App Savvy

Chapter 8. Building your marketing crescendo

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Phases

1

возможности

Канал коммуникации со старыми клиентами

поиск новых клиентов

finding prospects

tracking competitors

отслеживание событий в iOS сообществе

лидеры мнений

peer relations

передовая аудитория

twitter functions

following

mentioning

searching

composing new tweets

советы по использованию

be useful

answer customer questions

make announcements

offer special twitter only deals

linking to great resources

sharing practical advice

create two accounts

personal acc

for iOS development community

app account

news

save search results in tweetDeck

links


Laura Fitton

"twitter for dummies"

Инструменты

tweetDeck

HootSuite


Seesmic

WeFollow

Twiangulate

последние новости

google reader

2

e-mail marketing

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

tools

Analytics

http://www.
constantcontact.com/

Splashes and landing pages

advertising splashes

twitter

e-mails

promoted tweets

Facebook, vkontakte

Adwords, Yandex

3

prerequisites

half of app

actual assets

sneak peaks on twitter

blogging

Wordpress

Posterous

Tumblr

recruting beta-testers

twitter

link to blog

e-mail

blog post

objective of beta-testing

the OS and device requirements

some bagcground on providing UDID

the way of sign up

degree of result's publicity

e-mail newsletter compiled from blog and twitter content

4

submitting app to Apple for approval

content

what makes app interesting

what features will be added going forward

plans for incorporating customer feedback

channels

website

design

embody Apple like design and attention to details

gives the sense of being in app itself

splash page

splash page + blog

pre-launch

device

teaser text

social media links

e-mail signup

about and contact pages

webanalytics

post-launch

device image revisited

slideshow

video

short

catchy, upbeat music

features/description

price tag

app store button

additional screenshots

media and customer quotes

what's new

FAQs/support

blog

e-mail newsletter

media outreach

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

whom to pitch

google search

relevant articles

persons

grouping lists

by elihood of receiving a review

by reviewer type

how to pitch

brief description about features

screenshots

video

iTunes URL

tips

use some context from an article or post someone wrote

p 258 example

when to pitch

one or two weeks before approving app

5

Launching app

promo code

promo codes are useful even if you have a free app

earn an additional 5%

Publish blog post

How to Write a Social Media Press Release

notifying other contacts

get ratings and reviews


Adjust App Store description and website


Tweet it up

send e-mail newsletter

Additional promotion

continue pitching bloggers and media outlets

app giveaways

gift this app

contests

promotional pricing

cross-app promotions

mobile advertising

pay per install

networks

local media

from interview

Phill Ryu, taptaptap.com

“How big is the vacuum?”

quality vacuum

vacuum of developers leveraging free for their paid app sales

vacuum
of booby apps