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Discover all the best practices of Apple's latest in-app event features. Today's guest, Mark Johnson, will reveal EVERYTHING he's learned from launching this feature in his app. Download Emoji Me: https://apps.apple.com/app/emoji-me-sticker-maker/id1040207175 About In-App Events In-app events are timely events within apps and games — such as game competitions, movie premieres, livestreamed experiences, and more. Customers can discover your in-app events right on the App Store on iOS and iPadOS, giving you an entirely new way to showcase your events and expand their reach — whether you’d like to reach new users, keep your current users informed, or reconnect with previous users. Topics Covered: 01:16 - Initial response to in-app events 01:45 - In-app events and its impact on ASO 04:54 - What images you need for in-app events 11:11 - What in-app events has Mark tried and its impact 16:38 - Are you able to use event URL on social media? 21:30 - 3 factors for in-app events and its impact on ASO 28:15 -

Want to know how to make your app go viral or get your users to refer your app? You will discover the common mistakes that apps make while considering viral flows, KPIs that impact a referral flow, how dominant messaging apps are for referrals, and so much more. Today’s guest Aurora Klæboe Berg is the COO of Medal.tv. Medal is the largest platform to record gaming clips and videos. Klæboe Berg previously served as the CEO of Megacool which she co-founded and has also held position as the VP of Business and Marketing at Dirtybit - the studio behind the popular game series Fun Run. The first Norwegian developed game attaining the top spot in the U.S App Store. You can watch this video: https://youtu.be/KpU-1IZTm3c Get our greatest growth hacks to increase downloads & revenue: http://www.appmasters.com/training ***************   Get your app audited: http://www.appmasters.com/audit ***************   SPONSORS Afraid of seeing your app users gone after you tried so hard to acquire them? This is somet

Should you be bidding on your competitor’s brand keywords? I’ll break down when you should do it and when you absolutely must avoid it. You can watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY1fBhguqn8 Get our greatest growth hacks to increase downloads & revenue: http://www.appmasters.com/training ***************   Get your app audited: http://www.appmasters.com/audit ***************   SPONSORS Afraid of seeing your app users gone after you tried so hard to acquire them? This is something that Storyly can help you with. Bring mobile native story format to your app only in 15 minutes. Increase your app engagement and user retention rates. Scaling your Apple Search Ads campaigns can be challenging if you don’t have the right tool kit. From market insights to automation tools, SearchAds.com provides everything you need in a single intuitive dashboard, so you can easily adapt, optimize and grow your mobile business in the App Store. App acquisition startup Bluethrone has bought mobile apps from

Discover the 3 main screens that have the biggest impact on your app's revenue. You can watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrxzA 2G-XTA Get our greatest growth hacks to increase downloads & revenue: http://www.appmasters.com/training ***************   Get your app audited: http://www.appmasters.com/audit ***************   SPONSORS Afraid of seeing your app users gone after you tried so hard to acquire them? This is something that Storyly can help you with. Bring mobile native story format to your app only in 15 minutes. Increase your app engagement and user retention rates. Scaling your Apple Search Ads campaigns can be challenging if you don’t have the right tool kit. From market insights to automation tools, SearchAds.com provides everything you need in a single intuitive dashboard, so you can easily adapt, optimize and grow your mobile business in the App Store. Tired of overpaying for App Store Optimization? Get unlimited ASO and app marketing support to increase your keyword

Discover how you can use content marketing to increase your app downloads. Today's guest is Sandra Wu, who has 5+ years of experience establishing content marketing as a major growth channel for companies. Currently, she is the Director of Growth at Himalaya. Prior to that she led the Paid Content Marketing team at Blinkist, an app that she saw grow to more than 14 million users. Learn more about The Art of Content Marketing: https://theartofcontentmarketing.com/ You can watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsoQIMQhueU Get our greatest growth hacks to increase downloads & revenue: http://www.appmasters.com/training ***************   Get your app audited: http://www.appmasters.com/audit ***************   SPONSORS Afraid of seeing your app users gone after you tried so hard to acquire them? This is something that Storyly can help you with. Bring mobile native story format to your app only in 15 minutes. Increase your app engagement and user retention rates. Scaling your Apple Search A

Discover how today's guest tripled his app income from $250 to $750 a month with just 15 downloads a day. Sobhan Eskandari is the creator of Penman. Topic Covered: 05:36 - How he started tracking his events with Firebase  09:14 - How the longer pricing page 4X his revenue  17:32 - Are you developing in Swift  18:07 - Does Apple test subscriptions before approving?  32:18 - How does NOT having his app name affect his downloads  36:27 - Ludo App Audit  44:16 - Admob question  45:27 - Possible to sell over $15 a month  46:59 - Does localization work?  51:37 - Does the AppAdvice affect your App Store ratings?  54:40 - Golf Mind Caddie App Audit  01:00:56 - How Sobhan uses push notification to increase engagement & sales  01:03:35 - How to anchor your prices You can watch this video: https://youtu.be/wlY7O8Vvsq0 Get our greatest growth hacks to increase downloads & revenue: http://www.appmasters.com/training ***************

Discover everything you need to know about growing your downloads on Google Play. You will discover how to do keyword research, black hat ASO strategies and what A/B testing you should be doing. You can watch this video: https://youtu.be/bzpmGeTS0WQ Get our greatest growth hacks to increase downloads & revenue: http://www.appmasters.com/training ***************   Get your app audited: http://www.appmasters.com/audit ***************   SPONSORS Scaling your Apple Search Ads campaigns can be challenging if you don’t have the right tool kit. From market insights to automation tools, SearchAds.com provides everything you need in a single intuitive dashboard, so you can easily adapt, optimize and grow your mobile business in the App Store. Tired of overpaying for App Store Optimization? Get unlimited ASO and app marketing support to increase your keyword rankings, downloads, and revenue. Learn more at ASO Masters. *************** Follow us: YouTube: AppMasters.com/YouTube Instagram: @stevepyoung Twitt

Discover the initial app development features you need to develop to drive mobile growth. Plus, you'll discover how to properly plan your app launch to avoid extra costs. Today's guest is Chaim Sajnovsky is the CEO and Founder of B7Dev, a full-service development agency, businesses trust us with their app development, big data, machine learning, and server side needs. Topics Covered: 01:20 - Proper onboarding flow  07:20 - 5X more subscriptions with trials  17:10 - Web vs App  22:11 - How often should you send push notifications  31:23 - Junglee Rummy App Audit  39:38 - What's the minimum downloads to 3X your revenue?  41:49 - Proper planning to avoid extra costs  51:00 Rainbow Ball App Audit  You can watch this video: https://youtu.be/hqgaLR8VoKs Get our greatest growth hacks to increase downloads & revenue: http://www.appmasters.com/training ***************   Get your app audited: http://www.appmasters.com/audit ***************   SPONSORS

How do you use online traffic to grow your mobile app downloads? Our guest is Thomas Petit, growth advisor and consultant for mobile apps. He has worked with 100+ businesses (25 in the last 12 months) from MVP to unicorns, as trainee, founder, employee, freelance, advisor, investor or mentor. Topics Covered: 02:02 - Why should you use online traffic to get app downloads  12:02 - What channels should you use for online traffic  14:15 - How to use Pinterest to drive traffic  15:34 - Blinkist Example  16:10 - Should we use different ad creatives  21:17 - Fabulous online onboarding flow  27:06 - Should you use Spanish in screenshots in Spanish Mexico  30:51 - How to convert paid content sign ups into subscriptions  37:41 - White Noise and Lullaby Lounge App Audit  51:35 - Can you provide sample of an app that lowered their price successfully?  54:52 - Who's Up?! App Audit  1:00:07 - Is it better to start with a higher or lower price? 

Today's guest successfully sold her app portfolio as a solo founder. You will discover how she decided to go with the eventual buyer, her #1 tip to weed out all unlikely buyers, and how she comes up with app names that are simple and GREAT for ASO. Topics Covered: - Why she decide to sell - key lessons - Her #1 tip to weed out unlikely buyers - How she calculated her "number" - How do she comes up with simple app names that are also great for ASO - Her #1 tip to grow downloads as a new app - Why she decided to stay solo instead of building a team Jenny Talavera is the Founder and Chief Creator at Treebetty LLC. Show Mentions - RevenueCat SPONSORS CHECKASO is an analytical ASO platform that provides you with up-to-date data on keywords, competitors, ratings, and reviews. It also rates your ASO level and gives you custom tips on how to improve it. This way, you can increase your app page visibility, organic traffic, and installs with every update. Try it now for 7 days for free at checkaso.io. Through keyword a

Here's a simple in-app marketing strategy that will increase your app engagement and sales using a feature that your users already know and love! Check out Storyly: https://appmasters.com/storyly You can watch this video: https://youtu.be/-hdkHpDmYJk Get our greatest growth hacks to increase downloads & revenue: http://www.appmasters.com/training ***************   Get your app audited: http://www.appmasters.com/audit ***************   SPONSORS Scaling your Apple Search Ads campaigns can be challenging if you don’t have the right tool kit. From market insights to automation tools, SearchAds.com provides everything you need in a single intuitive dashboard, so you can easily adapt, optimize and grow your mobile business in the App Store. CHECKASO is an analytical ASO platform that provides you with up-to-date data on keywords, competitors, ratings, and reviews. It also rates your ASO level and gives you custom tips on how to improve it. This way, you can increase your app page visibility, organic t

Discover the growth hacks to accelerate your app business growth. Today's guest is Michael Shubin who started his mobile marketing career in 2009: since then, as Head of Mobile Marketing at ABBYY, he launched 50+ apps. In June 2019, Michael finished his career at ABBYY to focus on Apple Search Ads. Later that year, Michael invented ASA Framework, which allows advertisers to continuously optimize and scale Search Ads campaigns. Connect with Michael: https://angleconnect.com/ Topic Covered: 02:20 - Michael's ASA Framework  04:54 - ASA Search Tab Placement  09:01 - What's the ideal CPT for discovery campaigns  12:48 - Do you use the CPA goal with ASA  18:50 - Apple Search Ads attribution  19:01 - How to use just Apple AdServices for attribution 26:33 - A hack to see low volume keywords from your discovery campaign  29:34 - Blade Match App audit & ASA strategy  41:32 - Negative keyword management  48:48 - SAFE4R App audit  01:20:42 - A trick to

Today's guests are founders of Vidlet, a powerful digital platform and expert professional services for conducting remote qualitative & hybrid research, around the globe, using smartphone video. They talk about selling their previous business, why it's important to use your own product, and how do you get valuable customer feedback. Doreen Lorenzo and Patricia Roller are the Co-Founders of Vidlet. Show Mentions - Fav app: Dark Sky - Fav app: Calm SPONSORS CHECKASO is an analytical ASO platform that provides you with up-to-date data on keywords, competitors, ratings, and reviews. It also rates your ASO level and gives you custom tips on how to improve it. This way, you can increase your app page visibility, organic traffic, and installs with every update. Try it now for 7 days for free at checkaso.io. Through keyword and market insights, SearchAds.com can help your Apple Search Ads campaign to find the most valuable prospects and convert them into users in the most effective way possible. Advanced automati

All the tips and strategies you need to know so you don't waste money developing app features that NEVER get used. Joining me is Austin Betzer who is the founder of Strides - an amazing team of developers and designers that bring real products to life. Their main focus is designing & developing full-scale mobile applications, for iOS, Android, and Web. Topics covered: 03:45 - How to build an app fast   05:38 - How to build the right features in the beginning  06:47 - Using Typeform for customer research  07:30 - How to find your early customers for feedback  10:01 - How Austin got started his company   11:13 - How he found his first freelancing clients  11:40 - How to post in FB groups and Reddit subreddits organically  14:39 - Any tips on making app promo videos  20:33 - Stark App Audit  29:14 - What is the #1 app development pitfall? (starting too big)  31:46 - What is Austin's tech stack?  32:47 - What if the client's app ide

Today's guest owns and runs 7 different companies including a software development company, Paladin. You will discover how to gain proof of concept and build an MVP before spending a dime in product development. Dave Chesson is the creator of Kindlepreneur.com, a website devoted to teaching advanced book Marketing which even Amazon KDP acknowledge as one of the best by telling users to “Gain insight from Kindlepreneur on how you can optimize marketing for your books.” He’s also the founder of Publisher Rocket, a book marketing software, and Atticus.io, a book writing and formatting software. Topics covered: - How he first started - How to market before building the product - How to get outside traffic (including his favorite tips) - Why he decided to build a Progressive Web App - Partnership tips that led him to running 7 different companies Dave Chesson is the Founder at Kindlepreneur.com and Co-Founder at Atticus.io Show Mentions - Paladin - Front  SPONSORS CHECKASO is an analytical ASO platform that p

How aggressive should you be with your pricing page? Should you show it as the first page when a user first opens your app? Or should you have a couple of screens before showing the actual pricing page? Which onboarding flow do you think increased conversions by 234%? Thanks to Bart for running this test! https://apps.apple.com/app/resume-builder-resume-creator/id1236582597 You can watch this video: https://youtu.be/UFdzpMEDAyE Get our greatest growth hacks to increase downloads & revenue: http://www.appmasters.com/training ***************   Get your app audited: http://www.appmasters.com/audit ***************   SPONSORS Scaling your Apple Search Ads campaigns can be challenging if you don’t have the right tool kit. From market insights to automation tools, SearchAds.com provides everything you need in a single intuitive dashboard, so you can easily adapt, optimize and grow your mobile business in the App Store. CHECKASO is an analytical ASO platform that provides you with up-to-date data on key

This week, we have my friend and designer Rich Wagstaff. We will discuss simple UI/UX design to help you maximize your app's revenue potential. Topics Covered: 01:17 - What are the first things you're testing when you first launch your app?  08:27 - Which test won onboarding flow? 17:05 - What are you looking at when doing competitive analysis? 23:26 - Merrit app audit  39:12 - Is the monthly subscription good for profits?  42:52 - Sudoku app audit  58:21 - Which test graphics vs text?  Check out Rich's apps: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/crossword/id1330947092 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/3-minute-mindfulness/id982502810 You can watch this video: https://youtu.be/FLBfIHXnCPo Get our greatest growth hacks to increase downloads & revenue: http://www.appmasters.com/training ***************   Get your app audited: http://www.appmasters.com/audit ***************   SPONSORS Scaling your Apple Search Ads campaigns can be challenging if you don’t have the right tool kit. From

Today's guest is Seth Miller who is the CEO at Rapchat - the #1 app for making music on your phone with over 7M music creators on the platform. Rapchat lets you create music and beats without using a computer to be heard, record, share, and get noticed. You will discover: - How he went from an app in college to getting into 500 startups - How he built the first 10X feature - The more niche the better in the early days - How to find product market fit using surveys - How to use instabug feature to get surveys - How did the fundraising questions change from the first to the second investment - How to use revenue-based financing to get you to the next stage - What marketing channels are working today Seth Miller is the Founder and CEO at Rapchat. Show Mentions - Product Market Fit Formula  - Braavo - Fav app: Opal  Auto Sleep SPONSORS CHECKASO is an analytical ASO platform that provides you with up-to-date data on keywords, competitors, ratings, and reviews. It also rates your ASO level and gives y

Looking for app ideas? We review a simple text editor app that is making over $10,000 a month!  When you are first getting into iOS development, it's good to start with app ideas that are already generating money.  See our other million-dollar app ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8CYxrOmdp4&list=PLNtGHeg6BDqG8hy6VY2zeyTqrR8ECOWZq  You can watch this video: https://youtu.be/BiRaC_IBMiE Get our greatest growth hacks to increase downloads & revenue: http://www.appmasters.com/training ***************   Get your app audited: http://www.appmasters.com/audit ***************   SPONSORS Scaling your Apple Search Ads campaigns can be challenging if you don’t have the right tool kit. From market insights to automation tools, SearchAds.com provides everything you need in a single intuitive dashboard, so you can easily adapt, optimize and grow your mobile business in the App Store. CHECKASO is an analytical ASO platform that provides you with up-to-date data on keywords, competitors

Why a no code app builder? Today's guest is Christina Chen, Lead Product Designer at Bravo Studio. Bravo Studio App, a platform that aims to bring all the power to the designer by enabling you to own the entire digital product creation workflow. From idea to ready-to-publish, fully native apps without any code. Christina Chen is the Product Designer is Bravo Studio. Topic Covered: 01:21 - Why a no code app builder?  06:16 - Can an interesting app could be built entirely with a no-code tool?  11:45 - What do we need before we start using Bravo (such as designs, mock-ups etc)? 15:00 - Should we hire a service like UserTesting to get initial feedback?  19:15 - What makes Bravo different from other app builders?  25:30 - Spoiler Talk App Audit  35:45 - How to build an app with Bravo Studio 50:12 - TOTOKO App Audit  You can watch this video: https://youtu.be/S6n0MqD6Kiw Get our greatest growth hacks to increase downloads & revenue: http://www.appmasters.com/tr