveys your messaging in an effective, easy to understand and powerful manner.

Take a look at this ad and create a variation on one of the elements. Perhaps you will use a different image or change a word in the copy or bold the call to action. Whatever you do, keep the changes effective but to a minimum as too many changes will not allow you to determine what modification has produced different results.

Run both of your ads with the same configuration in your network and watch the results of both. You will want to let your original (control) and variation (test) ads run for a fair amount of time to really start to understand how the audience is reacting to them. You will also want to make sure that a significant amount of the audience has been exposed to the ad before making any conclusions.

The amount of time you take to make the decision on which ad to continue with depends on the data that you are receiving but you should be able to start to make a decision within a couple of days.

Once your ads have had some time to live on the network, you will want to look at the data gathered during that time to decide which ad is doing better. For the most part, the metric you will be looking at here is the CTR or click-through rate. But if you are able to (as some networks have this capability), for mobile application advertising, your key metric should be downloads of your application.

Regardless of the metric you choose, compare results between the original ad to the test ad and continue with the one that produces the best results.

Depending on the length of time of your campaign, you will want to continue the split-testing process, creating variations off of the ad that produces the best results from the previous test.

 

Why Split-Test

Split-testing is definitely proven to help you produce the best results from your ad campaign but using available data from ad network reporting to gauge the impact of small variations to your ads.

It is obvious that as you take the time to improve your ad based on actual data you will only be left with higher conversion and click through rates for your campaign overall.

But beyond increasing immediate results, the learnings gained from the split-tests you perform in your campaigns will start to educate you on what direction to take your future advertising for the same audience. This information is invaluable as it will help to elevate your future ad decisions right from the start of the campaign. Of course, no campaign is ever the same but the more tests you run, the wiser you will be.

 

App Promo Thank-you to everyone who dropped by our booth at MacWorld 2013

App Promo would like to thank everyone who dropped by our booth last week in San Francisco at MacWorld 2013. It was a great show and the perfect opportunity to meet with consumers and friends who actually download mobile applications. It is important to connect with your user base and learn what really motivates someone to download an application and what also makes them go back and use that application again and again.  Our clients PicIT24 and Geo Challenge were featured and based on the fact that we ran out of  flyers early in the show, we know they were a great hit with the audience.

App-Promo would like to thank all those who attended the show and extend our offer for ASO (App Store Optimization). It you tweet us your application before Friday Feb 8th, we would be happy to do a complimentary ASO evaluation.

Looking forward to seeing everyone next year!

 

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