Developer/author looking to scale

[MaxT]

Hi guys !

I'm a developer and author, I've already published more than 4 apps that have exceeded 100,000 downloads.

Besides that I wrote a book, which sells 2 to 3 copies a day.

Currently, everything runs automatically: the sales of applications and books.

I would like to have a mentor, because I want to go further. Increase my sales and downloads.

I am Maxime, and I am a 26 year old Frenchman, it would be a pleasure to have someone among you to discuss and help each other.

Thanks in advance guys!

 

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[MaxT]

What is your book about?

This is a book to learn skateboarding from begginer to an advanced level. Everything is detailed on the practice as well as around skateboarding: history, anatomy of skateboarding, glossary of technical terms, philosophy and vision... all in 200 pages sprinkled with humor. That's why I also decided to call it The Skateboarding Bible haha. I've been a skateboarder for 10 years now so I wrote it from the heart. I worked hard for 1 year with the desire to create the best book I could have given myself when I was a beginner in the practice .
If you want to see what it looks like: The skateboarding bible: Learn about the world of skateboarding, it's history, how to progress and innovate.: Tant, Maxime: 9781700192240: Books

 

[Andy Black]

Hi guys !
I'm a developer and author, I've already published more than 4 apps that have exceeded 100,000 downloads.
Besides that I wrote a book, which sells 2 to 3 copies a day.
Currently, everything runs automatically: the sales of applications and books.
I would like to have a mentor, because I want to go further. Increase my sales and downloads.
I am Maxime, and I am a 26 year old Frenchman, it would be a pleasure to have someone among you to discuss and help each other.
Thanks in advance guys!

Maybe make this a progress thread and you’ll get other forum members popping in to help?

 

[MaxT]

Good new of the day : First sale of my book with Amazon Ads
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[MaxT]

Guys I am pleased to announce that I made my 2nd sale with Amazon Ads! It's not much, but it's a good start!
Right now I'm continuing the redesign of my blog in order to promote my apps and my book. The idea is to create one subdomain per project, linked to my company, like this:
project-name.company.xyz.
The subdomains are created but not yet the sites behind. It's coming in a few days!

 

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[MaxT]

Hello everyone, it's been a long time since my last update !
What's new ?
I work on increase my sales on my different projects : Android & iOS apps, my book, and the last news : my Chrome extension and podcasts (reach new auditors at this time).
For a few presentation of them : the chrome extension (name of the project : focusLab) is for increase productivity and focus > block sites, pomodoro timer, sound ambiant for focus, breathing exercise for relax, auto time On/Off, todo list, personalization and many more. It's the Sauron Ring of productivity, Chrome only at this time. But why not soon on Android & iOS. I think I will try to get some testers here (with a free subscription for life in remuneration), if you want take a look : focusLab on Chrome.

About podcasts, it's just for pleasure. So if with time I can reach an audience... it's a bonus !The first is about books (only in French), books about Marketing, business...

And the second, is a podcast for English people to learn French from scratch, the name of the show is "Learn French With Max". I'm sure it will be some curious about this second here ahah, so if you want listen some episodes (3 to 5min per episode) > RSS, but it's available on every platforms.

For finish, some few words about apps and book. My book for learn how to skateboard is now available since last week in six languages : French, English, Spanish, Italian, Deutsch, Portuguese.

About apps, nothing amazing, it's hard but I try to work on the marketing to increase the conversion rate. For example, Sporty, my sport app get 1 to 3% per month of conversion rate. I mean people watch the Play Store or Apple Store but don't download. So I work on it.

Total revenue per month increase and it's stable, now since 2 years. I mean by stable, it's increase only, no down at all. So it's really cool and I'm proud of my projects. I continue on this way, and work on my knowledge too for have a better marketing, and add build much better value on all my work.

To all who will read that post, I wish you all the best, but to fail sometimes too. It's important to progress.

 

[Cameraman]

Hi guys, I saw on quite a few blogs that Pinterest could be interesting to attract new traffic to your blog/product. What do you think ? Which is better: pin, idea pin, or board? I already tried yesterday to make a post, I only made 4 views haha. But it's a start

At the same time I am starting MJ's new book: Unscripted - The Great Rat-Race Escape. Finally, I rather devour it! This one is great and puts a good slap of motivation.

I had read similar comments (and a lot of hype) about how good Pinterest was, so I decided to test it over a 3 month period. In that time, I pinned several posts a day, a mix of other people's pins and my own. The result was tens of thousands of views each month and 1 - 2 people clicking to visit my site each day.

Now don't get me wrong, people still come to my site, share and save my pins a year on so this is quite useful. It just seemed like a lot of effort for the reward. The other problem is that the makeup of Pinterest doesn't match my target market. I think it's something like 80% women but my target market is 90% male. As I'm sure someone has said before, you need to go fishing in the right pond.

Regarding @MJ DeMarco new book "The Great Rat Race Escape ", I agree that it's brilliant. I've read it twice now and couldn't put it down - even on the second reading. The story that progresses through the book just hooks you in.

 

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[MaxT]

I wish you all a very good weekend with a little delay, take care of yourselves and your families.

 

[Cameraman]

Thank you for your help. No, I chose the keywords myself. Here are some examples (not all of them are there):
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1. Here is a capture for the prints:View attachment 43666
Since the beginning I have added several keywords and also adjusted the bids (up and down on certain).
I see for the keywords, I tried to be a bit broader and include keywords like "skateboard magazine" when it's a book, bad idea? The rest of the keywords I think are good, such as: skateboard accessory, skateboard book, skateboard children's book, etc. how to skateboarding book, skateboard gift... if you're interested, I can paste the complete list for you more downstairs.

2. On some keywords yes, on others no, it was me who went up to follow Amazon's recommendations (I shouldn't have, I think haha).
So I create another "manual" type ad with keywords like I currently have but only with the 10 best for example?
The rest is noted. Yes I understand, you were very clear.
The best is therefore to start with few keywords and preferably of the "large" type?

Thank you very much for your help, it's very nice of you. Without your help I think I would have already stopped posting on Amazon Ads and I wouldn't even have had my first sale. Now I am very motivated to continue!!

I'm pleased that I'm helping you and you must not give up. I was looking at my Amazon ads and they currently account for around 60% of my sales each month. It's well worth sticking with this and don't expect to get good results for a few months.

Thanks for the additional information which is helpful.

Create a new ad as you suggest and keep to around 10 keywords that someone searching for a book like yours might use. I'm suggesting 10 keywords because it will help you to learn. Use the Large type which must be the same as the "Broad" type I see on the UK and US sites.

If I was wanting to learn skateboarding (I used to be quite good in the late 70's) I might search for things like "learn skateboarding", "skateboard tricks", "better skateboarding" and even just "skateboarding". Using a keyword like "skateboarding" with the "large" search type should pick up lots of impressions.

I'm assuming your ad is on Amazon France or have you switched the language on the site? If it is in France, why not try creating the new ad on the UK site?

Let your existing ad run as it seems to be picking up impressions at a growing rate.

Have you set up an automated ad yet? These can be gold for helping you find new keywords and understand how customers are searching/finding you because they have a search history. These are the ads where Amazon decides who to show the ads to. Even if you only run one for a month and then pause it, you will have some valuable data.

Don't go with the Amazon recommended bid price. It's usually too high initially and it can change wildly over the course of a few days. Ad's can take a few weeks to get going because Amazon learns from the results. It's a bit like the YouTube algorithm in that respect.

Good luck and keep posting updates.

 

[MaxT]

Hi guys, always a pleasure to share my adventure with you. At the moment I still follow the same routine to promote my projects, namely to create two articles on my site.

The first article is used to promote my cardiac coherence application, so the themes covered are broad: good anti-stress habits, meditation...

The second, to promote my Skate Tricks app, the idea is to approach skateboarding in general. In order to attract people quickly, I share trick tips (step-by-step explanation for performing a trick on a skateboard).

Of course, I simplify the process as much as possible to speed it up, and I also improve the SEO as I go along.
At the same time, I improve these two applications as much as possible by adding new features, improving the design, finding new solutions to bring, etc.

I have also started creating Pinterest pins since today (here is my last pin : Pin on Cohérence cardiaque), I will look into the subject to improve my visibility on these networks as much as possible.

I haven't stopped promoting my book on Amazon Ads US/UK, I've readjusted the bids elsewhere because the impressions have dropped drastically and I haven't had a sale since the last time. Don't worry it's only a slight adjustment, not as much as the times before, I won't go over 0.50.

Have a nice day everyone, good luck to you in your projects and don't give up!

 

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[MaxT]

I'm flattered but not sure I qualify as a mentor. I'm just old so I've seen a lot.
It would be great to exchange emails and thoughts as I can learn from you. I'll also try to help you with areas that I know about. I'll be going offline after tomorrow for a few weeks as I need to concentrate on writing a new book (I cut myself off to avoid distractions and keep my head clear). After that let's pickup.

Age is just a number. On the contrary if you have more experience it can only be better.
Yes that would be great, I'll send you a private message you can answer it whenever you want

 

[MaxT]

Hello friends, here is some news.
- The youtube channel is stagnant, I'll see to make more impactful videos tomorrow or publish at different times.
- The subscriptions of my applications are increasing more and more, this month I made +10% additional subscription sales compared to the previous months.
- The Chrome extension is at a standstill, I'll see to do more marketing, I don't think the extension is bad, content-wise it's very good I think (feel free to tell me what you think about it that would be great). I invested a lot of time in it, it would be cool to sell some subscriptions.
- The podcast "Learn French With Max" and the other are gaining shares day by day, so I'm very happy with the little promotion I've done.

Then from a personal point of view, I changed a lot of things:
- I've been training for years already, I completely revised this one to attack the muscles from different angles while sparing the rest so as not to smash the tendons etc.
- More walking with business/mindset podcasts in your ears.
- Only 45min of video games per day.
- Reading for about an hour a day.
- 1 relaxation/gratitude session per day (it helps me a lot to manage my stress).
- Work sessions of 2 hours max, then I take a guitar/reading break of 15min max.

Don't hesitate to tell me what you think, if you have "original" ideas to promote chrome apps and extensions, I'm interested too.

In the meantime, take care of yourselves friends in this beautiful quest that is the Fastlane. Don't give up

 

[MaxT]

Maybe make this a progress thread and you’ll get other forum members popping in to help?

I think it's a good idea. I will do that on a new post now

 

[heavy_industry]

This is a book to learn skateboarding from begginer to an advanced level. Everything is detailed on the practice as well as around skateboarding: history, anatomy of skateboarding, glossary of technical terms, philosophy and vision... all in 200 pages sprinkled with humor. That's why I also decided to call it The Skateboarding Bible haha. I've been a skateboarder for 10 years now so I wrote it from the heart. I worked hard for 1 year with the desire to create the best book I could have given myself when I was a beginner in the practice .
If you want to see what it looks like: The skateboarding bible: Learn about the world of skateboarding, it's history, how to progress and innovate.: Tant, Maxime: 9781700192240: Books

Nice, congratulations on the book!

How much money (percentage) do you get from each copy sold?

 

[Andy Black]

Looks like this thread is turning into a progress thread. I moved it to that area and renamed it.

Well done getting your book written and getting 2-3 sales a day.

Well done launching 4 apps and getting 100,000 downloads too!

If you had to focus on one thing to scale then what would it be?

 

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[Cameraman]

This is a book to learn skateboarding from begginer to an advanced level. Everything is detailed on the practice as well as around skateboarding: history, anatomy of skateboarding, glossary of technical terms, philosophy and vision... all in 200 pages sprinkled with humor. That's why I also decided to call it The Skateboarding Bible haha. I've been a skateboarder for 10 years now so I wrote it from the heart. I worked hard for 1 year with the desire to create the best book I could have given myself when I was a beginner in the practice .
If you want to see what it looks like: The skateboarding bible: Learn about the world of skateboarding, it's history, how to progress and innovate.: Tant, Maxime: 9781700192240: Books

Well done on the app and book. It's great to see someone getting into this area. I can't give you any advice about the app but I do publish my own books.

I noticed that you have the Kindle version of the book enrolled in Kindle Unlimited. I would advise you to check how much you receive for each of the pages read. I did this with some of my own books and found that people could read the entire book for a fraction of the money I would earn if they bought it (the price to buy my books is quite low so this isn't good).

There is though a benefit from using Kindle Unlimited in that it can boost your book in the sales ranking. Amazon awards points for pages read. When your book rises in the sales rankings they start to promote it through their email list which also boosts your sales. So before you decide to remove it from KDP consider if you see any benefit from the page views.

Do you do any Amazon advertising? If not, consider it. I use Amazon Ads for all my books and it accounts for around 60% of sales. It also keeps the sales regular and steady throughout the year. The ads are very good value if you run them correctly.

If you do decide to withdraw the book from Kindle Unlimited, consider also publishing it on the likes of Google Play, Apple, Kobo, Barnes & Noble etc. Those channels together bring in around 20% of my Amazon sales but I receive about twice the commission.

Do you have a website or a following on Facebook? If yes then you might also want to consider selling through those channels if you don't already. I use the Shopify Lite plan. I can use this to add a Buy Button for my books on any webpage where I can add JavaScript. They designed it for Facebook but it works in all kinds of places. I usually need to sell one book a month to cover the cost of the monthly fee and it looks like you would also from the figures.

I hope this gives you some more ideas to pursue. I would love to see your progress over the coming months.

 

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[MaxT]

16/05/22 : Today was a good day

• Contact via email with several "Well-being / meditation" influencers to promote my Cardiac Coherence application. If you want take a look : Cardiac Coherence | Linktree
• Makeover of the design of my articles on the blog in order to publish them on a daily basis and to boost the visibility of the apps and the book. As a bonus I added a jQuery/JS module which allows my visitors to share the article. The module remains locked on the screen and remains constantly visible. Example of an article : DFMV - Trois raisons de se mettre au sport en 2022
• Publication of photographs on the royalty-free bank Unsplash: To further promote The Skateboard Bible. My Unsplash pics : DFMV Enterprise (@dfmv_tant_maxime) | Unsplash Photo Community
• Amazon Ads: self-created ad for the skate bible with all the keywords previously collected. Allocation of the daily budget to $10.
• Apple Ads: Paid promotion of Seven Workout and Brain booster (my two iOS apps that are struggling to take off, lack of promotion).
• Second attempt to contact a French computer magazine (01Net) in order to promote Cardiac Coherence or another application.
• 30min reading The Intelligent Investor
• listening to some podcasts on the stock market and crypto currencies with Google Podcasts
  
  The day ended with a good pull-up session: 9 sets of 8 to 12 repetitions in pronation for the most part.
  
  Don't give up and take care of yourself guys, the work always pays off.

 

[Cameraman]

Ok noted, I'll keep an eye on it. How do I know if I can lower the bid on a keyword? Because to increase the bid I saw that Amazon presents it in the form of recommendations. Thank you very much for your help !

Amazon also recommends when it thinks you can reduce the bid price. If you look at the targeting section f an ad where your keywords are, they display a recommended bid range and bid. Do be careful with these though. Here's an example of a few keywords in one of my ads.



Notice that I'm bidding only $0.23 but the recommended bid is much higher. Only 2 weeks ago my bid was above the recommended bid range for most of these keywords. It fluctuates a lot through the seasons but also if someone launches a new book. They will often bid very high to gain traffic for a short while but then reduce their bids later. You get a feel for it when you check your ads weekly.

There are also a lot of new people getting into the market with Amazon ads and I see a lot of "gurus" recommending using the suggested bid or sometimes much higher. This is driving up the cost of the ads to unrealistic levels. If I were to bid $2.28 for the keyword "affinity photo manual" I would probably make a sale every 8 to 10 clicks. If it costs me $22.80 to sell a book where my gross profit margin (ignoring the cost of writing the book and taking it to market) is around $3, I'll quickly go bankrupt.

Don't be sucked in and feel you need to bid high. Watch the bids to understand the trends and try to be as targeted as possible. Also, use negative keywords to avoid wasting money. If your book will always show for a certain search term, there's no need to show an ad for that. You don't want your book in the search results and then your ad next to it. If they click on your ad then it's costing you money for a click you may have got anyway.

Remember, it takes time and effort to refine your ads but it's well worth it.

 

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[Andy Black]

I couldn’t help myself. Had to do a search.

Here’s the results in Ireland:



And just below the Google Shopping Ads:

 

[Andy Black]

Guys I am pleased to announce that I made my 2nd sale with Amazon Ads! It's not much, but it's a good start!
Right now I'm continuing the redesign of my blog in order to promote my apps and my book. The idea is to create one subdomain per project, linked to my company, like this:
project-name.company.xyz.
The subdomains are created but not yet the sites behind. It's coming in a few days!

I’m no SEO guy. How does it affect SEO having subdomains instead of subdirectories?

 

[Cameraman]

Thanks very much !

So far, I have these stats: View attachment 43649

Thanks. I have a couple of observations you may want to think about. I'm assuming this is an Auto ad where Amazon controls who sees it rather than you picking the keywords.

1. You only have 1,495 impressions over the period which isn't many. Because you aren't showing the impressions chart I can't see if the daily impressions are stable or if they are mainly recent. Sometimes it takes a week or two before Amazon works out who to show your ad to. This shows up as low impressions initially but then they jump up.

If the impressions are low across the entire period then Amazon either can't figure out who to show the ad to or your target market isn't well represented on Amazon. If it turns out your market isn't well represented on Amazon then it may be best to switch advertising strategy to something like Facebook ads or Google ads. @Andy Black has a lot of knowledge about Google ads and may be able to say if this is a good idea or not.

If Amazon can't figure out who to show the ad to, check the keywords on your book. They may need to be improved as Amazon uses these to help find people to place your ad.

2. Your CPC is very high at $0.70. You are probably giving away most of your profit on the books you've sold. Was $0.70 the default Amazon bid?

If you haven't done so already, I would create a Keyword based ad to run alongside this one. Come up with 10 good search terms for your book and use these initially. You should be able to find what people are searching on from the search History of your current ad.

If you see search terms in the ads search history that you don't want, enter them as negative search terms. It's amazing what people search for to find your book.

Set your initial bid for the 10 keywords at $0.20 for "Broad" search terms. Later when you gather more data about how these perform, you can switch some to be "Exact".

My own experience is the more I can refine the ad to target the ideal person, the more Amazon shows it to people. They also charge me less per click. Once you have an ad performing well, you can begin to creep up the bid amount to buy more impressions.

I hope that all makes sense.

 

[MaxT]

Thanks. I have a couple of observations you may want to think about. I'm assuming this is an Auto ad where Amazon controls who sees it rather than you picking the keywords.

1. You only have 1,495 impressions over the period which isn't many. Because you aren't showing the impressions chart I can't see if the daily impressions are stable or if they are mainly recent. Sometimes it takes a week or two before Amazon works out who to show your ad to. This shows up as low impressions initially but then they jump up.

If the impressions are low across the entire period then Amazon either can't figure out who to show the ad to or your target market isn't well represented on Amazon. If it turns out your market isn't well represented on Amazon then it may be best to switch advertising strategy to something like Facebook ads or Google ads. @Andy Black has a lot of knowledge about Google ads and may be able to say if this is a good idea or not.

If Amazon can't figure out who to show the ad to, check the keywords on your book. They may need to be improved as Amazon uses these to help find people to place your ad.

2. Your CPC is very high at $0.70. You are probably giving away most of your profit on the books you've sold. Was $0.70 the default Amazon bid?

If you haven't done so already, I would create a Keyword based ad to run alongside this one. Come up with 10 good search terms for your book and use these initially. You should be able to find what people are searching on from the search History of your current ad.

If you see search terms in the ads search history that you don't want, enter them as negative search terms. It's amazing what people search for to find your book.

Set your initial bid for the 10 keywords at $0.20 for "Broad" search terms. Later when you gather more data about how these perform, you can switch some to be "Exact".

My own experience is the more I can refine the ad to target the ideal person, the more Amazon shows it to people. They also charge me less per click. Once you have an ad performing well, you can begin to creep up the bid amount to buy more impressions.

I hope that all makes sense.

Thank you for your help. No, I chose the keywords myself. Here are some examples (not all of them are there):

1. Here is a capture for the prints:
Since the beginning I have added several keywords and also adjusted the bids (up and down on certain).
I see for the keywords, I tried to be a bit broader and include keywords like "skateboard magazine" when it's a book, bad idea? The rest of the keywords I think are good, such as: skateboard accessory, skateboard book, skateboard children's book, etc. how to skateboarding book, skateboard gift... if you're interested, I can paste the complete list for you more downstairs.

2. On some keywords yes, on others no, it was me who went up to follow Amazon's recommendations (I shouldn't have, I think haha).
So I create another "manual" type ad with keywords like I currently have but only with the 10 best for example?
The rest is noted. Yes I understand, you were very clear.
The best is therefore to start with few keywords and preferably of the "large" type?

Thank you very much for your help, it's very nice of you. Without your help I think I would have already stopped posting on Amazon Ads and I wouldn't even have had my first sale. Now I am very motivated to continue!!

 

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[Cameraman]

Thank you very much, 60% is really great. I make between 20 and 30 sales per month on a basic basis without any Amazon ads. So if I can do +60% just with Amazon Ads that would be great haha.
Ok I'm going to do that and it's true that just skateboarding I didn't think about it haha.

No, I'm on Amazon Ads US, in France I already make a lot of sales and the problem with Amazon Ads Fr is the 20% French VAT that must be added, so it's difficult to manage. I may resume later on the FR but I already sell well in France . I will try on the Amazon UK and Australian it is planned.

My very first ad was an automated one, I took the keywords from it .

For the bid prices you recommend me to go down to $0.20 per keyword?

Thanks very much ! . This morning I updated my site which will be used to promote Skate Tricks (and precisely the book) as well as Cardiac Coherence. I separated each blog into subfolders like this: Cohérence cardiaque - Blog de l'application (here for Cardiac coherence app) and Skate Tricks - Blog de l'application (for Skate Tricks App/The Skateboarding Bible) in order to optimize SEO

You see, this is what I like about sharing what (I think) I know with you. You take action, so well done.

Yes, I would start with a bid of only $0.20 and see what this does to your impressions. After a week you can change the bids depending on the results. Remember, judge impressions rather than sales initially. The lag for reporting sales means you need a longer period to judge the results whilst the impressions seem to update reasonably accurately after a day.

Good work also on organising your website. I use a similar approach with my site but I made the mistake of going too deep with the folder structure and to change it again would be difficult. Keep the structure simple. The approach you have taken looks good to me but I'm sure there are better informed SEO people here than me.

 

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[MaxT]

Hey guys, it's been a while since I last updated. Sorry in advance, I've been working a lot on my apps lately. More specifically on my Cardiac Coherence app. I took some inspiration from Duolinguo and added some gamification to my app on Android and iOS.

To do this, I added series: the user earns a lotus flower per session/day, if he does not come back for his session the next day, this will break the series and he will start again at 1.

I also added the objective, the user chooses his objective: one to 3 sessions per day. Ideally it should be done 3/day. So I put this thing forward, and if he did his 3 sessions a day he gets a message congratulating him.

To make it cleaner, I created an end screen too. This includes: a personalized message, a quote related to the world of well-being, the number of lotus flowers won (current series), and the number of leaves won (one per session) and the button to access its trophies and the home of the app.

If you want to watch: Cardiac Coherence | Linktree

That's all, the update is already available on Android and iOS in a few hours

 

[Cameraman]

Hi guys, always a pleasure to share my adventure with you. At the moment I still follow the same routine to promote my projects, namely to create two articles on my site.

The first article is used to promote my cardiac coherence application, so the themes covered are broad: good anti-stress habits, meditation...

The second, to promote my Skate Tricks app, the idea is to approach skateboarding in general. In order to attract people quickly, I share trick tips (step-by-step explanation for performing a trick on a skateboard).

Of course, I simplify the process as much as possible to speed it up, and I also improve the SEO as I go along.
At the same time, I improve these two applications as much as possible by adding new features, improving the design, finding new solutions to bring, etc.

I have also started creating Pinterest pins since today (here is my last pin : Pin on Cohérence cardiaque), I will look into the subject to improve my visibility on these networks as much as possible.

I haven't stopped promoting my book on Amazon Ads US/UK, I've readjusted the bids elsewhere because the impressions have dropped drastically and I haven't had a sale since the last time. Don't worry it's only a slight adjustment, not as much as the times before, I won't go over 0.50.

Have a nice day everyone, good luck to you in your projects and don't give up!

Good to see that you are still taking action and monitoring progress.
Regarding the Amazon Ads, I've also experienced a drop in the number of books I'm selling with the ads. This has happened around this time of year for the past 4 years so I was expecting it. It may be that you also see the same pattern. It's worth experimenting with increased bids if impressions continue to fall to see if you can reverse the trend.
I'll be interested to hear how Pinterest works out for you.

 

[MaxT]

Good to see that you are still taking action and monitoring progress.
Regarding the Amazon Ads, I've also experienced a drop in the number of books I'm selling with the ads. This has happened around this time of year for the past 4 years so I was expecting it. It may be that you also see the same pattern. It's worth experimenting with increased bids if impressions continue to fall to see if you can reverse the trend.
I'll be interested to hear how Pinterest works out for you.

I will never give up, I've started since 4 years ahah. My go goal is to go further. My different project pays my bills and I can invest some money each months. I'm looking for a mentor, if you are interested. Just exchange some mail each week for give me the good directions etc.

Ok it's good to know that. My prints reduce on Ads Uk but on Us it's stable : US :

UK :

For Pinterest, I like the platforms, but I'm not persuaded than everyone can reach a lot of people without pay some ads. If you look at my views stats it's really really bad :

And I use good description, keywords, hashtag etc. I'm not a pro with the platforms and I will continue to produce some contents on it for see if it's better.
I don't know if it's a good idea, but I will create an account for each category : stress & anxiety for my Cardiac coherence app, and another account for skateboarding and Skate Tricks app.
Have a good day my friend and everyone.

 

[MaxT]

Hello my friends !
Right now I'm working on my apps to install a "gamification": level, experience, trophy etc.
Today I improved the profile of the user by adding the possibility of putting his own profile picture, as well as the date on which he joined us, and retyping all the design of the profile (not finished).
Gamification is very interesting to set up for an app/game or certain type of product, here is an example with the Duolinguo application to learn English: https://raw.studio/blog/how-duolingo-utilisations -gamification/
If you want to read an excellent book that talks about all this (improve retention and conversion in particular), there is Hooked, by Nir Eyal.
The good news of the day: First sale of my book with Amazon Ads UK!

Very nice day to you my friends.

 

[MaxT]

Hi guys, it's been a while since I posted here.
Don't worry, I haven't given up on my quest for the fastlane and I'm absolutely not counting on it.
The projects are taking their course, and my book is selling more and more in the USA and England, thanks in particular to you and your help on Amazon Ads, so thank you again for that!

I haven't been very active lately because I had to translate my blog for my Heart Coherence and Skate Tricks apps (over 80 articles in total!). So I lost a lot of time with that but I'm pretty happy with the result even if I have to go back a little to see if everything is ok!
Once finished it will improve the SEO of the two apps but also of the book (again haha).
I'm also working on a big update on Skate Tricks & Cardiac Coherence for the iOS versions.
Some screenshots of the English Blog (not finish)

 

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[MaxT]

Finally, to conclude this update, tomorrow I intend to start creating my "newsletter" part from A to Z. I intend to make a small pop up on my blog which will appear after a certain scroll on the page.
My question is, is it easy to set up?
For the html/css design part I won't have any problem, but let's say the user has entered his email I just have to do the rest of the work with the Amazon Simple Email Service API (like mail chimp).

I imagine that you just have to send the email and amazon takes care of the rest? It would be great if I could automate this whole part!

It's a big part but I know it will help me increase my income, so thank you in advance for your help and sorry for the length of this message haha.

Take care of yourself, stay the course and don't give up

 

[Cameraman]

Great to read your update and that the Amazon Ads are working. It can take a while for sales to pick up. Don't forget to keep tweaking the ads to see if you can improve the sales numbers.

I don't think that I can help much with the technical aspects of setting up the newsletter. I use the newsletter plugin for WordPress and have this configured to send email through Amazon SES. It does everything I want, including scheduling, filtering and controlling the send rate for emails to Amazon. It also captures and integrates the bouncebacks from failed messages Amazon SES reports to me so that I can clean my mailing list.

When it comes to capturing emails, I have my plugin configured to show a popup to capture emails every 2 days after a 5-second delay. I could use the scroll method or exit intent but I found the 5-second delay seems to produce the best results. It's with experimenting with this kind of setting if you can. I also have a newsletter signup/free gift notice at the bottom of each article and at the top of some pages.

After collecting stats for a couple of years I can see that the split between the two methods is 50/50. BUT I can also see the majority of signups for the notice (rather than the popup) come from just 4 pages. The signups from the popups seem to happen on any page.