PREPARE YOURSELF! Mega-infodump of ALL of STM's mobile guides, tips and case studies. (3)
PREPARE YOURSELF! Mega-infodump of ALL of STM's mobile guides, tips and case studies.
Mobile! It's the fastest-growing sector of affiliate marketing at time of writing (2014), and it's not going to slow down any time soon. But it's also a bit of a brain-melter, with tons of things to optimise.
Fortunately, STM has an absolute library of knowledge about Mobile - and for the first time ever, here it all is, catalogued for your viewing pleasure!
Mobile Resources And Tools
The STM Mobile Tracker
Need a mobile tracker? They're really expensive, right? Well, yes... unless you use STM's completely free mobile tracker. As used on $xx,xxx campaigns!
Tip EPIC list of 400+ Mobile Ad Networks
And we close out with another epic share from gettinpie and, later in the thread, andy_d - a HUGE pile of mobile ad networks, many of them relatively unknown, to test and profit on!
Fully Working Mobile Adult Lander With Javascript Quiz Code - FREE
Need an adult mobile lander that looks great and works perfectly? Luckily, we've got just the thing right here.
Full Guides To Mobile
14 Days to Master Mobile Marketing
Angry Russian's legendary guide to mobile marketing, now in PDF format for easy reading! Read, learn, absorb, profit.
Tutorial WAP Campaigns MEGA Guide! - Unmasking the elusive mobile world...
Stackman breaks mobile down with a complete guide to success! Did you know that text banners often convert better than images? Or what order you should cut carriers, creatives and handsets in? Read it to find out!
Getting Started With Mobile
Only got a minute? Need the keys to the mobile kingdom? Then Mr Green's ultra-short guide post to Just About Everything You Need To Know To Start Mobile is for you!
Tutorial Why Smaller Payout Offers Are Often Better
STOP! Put down that $100 payout offer and turn around with your hands up! I explain why, particularly for newer affiliates, smaller payout offers can be FAR better to run than offers paying out $xx or $xxx on a conversion.
How I Test Mobile offers & make high $x,xxx/day
Bigeasy123 gives us a look into the workings of his $x,xxx a day affiliate method, detailing the repeatable process he uses to create and test campaigns with mobile!
Tip The Perfect Mobile Banner Ad. (Template inside)
And talking of mobile, Mr Green dropped a grenade of pure knowledge on the mobile arena with this thread, detailing his research into what works best in mobile ad creation. Killer stuff.
How To Make A Slick Animated Mobile Banner
Mr Green does exactly what he says on the tin: a really clear, simple explanation of how to make excellent, click-attracting mobile banners!
Tutorial How To Build a Simple Mobile Lander That Actually Works
Mobile landing page design isn't like Web design - it's a pain in the ass. In this complete guide, I take you through everything you need to know to build a lander that will look great and work well - just add offers!
Tutorial Make A Mobile Lander Work Flawlessly With Any Phone
You can make a fortune in affiliate marketing from going the extra mile - optimising where others won't. In this tutorial, I go through everything you need to beat 99% of the mobile landers out there by making sure your lander works on EVERY phone.
Case Studies And Follow-Alongs
Case Study: Redbox on Kiip mobile traffic (and $100 credit to help you get started)
Klip dropped in with a case study on their traffic source: a really interesting, unusual approach to lead generation that could make a lot of money if approached right!
Follow Along Bro, do you even mobile? First steps into the mobile world.
fjk87 has decided to make the jump to mobile - and he's sharing his journey with us! A super-detailed follow-along from an experienced affiliate: a must-read if you care at all about mobile. THis should almost be in the "Guides" rather than "Follow-Along" section, it's that in-depth.
Case Study Mobile traffic + Capturing emails... [NSFW]
What? More mobile? Yep, Stackman hit us with a case study too, looking at his attempt to build a list with mobile traffic. Great info and great feedback here too.
My 2014 Small Success Story After The Vegas Trip 
Kokofai has a different definition of "small" to the rest of us - here's his tale of rocketing success after ASW, straight up to mid-$x,xxx a day in adult mobile!
Tutorial BOOM! - Creative Ways for Crazy New Angles
bbrock32 blasts us with an awesome case-study on creating and testing new angles! Everything including the code of the lander he used is included!
Follow Along 1k/ leads Per Day On Mobile App Install Offers
One of the best Follow-Along Campaigns we've seen in a while - an awesome rollercoaster of success as bigeasy123 sets out to scale the mobile mountain, going from losing campaigns to $2,200 a day!
Tutorial How i'm making $XXX,XXX with mobile apps. [My Story Inside]
Something a bit different - Stackman talks about how he makes serious bank by creating, rather than promoting, mobile applications.
Case Study Mobile traffic + Capturing emails... [NSFW]
Stackman tests something very different - email list building using mobile. Some serious potential here for someone on these forums to profit from!
Case Study Crushing Spotify - Mobile App Install Case Study
Ratalliance busts the doors off with a tale of $x,xxx days, insider negotiation, and advertiser-supplied creatives. Want to know how they killed the Spotify offer long after it had vanished from most networks? Read on...
Follow Along Shhhant's Mobile Follow Along! (Contest) - Page 3
Shhhant leaped into the mobile world with Argentinian ringtones, and ended up with a seriously promising campaign. Lots of learning and insight here. Older but still useful.
Follow Along sntr's Wild West Follow Along Contest - Movie Extras - Page 4
A legendary follow-along from sntr, taking the "movie extras" offer from loss to significant profit. Some fascinating insight on optimisation as well as landing page design. Older but still useful.
Follow Along kokofai's Wild West Follow Along Contest - iFortune [#2 round of ATTACK]
Kokofai's first mobile adventure - and it's a fascinating one, taking a fortune-telling campaign from loss to profit. Older but still useful.
Follow Along Grieve's Devious Mobile Contest Follow Along - Page 7
Grieve gives us a colossal follow-along, and the rest of the forum shares some really useful tips for campaign setup and optimisation. From 2012, but has heaps of useful tips.
Case Study Hey Sexy? Want some dating data? Find out if the "Boobie Rule" really is true!
From 2012, but still great - leber026 shares some data and a load of tested creatives for a dating offer - a great source of new ideas.
Tips And Tricks
Best way to promote antivirus offers
Antivirus offers are pretty popular on mobile right now - and this thread's a collection of awesome brain-dumps on how to promote them. If you're in the vertical, it's a must-read.
I want the worst performing banner!
Mr Green kicked off a genius competition amongst the STM crowd, as he challenged us to create the most terribad banner we could. Some really interesting insights here from banners that FAILED to be as bad as we thought!
Tip Android Ad network SDK stats
A lightning-fast tip from georgiecasey that'll give you a whole stack of new mobile traffic sources to pick from.
handsetdetection.com - How To Call Out The Users Handset
Exactly what it says - a quick guide to using handsetdetection.com to call out a user's handset on a landing page for increased CTR and CVR.
Auto detect screen resolution?
bbrock32 drops a swift gem of knowledge, showing us exactly how to redirect visitors based on their screen size - full code included.
How to Decide What Pubs to Cut
We've had a lot of questions recently about how to decide which mobile placements to cut - Mr Green lays out some great guidelines in this short, simple post.
Tip Use iPhones GUI PSD to improve your CTR/CR
Short, sweet, and extremely effective tip from Durden - use the iPhone's own interface to make your banners and landers better!
Tip Mobile landing page concepts (SCREENSHOTS galore*!)
A massive braindump of mobile lander concepts from Stackman - from 2012, but still just as useful now if you need some serious inspiration.
Tip The Perfect Mobile Banner Ad. (Template inside)
Mr Green does exactly what he says on the tin: a template for successful banners (almost) every single time.
Tutorial Five Mobile Design Tips Your Competition Are Ignoring
I wrote this in 2013, but I can tell you that your competition are still ignoring these tips just as much in 2014. Out-execute and profit!
Tip Test the performance of your mobile landing pages
Short and sweet - a tool to optimise your mobile landers' performance. You need this, and you need it now.
Tutorial Promo/Sweepstakes Money Money Tips*
Maynzie blasts the forum with pure gold in the forum of hardened, battle-tested tips on making the most out of sweepstake offers. From lander to interactivity, it's all here.
Tip Creating High CTR + CVR Mobile Landing Pages
fran writes a detailed series of tips on making sure that your mobile lander works and pushes the message you want it to push.
Tip Outing 1 of my top offers in 2012: Thumbplay (here's some tips)!
Ignore the offer - that's long gone. But the tips that Stackman drops on us in this post are still very current indeed.
Tutorial Mobile landing pages [winning ingredients]
Stackman covers the basics ingredients you need for a winning mobile lander. From a couple of years ago, but everything he says is still true.
Tip 1 Strange Trick to remove 40KBytes of data from your mobile landing pages
Speed is EVERYTHING for mobile landing pages - and this discussion includes some fantastic ways to remove the fat from your interactive landers.
Tip Mobile landing page design inspiration!
Stackman drops a lighting-quick but seriously awesome link that you MUST check out when designing landers.
And that's it! Know any more posts that should be in here? Let me know!
Awesome!
Feels so good to have all the info spread in the forums organized nicely in one place.
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