Practitioner pattern · Steve P. Young (Sells App Masters agency services (including Meta Ads management); Web2Wave and MaxFusion are episode sponsors)
Show Meta ad users a hard paywall during onboarding
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What they did
Always put the paywall in onboarding; consider a hard paywall for all Meta paid traffic. Put the free trial on whichever plan (yearly or weekly) has the highest LTV. With a hard paywall aim for 10%+ install-to-trial.
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