Mobile Heroes Uncensored
Mobile Heroes Uncensored
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Winning IRL: Growing location and travel apps again (finally!)
28 minutes Posted Apr 30, 2022 at 6:30 pm.
Happy days for location-based apps?
Sharing the places you love
Starting a location app during Covid
Post-Covid growth
Sharing playlists of places
Brand ambassadors via TikTok influencers
Two classes of users
Connecting to influencers
Attracting creators to your app
‘Counter-mapping’ the world … via Ukraine
Growth via emotional connection
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Is it happy days for location-based apps again? We’re getting back to some kind of normal and apps for places, travel, restaurants, hikes, flights, hotels, beaches, and bookshops are back in action.
Today we chat with a super-interesting location-based app called Bimble, which is “counter-mapping” the planet … finding all the cool places that aren’t big on Google Maps and highlighting the small wonders of the world. In this episode of Mobile Heroes Uncensored we chat with Julia Mallaby and Fatima Zaidi of Bimble. They launched 3 weeks before lockdown … but survived COVID! And now they’re doing better than ever.
We chat about:
Building the ‘Spotify of Travel’
Filling the upper funnel of app users
Engaging existing users
Building buzz via TikTok influencers
Creating emotional connection that drives retention
Building real community
Enjoy!
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