The AppExchange Marketplace is one of the major ways for customers to learn about your app and how it can benefit them. It is a key element that needs to be in your business’ marketing strategy and building a high-performing listing is a key competitive differentiator. Join us in this session to learn how to build an optimized AppExchange listing and deliver a great custome experience.
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6. Show
• Screenshots
– Annotated, zoomed in, highlighting key features
• Video
– Two minutes or less, same goals as screenshots
• Pro Tip: Test Drive
– If it makes sense for your app it’s a killer feature
7. Tell
• Tagline
– 75 characters - elevator pitch, get them to read more
• Brief Description
– 255 characters – description, answer is this what I was looking for?
• Details tab
– 1180 characters - the meat for the detail oriented and the search engines
• Pro Tip: Some Details tab designations only available via
Partner Support request
8. Ask
• CTA
– Make the next steps clear, easy to do
• Pricing
– Don’t hide it
• Pro Tip: Configure the AppExchange listing to give you lead info
associated with unique campaigns
Welcome to Optimizing you AppExchange Listing session. I’m Eric Wu and this session is about some of the key elements when it comes to marketing in the AppExchange. It’s for existing ISV partners who have AppExchange listings and are looking for ideas on how to improve, but also for anybody in the audience who is thinking about launching an app on the AppExchange.
So here’s the safe harbor slide. I don’t think there’s any forward-looking stuff in my presentation, but if something slips in there please note that you shouldn’t make any decisions based on it. I don’t even work for Salesforce so how would I know anything about the future?
One of the founders of Bracket Labs, which is a 4 year old company that has 3 apps in the AppExchange.
Consistently in the top 10 for their categories, and our TaskRay Project Management app is the most popular project management app in the AppExchange and 12th overall in the AppExchange last time I looked
Over the past 4 years I’ve spent a lot of time experimenting with our AppExchange listings, studying what other partners are doing, and reading up on digital marketing in general. And everything in this presentation is based on that learning.
Sums up to 3 key elements
Boil down to three categories.
Throughout it all, keep the messages informal and simple
Tell a story
Switch to live Bizible listing - https://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=a0N3000000B3KLuEAN
Switch to Geopointe listing - https://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=a0N300000016ZHeEAM
Switch to My Favorites - https://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=a0N3000000B4x4UEAR