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by Kirill Madorin 13 years ago

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App Savvy

To build an effective marketing strategy for an app, it is essential to understand and leverage various phases and tools. Creating two distinct accounts, one for personal use within the iOS development community and another for the app, can facilitate better engagement.

App Savvy

App Savvy

Chapter 8. Building your marketing crescendo

Phases
from interview

Phill Ryu, taptaptap.com

“How big is the vacuum?”

vacuum of booby apps

vacuum of developers leveraging free for their paid app sales

quality vacuum

5

Additional promotion

local media

networks

mobile advertising

pay per install

http://tapjoy.com/Company/AboutPPI/

cross-app promotions

promotional pricing

http://vkontakte.ru/dp#a/2011/04/01/9_pravil_kak_prodvinut

contests

gift this app

app giveaways

continue pitching bloggers and media outlets

send e-mail newsletter

Tweet it up

Adjust App Store description and website

get ratings and reviews

notifying other contacts

Publish blog post

How to Write a Social Media Press Release

http://pressdoc.com/

http://www.copyblogger.com/social-media-press-release/

earn an additional 5%

http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/

promo code

http://taptaptap.com/blog/user-friendly-app-store-promo-codes/

promo codes are useful even if you have a free app

Launching app

4

channels

media outreach

when to pitch

one or two weeks before approving app

how to pitch

tips

p 258 example

use some context from an article or post someone wrote

iTunes URL

screenshots

brief description about features

whom to pitch

grouping lists

by reviewer type

by elihood of receiving a review

google search

persons

relevant articles

The purpose of media outreach is to find websites that could be interested in doing a review about you or your app

e-mail newsletter

blog

website

post-launch

FAQs/support

what's new

media and customer quotes

additional screenshots

app store button

price tag

features/description

device image revisited

video

https://github.com/atebits/SimFinger

catchy, upbeat music

short

slideshow

pre-launch

webanalytics

about and contact pages

e-mail signup

social media links

teaser text

device

splash page + blog

splash page

design

gives the sense of being in app itself

embody Apple like design and attention to details

content

plans for incorporating customer feedback

what features will be added going forward

what makes app interesting

submitting app to Apple for approval

3

e-mail newsletter compiled from blog and twitter content

recruting beta-testers

blog post

degree of result's publicity

the way of sign up

some bagcground on providing UDID

the OS and device requirements

objective of beta-testing

e-mail

link to blog

blogging

Tumblr

Posterous

Wordpress

sneak peaks on twitter

prerequisites

actual assets

half of app

2

e-mail marketing

tools

advertising splashes

Adwords, Yandex

Facebook, vkontakte

promoted tweets

e-mails

twitter

Splashes and landing pages

(http://unbounce. com/

Analytics

http://www. constantcontact.com/

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/

http://www.mailchimp.com/

one of the best ways to broadcast information very quickly to a large and diverce audience

1

Инструменты

последние новости

http://digg.com/news/technology

http://www.techmeme.com/

(http://news.ycombinator.com/news

google reader

Twiangulate

WeFollow

Seesmic

HootSuite

tweetDeck

links

Laura Fitton

http://oneforty.com/

"twitter for dummies"

советы по использованию

save search results in tweetDeck

create two accounts

app account

news

personal acc

for iOS development community

be useful

sharing practical advice

linking to great resources

offer special twitter only deals

make announcements

answer customer questions

возможности

twitter functions

composing new tweets

searching

mentioning

following

передовая аудитория

отслеживание событий в iOS сообществе

peer relations

лидеры мнений

tracking competitors

finding prospects

поиск новых клиентов

Канал коммуникации со старыми клиентами

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