8. Timing Your Marketing Activities

For most developers, getting an app’s message out will take some time and consistent marketing efforts to make buyers aware of the app. The good news is that so few apps have any marketing at all that your marketing efforts will likely pay off. Even if you apply only some of the marketing methods recommended in this book, you’re bound to see improvement in your sales. If one marketing activity doesn’t work, you can try something else until you get some positive results. I have to reiterate that you must have a well-written app. You can’t market your way around a bad app.

Some marketing activities should be timed for maximum impact. Other marketing activities are equally effective at any time as long as they ...

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