How to Fund App Marketing Without Losing Equity

Today's guest, Jordan Blackman, has worked on multiple 10 figure products for companies like EA Sports, Ubisoft, Zynga, The Pokemon Company, AMC Networks, Ellen Degeneres, and many more. You will discover a few easy ways to increase your game's monetization, his process for evaluating a product and the biggest mistakes he see when it comes to mobile games. Jordan Blackman is the Owner of Bright Black Associates. Show Mentions - Playmakers Podcast - Game Analytics - How To Double Your Game's Conversion Rate in The Next 90 Days - Fav app: Waking Up SPONSORS Want to scale your growth faster? GamesBoost42 gives you early access to your App Store revenues allowing you to multiply your growth without losing equity. See how they can help by visiting GamesBoost42.com. B7DEV.com is the app development firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurs go from app idea to success because they understand startups and don’t charge you huge fees just to get your app off the ground. Learn more at B7Dev.com *************** Follow us: YouTube: AppMasters.com/YouTube Instagram: @stevepyoung Twitter: @stevepyoung Facebook: App Masters ***************

9 Mars 202137min

Should you hire a freelancer or app development agency? Are you getting a warranty for your code? And how do you ensure that your code will actually be delivered? In part 3 of our YouTube series on how to build an app startup, you will discover how best to hire developers and get the most accurate quotes. Topics covered: Freelancer vs dev shop Should the developer have made similar apps in the past? Build for both or start with one platform (Google vs Apple) How to ensure dev won’t steal app idea How to ensure dev won’t resell your code? Get our greatest growth hacks to increase downloads & revenue: http://www.appmasters.com/training *************** Get your app audited: http://www.appmasters.com/audit *************** SPONSORS GamesBoost42 helps you increase your revenue and grow faster without investors and publishers. Get access to your App Store revenues faster and keep 100% control of your company! Learn more at GamesBoost42.com. B7DEV.com is the app development firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurs go from app idea to success because they understand startups and don’t charge you huge fees just to get your app off the ground. Learn more at B7Dev.com *************** Follow us: YouTube: AppMasters.com/YouTube Instagram: @stevepyoung Twitter: @stevepyoung Facebook: App Masters ***************

8 Mars 202125min

Lower your app development costs and discover the basic framework to build your minimum viable product (MVP). In part 2 of your "How to Create an App Startup" series, you will discover the best way to build your MVP and communicate the idea to a developer. Topics: The best way to show the developer your idea How to decide MVP features How to create a specifications doc Tools to help you create an app prototype B7Dev http://b7dev.com/ SPONSORS GamesBoost42 helps you increase your revenue and grow faster without investors and publishers. Get access to your App Store revenues faster and keep 100% control of your company! Learn more at GamesBoost42.com. B7DEV.com is the app development firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurs go from app idea to success because they understand startups and don’t charge you huge fees just to get your app off the ground. Learn more at B7Dev.com *************** Follow us: YouTube: AppMasters.com/YouTube Instagram: @stevepyoung Twitter: @stevepyoung Facebook: App Masters ***************

3 Mars 202122min

Today's guest is Dan Clark, the CEO of Brain.FM. You will discover how he went from working for free to now CEO of the company. Other topics covered during the interview: - How he found out about the app and applied to work for free - Why he used reactive native to build the first version - Why he decided to NOT build the app himself - How he grew by investing in the science of the app - How to overcome objections to the app's subscription - Was it hard to work for another company after having your own company - How to decide whether to build a lifestyle business vs going bigger - Why he brought on a COO - The lessons learned from going from a lifestyle business to one with employees - Why referral marketing is one of the best channels - What's working with LinkedIn ads? Dan Clark is the CEO of Brain.FM Show Mentions - Amplitude - Fireflies.ai - Fav app: Roam Research SPONSORS GamesBoost42 helps you increase your revenue and grow faster without investors and publishers. Get access to your App Store revenues faster and keep 100% control of your company! Learn more at GamesBoost42.com. B7DEV.com is the app development firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurs go from app idea to success because they understand startups and don’t charge you huge fees just to get your app off the ground. Learn more at B7Dev.com *************** Follow us: YouTube: AppMasters.com/YouTube Instagram: @stevepyoung Twitter: @stevepyoung Facebook: App Masters ***************

2 Mars 202138min

Discover the critical steps you need to think about before you start building your app idea. Topics: Create a company not just an app How to do market research How to simply validate your app idea How to turn your idea into a working prototype How to fund your app idea B7Dev http://b7dev.com/ SPONSORS GamesBoost42 helps you increase your revenue and grow faster without investors and publishers. Get access to your App Store revenues faster and keep 100% control of your company! Learn more at GamesBoost42.com. B7DEV.com is the app development firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurs go from app idea to success because they understand startups and don’t charge you huge fees just to get your app off the ground. Learn more at B7Dev.com *************** Follow us: YouTube: AppMasters.com/YouTube Instagram: @stevepyoung Twitter: @stevepyoung Facebook: App Masters ***************

1 Mars 202118min

This week we have Eric Wroolie from Overpass Apps joining us to answer all your app development related questions. He's got a popular YouTube channel where we shares a lot of great advice for app developers. Overpass is a mobile app development agency based in Oxfordshire in the UK Topics Covered: 04:06 - Trends in the app store 05:51 - Ad revenue getting harder to monetize 07.02 - How YouTube can help your business 16:33 - Motivational Quotes App Audit 24:26 - Native vs Flutter or Xamarin 29:34 - Should you be concerned about cyber attacks while building app? 32:06 - What benefits do you get by having a user register for your game? 34:40 - What is the minimum daily downloads to get revenue traction? 35:44 - Goddness app audit 44:37 - Should you monetize with monetize with Facebook? 45:30 - Why is Admob revenue getting more difficult 54:59 - Reward full screen ads vs video ads SPONSORS From Apple Features to ASO to influencer marketing, you will learn all the tools and tactics to make it in the app space. Learn more Appmastersacademy.com B7DEV.com is the app development firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurs go from app idea to success because they understand startups and don’t charge you huge fees just to get your app off the ground. Learn more at B7Dev.com *************** Follow us: YouTube: AppMasters.com/YouTube Instagram: @stevepyoung Twitter: @stevepyoung Facebook: App Masters ***************

25 Feb 20211h 2min

Today's guest is Lior Barak, a data strategist with over 12 years of expeirnece in the field. Lior worked for companies such as Nielsen, Cisco, Lovoo, Zalando and more. He is the author of "Data is Like a Plate of Hummus", Co-host of "WHAT the Data?!" Podcast and Co-founder of Tale About Data. You will discover... How indies can adjust to IDFA What metrics make the biggest difference for your app business How to build in-house data analytics tools Why you must have a communication line with your customers `What's the primary growth channel, is it still Facebook and Google? Lior Barak is the Co-founder of Tale About Data. Show Mentions - Fav app: Trello - WHAT the Data? - Data is Like a Plate of Hummus - Apple article about data - Lior Blog Post: Serving users no dollars - Lior Blog Post: Wabi-Sabi your data SPONSORS From Apple Features to ASO to influencer marketing, you will learn all the tools and tactics to make it in the app space. Learn more Appmastersacademy.com B7DEV.com is the app development firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurs go from app idea to success because they understand startups and don’t charge you huge fees just to get your app off the ground. Learn more at B7Dev.com *************** Follow us: YouTube: AppMasters.com/YouTube Instagram: @stevepyoung Twitter: @stevepyoung Facebook: App Masters ***************

23 Feb 202136min