We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
AppsGeyser is an amazing online platform that gives everyone the opportunity to build apps in a few clicks. There is no need for any previous app making experience and no technical knowledge is required. Simply have your content ready. Most commonly, people start building apps using their website or existing web content. Once your app is distributed in GooglePlay and earning downloads, you can apply to the free to use monetization program.
Building apps and making money
Anybody can build apps on the AppsGeyser website. In fact, it only takes two very simple steps, and your Android App is published. AppsGeyser offers app makers tracking tools, a dashboard to create and edit the app, and most importantly, opportunities to earn money from their app. Many of our top publishers are already experiencing revenue-sharing from our embedded advertising. App users that have not yet reached the requirements for internal monetization can still be earning money from other monetization sources.
Let us look at the way in which AppsGeyser has helped our app makers:
Dmitry Smirnimitz is an app maker who has successfully created a network of 12 apps. When asked what he thought of the monetization program this is what he replied:
“AppsGeyser is such a simple program that enables people like me, that have no backgroup in mobile app developement, to get their ideas out into the mobile world. I would never have been able to start my app business without the help of AppsGeyser. I’ve used a range of app templates, including the web browser template, the YouTube template and a range of the fun games templates.”
The simplicity of AppsGeyser app creation process is waiting for you. There are apps to be built and money to be made.
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
Have you decided that is is time for you to make a free app ? Do you want to give up the day job and become an instant millionaire? There are so many questions that need to be answered, but the real question is: Is it really that easy to do? If becoming an app maker millionaire is so easy, then why haven’t more people made apps and given up their day jobs? The answer is quite simple. Most people really do not understand the simplicity behind making apps with app making platforms like AppsGeyser, and have not used the easy to follow after-app-advice that will push your app from creation to success. To make an app and get rich, you can’t just sit back and wait for the cash to roll in.
OK, so the title of this post is totally misleading. It is not possible to just make an app and get rich immediately. There is plenty of work to do first, before you get rich. Making money with an app can be, however, a reality – if you set your mind to it. To make it rich in the app market, you need to plan every aspect of your app business, including: creating a proper business plan, having a marketing strategy, and (never forget the importance of the analytic stage) tracking your app performance regularly.
If you want to get rich by making an app, then you need to ensure that your app will be downloaded and installed. You need to focus on marketing on social media sites, and on review websites. The more the link to your app appears, the easier it will be found in Google searches.
One common mistake often made by rookie app makers is that they believe that by charging $0.99 per download they will become millionaires overnight. Take note: people will not pay a cent for an app whilst there are free versions of competitive apps out there. App users certainly will not pay for an app from an app maker they have never heard of. There are many alternate ways in which you can make money, including affiliate advertising and in-house advertising and purchases.
Are you really ready to focus on your app career and make some serious cash?
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
Getting started in the app business has never been easier than it is with AppsGeyser. AppsGeyser offers you the tools to make a free Android app from scratch, without having to have any technical knowledge. Simply choose a template, upload your content and you are ready to go. The question remains, how can you turn app making into a money making scheme? Today we are going to focus on whether or not charging an app download fee is the way forward for your app business.
AppsGeyser’s app making tools have enabled hundreds of people to start an app career and begin earning a passive income, but has their financial gain come from app download fees? It would make sense. After all, you have spent time on planning, developing and marketing your app. Why shouldn’t app users pay for the privilege of using the app?
Include Pricing In Your Android App Marketing Plan
Have you been doing the math? If every one of your 1000 downloads had paid your $0.99 fee, you could have earned yourself $999. Simple. You are going to be getting money for sitting back and doing nothing. Sounds like a dream come true. But guys, I am sorry to tell you, this is a dream for many. App users are not always willing to part with their cash – research has shown that only 3% of them would be prepared to pay a fee.
There are many reasons why it is a lot more difficult to get people to download an app with even the smallest of fees. Ask yourself the following questions:
1: Would you pay for an app from an app maker that has few to no reviews?
2: Would you pay a fee for an app that has free alternatives?
3: Would you pay a fee for an app without first trying a free version?
Getting money from app users is not easy task, but every cloud has a silver lining. You can charge successfully for an app, but you first need to build a loyal audience base.
Whilst you are building your loyal audience base you can still be earning money. There are many alternative monetization schemes that you can incorporate within your Android app.
Alternative monetization schemes
While you are building your audience base, and offering free versions of your apps, you can generate revenue by:
• simple banner ads
• full page adds
• push notifications
• affiliate discount links
• affiliate pay-per-call links
• direct advertisement
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
Are you looking at making some money with your Android apps? With AppsGeyser you can create an app business brand with just a few clicks, and now it is possible to make money too.
There are 4 ways in which you can make money from your Android apps:
AppsGeyser offers a free monetization program with every template. Each template has built-in banner ad technology that is activated once an app reaches 100 downloads. You can utilize this technology once your app reaches the monetization requirements set out by AppsGeyser:
1: 100 daily downloads over a period of 7 days
2: Average usage ratio of 3 usages per download for a period of 7 days
All you need to do once you hit these requirements is to add your Admob (or relevant ad program) developer code into the monetization tab.
For more information on the free to use monetization program click here.
2: Sell Android apps
Not everyone knows how easy it is to make an Android app. Use our fantastic free app making tools to your advantage, and start to create Android apps for other people. If you want to sell Android apps, then you need to do the following:
1: Choose a template – Together with your client, decide which template to use, and what content they want inside.
2: Create a contract with the client – This will determine what the business requirements are. You need to determine if you will transfer the app to them completely, or if you will be required to update the app.
3: Transfer the app – To transfer the app, you need to provide the client with the APK and also, if agreed that they will update of the app, the login details to the AppsGeyser dashboard. AppsGeyser can change the login details to your client’s details on your behalf.
Instead of having integrated banner ads, you can choose to add private ads to your website. Space on a successful app can be worth a lot of money to an app maker. Private advertisements are where the big bucks lie. You cannot have ads on the app and on the URL, so it is important to decide if you wish to go down this route before you create your app.
To get private advertising, follow the following steps:
1: Find partners – You need to source companies that compliment your app business. Ask yourself: who will want to advertise with you and why? Think about location, audience age and style.
2: Plan advertising strategy – How much money are you going to charge for the ads? Are you planning on placing banner ads within your app, or on having internal links? Will you choose to have a range of both of these?
3: Contracts – As with all business, you need to ensure that your role is clear. We suggest that you set this up in a contract.
Private advertisement can bring you a stable income at a higher rate than affiliate marketing.
It is that to charge or not to charge question. We suggest that you think carefully about charging for an app, as a small fee could put many app users off from downloading your app. However, it is not always negative. Charging for an app is very common for apps that have premium features, or for an app maker that has a huge following. Many app users will not pay for an app whilst there are free versions of competitive apps in the market. However, if you have built a loyal following, the chances are your users will pay a small fee.
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
AppsGeyser is an easy to use app making program. All you need to do is click on a few buttons, and you have your very first Android app ready to distribute to any Android app market.
However;
There is more to app making than just clicking a few buttons and making an app. With AppsGeyser you can also make yourself some money.
AppsGeyser has an integrated ad monetization program. The monetization program is easy to use and could have you earning money within the first month of your app being published on GooglePlay. The video below will show you how easy it is to apply for the free to use monetization program. Simply meet the requirements, and add your monetization code into your app. Watch this short 1 minute clip to learn more.
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
AppsGeyser is a template based Android app platform, allowing you to create an app with a few clicks of a button. It is simple to do, even for those with no computer background at all. The feedback we have from our users is of utmost importance to us, and we have been asked quite frequently how it is possible to create a fully customized Android app. This is most certainly an important issue, and it is one that AppsGeyser has been addressing.
There are a number of reasons why people want to make a fully customized Android app.
1: Cosmetic: You need to take into consideration the look of an app. In order to make the most of your app, you want it to stand out and look different from other apps already on the market. When you are using a template, you are taking a chance of having numerous other apps on the marketing looking exactly the same as your app. For cosmetic reasons it is important that you add code to make the app more suitable to your style.
2: Brand: It does not matter if you are an existing business or a newly formed Android app business — all businesses should be recognizable through visual branding. Take a look at Coca-Cola and McDonalds. From a distance you will know what this brand is just by seeing their logo. Visual branding is vital for successful marketing
3: Tricks: Adding extra features to your app is also an important factor when planning your Android app business. Through adding codes you can create more features, such as a direct customer contact link, or a rate me code.
Please note that at present many of our templates can be customized; however, this is not available on all templates.
To add customized Android code you need to follow these steps:
To upload the code, please click on’Edit’.
Then click on ‘Advanced Edit’.
Choose Edit app to edit your free android app.
Scroll to the bottom and add in your customized code.
We wish you the best of luck with your app, and hope that you enjoy adding in customized code to your app.
Appsgeyser will be adding more codes over the coming few weeks. Don’t forget to come back and learn some more.
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
Do you want to start an Android app business? Then you are certainly not alone. Over 1 million apps have been created with AppsGeyser in recent times, meaning that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of people out looking to get their break in the Android app world. There are different reasons as to why app creation is so important. Some people simply want to take their current business and turn it mobile, whileothers want to create separate apps related to their business as a form of mobile marketing. And then there are those that want to start a career as a mobile app developer.
App making is seen as a business style that endorses a healthy work/life balance. To create apps you do not need to be online 24 hours a day or stuck in the office from 9-5, but can work around your own schedule. So, are you looking to join the mobile app world as an app developer?
5 Things You Need To Consider Before Starting an Android App Career
How do you start an Android app business?
There are 5 simple steps that you need to follow to see if you are ready to start your new life as an mobile app developer:
1: Idea – There must be a starting point for everyone, and in this business you need to have a clear idea regarding the topics that you want to create your app around. The style of app and content will all depend upon the reason you have decided to create the app – either for fun, for an existing business or as a marketing tool.
2: Research – It is not enough to decide that you want an app. There is more to it than that. Have you even looked to see if there is something similar already out there? It is time for you to do some research. Take a look at what is already on offer in the mobile market place and what you can put in place that will make your idea stand out from these. Do you know anything about your potential audience? What do they like and what will convince them to use your app?
3: Plan – Once you understand the market and the audience that you are aiming for, it is time for you to get planning. The first stage would be to decide on the content that you wish to use. From this information you can choose a template style that will complement the content. Another important part of the planning stage is the marketing. You should be researching and deciding upon your keywords in order to help the ASO of the app even before the app is created. The right keywords need to tie all your apps together.
4: Create – This is the easy stage. You have already got the idea, undertaken your research and have your plan ready. Now all that is left is for you to create your app. App creation with AppsGeyser is simple. Simply click on your chosen template, upload your content and click create. Done. We always suggest you test your app on friends and family before you publish to a public source.
5: Market – Go, go, go. If you want your Android app business to succeed, you need to let others know that it exists. I know we have spoken about choosing the right keywords to assist in organic searches, but this will not be enough to get your app recognised. You need to focus on social marketing and traditional marketing.
6: Enjoy – Time for you to smile and enjoy the work that you have put in.
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
In order to make the best from your Android app business you need to understand the way the Android app world works. Understanding the way people interact with their mobile apps is the key to getting the most from your Android app business. In the post today we are going to take a look at app interaction.
Leran to understand your Android app analytics
As a developer, you should strive to understand your users’ behaviors by monitoring your app reach, engagement and retention. How many of your users that download your app actually return to use your app? How many users on your free app with no ads return to your app Vs the number of users on your free app with ads? Do ads in your app make a difference to your usage ratio? What about to the retention of your users? Learning how your Android app analytics will help you create a proper business monetization and marketing strategy is key to your Android app success.
The most common of all monetization forms for Android apps is advertising. There are several styles of advertising, some which will be able to be integrated into your Android app template and some that you cannot integrate. In the past year, there has been a massive increase in in-app advertising on free apps, in fact there has been a 70% increase in the number of apps that now have in-app advertising.
Other top Android app analytics you need to look into are the behaviors of your user depending on your country, your region, it can also depend on gender, age and social class. These statistics will give you the knowledge required to know how to direct your on-going marketing campaign. Marketing your Android app needs to begin prior to your app launch, but will need to be tweaked and updated regularly based upon your analytic results.
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
Do you want to join the mobile world and get your content mobile? Then it is time for you to sign up to AppsGeyser. AppGeyser is a free online Android app tool platform that provides users with over 50 Android app templates allowing you to convert any content into an Android app in under a minute. Did you know that AppsGeyser has helped app makers from around the world create apps. In fact, over 2 million apps have been created to date.
create an android app with AppsGeyser
You can create Android apps with AppsGeyser in just a few clicks. AppsGeyser is a unique online template tool system, meaning app makers that have little to no technical knowledge can easily follow the step-by-step guides to create an app. What is more, not only does AppsGeyser assist with the app creation process, the team behind the program is on hand to provide assistance in the planning, creating and distribution stages. There is a wealth of marketing assistance on offer too.
The AppsGeyser support team are available to answer questions every day of the week via several different means. AppsGeyser has an active community on their social pages: Facebook, Twitter and Google+ . The official AppsGeyser technical support page, GetSatisfaction, is also a hub in which users are able to search for answers to their questions or submit a question of their own.
8 reasons why you should use AppsGeyser for your app creation needs:
App making training guide
You are never on your own when you create Android apps with AppsGeyser. It does not matter which stage of the process you need assistance on, the team is always willing and able to help. AppsGeyser will support your app from the idea stage, through to creating content, business planning, app distribution and marketing. The AppsGeyser Android app academy is a Youtube channel that hosts a range of one minute app making video tutorials, created to simplify every step of your app career path.
AppsGeyser, the FREE Android app builder platform is available for everyone to use with the latest of app tools. It is time for you to create Android apps, create a mobile business and profit from the mobile app world. What are you waiting for? Join the AppsGeyser app making community and get mobile today.
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
Making money from your mobile Android app is one of the most important aspects of app making for many of our customers. However, not everyone seems to understand that there are different ways in which your Android app can earn you some extra cash. You have already learned how you can create a free Android app. We have stressed the importance of creating an app empire, and we have taught you the secrets to successful app distribution. Today we are going to learn more about the different type of affiliate ads and how each different style of ad will suit different app makers.
Learning how to create your free Android app with the simple one minute guides we have provided in our Android app academy proved to you that you have the skills that are required to create an Android app empire. You have decided which of our app templates you want to use. You know the topic and you have also created your content. Well, now it is time to understand your audience, distribute to the right app store and learn how to monetize your app.
Let me remind you that there are monetization requirements that you need to reach before you can monetize your app. Once you have reached these requirements you will be automatically eligible to share 50% of banner ad revenue with AppsGeyser. Now for the real question. Do you understand what banner ads are, and what affiliate advertising is all about?
What is affiliate advertising?
Affiliate advertising is a way to use space on your app to promote a third party and earn money. You are the salesperson being used to promote another business. Affiliate advertising companies will read from your audience what type of content they like in order to source the most relevant ads that will be shown on your banner. In return for allowing other companies to advertise on your page, you earn money.
Take a quick look at your Facebook page. Can you see the little adverts on the right-hand side? These are a form of affiliate advertising. There isn’t a little person sitting there deciding what content to add in this space, but an affiliate company that has the tools that are able to read the content that you access from your computer. They will use this information to show you content that will suit you. The better the affiliate company, the more likely it is for them to have the right tools to source the right ads. Having the right ads will get more views, clicks, and sales which will result in more revenue for you.
What do I mean??? Are you confused with how this works? Let me explain.
How do you make money from affiliate advertisements and banner ads?
Affiliate advertising and banner ads work in a number of ways. These are: pay per click, pay per lead and pay per sale.
In order to know which of these styles best suits your needs, you need to understand what these styles mean and also which of these styles best suits your audience type. Once you decide upon your choice, you can then research which affiliate advertising company would be best for you. When you begin app making, we always suggest that you choose pay per click. Once your audience has been built and is loyal and consistent, then you should consider the other forms of affiliate advertising, as they are financially more rewarding.
Pay per view – This form of advertising is the most basic of all, and will earn you the least amount of money per view. However, what you are doing is ensuring some form of income. People that are on your app will be viewing your banner ads (as long as you have reached the minimum requirements and have your ad code in your app). Because there is no call-to-action required on behalf of the ad viewer, meaning they may view the ad but can simply ignore it and not click through, it reaps little benefit to the company being advertised. It is a piece of static advertising though, and for this you get a tiny piece of revenue. When starting out you are best to start with this type of affiliate ad to ensure you get some income.
Pay per click – This form of advertisement means that you will earn a small fee each time someone clicks through to an advertisement from your app. This is the most common type of affiliate advertising, and tends to pay more than a pay per view ad, but is still a low revenue earner. The reason this is the most commonly used ad style is because the revenue rating for pay per view is almost non-existent, and there is higher likelihood that someone will click rather than that someone actually purchase or fill in a form from a banner ad.
Pay per lead - These banner ads will give you a payment once a customer completes a form, or signs up for an offer after clicking from the banner ad to the advertised website.
Pay per sale - This is what it says. You will get a payment based upon a sale that has resulted from the lead on your banner ad. This will result in the highest percentage of revenue, but you really need to know your audience well to know if they are likely to purchase from the advertisements.
Check if you are eligible for monetization by clicking here.
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
Quick links – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 – Part 8 – Part 9 – Part 10
Have you considered how you optimize the profitability of your app in your Android app business? Most people look at banner ads and that is as far as they get in terms of monetization and profitability. I want to point out to you that in the Android app business world, profitability is not all about the monetary gain, but also about the lifestyle gain and other external gain that comes alongside success.
Today we are looking at the ways a successful Android app business will optimize profitability that will enable you to benefit from a wide range of perks that you have never considered possible for a business owner, especially in such a short space of time.
Android app business app success
Three ways in which if you optimize your profitability you will gain:
1: Speed of creating an Android app Business – One of the first, and probably the clearest indication that you are about to profit from your new lifestyle is the speed in which your life is about to change. By following the foundation rules that we have placed for you, you will see a lifestyle change in as little as just a month compared with the average 2 years spent on building a traditional start-up
2: Character building – You are certain to change as an individual whilst going through the process of becoming an Appreneur. The process you will be going through is going to push you through your comfort zone and bring you out the other side stronger and more confident in your abilities. There are going to be times when you simply do not believe that within just one month you can have a new business that could in essence change your whole lifestyle, it is the strength you find to carry on and push through these doubts that will build you as a person and also as a businessman (or woman of course)
3: Financial rewards – Of course, no one wants to create a business that earns them no money, after all what would be the point? What you put into building your Android app business is mainly time, but of course, time is money and you will be putting a lot of that in initially. But don’t fret, the time you have invested will be recouped once your business is running itself. In addition to gaining your freedom, you will also gain from banner ads, increased sales, internal ads, recommendations and a number of other ways in which you have monetized your app.
Over the period of just one month you will have encountered many questions, answers, barriers and so forth. I would love you to share your Android app business story with us so I can share it with others on our blog.
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
Quick links – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 – Part 8 – Part 9 – Part 10
We have come to the end of our building an Android app business in one month guide, I hope that we have taken you on a journey from which you will never return as the same person. This guide was written to help you focus upon your goals, to help you decide if this really is the path that you wish to take and to help make that path as straight forward as possible.
Today we are looking back over what we have learnt in the past 9 lessons and we will look at AppsGeyser will continue to support you through this magical transition from being a regular app maker to becoming an appreneur that is not only successful with one app, but with a completely new Android app business.
Do you want to become an appreneur? How can AppsGeyser help you?
What we have learnt throughout this ten part series that if you really want something enough you don’t need to pay out tens of thousands of dollars to someone to make your dream come true. In the app world it is not always about the notion of those with money can make money, not at all, creating an Android app business is all about you, your personality type and your willingness to sacrifice your time in the short term in order to gain long term benefits.
AppsGeyser can offer you not only the free Android app making tools that you require for the creation of your apps, but also the step-by-step guide that you need for every step along the way. AppsGeyser has been in the app creation business for a number of years, their staff for many more before that, and it is from this experience, the trails and errors that you can benefit without having to undergo the same long process as our own team have made in the past.
What does AppsGeyser offer you?
1: App making tools – This is definitely an ingredient that cannot be missed out. AppsGeyser offers you the opportunity to create a variety of Android apps at no cost. Not only are the app making tools free for you to use, you also have the ability to download the app to your own device to test it immediately after creation and adjust the app prior to publishing it in a public place. The app templates are created in order to ease the pressure from those with less or no technical knowledge whilst incorporating options for those with technical experience to play around with.
2: Customer Support – AppsGeyser will continue to support your needs from the very first moment that you contact us right the way through your app making career. Our team consists of sales staff, customer service staff and of course our highly recommended technical team. Each member of the team will work with you on an individual basis treating you not as a number, but as a person.
3: Marketing expertise – Having been there and created a successful business themselves the team at AppsGeyser has learnt many tricks when it comes to traditional and non-traditional marketing techniques. AppsGeyser works alongside large marketing companies, such as; Hunter and Bard whom will advise of changes in the marketplace and new techniques available to help you keep your app business in the limelight.
4: Monetization advice – The app world differs from the real world when it comes to monetizing techniques for your business. Our team attends conferences throughout the world learning the latest in monetization techniques. AppsGeyser’s goal is to provide you with the tools and ability to create a successful business, a successful business is one that makes money.
5: Step-by-step guide – Our highly recommended blog, which you are reading now, has all the information you will need to take you through every single step of the app making and Android app business creation process. The latest blog posts will always appear on your screen with older posts archived away within their chosen categories. If you want to find search for a chosen topic you can use the search facility and of course, you can always ask a member of our team to guide you to the relevant post too.
6: A community – Most importantly, AppsGeyser is a community based business, we love being able to chat with our customers, offer advice and technical tips and most importantly we love it when you, our customer, plays a social role in our community. AppsGeyser offers an online community within the social networks, Facebook, Twitter and Google+, as well as offering a service on the awarding winning Get Satisfaction site.
I hope that this ten part Android app business series has been useful to you. Please feel free to offer some feedback.
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
Too many ads can be very annoying for your app users and too little ads can lose you revenue, so how do you find the balance and get the right amount of ads for your app without losing revenue or annoying your customers?
Banner ad refresh rate
AppsGeyser understands that it is important for both the app maker and the app user to be satisfied with the app, and this includes ensuring that the app can earn the app maker money whilst not interfering with the user’s user experience.
The banner ad refresh rate was added as a feature on the AppsGeyser dashboard immediately after the tool was introduced by Google in 2011. The banner ad refresh rate allows the app maker to control how often ads are refreshed in their Android app. The reason behind this new feature was because AdMob, Google’s ad company understood that this feature was required to help monetize Android apps on a more personal level as each app audience has different requirements, by being able to personalize the ad refresh rate to suit their app audience app makers could ensure they get the maximum response from their ads and their users.
How much can you adapt your ad refresh rates?
Ads can be designed to refresh as often as every 12 seconds or as infrequent as 120 seconds, because each app audience is different, different refresh rates will need to be tried and tested to see which quantity of ads best suits your app audience.
How do you use the optimization strategy?
We suggest that you follow our optimization strategy to find out what ad rate is most successful for your app and best suits your app audience. It is vital that you monitor the results over a set period of time to that you are able to gain the full results.
How to optimize your ad refresh rate
1: The default refresh rate for ads is 60 seconds, we suggest that you firstly measure your income from this ad rate before you make any changes. Measure your income for one full 24 hour period.
2: On the second day reduce the ad refresh rate by 10 seconds, the ad refresh rate should now be set at 50 seconds. Again, measure your income for a full 24 hours.
3: This time increase your ad refresh rate from the default rate of 60 seconds to 70 seconds. Again, at the end of the 24 hour period measure your full days results.
4: Compare all your results from each day.
5: You should be able to see a difference in which way the changes have made a positive impact on your results, from this you can continue to play with the increments to get to your optimum number.
6: If you have seen at 30 seconds the results have dropped, but at 40 seconds they have increased, start to change your increments to 1 second changes to find the exact second that best suits your app. For example change from 40 down to 39, 38 etc…Each app will differ slightly depending on your app type and audience type.
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
If I got $1 for every time someone said to me, my app is being downloaded hundreds of times, but my usage ratio is only at 2, I would be a very rich woman. It is time that I tell you the secrets of increasing your usage ratio, after all if you have taken the time to make an android app, your users should be using more than twice.
make an android app successful and increase your audience
Research has shown us that only 16% of app are currently being used more than three times by app users, this means that these apps are not hitting the needs of the users and its time that we found out why.
Why is it important to increase usage ratio?
There are two reasons why it is important to increase your usage ratio:
1: Customer satisfaction – if your app is not being used by the user this means that you app is missing something, it is not useful to the app user and this is why they have failed to use it.
2: Money – That’s right, if your app isn’t being used, you will not make money from your app, affiliate advertising only makes money when apps are used and ads are seen, and private advertising may make you money initially, but once those advertising with you see that they aren’t getting referrals from you, they won’t renew their campaigns leaving you with no income.
How do you make an Android app user friendly?
1: Notifications/Alerts – you may have seen that AppsGeyser offers you the opportunity to send alerts to your users; this will gently remind them that your app exists, whether the app is used to notify them of a new deal, an app update, a competition, it doesn’t matter, the notification simply reminds the user that the app exists.
2: Social interaction – Get people talking about updates on the app, get those on your app to share information on their social networking profiles, this will again get people to remember your app exists and entice them to use the app
3: App Style – Have you really looked at your app with subjective eyes. Is it inviting? Are you images clear? Is your text laid out in an easy to read manner? Appsgeyser has a huge range of templates that you can choose from, maybe the template you have chosen is not right for your audience?
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
It was your dream to make a free Android app and to suddenly have your bank account full, but this isn’t happening, your app just doesn’t seem to be making you money, why isn’t your free Android app making money?
It is time to put away those Yacht catalogues, close down all those real estate websites and get back to work on your app because you seem to have missed a trick or two. Don’t worry though, Im here to remind you about the things that you forgot.
Your Free Android app can make you money
So what are the ways to make money?
1: Affiliate ads – This is something we all love to hate and hate to love, affiliate ads are those little banner ads that you see at the top or bottom of your app. You may not have realised it, but in most free apps in the GooglePlay store the apps have banner ads. You don’t believe me, go to GooglePlay and download a free app.
Affiliate ads are an easy way to make money because you don’t have to do anything and what is even better, once your app hits 100 daily downloads for a week with an average user ratio of just 3 your app will be automatically be eligible for the AppsGeyser monetization programme.
2: Download fee - If you already have a brand and reputation you may find that you are able to place a price on your app, just $0.99 is a fair price for an app, it won’t break the bank, but if you are having over 100 downloads a day, that is $100 a day revenue before you add any other form of revenue, not bad really $100 a day, that’s a minimum of $3000 a month just from a minimum amount of downloads. Most successful apps will see a much larger number of daily downloads.
3: Premium app – We aren’t big fans of paying for apps, afterall there is are so many competitors in the market at even $0.99 it’s a hard sell, however, using this premium app approach you are more likely to convince people to pay for your app. This is how it works: You create a basic app that is free to download, in this app is have some of your features, but not all, you can then create a premium app with additional features that users of your free app will want to download. Here you will be focusing upon upgrading your existing audience.
4: Private advertisements – Your app is amazing and so many people get to see your app so why not sell space on the app to other companies. Space on your app is worth a lot of money, it’s a way to get advertisements to a large audience. Take for example your app is about dogs, you can sell advertising space to a local dog trainer, a vet or even a pet store.
5: Sell your app – Not everyone makes an app to keep it, you can create apps and sell them to other businesses. Believe it or not, not everyone realises that apps can be created with a few clicks, you can use this skill and knowledge to your advantage by creating apps for businesses and selling them the rights to the APK.
There you go guys, from now on, no more telling me you can’t make money from your free Android app, I have given you 5 wonderful ways to make money and this list is just a basic list of ways to make money.
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
There are different reasons why you may decide to create a free Android app, you may be considering a way to help your existing business, after all free Android apps are a great marketing tool, and some people create a free Android app as a way to create a new Android business. It doesn’t matter what your reason for creating a free Android app, everyone wants to make money.
free android apps make you money
One of the easiest ways to make some money is by using affiliate advertising. You may have seen on many apps the little banner ads, but do you really understand what affiliate advertising is all about.
What is Affiliate Advertising?
How many times have you heard the words affiliate advertising? Not everyone really understands the full meaning of affiliate advertising. In short terms affiliate advertising is a way of promoting products online via a third party on your app. An example of affiliate advertising would be a company like McDonalds paying for advertising. The advertising company would create a banner ad for McDonalds and are paid for this advert. The advert that has been created would not be advertised by the company but instead would be given to someone else to advertise, someone like you. The advertising company then pay you for advertising this on their behalf.
How do you make money?
There are a number of ways in which you can be paid for having banners, they are: pay-per-click, pay-per-lead and pay-per-sale.
Different payment methods are suitable for different app makers and it is a case of knowing your audience is most likely to click on and pay attention to. You can make the choice of what type of advertising you would like when you sign up to an affiliate company.
Pay per click – This form of payment allows you to earn a small percentage for each click through to an advertisement
Pay-per-lead - Allows you to be paid only once a customer completes a form, or signs up for an offer
Pay-per-sale - Is what it says, is quite simply is a payment based upon sale that has resulted from the lead on your website.
AppsGeyer allows apps to become monetized once they have hit a minimum download ratio of 100 downloads a day for just 7 days with an average user ratio of just three usage per download.
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
In the past few days we looked at making money from your free Android app, after all, if you have taken the time and put in the effort to create an Android app from scratch, isn’t worth your while to make money from your free Android app?
Should I charge for my Android app?
One of the ways in which you can make money from your app is to charge a small fee in the Android app store for downloading the app, what is $0.99, surely that tiny fee would be easy to charge and with thousands of downloads, wow, you could have a nice little earner on your hands.
So, to charge or not to charge? That is the question.
When you decide on your plan for monetization you may consider the simple math, $2.99 for your app to be downloaded and you have a potential audience of, let’s be realistic, 200 downloads a day, that is a daily income of $897 from downloads alone. Fantastic, but, yes, there is always a but, will people be willing to pay for an app that they haven’t tested?
Believe it or not, it is a lot more difficult to get people to download an app with even the smallest of fees, if there are other competitors out there not charging a fee your app will very quickly end up at the bottom of the list for downloads. It is not all grey though, you can charge successfully for an app, but you need to plan it properly.
Marketing is key
The way in which we believe you can effectively charge for your app is through effective marketing, firstly, you need to have a network of free apps available so that your potential app users can see your quality. We also suggest that you have a simple trial version of the app that you are charging for. By offering a free trial version of your app you are throwing in the bait to catch the fish, you are allowing your audience to test the product, risk free, against your competitors apps. Attempting to get even $0.99 from a sale is hard work, in fact, even free downloads is not easy to begin with that is why your marketing is so important.
Alternative monetization schemes
While you are offering your trial version of your app for free you can still generate some income, it is not all grey and doom. You can earn money by using:
• simple banner ads
• full page adds
• push notifications
• affiliate discount links
• affiliate pay-per-call links
• direct advertisement
Important
Throughout your free trial version of your app you need to subtly add links to the download page of your premium version of the app, this allows the user at any point to buy into your business and your brand and become a loyal app user. Users will pay for value and once they understand the quality of your app and will trust that the pro ad free version will be worth the small fee you will begin to get payable downloads.
Let us know what you have decided to to, will you charge or not charge for your free Android app?
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
You may be in the 90% of the pending app making population that is considering making a free Android app but you are just not so sure if you can really earn money from a free android app. The main question that is keeping you from moving forth with your amazing app idea is that if the idea is so simple, how comes no-one else has already done it before you? The reality is, most people just don’t realize how easy it is to make an app and just never bother getting started.
make money with your free Android app
We are now in the peak period for app making, whist the market is still growing and the demand is still high. We are also in the period that people are willing to try new apps from new app makers because the market is still very new and monopoly brands have yet to take over the market. I am going to liken the app market to the high street, the app markets are the lovely shops we all loved, then along came the hyper markets and took away a lot of the business from the small store owner. At present there is still room in the app store for the small ‘shop’ owners.
It is true that not all apps make it out there in the marketplace. One of the reasons that this is so true for many apps is because the app maker does not make a complete business plan for their app and just create the app and throw it into the market hoping for the best. In order to create app success and make money from your free Android app you need to plan every aspect of your app business from the planning stage down to the marketing and tracking of app performance.
App users are beginning to become more app savvy, meaning they are now understand and researching more about apps before they unwittingly download the app. You need to ensure that your app will be favoured on social media sites, on review websites and able to be picked up on Google searches, making a success of your app is all down to how well you set up your app business and marketing strategy of your brand. Branding can be the life or death of your business.
Don’t think that charging $0.99 per download will make you a millionaire overnight, this is the first mistake many pending app makers make, people will not pay a cent for an app whilst there are free versions of competitive apps out there. There are many alternate ways in which you can make money, including affiliate advertising and in-house advertising and purchases.
Don’t hold back on your app making career, time for you to get it started before the market falls into the hands of the big super giants that take the pride and pleasure away from the individual app maker. Now is the time to build your brand awareness, and don’t forget to send me a copy of your finished product on one of your social media pages.
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.
If you’re interested in making your own Android apps, start creating apps here.
