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Kitchen and Bath Decor
By Mary Hess August 29, 2019
They were perfect for our kitchen and mud room remodel. They guided us in sour countertops and cabinets choices. They gave us more practical ideas for our design. ...read more
Cosmetic Packaging Boxes - Custom Packaging Pro
By candacerighetti August 29, 2019
There has been years since we have switched to custom packaging pro as our vendor for packaging our products. You see I have a small eCommerce wholesale business and we are always in need for good number of cardboard boxes….. And our packaging vendor does a great job. ...read more
Texans Force
By Clinton Hart August 28, 2019
They have always provided on time service and done a professional job. They provide competitive pricing while providing quality workmanship. ...read more
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Creative Ways To Promote Your App For Free
After having completed an amazing app with the most appealing mobile UI design and having spent endless hours paying attention to detail, most businesses aren’t seeing the result they anticipated. They’re rewarded with merely a dozen downloads. This leads them to think that they’re lagging behind in terms of the content and start struggling with self-doubts. However, the fact is that the app isn’t seeing as much traffic majorly because it hasn’t been marketed right. To ensure that your app becomes the talk of the town, you need to come up with strong mobile app marketing strategies – free or paid. While it might seem to you that paid marketing campaigns might act better, you should know that it is not always necessary to spend truckloads of money into an activity which might as well be done for free. Take a look below at the simple ways in which mobile apps can be given the publicity that they deserve. 1. App Store Optimization (ASO) This is easy. It may take a lot of time to reach the top apps, but this is one unique way to definitely climb to the top. Simply ask users to write a good review and rate your app after they have completed a task. This will make your app trending and people will naturally start downloading it. Even the respective app store will recommend you. For a stronger ASO, conduct thorough keyword research and look into the most used keywords that are related to your app. Use these words to write a refined article. Add in some screenshots from your application and use a good video to demonstrate everything. This is how you can quickly reach the top. 2. Create a Dedicated Website The Google Play Store and Apple App store limit the description of your app and you may find it difficult to explain the utility and features in a few words. To avoid the fuss, leave a short description in the app store and get a dedicated website developed for your app. Explain even the minutest details on the website, as you can afford to expand and elaborate as much as you can. If people are looking for more information on your app, they will directly access your website and learn more about the app. You can even add a website link to the app store. Look for a web development company that you can rely on and explain your requirements to them. 3. Leverage the Power of Social Media These days, social media can do miracles. There are a thousand things that your app can do when you publicize it on Twitter. It aims to link all the people of the world, irrespective of their strata. Use Twitter cards in your blog and this would increase the number of your blog readers. You could even use Twitter promotions to increase the number of reads and downloads. Similarly, use Facebook to expand your app’s reach. Create a business page and use it to reach more people. Effective, smart, and quick, Facebook marketing is a weapon that no one in the marketing industry should miss out on. There are 1.8 billion active users of Facebook and the number keeps growing. Just have sufficient and engaging content for the world to witness. 4. Use a Blog to Promote the App Your app needs some good content related to it and blogging is a penniless way to spread the word. This is one of the best techniques to promote good content and bring in significant returns. Write an SEO enriched blog for better results. You will see significant returns, downloads, more reviews, clicks, and organic engagement. Another great strategy that you could implement is to encourage guest blogging. This will incorporate other people into your app ecosystem – user reviews are always taken seriously, and your app gets an instant boost in the number of downloads. 5. Get Your Hands on Email Marketing Use gated content to extract out email addresses of interested customers. This will streamline the exact number of people you will need for the application. Now start sending them emails to promote your app and take things forward. Reach out to them regularly and communicate with them. Use email communication to keep things alive and going. 6. Submit Your App to Review Sites The greater the number of reviews, the more will people start liking it. Getting an app reviewed by a third party website makes it more interesting and detailed. Your app will automatically gain more exposure with a greater number of people having access to it. The moment people believing that your app is of superior quality, there’s no looking back. Word of mouth spreads and your app gets popular. These are the top marketing strategies that you can use to promote your app for free. But with your app’s success, do not stop implementing these techniques. Keep uploading more articles and engaging content to keep them coming back to your app. And as always, thanks for reading! Stay tuned with AppMsytery for more app marketing ideas. Source Url- https://www.appmystery.com/trending/7-best-strategies-to-boost-your-mobile-app-downloads ...read more
By App Mystery September 02, 2019
Best Strategies To Boost Your Mobile App Downloads
Getting people to download your app can be very challenging – it was an estimation that stated that an average American downloads only 3 apps a month. As of the year 2016, a study conducted showed that Google Play and Apple Store sell about 4 million apps combined. There are so many options available that an app becoming popular and having millions of downloads is a rare probability. Luckily there are ways in which one can go ahead with this. Here are 7 best ways to boost your mobile app downloads: Work on App store optimization: ASO or App Store Optimization is a brilliant way to influence app downloads. Remember that it requires constant efforts from your part to make this successful. Remember that App store rankings always depend on metadata, which includes description, ratings and reviews, and App Store Optimization would include more than that – you might want to include the keywords in it too. Conducting A/B tests is another great way to go ahead with the marketing. The metrics that you can track would be keyword ranking, app store impressions, number of downloads. Encourage user reviews: when you are raising your app store visibility to increase the downloads, that is only one step taken. When your users will find your app, you will again need considerable amount of effort to convince your customers that your app is worth the use. This is where the user reviews come into play. Users always tend to rely on word of mouth recommendations, over any other forms of advertising. You could allow reviews through in app messages ( but be careful not to send too many notifications and bother them). Reviews are extremely fundamental to help your customers to figure out the quality, relevance and also provide a great opportunity for you to interact with the customers. If the users share suggestions or complaints, you could even respond to them, and tell them that you’ll incorporate those changes. That works even better for the users – you will get their trust and hence promote more downloads. Ensuring that your app doesn’t crash: users generally tend to share their grievances online – they do not like if the app crashes too frequently and they’ll complain about it on the online forum. After responding to these comments, your developers must quickly work on these existing problems, and then get back to the users. This is very important if you have to keep up with user retention. Take up an active approach, send your app through rigorous testing, so that all potential bugs be discovered, and your app is available with minimal or no errors. Motivate the users to make referrals: this is another great way to get in more users. Simply convert existing users into brand ambassadors, and give them an incentive in return. They will automatically start preaching about your app to others, and since it is word of mouth recommendation, you will get users again. If you are a car rental company, you could provide some free miles, and if you are cloud storage providing company, some extra GB data can be given away. Invest in content: create great content that will help your app reach its potential. Remember that content is king – it is capable to increase your visibility by a thousand folds. It could be infographics, online content, videos, or even sponsored content. It would depend on what your customer digests. For example if you have a gaming app, you could simply show your audience a visual of the rich graphics. Or if you have great utility apps, talk in depth about the usage and the vitality of the app. These would be absolutely crucial in deciding your app visibility and downloads. Engage well on social media: the solo platform that acts as a game changer – find out ways to reach out to millions of customers! Pay close attention to the user demographics and accordingly keep posting valuable blogs and articles related to the app that you are launching. Remember that is should not be limited to sales pitches only – it should stretch far beyond. Respond to your users there, and create a community that thrives because of the app. Influencer and community outreach: influencers dominate the advertising field. It has been seen that when a popular face endorses a particular product, the number of takers for the product massively increase. They have the power to affect the purchase design of your product, you just need to know how to go about it. Take a realistic goal and contact an influencer – and then let him/her pitch it in his/her own style. This should be sufficient to increase the sales dramatically! If you research the right kind of influencer for your community – you have already won half the game. With these techniques implemented, all you can do is measure, analyze and optimize the number of downloads. You would also need these insights to monitor all your future campaigns too – if there is a particular audience which has stopped catering to your posts, you might recognize the need to redirect them. Thus with the app metrics that you have collected, you can drastically change the way you campaign. Source Url- https://www.appmystery.com/trending/7-best-strategies-to-boost-your-mobile-app-downloads ...read more
By App Mystery September 01, 2019
The Unique Issues Involved in Appealing Juvenile Cases
Facing criminal or quasi-criminal accusations in a trial setting is an intimidating prospect for anyone, but particularly for a child who may not have a fully formed sense of what it means to be responsible for one’s actions and accountable to the legal system. At Connolly & Shireman in Houston, our attorneys provide juveniles with skilled, attentive representation. Juvenile law is one of our major practice areas, and attorney William B. Connolly is Board Certified in Juvenile Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. If your child is facing a trial in juvenile court or you would like to appeal a juvenile court decision, don’t hesitate to contact us. Experienced With Unique Juvenile Proceedings A juvenile trial (also known as an adjudication) takes place under a hybrid procedure combining some elements of civil and criminal procedure. This is a unique area of Texas legal practice. At Connolly & Shireman we are highly familiar with the juvenile law and juvenile court procedures and we are experienced at working within these procedures to pursue the best possible results for the minors we represent. During a juvenile court trial, the child’s lawyer needs to be prepared with accurate information to present to the court. We identify the core issues of the child’s case, thoroughly research the available alternatives to address these issues, and then advocate for the best placement and outcome for the child. We carefully research and prepare every juvenile case we take to trial and we also are regularly requested to represent juvenile clients on appeal. Our appellate experience keeps us attuned to preserving a record for proper review by an appellate court. Keeping an Eye on Long-Term Consequences Many parents whose children have been arrested believe it is important for them to go through the juvenile justice system in order to learn lessons about responsibility, and we respect that desire. However, it is also important to remember that under Texas juvenile law, the sentences minors receive in juvenile cases can have long-term ramifications well into adulthood. Children need to have someone there as an advocate to explore alternatives to a situation where the client will suffer negative lifetime consequences of having made bad decisions during childhood. At Connolly & Shireman we are highly experienced at guiding minors and their parents through juvenile trials and appeals. Contact us to discuss your options. ...read more
By Connolly and Shireman LLP September 01, 2019