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ASO stands for App Store Optimization and it is the process of improving the visibility of a mobile app in an app store. You can think of it like search engine optimization (SEO) for websites - only for the App Store instead - if you would like. More specifically, app store optimization is the process of ensuring that an application ranks highly in an app store's search results and in the top charts rankings.

The Sunrise calendar application found its way into the mobile market by making your calendar more interactive and useful. Its founder believes that the calendar should be more than just your daily schedule and can be more productive. Apparently, enough users agree to get Sunrise to be valued at $100 million dollars. Microsoft agreed also and acquired Sunrise as part of the Microsoft play to grab a larger chunk of the mobile market.

Pose is a success story of an app that has created a niche for itself with a focus on fashion conscious users. It is powered by user generated content but has a unique idea whereby it shares revenue with the users. With a user base of more than 1 million, Pose is already being called the Instagram of fashion.

In the current day and age, it is no longer a case of asking whether to focus on mobile app marketing or not. There were almost 1.3 million apps available on Google Play in July 2014. Similarly the number of apps available on Apple App Store was 1.2 million. Cost per install, also known as CPI, increased too. How do you make sure your app gets its time in the spotlight? This is where mobile app marketing comes in. It is a complex process, but if you follow certain guidelines, this process becomes as simple as ABC.

It is getting tougher every day to acquire new users for your apps and so the goal of this podcast is to make the complex nature of app marketing both clean and simple. This series of podcasts will cover the key topics of app marketing, which are: app store optimization (ASO), mobile SEO, app promotion, app ranking, app advertising, app monetization and so on. We will also discuss noteworthy failures in order to learn lessons from them.