
Have An Idea For An App? Your Step-By-Step Guide For What to do Next
Posted on August 10th, 2015
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Marketing your app via the new mobile channels
At WWDC 2014, Apple announced Apple Analytics was coming. Mobile app publishers and marketers anxiously awaited
In part 1 we looked at Audience targeting options, Custom Audiences and Lookalikes. In part 2 we will review how to create Facebook mobile ads with Facebook Insights and Retargeting and include
If you have never run an ad campaign on Facebook's advertising platform - you are in for a treat. In this Facebook mobile ads overview - we will introduce terms like look-a-like audiences, custom audiences, Power Editor, conversion pixels and Facebook Insights. We'll review some of the literally hundreds of demographic, behavioral and interest targeting options. Tomorrow we'll cover some best practices including ABT (always be testing), tracking attribution and LTV, and mobile specific examples.
The closer you get to the customer telling you exactly what they want and are willing to pay for - the less risk in building something that flops. There has always been risk in asking your existing users/clients and target markets what they want - where actual purchases represent only a fraction of the "I absolutely need this feature" crowd. This scenario, played out thousands of times over decades, has led to things like the Lean Methodology, MVPs, and even platforms like Kickstarter. One of the most fool-proof approaches to developing new products or new features is to offer a pre-payment at a significant discount, so clients can tell you what they want - with their wallets. For many mobile apps, however; the communication lines to the client are not as open as with other consumer or business products. Most likely - users of your apps pay Apple or Google directly. They may never know your company name despite daily use of your app. Prepaying for a feature is not a supported payment type in either Apple's App Store or Google Play. Hey - we are still waiting (in vain) for 30-day free trials. So - how do mobile app product managers and the development teams reduce the risk of creating features in their apps that no one is willing to pay for?
When we discuss how to market an app, we are essentially focusing on what activities maximize the ROI of app development and mobile app marketing investments. Vanity metrics like downloads are cast aside for metrics related to retention and engagement.
A Simple Strategy to Increase CTR and CRO on Paid Campaigns
If 2014 was the explosion of Facebook as a mobile app marketing and user acquisition channel - 2015 is shaping up to be the year of alternative channels. Pinterest announced today that they are supporting app downloads, where users can install mobile apps directly from Pinterest with a new product called App Pins. 
Pulling together some of the latest numbers on mobile app monetization trends from various sources -
Clash of Clans and Boom Beach have TV commercials. Candy Crush has tv ads and outdoor ads.
The Super Bowl is Feb 1st, Apple just released their earnings for Q4, Google said they just passed Apple in # of apps. Let's take a look at