A crowd sourced list of great ways to generate downloads of paid or free apps
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You can also add Slideshare presentations to your LinkedIn profile.
Create awesome graphics, post relevant non-sales content your target audience would enjoy and invite everyone you know to like your page. Post updates on your business page, then share them on your personal page.
Follow people talking about your app's subject, other app developers, leaders in your industry. Retweet and use hash tags wisely!
Set up a free Google alert for your topic and comment on articles you are sent daily.
Really participate and build relationships. Add value to posts!
Your app link can be placed in the "other" website slot so you can rename it. You could also add a business page and add your app as a product.
Make sure you post videos of your app with a link to download!
Follow communities in your niche and post/+1 great content publicly. Try Google Hangouts On Air to broadcast your app launch, live stream and auto saved to YouTube.
Really, they won't unless you take them through it and let them know how important it is to you.
If you have a blog and decent social media following and the same target audience, offer to cross-promote!
Pinterest is an online pinboard. Create a collection of apps like your app, or other items with a lifestyle link to your app.
Snap a picture, choose a filter to transform its look and feel, then post to Instagram. Share to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr too - it's as easy as pie. It's photo sharing, reinvented.
Quora connects you to everything you want to know about. Quora aims to be the easiest place to write new content and share content from the web. We organize people and their interests so you can find, collect and share the information most valuable to you.
Events in your niche are a great way to ask for downloads and observe people using your app in person. Great for learning and optimizing!
Heck, post it everywhere. Make yourself a nice poster with a picture of your app and huge QR code and post it all around the web.
Craigslist can be a great place to get beta testers and early adopters.
Much more interesting than your current hold message or voicemail!
