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  • Scaling Your Freemium App Business: Knowing When You’re Ready, and How to Do It

    Sunny Cha

    Scaling Your Freemium App Business: Knowing When You’re Ready, and How to Do It

    You’re almost there. Your app is ready for the limelight, you’ve tested user acquisition campaigns with platforms like Facebook and Google to figure out your audience and measure conversions, and you’ve soft-launched in test markets to get a sense of install costs and initial monetization metrics. You are starting to get some traction, and you’re...

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  • ROI vs. ROAS: Choosing the Right Performance Metric

    Roman Garbar

    ROI vs. ROAS: Choosing the Right Performance Metric

    When you measure your ad campaigns, you’re going to use either ROI (Return on Investment) or ROAS (Return on Ad Spend). But these measurements aren’t fully interchangeable: each has its strategic uses. A few years ago, most companies wouldn’t have stopped to consider whether switching to a subtly different measurement might be worthwhile. But today,...

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  • How Non-Gaming Apps Are Improving Retention

    Sunny Cha

    How Non-Gaming Apps Are Improving Retention

    For mobile app developers, retention is hard. An average of just 7.5% of mobile users stay active 30 days after downloading an app. And while mobile game developers have spent countless hours trying to crack the retention code, there are plenty of lessons they can learn by looking at their non-gaming peers. Below, we examine four ways...

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  • Increase ROI With Tenjin’s Deferred Deep Linking

    Chris Farm

    Increase ROI With Tenjin’s Deferred Deep Linking

    Tenjin’s latest feature, deferred deep linking for ads, enables one of the Web’s best features for mobile apps. Imagine you’re on your phone, looking for the newest Air Jordans. Which ad is more appealing? “Get shoes here” or “Get the Air Jordan 6 Retro Chameleon here.” More clicks — and more valuable clicks — will...

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  • Harnessing the Power of Big Data into Actionable Insights

    Sunny Cha

    Harnessing the Power of Big Data into Actionable Insights

    Big data tools are now ubiquitous and, compared to years ago, cheap. But while these tools give you the “what” — fire hydrants of data — they don’t provide the “how” of using it. A gaming app developer, for example, can set up easy, out of the box tools to collect millions of data points...

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  • How to choose the right Business Intelligence Tool for your business

    Sunny Cha

    How to choose the right Business Intelligence Tool for your business

    Update 25.11.22: Regardless of what BI tool you choose, you can always count on Growth FullStack to set up the data pipelines for it. To get a leg up in today’s ultra competitive landscape, most app developers have come to depend on some type of Business Intelligence (BI) software. Whether built by an in-house team or bought and...

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