Episode 1 | The Beginning
This is the inaugural episode of App Teardown, with Colin from Spreadsong and Rishi & Anirudh from Fiplab. In this episode we talk about how we got our respective companies to the top of the charts (with $30-90k/month to show for it!), specific marketing strategies for both free and paid apps, and the first Top Tips of the show!
- How Fiplab got into Britain's top magazines, got Apple to feature them, and, in turn, got high-end consulting gigs that allowed them to get the company off the ground.
- How they turned one-off consulting into a product business in just one year.
- App Store Marketing, and playing the app search game to win.
- How Spreadsong took a three week book app and turned it into the top reviewed- and best selling - book app on the App Store.
- How they optimized their positioning to consistently outperform competitors in the ranking.
- This weeks Top Tips:
- The key to great converting icons
- Realism as a competitive marketing advantage
