Making money with Android Apps

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AndrewOnSteroid

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Hi guys,

I'm new here and for affiliate marketing too. I'm more than 1 year making apps and several month since started working with affiliates.

Since the Android market is still young enough it's really easy to start earning here. To share my experience I've started my blog Android On Steroids

My goal now is to find more affilates who want to create apps and earn money. I'd appreciate if you can help me with it, what techniques are working best? Currently I use my own apps as a channel to attract affiliates.

Maybe somebody from forum members want to start with Android Apps, I'll be glad to help here and share some ideas that works and templates, that you can use to build your apps.

Thanks!
 


This is the only thread I've seen here talking about mobile apps. I hope you're able to stir up some new discussions. I'd like to try something like this down the road.
 
This thread feels like manual spam for some 2 year old WSO, and having it reposted to other forums doesn't help, but I'm curious if it's about monetizing apps by hitting users with affiliate offers or having affiliates promote apps for you.
 
I'd love to join in the fight for Android apps. Definitely think it is a market that can be exploited
 
This is something I am attempting to do as well.

Currently I use my own apps as a channel to attract affiliates.

The fuck does that mean?
 
As much as I hate putting stuff in such a shit thread - I think Android is sort of a Big Deal and could very well become an ubiquitous operating system for TVs and desktops as quickly as it's made inroads in mobile/tablet devices, the way chromeos was supposed to. I've been coding Java since about 99 and did some J2ME work in 2007ish, so the Android platform has a nice familiar easy feel.

My stumbling block then is not developing something, it's making it worthwhile to do. The monetization routes look like: admob, paid subscription/free app, paid app. Option 3 looks very competitive and looks not to scale well, I have no idea what to believe about Option 1 (some say ballin money, some say chump change) option 2 is most similar to what I'm used to and I think can still be very lucrative on a relatively small scale.

What say you?
 
JCash said:
My stumbling block then is not developing something, it's making it worthwhile to do. The monetization routes look like: admob, paid subscription/free app, paid app. Option 3 looks very competitive and looks not to scale well, I have no idea what to believe about Option 1 (some say ballin money, some say chump change) option 2 is most similar to what I'm used to and I think can still be very lucrative on a relatively small scale.

What say you?
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I mean if you gather millions of installs where a good portion regularly use your app, you are going to make money even on shitty cpm payouts. A stat from my limited experience is about 30-40% user retention so if 1MM has installed 300-400k could regularly use your app which is a decent amount of impressions per day. Say you are getting paid a $1 cpm on average and you are at a few hundred in revenue per day. There are other ways to monetize such as notification ads which claim to have much higher cpms but those are measured in notifications sent not banner displays. You could implement some sort of premium sms strategy as well but these last two concepts may be a detriment to user retention.

If you're a developer I'd go after something that would have extreme viral potential. Being bought out for $200 mil like that recent Draw Something app would be nice.
 
Hi All,

Glad that my post started this discussion. I'll try to answer your questions.

>This is the only thread I've seen here talking about mobile apps. I hope you're able to stir up some new discussions. I'd like to try something like this down the road.

This thread is about iOS apps. I tried to make apps for iOS, but that's not the best way. Android is the perfect platform for many reasons. I'm completely new to affiliate marketing, but I make apps for about an year, made about 60-70 apps and passed a long way. If you want to start ping me via PM, I have several templates that you can use to make apps just by slightly editing it.

>My stumbling block then is not developing something, it's making it worthwhile to do. >The monetization routes look like: admob, paid subscription/free app, paid app

That obvious that if you want make money then programming is not something that will help you, unless you want to waste your time on coding. I'm not a developer but I know HTML and can create "simple" apps. As for monetization models than admob is the worst option here. Paid apps too not the best way on android.

Seems that this is pretty new channel in affiliate marketing world, I wasn't able to find any meaningful information about that on forums.
 
What I wanted is to find ways to find affiliates, so that was my question. I mean people who would do apps and monetize them. What channel you'd suggest?

Sure, I believe that this forum is the best place to find people who want to earn money.
 
AndrewOnSteroid said:
iOS is just a total waste of time. It's really hard to make there money unless you are a App company
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Wrong. The amount of $$ iOS users spend on apps and in-game shit outnumbers Android like 4:1. Apple has the largest DB of live credit cards in the world... if you have an iOS device, then your CC is probably tied to it
 
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