| Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSvPVusLWcA |
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| Readwise URL | https://read.readwise.io/read/01kty5b2xh9jzp6qz3bvx2wq8b |
| Readwise ID | 01kty5b2xh9jzp6qz3bvx2wq8b |
| Date | 2023-09-19 |
| Author | App Masters |
| Category | video |
| Cover image | https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NSvPVusLWcA/sddefault.jpg |
how do you leverage Reddit to build a community and then also help promote your app here to break it all down is an indie developer you’ve seen success on Reddit he’s going to break down those strategies so let’s bring in relay [Music] actually the initial attraction is the most important thing like you can spend as much money as possible and still not get enough traffic and there are certain ways through which we can get downloads without in even investing money so the
first thing what I did was give away I started giving away a lifetime subscription of my app in different subreddit I have made a list of all the blog posts those who do the giveaway of promo code also so from that way I have a list when I publish the app my app is a meditation motivation app in my city they have a bigger audience of those who practice meditation so got in touch with them and shared my app with them and the third set is you I used was promoting my
app in subreddit like creating our own subreddit then there are specific subreddit through which we can do giveaway and they are also subredded for developers through which we can do giveaway but on those upgraded they only allow for developers to do the deal of it which subreddits are you promoting this giveaway in there was one help depression then app hookup then Google Play deals these are the top three was it easy to do the lifetime giveaway on
app hookup first thing first is to contact the moderator as the applicant moderator team is really great so I got in touch with them and I discussed with them that whether I can do promotion or not they are strict about not doing any promo code giveaway so only thing possible was making the lifetime subscription free so I did zero pricing for iOS version of my app and within two days I got like 1000 plus downloads so what we did for one of our apps we did
the same lifetime offer away for free we got 12 000 downloads I added the response after the paywall we got 150 new ratings and then we were able to make one thousand dollars because some people I’m imagining that’s what happened didn’t actually scroll down enough to see that the lifetime offer was free and ended up just purchasing our yearly subscription I love this lifetime offer giveaway especially as a new app because you can inject new downloads and then if you’ve been
following the channel you can sort of exchange those downloads for Ratings to have more social proof so one you’re like hey app hookup generic for everybody to find the right subreddit that is relevant to your type of app yours is motivation so you went under depression and things like that and then promote the app and reach out to the moderator first one more thing for Reddit is like you cannot just simply start posting about your app and read it you need to earn Karma also go to separate like get motivated or memes and
um search search it via all time top rated and then you can repost those posts here let’s give an example get motivated yeah it’s a 20 million subscribers go to top top and then go all time yeah and I posted the same post with the same subtitle and I got around one or two Karma through this post only and were
you giving that away in the same subreddit or a different subreddit no what I did was like I created subrator of my own okay and uh I did post in that subreddit and through that subreddit I cross posted in this updated so I get um more traffic into my own subreddit what’s the motivation behind creating your own subreddit so it creates an audience uh through which I can communicate directly and I can do giveaway of my app also have you seen
any benefits to this I mean when I do giveaway of my app and all then there is a sudden jump in the downloads also love it okay so if you just do a giveaway within your own subreddit yeah so I don’t have to take permissions when we post from Android device and add iOS device it is targeting if you post from iOS device it targets most of the iOS
audience um I see what about web I’ve always just posted it on the web like this does it matter at all so it matters but it will give you lesser audience of IOS and Android let’s get into the heartfulness community side of things too yeah so heartfulness is a meditation Community which focuses more mainly on a hard part while meditating so I got in touch with them it’s a NGO so they don’t charge us anything so if you want to give away
something it should be free one thing I noticed was like if we post on a post about images and only images the people were not much attracted to the images as compared to Reels I took some reels from Instagram and just started posting it and it got me decent number of member in my subreddit and when we shared these things in gym subreddit or some others upgraded that is related to
motivation they get a they can see the see the good content and they can follow us have you figured out like in terms of when to post when is the best time to post niele yeah so um during Friday uh or on Thursday is the best time because in during this period there will be Saturday and Sunday which will be holiday for everyone and mo if uh I mostly target for the Western audience so my post timing is as per their
daytime if you had to pick just one is there one subreddit that you would focus in on it completely depends on what kind of app we have like I have a app for motivation meditation but if you want to go for any separate that supports all kind of app it should be app hookup for sure and we should not post it regularly like if they have a rule for around if we post once next post should be after two months or three months like that
when you’re live on app hookup do you do anything to just be like okay that first hour I’m gonna pay attention to the post reply to any comments because that helps the algorithm at all what I do is like I I try to reply as many comments as possible so that other can also see that I am actively replying for them and I’m not about is there anything that you’ve learned what makes a great app hookup post if you are trying to promote our app we should tell a story behind it if you
want to promote the app in nofap community we should say that I was depressed and all those things and then we can put it like it helped this kind of app helped me a lot like I saw one app that was for time table and all those things so what he did was like he said that we all have gone through covet and I was not able to put a timetable properly so I make this app and he didn’t put any link to the app he just said the app name and you can use this
promo code and you can use this promo code by going to sitting rasi says regarding app hookup sub I feel like most of the posters on there are more of app developers is the retention rate also good from Reddit traffic compared to say premium ads actually I got 1000 plus download in the first two days of the app and they are like until now I have like 500 users written so like around 50 retention I got from that that’s awesome man great the main thing
was I was communicating with them and they saw that I’m directly communicating and I was I tried to go to personal DM also to get their feedback if someone tries to um say that app is not working properly or something like that they they don’t like yeah that’s a great idea did you have to do self-promotion here is that what you had to tag it yeah yeah yeah so if you’re a developer and it’s your own app the moderator will most likely go to I’m going to see your account also I prefer that you should
delete the other posts that you have done for the app otherwise they will simply going to delete or suspend you from App it has to follow a certain format it’s usually platform app name what’s going free and then anything else you want to add to it like the a short description and then a link to the app and that’s pretty much it and if you try to do any type of like other links it’s just gonna get deleted really fast have you tried it on Android your Android version I started Android also but I saw that the free ones work way better than
the less price version discount I just have a feeling that a lifetime giveaway sounds so much better and it’s 150 right my lifetime was 150 so it’s like people are like yeah let’s do that I’m all on board doll says how many posts should we do in a single day that should not be considered a spam in other subreddits if you’re self-promoting your app then you should not promote multiple posts in a single day like if you are promoting it in subredded a b and c then their
moderator will go to your profile and see that you are posting the same thing over and over you will be suspended or banned from that separated Costa says Steve what do you think is a good retention rate for download to review and percentage out of 100 new users how many tend to leave a review on average about one percent custom yeah about one percent and if you communicate with them the percentage can be increased Romaine says on one good technique I learned on Reddit is to go to the relevant community and provide actual value in
your post then slide in soft promotion usually moderators will let it slide I went to the help depression this upgrade and I did it directly after some moderator if whether I can do a giveaway or not and they say that if the app is free and it doesn’t harm the people in the subreddit then you can do it and most of us are built are like this that only if you are going for the paid version of the app they will not allow it at all but if you’re going for doing
it for free and help the community then they will allow it