How I Built 350 Personal Apps to Achieve 7x My Monthly Salary in Revenue

Hello, students. It’s been a while since I’ve said hello 🙂 Is everyone making good progress with monetizing their apps?

Recently, I've been hearing a lot of stories about Google Ads like, "It's hard to advertise," "It doesn't seem to be effective," and "I have to be conservative because it costs my money."

In this lecture, I would like to talk about the operational inefficiencies that many people commonly experience while learning about app monetization.

Real-world problems encountered in the actual app monetization process

Difficulty in understanding revenue and resulting anxiety Most app developers have to check the AdMob revenue page and Google Ads advertising cost page separately. AdMob revenue is displayed in dollars and advertising costs are displayed in won, so calculating the exchange rate and manual calculation are required every time to understand the actual net profit.

As above, for Ads, advertising costs are displayed in Korean Won. (It may be displayed in a different currency depending on user settings.)

On the other hand, AdMob is only displayed in dollars.

Because of this cumbersome process, I am happy for a moment, thinking, “Oh, I’m making good money today!”, but then I get scared after checking the advertising costs. Since the information is scattered, I am always anxious about whether I am really making money or not.

A vicious cycle that leads to giving up on advertising operations Such uncertainty eventually leads to people avoiding advertising altogether, saying, “I don’t know, it’s annoying, so I won’t advertise,” or “I think advertising will just waste money.” In reality, even in profitable situations, opportunities are sometimes missed due to the difficulty of accurately understanding data. This delayed information understanding leads to missed timing for adjusting advertising budgets or optimizing campaigns, creating a situation where apps that could have done well are buried without getting the right opportunity.

Time-consuming due to repetitive tasks When running an advertising campaign, managing each advertising setting individually or repeatedly creating similar campaigns can accumulate to consume a considerable amount of time. Even for one app, there are many cases where multiple campaigns are run at the same time or tests are conducted with different targeting, but if these tasks are handled manually, there is not enough time to focus on the important app development. (In fact, many people do not start advertising at all or have a vague hope that the app will be downloaded automatically once it is released.)

Approaches to Effective Monetization Management

Importance of an Integrated Dashboard If you can see your revenue and expenses in real time on a single screen, you can make faster and more accurate decisions. You can comprehensively understand overall profitability management and advertising performance, which allows for much more effective operations.

Save Time Through Automation Automating repetitive tasks like creating ad campaigns, adjusting budgets, and monitoring performance frees up developers to focus on more important creative activities and strategy.

Data-driven optimization If you can check accurate profitability data in real time, you can operate advertising based on objective data rather than emotional judgment.

Effectiveness confirmed through actual experience

A big change that I experienced while monetizing my app was when I started using a unified management system.

In the past, I was happy to see the AdMob revenue, but the moment I checked the advertising cost, I realized that it was a deficit, and there were many times when I had doubts like, "Isn't this not making money and only letting Google do good things...?" I had to calculate the revenue by going back and forth between two sites, and because of the inconvenience + anxiety, I had no choice but to operate the advertisement conservatively. As time went by, and the seed of that anxiety grew, I often thought, "Should I just turn off the advertisement?" and eventually I repeatedly made the choice to safely stop the advertisement.

However, once we had an environment where we could see all the data at a glance, we were able to see the exact profitability in real time, which enabled us to operate advertising much more aggressively and strategically. Most importantly, we were able to make decisions with confidence . Instead of guessing, “Is this good enough?” we were able to make rational judgments based on actual data.

From personalized tools to services available to all developers

In my case, as I mentioned in the lecture, I created and used an admin with various functions, such as creating an advertising campaign and modifying the budget in bulk. However, since I approached this as a completely personalized service, it was somewhat difficult for anyone to use.

So we thought that if everyone had this feature, it would help them monetize their apps more intuitively, and that's why we recently launched the following service.

https://admob.pro

Practical support and targets

I hope that the management tool developed based on this experience will be helpful to students taking the course. We are currently developing a coupon that allows you to experience all the functions for free . We will provide the coupon through a separate notice as soon as the development is completed.

If you are having the same difficulties I had in the past, I think this will be a great help. However, if you don't have an app right now or have never created a Google Ads advertising campaign, you may not need it yet. If you are currently running an app and running Ads ads, this will be useful.

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App development skills and monetization skills are separate areas. Just as you learn monetization strategies through lectures, I think utilizing effective management tools is also an important factor in successful app monetization.

We will continue to strive to share with you information and tools that will be of real help in your app monetization journey. Thank you. 🙂

Detailed information regarding the experience coupon will be announced separately as soon as preparations are complete.