Digital Ocean Coupon Code – $20 Free

Oh, You have made up your mind to sign up on Digital Ocean and looking for that something little extra you can get out of the deal, a Digital ocean promo code or a coupon code.

You got it. Follow the below two steps to get $20.

Step 1 .  $10 Digital Ocean sign up credit

Click on the below text link or image  and sign up on Digital Ocean. That’s it!! You will automatically have $10 in your account. Check in settings>billing to see $10 in your account.

$10 Free Signup Link Digital Ocean

Step 2. $10 Digital Ocean coupon code

After you setup your Digital Ocean account and billing, you are eligible for another $10 as coupon code.

a) Go to settings>billing

b) Scroll down to the promo code section

Add the below promo code to get $10 in your account.

DROPLET10

And you are done!

 

 

 

 

 

What IronMan (Robert Downey Jr) did to an Website Selling T-Shirts?

It was an event. Not in history, but yes in the internet of things.

Robert Downey Jr has 22 million fans on Facebook (Yes, more than Salman Khan in case you were wondering) and he decides to  do a shoutout for a Apparel website called as http://bna78.com

For those who do not know what a shoutout is, see below and welcome to 21st century:-

RDJ Shoutout

The word got really popular with Social Media taking over chunk of conversations happening on the planet.

Now getting to the point. Robert Downey Jr posted the below image and copy. While the picture finally got some 368,000 likes and 8370 shares, I am sure Bow and Arrow would be piled with orders.

For people who are wondering whether RDJ charged for this. RDJ takes around 12 Million Dollars for a 2 year deal, so yes, they didn’t pay him. He liked their stuff and posted about without any gains in the process.

Robert Downey Post

Instantly, there were comments on B&A78’s Facebook page inquiring about T-shirts and informing the people about their orders. The loyal fans of RDJ must have flashed the credit card on the site  within minutes of this post.

Comments on Bow and Arrow 78 page

Knowing what a RDJ endorsement can do, few customers went ahead and posted on BNA78 page asking them to beef up their inventory levels as RDJ has promoted them. A few asked about delivery in other countries etc.

BNA78 inventory image

This example just goes on to show how a small brand  can touch  stratosphere of sales with just one small act of endorsement by a global celebrity. But remember, it has to be an RDJ or a Salman Khan to do that! (What it means you got to have 20M+ followers for this to happen:) )

 

 

5 Smart Ways of Improving App Store Ratings (Android PlayStore and iOS)

App Rating Optimisation : A tricky game | Courtesy – Androidpolice

Seeing the red bar bigger than the dark green one on the play store app page can give any marketer/developer nightmares.  Still, what we see very frequently that an enormous amount of effort of is spent in development of the App, very few steps are taken to make sure that it has respectable ratings in app stores. Panic starts when the damage has been already done, but you, you can avoid the damage by taking the below smart moves to get amazing ratings on your app 🙂

1. Ratings from high usage users– This will help to have better top reviews. Drop a notification to frequent users of the app to rate it. This is based on assumption that if they visit the app a few times during the day, they must consider it good. The profiling of the customers comes in handy here. Make sure to time the notification well so that the users are not annoyed by the obstruction. Best to give a popup when the users have just completed an action on the app.

Ratings from Loyal Users | Courtesy – Next Web

2. Personal Outreach – Reach out in person to a few customers to rate the app and while doing so, ask them to make it a honest and descriptive one. This will help you understand where the problem lies and weed it out. A few great customers would rate you well also.

Asking for Personal App Rating | Courtesy Linkedin.com

3. New downloads and ratings – If the app didn’t fly off properly and the current customer base has already vented anger in ratings you can run a few ads to encourage new downloads and ask the new users to rate the app. Make sure that you do not push notifications for the old users to rate as you may just invite their fury. Give some time to them to cool down:)

App Install Ads | Courtesy – The Next Web

4. Incentivise reviews – If very critical, you can incentivise the process of rating. Every person that rates, gets no video ads, 200 free coins or something like that.

Incentive App Reviews | Courtesy – Kissmetrics

5. Funnelling Negative Review  – Create a feedback button in the app or use a pop-up, “Happy with the app?” with two options of yes and no. If no, the app opens a mail window for a mail to be sent to example@examplecompany.com, if yes, then the app directs the user to the play store to rate. Keeps all negative comments on mail and positive ones on Play Store! This should work well.

Funneling Negative App Review | Courtesy Apptamin

Let me know if you have any questions/feedback in the comments section. Thanks for reading!

Digital Ocean Referral Program – $100 Credit

Just send your friends a $100 in Digital Ocean Credit and receive $25 when they sign up. Now how to do this?

Step 1. Click on the below text link or image and sign up on Digital Ocean. You will also get $100 for your own use.

You will now have automatically have $100 in your account after you have successfully added a payment method. Check in settings>billing to see $100 in your account.

Digital Ocean $10 Free Referral Signup link

 

Step 2. Now that you have become a Digital Ocean customer, now you can invite your friends to Digital Ocean and get $25 every time your friend signs up and is charged $25 by Digital Ocean. Till your friend sign up or reaches $25 in billing, it will be a pending referral.

You have to go to settings>referrals in your Digital Ocean account and add emails IDs of your friends. You can also send them referral code by copying the code and sending on Email, WhatsApp, Messenger. A typical Digital Ocean referral link looks like https://m.do.co/c/e01f028a25e3

There is no limit on the numbers of referrals you can add and the amount of credit you can receive. A Visual representation is below.

Update – The efforts of this post is now bearing fruits. I am about to receive the first earned amount from Digital Ocean referral program. My sole objective to make the hosting of my personal sites free. Will update again once I get there.

Digital Ocean Referral Earnings

Update 2 – December 2018

I have earned more than $3600 from this post, out of which $200 has been already applied to my account.

Digital Ocean Referral Earnings

Because of this, I haven’t paid a bill in months!

Digital Ocean Referral No Payments

You can do the click, just click on the link or the image below and follow the steps.

3 Whatsapp Privacy Features to save you from Stalking and Prying Eyes

 

I was recently sitting in a meeting at an partner agency's office at 9:30 when a senior director asked me, "Syed, how come you are so early? You were awake till 4:35." I blinked. Twice. How can Mr X know what time I slept? The meeting started and my mind took a few minutes to figure it out. He checked my profile on Whatsapp and the last seen timestamp told him everything. Then I just smiled at him and told myself to do something about it. This was a shocker for somebody who protects online privacy like anything. There are three things that you can do to protect your identity and privacy

1. Last Seen – Thanks to this feature people know whether you are awake or sleep, they know when your flight has landed etc. Worse, your girlfriend knows if you were chatting with someone after saying goodnight to her or your boss knows that you were texting in that board meeting.

Resolution – Go to top right side of the screen and click on the vertical three dots then hit Account.

Then go to privacy settings and click on last seen and then click nobody.

2. Profile Photo – If you do not want the world to see the Sunburn Goa hot pants picture and still want to show off, this privacy feature is for you. Unfortunately, you cannot customize your picture for a group or something, so remember you are seen by all in your contact list. If you do not want that Australian client that you Skype with to see your profile picture, see below.

Resolution – Go to privacy settings as explained above and click on profile photo. You can select my contacts but "nobody" feature is also there. That will not make sense to all as people upload photos to show to other people.

3. Status – You do not want a potential employer to see a status message like "fuck the world" or a cheesy one like "Too blessed to be cursed" , this setting is for you.

Resolution – Go to privacy settings as explained above and click on status. Preferably select my contacts and if you are too reserved, click nobody.

After all this, your profile should look like below:-

Good day 🙂

Wondering why Google gave you a Credit?

Invalid Activity in Google Ads

So, you also got a couple of dollars back in your adwords account, right? So did I. Wondering why Google is being nice to you? Here is the answer. There are 4 main reasons for Google to give you a credit

1. Service Adjustment – This is given when a promotional credit or a courtesy credit has been applied to your account. Some people have got it just out of the blue in their Adwords accounts like the person below who got 70 dollars in service adjustment from Google! Google does not give the  reasons when, why or how you get it.
   

   70 dollars in service adjustment from Google

   Then there are those people at the wrong end of the whip, who lost over a $100 in service adjustments.

Lost $100 in Service Adjustments in Google Adsense

Lesson: If you get credit, thank Larry and Sergey quietly and lay low! If you lose money from your adsense account, no need to pound the internet with comments like Google sucks, the reply on the product forums is never going to come!

2. Click Quality Adjustment – If Google thinks that you have been charged with Invalid clicks, they will refund it. I think it comes from their corporate motto, “don’t be evil”. Question is where these invalid clicks come from ? Google says it is from bots, automated clicking tools, and other deceptive software.

•  Accidental clicks : It is also because of accidental clicks; like someone double-clicks your ad. The second click of the double click is not counted in this case.
• Competitors clicks – If your competitor thinks he is costing you money by clicking your ads, he is probably wrong. Google refunds that money to you.
• Agency bad ethos clicks – Agency which manages your ads clicking on their own ads to get a larger share of profits. This happens when agency is working on commission on spends model. An agency working on a transaction/goal based model would never touch its’ own ads.
• Malicious clicks – Non-human clicks by bots, automated tools or other tools

3. Account budget overrun –  This is only for prepay accounts. If Google displays ads worth more than your balance, it will refund the extra amount back to you. This usually does not happen and hence these are  rare cases of this being reported by any advertiser. I think below is the only image online for this section which I found in my old account. Usually this amount should very miniscule.

Account Budget Overrun Google Adwords

4. Over-delivery credit – If Google overdelivers your ad, it will refund that amount back into your account. In the below example, 8.24 is credited as the ads are overdelivered for 8.24 the previous day!

Overdelivery Google Adwords

Overdelivery happens when Google thinks users are on a search rage on a particular day and not so active other days. Google shows your ads more on the days when users are searching more for your product, off-course the calculation cannot be precise. So when there is surplus spends, rest comes back to you as overdelivery credit. Overall, you are not charged more than 30.4 times of your budget.

Please leave your comments below. Thanks for reading!