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Mashable. William Griggs, is a startup marketing guru who helps startups craft and implement their go-to-market and user acquisition strategies. You can find more about him at TheStartupSlingshot.com, or follow him @tssupdates. So you’ve got an idea for the next big thing. Awesome! How are you going to get people to know you exist? Your biggest competitor isn’t someone who offers a similar service.

It’s indifference. Below is a step-by-step process you can use to begin developing a unique and compelling marketing plan that will attract your first 1,000 users in no time. Figure Out if Your Startup Idea is a Great One In short, it comes down to where you are on your search to obtain a problem/solution fit, also known as product/market fit. Next Steps Build a minimum viable product Work to achieve problem/solution fit Suggested Resources Minimum Viable Product, a guide by Eric RiesRunning Lean, by Ash Maurya Determine How to Grow Your Startup Select Your Company’s Growth Engine Prepare For Launch Launch 1.

Key Ingredients To Make Your App Go Viral — Smashing Magazine. Mobile User Acquisition - Get users to download your app. Acquiring mobile users is critical for new apps – as new apps need enough data to see how users are using the app and optimize in-app items, loops, gamification elements and notifications. For established apps, acquiring users helps app store rankings which results in more downloads. From games to shopping apps and everything in between – we all want more users for our mobile apps. Here are five simple and cost-effective ways you can increase your app downloads: Localization Localizing your app (making it relevant to varying locales) is a great way to help increase downloads.

There are several ways you can localize your app, increase downloads, and acquire users worldwide. One of the easiest and most effective ways to do just that is to make the app listing accessible in a variety of languages. You can do so by translating your app title, keywords and description into a variety of popular languages such as Simplified Chinese, Spanish, French and German. Combine this with: Goal = LTV > CPI. 21 Hacks That Will Improve Your User Acquisition Strategy. A user acquisition strategy is the driving force behind all successful apps. You need to have users to generate revenue and market your game or app. Having users is also the social proof that potential users consider when downloading.

At this moment in time, getting those users is becoming harder and harder. Developers are releasing more and more apps on the iOS App Store and Google Play Store every single day. This increase in competition means you need to have the best user acquisition strategy possible. This list is ranked and considers both free and paid options for your user acquisition strategy. The Best Free User Acquisition Tips 1. Have you created an immersive message for your potential users? You need to share the experience of using your app or game with your audience, before they even use it. Download V-Play Now and Hack Your User Acquisition Strategy With These Awesome Tips! 2. App store pages, whether they’re iOS or Google Play, are the new shop windows. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. How my app got 455K users in the first week. In my free time, I enjoy working on cool small projects that help me, or others, in some way.

I came up with the simple idea of a TV show time calculator that ended up being a smashing hit. The stats After just one week of releasing the app, it got 455,826 unique visitors, 522,091 visits, and 688,280 pageviews. During peak hours there were 1600+ active users and the app was being mentioned in about 250 tweets / hour. During off-peak around 10 tweets / hour.

I was using Trakt’s API to grab the TV shows, and because of the overwhelming API requests, their servers had several outages (sorry, guys). GitHub, where the app is being hosted, passed this stress test with flying colours—not a single minute of downtime. The app got featured in Business Insider, BuzzFeed, Fast Company, Huffington Post, Washington Post, The Daily Dot, Metro, iO9, Vanity Fair Italy, Wired Italy, The Mary Sue, Papel Pop, frontpage of Digg, Reddit, and on many many other sites. ##How I did it WOW! ##How I really did it 1. 5 Strategies to Get Your Users to Market Your Mobile App for You. How To Acquire Users. The Ultimate Guide to Mobile User Acquisition | Branch Blog.