Digital Summit Denver: App store ratings and reviews have a large impact on how consumers of your applications can engage with your brand. This short presentation suggests you use the following steps: Monitor Invite Respond
7. 7
Monitor – The Store
Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.
Social Team and Customer Support …
You Are Not Alone
Have a Plan, Work It
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11. 11
Invite – Be A Friend, Not A Stalker
Give Them Time
Complete Core Task(s)
Respect Their Decision
Later = Maybe
No, Means No
Brooks Grigson | @bgrigson
12. 12
Invite – Ask Again
Major New Features
Respect Their Decision
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60% Consider reviews important to when researching
80% Influence their decision to purchase
Only 7% never look
5-9% revenue increase for 1 star improvement on Yelp
Amazon, Best Buy
Yelp, Foursquare
Movies, books, music
Travel, Hotel, Air, Cars and even drivers
Healthcare, Beer, Wine, Art and so on
Like Legos
Love
Hate
Improve
Apathy
But we are not here to debate the merits
Help customers
Improve App Store Optimization
More reviews
Look amazing
KPIs
Take the view of helping your customers
Monitor
Invite
Respond
Who is using a social media monitoring tool like Hootsuite, Radian 6, Sysomos or similar?
- Are app stores so different?
Social & CS already know how to triage use them
Are they giving you feedback?
Plan – work it
Hostage Review – keeping stars
Bug – review crash logs, check date for API
System Issues
Use cases not previously considered
Nice to know
Pain points
What similar users like/dislike
You might find people really like you and let your competition know
Track over time
Interruption
Settings – ex: 3 opp to help resolve
Dive In – Uber & apple & google
Let them use the app, get to know it
After they complete core task(s)
Respect their decision
Later, maybe but don’t get pushy
No, means no
Use sparingly
Major new features
For Maybe and No answers, but better be worth it
90 – 9 – 1 Jakob Nielsen
Customers may be different
Nielsen suggests “make it easy” to improve engagement
Customer Service help resolve issues
Iterate and build new solutions
Don’t wait months to release
How do people know? Social, blog, email, notifications, etc
Keep doing this, mobile doesn’t stop
Monitor
Invite
Respond
Compare RunKeeper vs Starbucks
Tools
Appbot, AppFigures, Others may offer
Our clients
Increase # of ratings, Decrease negative (Help Customer)
How?
Zen Desk or existing CS process
Top Apps 1-5 have 2x # of ratings as 6-10