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Contents
1- FIND A GURU AND FOLLOW HIM ...................................................................................................................... 3
2- FOCUS ON GOOD CONVERSION AND TRENDS ................................................................................................ 4
3- FIND NICHE MARKETS........................................................................................................................................ 6
4- LEARN ASO (ANDROID AND IOS) ...................................................................................................................... 7
5 - DON’T TRY TO MANAGE TOO MANY CODES - FOCUS.................................................................................... 8
6- LEARN TO BUILD AN EFFECTIVE PROCESS AND RIPEAT IT............................................................................. 9
7- LEARN TO MONETIZE YOUR APPS WITH AD’S AND IAP................................................................................ 10
8- ALWAYS CHECK NEW BUSINESS OPTIONS AND NEW THINGS..................................................................... 11
9- HIRE AMAZING PEOPLE WITH GOOD SKILLS AND LEAD THEM ................................................................... 12
10- NETWORKING IS THE KEY TO PROMOTE YOURSELF AND MAKE BUSINESS ............................................. 13
11 - NEVER GIVE UP; YOUR SUCCESS COULD BE WAITING FOR YOU JUST AROUND THE CORNER.. ............ 14
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1- Find a guru and follow him
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows
the way.”
John C. Maxwell
Ok; you decided to be an entrepreneur and you’re ready to start, but you don’t
really know what you need to do. Of course you can find in internet a lot of data
and tutorials; the problem is that there’s too much stuff and you can’t actually
check the background of every writer and blogger. You must find your guru; my
guru was Carther Thomas, an amazing marketing guy who started to make the
reskinning business, very easy for beginners, and made huge money from that. So:
find your guru to follow and try to understand what he made and how he made it
to be successful. Once you got it, make the same.
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2- Focus on good conversion and trends
“Don't follow trends, start trends.”
Frank Capra
The meaning of reskinning is following another app: you must follow trends to
make best results with your apps, and you need to get good conversion for it. The
Ecpm shows your conversion and depends from 4 main factors
◉ Niche of the app
◉ Ad’s company and their revenue sharing
◉ Your Skills
◉ Type of campaigns that ad’s company have: CPM,CPC,CPI
I got some experience in advertising as well, and I can tell you this: every ad’s
company is much different from the other, and you need to choose an ad’s
company with a good conversion for your app.
You also need to know how to control the ad’s company dashboard and the
options available for every company. Regarding this I made a course about
chartboost, that shows amazing examples about this system. Different companies
allow different options for campaigns: per impression (cpm), per click (cpc) and per
install (cpi). You basically need to make games that will show ad’s from different
topics and themes to get a good conversion.
Applovin - Great with casino apps, one ad id, does not have a complex dashboard
- Most CPI Campaigns
Playhaven - Great with casino games in iOS, but not stable at the moment - CPI
Campaigns
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chartboost - Amazing ad company, many options to control: if you know how use
it, you can make crazy results with popular themes and topics - Options use: CPC
and CPI
Admob - Good fill rate around the world, good for non games apps or general
games with no topic - CPC and CPM campaigns
Startapp - Good company for android giving good analytics and easy dashboard
control
Vungle: Great video ad’s company to monetize all type of games
Adcolony : Good videos company to monetize all type of apps with reward videos
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3- Find niche markets
If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you
can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
Sam Walton
Now something a bit little more specific about choosing the theme of your app.
You also need to choose also markets you can lead and not compete against all
big sharks with huge marketing budget. For example, if youìre from Holland, it’s a
good idea to concentrate on your local market and make app even localized for
your market. One more idea for micro niche market is casino games - like video
poker games. If you make video poker games , start understand video poker
industry and so on , it’s will help you with ASO and also will help you improve your
apps
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4- Learn ASO (Android and IOS)
“You can chase whatever keywords and phrases you like, but
at the end of the day it’s all about those conversions.”
Matt Webb
Ok, now I want to talk about one of the most important things you need to learn.
How can you get visibility for your apps in the different stores? The best way to do
it is called ASO, and it’s a crucial skill for you to learn. If you have no technical
knowledge and you want to get FREE downloads in the store, this is the best option
for you. Today, getting visibility in competition with millions of apps it’s a really
hard mission, and you need to learn and practice a lot until you understand how
the app store algorithm works. I hope my ASO course in Udemy will help you to
learn the basics: you can find of course a lot of free stuff on internet to learn the
basics, but to develop professional skills you will need to experiment and work on
it by yourself.
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5 - Don’t try to manage too many codes - Focus
“Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kid... but
stay focused.”
Donal Logue
Sometimes I see accounts of developers with a lot of apps in many different topics.
What you need to do is working, in the beginning, with 2-3 source codes that
already monetized, or you can work on them with your developers and make 10-
15 reskins from every code. It’s the only way to make some auto-system that works,
and allows you to gain more and more knowledge about building the process in
the best way.
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6- Learn to build an effective process and ripeat it
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right
things.”
Peter Drucker
Making a process automatic and effective is very important; it will give freedom to
do what needed to do improve your business, and your team will know exactly
what to do. Try to state clear rules about what needs to be done by your team, but
always try to leave some space for creativity. Your team can surprise you with
amazing ideas, and this can be one of your most precious resourses.
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7- Learn to Monetize your apps with ad’s and IAP
“The only people who care about advertising are the people
who work in advertising”–
George Parker
The technical word used in this business about making money with apps is call
“monetization”. It means “how you’re going to make money from your users”. You
have today 2 options to make money with FREE apps: ad’s, IAP or both. You need
to learn everything about ad’s companies and all the options you have and make
a lot of tests in order to find the right ad’s companies for your niche.
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8- Always check new business options and new things
“Give them Quality. That’s the best kind of advertising.” –
Milton Hershey
The only stable things in app business is changes. From the moment I started until
today huge changes happened in reskin industry. In the past every garbage you
put in the store was making money, today it’s very hard to make money with
spammy apps, and you can have your accounts marked by google and apple like
spammy accounts. You always need to be updated with new rules, new updates,
new ad’s companies and new options to make revenue, new hot themes, new
trends etc….. the keywords here is “new, all those developers who work slowly and
are not reacting quickly to these changes, have really hard life in today’s app
market.
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9- Hire Amazing people with good skills and lead
them
Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two
different things.
Byron Dorgant
“Hire slowly and fire quickly”: this is the first thing I heard when I started this
business. I think a little different: I hire every person who have the basics skills
make the job, then I focus more on the character of the person and its motivation
to success. I don’t care that much about experienced guy who want big money: my
tip for you about building your team is to choose smart and honest people and to
build your business with them. With a good training and motivation, a smart person
can become really precious for your success.
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10- Networking is the key to promote yourself and
make business
You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would
like them to go.
Jeanette Rankin
I’m sure that all of you remember the very first days; maybe for some of you these
are those days. Try help people around you as much as you can, and they will
help you to grow your business and to grow your knowledge. I always learn a lot
from people’s questions, and sometimes to answer I need to make a research. This
way I help myself, I learn new things and I try to talk a lot with my mates and co-
workers. I can absolutely say this is one of the keys of my success.
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11 - Never give up; your success could be waiting for
you just around the corner..
“In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell
hope.”
-Peter Nivio Zarlenga
This is something I really don’t need to explain. If you don’t understand this basic
but crucial concept, this is not the right business for you ;)