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Social Traction for App

Roy Lin
October 11, 2012

Social Traction for App

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Roy Lin

October 11, 2012
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  1. Social Traction for App
    Focus on 4 big issues
    @roygabble

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  2. Who Am I ?
    Roy Lin
    Student of NTU
    Founder of Dreamers’ Day
    Works at Gabble, Inc

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  3. 4 Big Issues on Apps
    1. Download
    2. Sign-up
    3. First-time use
    4. Engagement

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  4. - Let people download
    - Sign up successfully
    - Great experience
    - Love your app
    4 Big Issues on Apps
    1. Download
    2. Sign-up
    3. First-time use
    4. Engagement

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  5. Social Traction
    sign-up first time use engagement
    download
    Social Traction
    Interested beta user Customer Passion
    customer
    Target audience
    users’ life cycle

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  6. sign-up first time use engagement
    download
    Social Traction
    Interested beta user Customer Passion
    customer
    Target audience
    users’ life cycle

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  7. Interested beta user Customer Passion
    customer
    sign-up first time use engagement
    download
    Target audience
    100% 60% 50% 25% 15%
    Social Traction
    users’ life cycle

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  8. Acquisition
    Social Traction Funnel
    Activation
    Retention
    Revenue
    referral

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  9. Viral Marketing
    people see your
    product in any
    medias or hear from
    their friends
    some of them
    decide to give
    it a try
    they have a good
    experience
    at first use
    they like your
    product enough to
    invite or referral to
    their friends
    customers send
    invitation or post
    information on their
    facebook or twitter
    friends check the
    mail or use
    facebook, twitter
    the Viral Circle

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  10. Focus on 4 big issues

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  11. Download issue
    People find your app in App Store/Google play or app
    review site, but they are lacking of motivation to download it.
    people may think..
    1. I have no idea what this app is.
    2. I know it , but I already have a similar one.
    3. I don’t have time to try something new.
    4. I am not sure if it is worthy.
    ...

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  12. Hypothesis :
    Your App is a Market-fit Product.

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  13. There’re 700,000 apps on App Store.

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  14. So... Let’s get more people to know you.
    1. App Store SEO
    2. App Review Site
    3. Launch Site
    name, keywords, screen shots
    get the initial exposure
    allow more users to know more about you

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  15. App Store Search Rules
    1.name is important.
    2.keywords are also important.(<100 chars)
    3.description doesn’t work

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  16. 4. Screen Shot is more important in
    5. icon is less important.

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  20. TechCrunch Bump

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  21. App Review Site
    Users

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  22. with app review site
    people see your
    product in any
    medias or hear from
    their friends
    some of people
    decide to give
    it a try
    they have a good
    experience
    at first use
    they like your
    product enough to
    invite or referral to
    their friends
    customers send
    invitation or post
    information on their
    facebook or twitter
    friends check the
    mail or use
    facebook, twitter
    the Viral Circle
    App review sites
    introduce your
    product

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  23. some of people
    decide to give
    it a try
    App review sites
    introduce your
    product
    100 views
    How many downloads ?
    K * views = downloads

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  24. K maximization

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  25. Golden Circle
    Why
    How
    What
    Golden Circle

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  26. For Example :Gabble
    Why
    How
    What
    We believe that real friendship comes from help,
    and people should get a answer immediately in this mobile world.
    We build a great environment with friendly UI and best design to
    make people use it easily.
    So, Gabble is a real time QA platform to connect all the questions
    and answers on mobile. With Gabble, people are connect deeply.

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  30. Launch Site
    Let users know more about you

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  33. Sign-up issue
    Okay, people download your app, and launch it.
    After 1 minutes, they leave.
    people may think..
    1. I don’t know how to sign up.
    2. I know what it is, but there are too many forms to need to be filled out.
    3. I don’t have time to try something new.
    4. I am not sure if it is worthy.
    ...

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  34. Sign-up
    Before Sign-up, downloads is nothing but a number.

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  35. Sign-up is hard and also important

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  36. Recognize 3 visitor types
    1. I’m interested in this app, I want to sign up.
    2. I’m not sure if it is worthy
    3. I’m confused about the sign-up page.
    Great, get a new user !
    Okay, he or she would give it a try.
    You lose a user.

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  37. 3 Ways to Solve the Problem
    1. Only one way to sign up
    2. Engage first, and Sign up later
    3. Design clear tutorial pages
    Facebook log in, Twitter log in
    Let users explore before sign-up
    Let users know what your app is.

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  38. One way to sign up, no confuse.

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  39. Make the Sign-up page as clear as possible
    1

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  40. tripl
    Gabble

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  41. Snapguide
    Showyou

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  42. EywEm
    WeHeartPics

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  43. about.me
    pocket

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  44. Engage First, Sign up later.
    2

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  45. Users’ Channel
    Typical
    Channel
    Engage
    First
    sign-up first-time use
    first-time use sign-up
    love it
    love it

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  46. iCook 愛料理

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  47. Showyou

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  48. Localmind

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  49. Gipis

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  50. Svpply

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  51. Design great tutorial pages
    3

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  52. Snapguide

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  53. Snapguide

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  54. Sparrow

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  55. Sparrow

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  56. Sparrow

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  57. Foursquare

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  58. 2 Principles
    A) It has to be consistent with the design of app
    B) Let people know what your app is

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  59. First-time use issue
    I sign up successfully, and then how to use ?
    Users may think..
    1. I know your app, but I am missing in the beginning.
    2. where are the other users?
    3. I don’t want to learn something new, just let me use
    4. I am not sure what to do now.
    ...

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  60. The most important things in this phase
    is to give a good experience for users

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  61. 3 Ways to Solve the Problem
    1. Provide other users’ action or information
    3. Immediately use
    2. Try to make users tell about themselves
    There are other users ! Leverage social influence
    Let users make some efforts in your app
    One click to use

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  62. 1 Leverage Social Influence

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  63. Empty data

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  64. Instagram Well

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  65. Starmatic Dabble

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  66. Trover Foursquare

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  67. Well Socialcam

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  68. Let user get interaction immediately.

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  69. 2 Tell me about yourself

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  70. Tumblr

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  71. Pinterest

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  72. Runkeeper

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  73. After 2 minutes, Time sink.

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  74. 3 Which button should I click ?

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  75. Tumblr

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  76. Snapguide Cloudee

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  77. Dabble Instagram

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  78. Gabble Tracks

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  79. You should know what to do.

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  80. Engagement issue
    Chicken / egg problem.
    Users may think..
    1. None of my friends use it.
    2. I forgot this app.
    3. I still love to stay with former one.
    4. This product does not work as expected.
    ...

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  81. 3 Ways to Solve the Problem
    1. Contributing System
    3. Collect, Measure and Analyze
    2. Notification, Badge number
    Reputation, Hierarchy
    Remind user come back
    Improvement goes with statistic.

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  82. “One cannot enjoy doing the same thing
    at the same level for long.”
    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow, the Psychology of Optimal Experience

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  83. Instagram
    Snapguide

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  84. iCook Snapguide

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  85. Gabble v1.1

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  86. Foursquare

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  87. The more likes,views or favs users get,
    the more motivation they have to contribute.

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  89. Push notification

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  90. Notification center

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  91. Email notification

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  92. Notification versus Satisfaction.

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  93. Notification
    Use
    Experience
    High
    High
    Try to do
    Low
    Low
    =.=
    Great
    Spam

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  94. Collect, Measure and Analyze
    3
    Improvement goes with statistic.

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  95. Track Events
    Tool : Mixpanel - mobile analytics

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  96. Design Funnel
    Tool : Mixpanel - mobile analytics

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  97. Tool : Mixpanel - mobile analytics
    Event Retention

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  98. Tool : Sendgrid

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  99. Summary
    1. Download
    2. Sign-up
    3. First-time use
    4. Engagement
    App Store SEO, Golden circle, Launch site
    Clear sign-up page, engage first, tutorial page
    Leverage social influence, tell about yourself, one click to use
    Contributing system, notification, tools

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  100. add me as a friend on Facebook: /roylinkung
    follow me on twitter : @roygabble
    blog : http://roykung.tumblr.com

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