Second part of presentation from AnDevCon V in Boston. Looks at parts of the marketing funnel that occur after the install and how to increase conversions.
5. What is he worried
about?
• Coming up with ideas
• Researching ideas
• Creating Product
• Improving Product
• Interacting with customers
• Making business deals
• Creating content
6. • True or False?
• Since your time is free, you can save a lot
of money/overhead by doing most
everything yourself.
Your Biggest Obstacle
to Success.
7. • Myth: Since your time is free, you can save
a lot of money/overhead by doing most
everything yourself.
• Fact: Your time is probably your biggest
expense, therefore, anything you *do not*
do yourself will likely save you money.
Your Biggest Obstacle
to Success.
8. • What if you have a day job?
• What if you don’t have any income?
• In December 2010, I got a call from several
recruiters
• The job was not in San Francisco or Portland
• It was three miles away.
• I wasn’t available. . .
What is your time truly
worth?
9. So... do you need an
office building and
some venture capital?
10. What if you’re just a guy in
a corner office with a view?
11. College Educated, English Speaking,
Industrious people are *anxious* to
work for you for $2.50 an hour.
Meh?
Is this spam?
12. After the Install
Getting Conversions
Getting Conversions
LeadLead
(has tried product)(has tried product)
LeadLead
(has tried product)(has tried product)
CustomerCustomer
(paid for something)(paid for something)
CustomerCustomer
(paid for something)(paid for something)
Loyal CustomerLoyal Customer
(repeat sales)(repeat sales)
Loyal CustomerLoyal Customer
(repeat sales)(repeat sales)
AdvocateAdvocate
(reccommends product)(reccommends product)
AdvocateAdvocate
(reccommends product)(reccommends product)
13. After the Install
• How good your app is finally matters!
• There are often a number of things that
you want your user to accomplish
• The good news: You can finally track it!
14. Conversions Matter
• What do you want your user to do?
• Monetary:
• Buy your paid app
• Buy some in app purchases
• Other actions (often precede)
• Register
• Signup for newsletter / network
• Complete a level of a game
• Complete first document
• Use it often (especially for ad supported)
15. How Good is your
App?
• How can you measure it?
• Not just number of features
• How fast can they learn to do what they
want to do - without reading documents?
• Help and documentation
• Interaction with the developer
• Best measure = conversions
16. Homework: Draw Post
Install Funnel
• Determine what actions you most want
your users to complete (usually monetary)
• Determine what steps they generally take
to get there
17. Homework: Install
Analytics
• If you understand conversions and the
funnel, you understand the why of analytics
• Install Google Analytics
• Makes your app into a website and actions
into pages or events
18. Homework: Install
Analytics
• How do you know what is most important
to track?
• You already decided that
• Very important: Use ecommerce to assign
monetary values, wherever possible
19. What can you do with
all the information.
• There are lots of things - see Google’s
Conversion University
21. Beyond the Market
SearchSearch
MarketMarket
SearchSearch
MarketMarket
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MarketMarket
BrowseBrowse
MarketMarket
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AppsApps
List ofList of
AppsApps
AppApp
ListingListing
AppApp
ListingListing
SearchSearch
InternetInternet
SearchSearch
InternetInternet
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WebsiteWebsite
YourYour
WebsiteWebsite
BrowseBrowse
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BrowseBrowse
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SomeSome
OtherOther
WebsiteWebsite
SomeSome
OtherOther
WebsiteWebsite
AdAd
CampaignCampaign
AdAd
CampaignCampaign
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Google PlayGoogle PlayGoogle PlayGoogle Play
22. Traffic from Your
website
• Can come from search engine
• Can be tracked much easier (can measure the
prospects better)
• Do NOT keep this traffic at your site
• Have a BIG OBVIOUS BUTTON that will go
directly to the market listing
• Do not use a wimpy little hyperlink
• Do not say “Search the market for . . . “
23. Your button
• Create link at
• https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?
id=com.crittermap.backcountrynavigator.license&ref
errer=utm_source%3DWebsite%26utm_medium
%3DLink%26utm_term%3Dtopo%2520maps
%26utm_campaign%3DAnDevCon
• You can set campaign, source, to whatever you
want.
• This will track in Google Analytics.
24. Some other website
•Should still tag your urls - if
you can
•Guest article
•Social Media
•Review blogs
•etc
25. Paid advertisement
• Represents a great opportunity
• Definitely use a tagged url
• Don’t do it unless you will track it all the
way through to Return on Investment
• Plan to waste as little money as possible
26. Paid advertisement
types
• Pay Per Impression
• Pay Per Click - Adwords, Admob, ...
• Pay Per Install - Flurry AppCircle,
Everbadge, TapJoy, AppBrain
• Ideally you want Pay Per Action - only pay
for conversions
• You can compute Pay Per Action if you
track well enough
28. What can you learn
from advertising?
• Test keyword phrases
• Test Calls to Action
• Find the perfect message for your first line
• Homework: run some ads to find out more
about your market
31. • For the small businessman, usually means
outsourcing
• Is it easier to:
• Get a contract from a spec and get
competitive bids? (ie elance,Odesk,etc)
• Hire a part time freelancer? (ie
Odesk,etc)
• OR
• Hire someone fulltime?
Hiring People
32. • Article Writing
• Link Building
• Tech support
• Help Guides
• Android development
• Tools and server programming
• QA and testing
What could you hire
someone to do?
33. • You want to look for vector graphics
• Everyone in the Philippines takes Photoshop in college; look for
Illustrator, others
• Other skills: video production, 3D, css
• They can learn
• Android icon standards
• Patch 9 files
• Prototype layouts
• Have them send you an email report each day
• Pay them via Paypal mass pay
Example: graphics
person
35. Other Places to hire
• ODesk
• Elance
• Freelancer.com
• guru.com
• RentACode
• VWorker.com
36. Keep in Mind
• Don’t go out and hire a bunch of people at
once - try one at a time.
• Remember Mythical Man Month
• Exchange multiple communications back
and forth when hiring
• Consider a test task - fixed price job with
open ended time limit.
39. • Have a weekly email newsletter.
• Subscribe users of your app
• Can use autoresponders
• MailChimp example
How can you engage
the right people?
40. • New features you just put out
• Response to comments in the Market
• News and topics of interest for your target customer
• Ask users to take action:
• Leave a comment in the Market
• Respond to an important survey
• See and comment on your YouTube Video
• Like your fan page on Facebook
• Etc.
• It also serves as a reminder to buy.
What can you cover in
a weekly newsletter?
44. • 5000 support requests in a year
• 10 mins for each one
• 20 engineering weeks
• No time to work on any new apps once you have 2.5
apps
• 5000 support requests in a year
How does a helpdesk
make you money?
46. • The most common question:
• “I got a new phone / rebuilt my old one. How do I
get my app back?”
• Can you:
• Have a page about a common task – with pictures
• Send the ten most common answers in the
autoresponse
• Have macros that answer those common questions
and insert links to those pages.
What can you do with
a helpdesk?
48. • Research List of Keywords
• Choose one keyword phrase
• Make one web page optimized for that
keyword phrase
• Get links to that page
Web page marketing
49. • A keyword is generally a multi word phrase
• You want keywords that:
• Are RELEVANT to your product
• Have lots of TRAFFIC
• Are ATTAINABLE.
Keyword Research
51. Attainable: The Top
Ten
"To rank on the first page of Google, you
must replace a page that’s currently there."
Market Samurai
52. • Mentions the phrase (ie Android Topo Maps)
• In the url
• In the <title> tag
• In the <meta Description> tag
• In an <h1> tag
• In the first sentence
• In the first sentence of the last paragraph
• 2-3 times in between the first and last parag
• Has about 250-750 words (ave 500).
• That’s all!
An Optimized Page ..
53. • The most creative part of internet
marketing
• The best links:
• Have keywords in the link (anchor text)
• Are from “important” websites
• Are from relevant websites
• Have traffic
Getting links
55. • Establish a blog with wordpress
• Add a post every day
• Get some links
• At the end of a year, you will have 200+
keywords in the first page of Google.
Rinse and Repeat
57. What is the world’s
second biggest Search
Engine?
58. •IPEVO 2
•Webcam on a
stick
•Made for
imaging
documents.
How can you make
videos?
59. • Screencastomatic
• Emulator Screencast
• Stock photos
• Slide shows.
• Parody of Hitler movie – new subtitles
• 3D After Effects rendering
• Cartoon from xtranormal
How else can you make
videos?
62. • YouTube is a social network.
• Get your newsletter subscribers to watch
and comment
• Find friends
• Find subscribers
• Consider tools like TubeToolbox.
Get views and traffic
63. Find similar videos and
interested users by
keyword
Collect them into lists
Send them a video you
made
Invite them to
comment or friend.
Tube ToolBox
64. • Videos can:
• Be instructional for your product.
• Discuss concepts related to your product
• Be fun
• They should always:
• Target keywords
What and how often?