5 Tips to Help You Promote Your Mobile App

When a market becomes that crowded, the question changes from "How can I make the highest quality app?" to "How can I make my app stand out from the crowd?" or "Should I use ASO services?" Well, ask, and you shall receive: here are our top tips on promoting your mobile app. Let's take a look, starting with.
#1:
Publish a microsite, and colonize social media
#1:
Publish a microsite, and colonize social media
So now you can sit back and watch the downloads (and that sweet, sweet ad revenue) roll in. Right? Wrong! Nobody is going to download your app because nobody is going to be able to find it. The very first thing you should do, preferably before you even publish your app, is to plant your flag in almost every social media platform, as well as to make your own microsite.
Doing so is going to help your app get noticed, and drive those first few downloads. The interactive microsite for the game Cheese Please is a great example. It even won a DOPE Award for site of the day. And this was all back in 2012, so the guys behind Cheese Please must have been visionaries. Didn't think you'd ever say that, huh?

#2:
Reach out to influencers and get some real bang for your buck
#2:
Reach out to influencers and get some real bang for your buck
Recent research has shown that 70% of teenagers on YouTube trust the people they're subscribed to over regular celebrities, which is an amazing stat considering that they're the audience you should be trying to reach. That's reflected in the fact that for every dollar spent on influencer marketing, American businesses manage to generate $6.50. Those are no small numbers.
#3:
Offer promo prices for any reason you like — so long as there's a reason
#3:
Offer promo prices for any reason you like — so long as there's a reason
Admittedly, this point only applies if your app is paid-for. If you're offering your app for free, there's obviously no way you can offer a promo price! But let's say your app for yesterday's weather is a premium, top-notch, best in class app which would normally cost £4.99. The best thing you can do is to offer a promo price. But crucially, it has to be for a reason. HoursTracker offered a promo price, and now Carlos Ribas is earning five figures a month. So why is that?
According to research by a trio of Indian psychologists (Mazumdar, Raj, and Sinha: 2005), giving a reason for your discount boosts how well your product performs. And really, the world is your oyster: pick any date. Give out a Christmas discount, a Halloween discount, a The-Elections-Are-Finally-Over discount… It doesn't matter why, but your discount will help your app perform around 29% better than if you didn't offer a reason.

#4:
Offer regular contests and prizes
#4:
Offer regular contests and prizes
One way of keeping people coming back for more is to offer prizes. A common configuration, which is one that's used by Supercell in Clash of Clans, is to offer increasing rewards for each day that you log in in succession. 8 Ball Pool is another popular app, this one from Miniclip, which offers daily slot machine prizes; this has helped Miniclip earn over a billion downloads across all platforms.
This keeps people logging in, which is the most important thing, because nobody logs in just to get the prizes. They get the prizes, and then they play. And hey presto: you have thousands of customers interacting with your app, clicking on ads and buying premium content every single day!

#5:
Sometimes the old ways are best
#5:
Sometimes the old ways are best
These totals will be driven in part by the fact that more and more apps are advertising within other apps, but the fact that the total cost per click shot down by such a large margin shows that while we may want to do something that's frankly more interesting, like using user generated content or utilising influencers, bread and butter marketing is anything but dead.
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