What are the best ways to promote an app?
I'm looking to see if any one has any suggestions on how to promote my app. I found a website, wp7 app review, that let me write my own description of the app and send it to them with pictures and they posted it, and that seems to be helping.
Are there any other venues anyone knows about where I can get some promotion for my app and help more people know about it?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Re: What are the best ways to promote an app?
Hello Frank,
I would like to share what i have been through.
I create an app that was too low in downloads, then I came across AdShufflr.
This network logic is simply awesome, it works along with Pubcenter. When Pubcenter fails to provide ad, it fills my ad
In this way I was promoting my app, without paying and without impacting my revenues
Complete working sample are provided.
Nice explanation:
Why you should choose AdShufflr?
:smile:
If any query ping those guys (are too supportive).
Re: What are the best ways to promote an app?
The best way to promote an app is to write a great app. Windows phone has, in my opinion, the best store in terms of promoting great new apps. Paying for ads to promote yet another flashlight app won't give you anything. So I would recommend to first invest in development before investing in marketing
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Does anyone have any more tips?
My current game badly needs some publicity. I've tried paying for ads (ineffective). I've sent press releases to all the WP and Win8 sites (the game is universal), but go no response from all but one. The game is (in my opinion) high quality (for a hobbyist), and has been featured in the Windows Phone store several times in several countries, so it must be reasonably good. Ratings are almost entirely 5*, though only a handful of people have rated it.
Clowntraptions
Grogan Software
Clowntraptions | Windows Phone Apps+Games Store (United States)
The game is currently being displayed in the Spotlight app, which hopefully generates a few downloads.
I've considered App Deals, which is a great idea, but it is far too expensive for my hobbyist budget.
The main problem is that only ~1% of people who download any app end up upgrading to the paid version, and this seems to be standard across the industry, meaning you need thousands and thousands of downloads just to make a small amount of income.
My next step is to update the game with a little more free content that players will have to unlock by rating the game and a few other things. Hopefully that will lead to more ratings and maybe a few more sales.
I'm currently scouring the Internet for marketing ideas.
I don't use in-game ads because the style of the game doesn't suit that (finite number of levels, no space on the screen for ads).
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Hi,
I spent several months to find best solution to make my own WP apps more popular. Now I have about 40 apps that are downloaded about 8 million times per month. To achieve such excellent results I was forced to develop my own cross-promotion network “PromoMe”. How I promote my apps in 5 minutes and 2 lines of code. Recently I decided to share my network with other developers.
Using “PromoMe” is very simple. Just download “PromoMeSDK” form Nuget and add two lines of code in your app. That’s it.
Short videos with description how to use PromoMe and how it works:
Advertising Windows Phone apps - YouTube
Cross promote Windows Phone apps using PromoMeSDK. - YouTube
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I think the way promo me overrides handles back button press , can get app banned by microsoft !!! Apart from that it hampers user experience since the user is directly taken to the marketplace without his consent !!!
And also your stats sound fishy .
Originally Posted by
Mohammed Al Maktoom Hi,
I spent several months to find best solution to make my own WP apps more popular. Now I have about 40 apps that are downloaded about 8 million times per month. To achieve such excellent results I was forced to develop my own cross-promotion network “PromoMe”. How I promote my apps in 5 minutes and 2 lines of code. Recently I decided to share my network with other developers.
Using “PromoMe” is very simple. Just download “PromoMeSDK” form Nuget and add two lines of code in your app. That’s it.
Short videos with description how to use PromoMe and how it works:
Advertising Windows Phone apps - YouTube Cross promote Windows Phone apps using PromoMeSDK. - YouTube
Re: What are the best ways to promote an app?
I would suggest using Adduplex as some sort of promotion tool. Create a banner ad for your app and use their SDK. You would display banner ads for other apps in your app's ad slot while the other apps would display yours! As long as your banner ad is good and informative, you will get clicks and conversions. I have tried that in my app and would rate it as a moderate success.
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I would also recommend using Adduplex. It's easy to setup, and so far I've been really happy with it. If you combine it with an Ad Rotator, you can make an easy switch from cross-promotion ads to paid ads.
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Old post but still very helpful. Thanks!
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Like pdelvo already said creating a great app is the first mandatory step to reach an audience.
As a single dev I admit it is really hard to promote your game. Here are the few things I tried so far with more or less success:
- Adduplex: A good tool but it can't do miracles, I earned 1 000 000 ads impressions thanks to devcenterbenefits program, you can also get some credits from dvlup, I wanted to use all of them in a week, but the network can't handle this and right now I'm printing around 30 000 ads a day.
- Twitter: Using the proper hashtag and tweeting to the right persons can be an effective way to reach more people. I had the luck to be noticed by a Brazilian Windows Phone dedicated website just by tweeting my trailer with #wp8 or #lumia hashtags.
- Facebook advertising: I tried to spend some money in facebook advertising, at first it seemed nice, you can precisely target your facebook page with direct link to the game to people who like windows phone in the US for example, and it worked I got many likes this way, before realizing that people behind the likes where from click farms and that this was just a scam.
- Beta: I started a public beta few days before releasing the game, but failed to gather enough testers to make it worth it, so I thought it would be better to focus my effort on the actual game release rather than on a beta.
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Search for Time and Billing under Productivity in the Win Phone store.
It tracks time and location for tasks and it especially targeted for Contractors, Lawyers etc.