Hey, this is the Daily Overpass!
My name is Eric and I make apps!
Now today, let's talk about advice based on experience versus advice based on assumption.Okay,
so today, I want to talk about advice.
One of my favorite things to do these days is the Friday night Livestream.
So, a couple of months ago, we started with our first Livestream on Friday evening.
We do it every Friday night at 5pm UK time but before we started I was so nervous about
it.
I didn't even announced it, I just went live with it.
I was nervous about a lot of things.
First of all, what if nobody shows up, what if I announce it and nobody shows up?
What if they'd ask questions I don't know the answer to?
Or what if I look stupid and all these other kinds of stuff.
When we do the daily videos, you see, if I don't know the answer to something, I'm just
not just gonna talk about it.
That's easy.
But on the live stream, I get asked questions all the time which I don't know the answers
too.
So, I have to say this.
When you watch the live stream, when you're there at the live stream, you'll see me saying
like "I've never tried this but I've read about this and the other thing."
And I try to qualify what I know from experience based on what I know based on assumption.
We get advice from a lot of places and a lot of it is based on assumptions.
It's surprising how much advice we get based on assumptions and not based on experience.
One of the things I really try to do is make a clarification between the two of them.
'Cause I think that's the best thing about this channel.
If I tried something like Native ads, I've never tried native ads, I've never done a
video about the native ads, so I don't know anything about it.
I heard good things but I know what the eCPMs are, I don't know anything like that.
So, I kinda shy away from those kind of subject.
But in the comments, you, guys, will say, have you tried this and that, and other things?
And I think that's one of the more honest things about being able to share information
among peers, being app developers, in this way.
I found when I started doing apps in the beginning, I got advice from everybody, I mean, I'm not
talking about other app developers, but I mean everybody.
Everybody had advice on what I should do with the ads.
One person told me that I should add a button and have it in front of an ad, and the button
jumping around so the people will accidentally click on the ads.
That's the kind of advice you get but of course, that will get you banned but people who don't
have experience will just give advice on anything.
I started thinking about it.
I made this analogy, I think in the last live stream if you ask me for advice on cycling
like you want to be a professional cyclist, I could give you advice on that.
I can say, you need to get a Lycra, you need to get a really tough quality bike, you need
to get some good handle bar, the kind that you lean forward on.
You just get really thin tires.
Just things that I heard of, right?
I don't have any experience.
And if you said, "Oh, really?
Has that helped you with your cycling?"
I will say, "I don't know, I've never done it."
And it's surprising how much advice we get from people who have never done that.
I've read business books, who talked about this is the reason this business is successful,
this reason this business is successful, and these people are not from those businesses.
It's just they heard about it.
I mean, anybody could sound like an expert if you give them 10 minutes to Google things.
So, it's one of these things I think you have to be very careful of.
That I tried to be very careful of.
And whenever - this is my promise to you, I'm gonna try to - everytime I'd say something
which is based on assumptions, I'm gonna say that.
If I say it's based on experience, it's based on experience.
The question I get asked most often is which ad network is the best?
Which ad network pays the most?
And I'll tell you, for me it's AdMob.
It's always been AdMob.
But I've spoken to other people who said it's Amazon.
And I've talked to other people who said it's Facebook all the way.
It was Facebook far out strips AdMob, but when I tried Facebook, I haven't had that
kind of thing.
Advice?
Advice is cheap.
You have to test things, you have to try things out.
But, having a community like this, I hope everybody who leaves advice in the comments,
everybody who gives advice to us, everybody who writes a blog post, I hope you qualify
it with "I try this and I had great returns on it.
I tried this and not so much because there's a lot of hyperbole out there."
There's a lot of people saying they are expert on something and they aren't.
They haven't even tried it.
Anyway, I just want to talk about it today.
I've said it before, I'm gonna say it again, I'm not an expert on anything.
Especially with the app market 'cause it changes all the time.
We try things, we try things again, we try, we try, we try.
This works, that doesn't.
We're gonna go this way, this seems to be a good advice we're gonna follow, but I'm
not an expert.
I just happen to be a bit successful because I'm willing to drop the old composition and
try something new time and time and time again.
And I'm not that successful as I could be, but you know, I'm working on it.
Anyway, that's just my ideas for today.
That's it for today, I'll talk to you, guys, again tomorrow.