When the Apple App Store launched in July 2008, it only offered users access to 500 apps. By July 2009 this number had grown to more than 50,000, a few months before the Android Market relaunched as the Google Play Store with 16,000 apps available. As of March 2017, the Google Play Store has 2.8m…
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The bustling beauty industry shows no sign of stopping, with an estimated £16 billion being generated by the industry in 2016 alone. There is an abundance of beauty salons all vying for the attention of a captive audience, all hoping to stand out from the crowd. So how exactly do you go about it? Well,…
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Both marketers and app developers are finally embracing the importance of App Store Optimization (ASO). The internet is producing increasing amounts of ASO-related material, but its complexity can sometimes be overwhelming. Although ASO normally follows the logic of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store can each have…
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In a world of organic marketing strategies such as content marketing and social media engagement, it can be very tempting to focus solely on non-paid marketing techniques to boost app installs. Whilst there are various effective ways to do this, the reality is that you are most likely delaying the ROI kickback that paid advertising…
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It is becoming increasingly difficult for business owners to ignore mobile, and that’s good. Ten years after the launch of the first iPhone, more than half the mobile phones currently in use are smartphones. And two years have passed since Google first announced that the number of searches taking place on a mobile device exceeds…
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There’s a very good reason for wanting to get users to review your mobile app, and it has nothing to do with vanity. User reviews – whether it is of a product, service, company or restaurant – act as form of social proof, and we see ourselves and others being influenced by this daily. And…
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Writing a blog with so many potential puns and doing all I can do avoid them is going to be no easy feat. It’s likely to be tiring, exhausting even, but as long as I tread carefully I’m sure Audi fine. And we’re on our way. Whether you’re looking to start from scratch, wanting to…
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Unlike the other app builders we have previously written about, Jan Koum lives a life that is much more low-profile. This is all the more incongruous given the fact that he created the second most used app in the world: WhatsApp. But as you learn more about Koum, you discover that it is perfectly in…
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With just 24 app icon slots on the first page of an iPhone home screen, or 28 if you have a fancy iPhone 7, creating the perfect app icon is a vital step in user adoption. I once met someone who had an app icon containing every letter of the alphabet on his homescreen, but…
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If you didn’t already know, people are using their phones a lot. Smartphone technology has permeated almost every aspect of people’s day-to-day lives, from socialising to shopping. The way we eat hasn’t been left untouched, either. Whether you’re browsing through Pinterest for recipes or sharing your culinary creations on Instagram – your smartphone has had…
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