http://news.buzzgain.com/the-single-most-effective-one-time-sales-promotion-for-our-application/ BuzzGain empowers you to “Do It Yourself PR” Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:14:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 http://news.buzzgain.com/the-single-most-effective-one-time-sales-promotion-for-our-application/comment-page-1/#comment-1708 andy Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:14:24 +0000 http://news.buzzgain.com/?p=67#comment-1708 Developing an iPhone application is very different. First off it’s much more expensive than simply creating iPhone styled pages and secondly you need to have a specific reason for creating an iPhone application. An iPhone application needs to fill a niche and actually needs to do something beneficial for the user to install it. It has to have either entertainment value, provide a service or do a task the operating system doesn’t like mapping for example. Given the recent changes in the iPhone operating system you can even “push” content live to a user’s phone. It has to be unique. Developing an iPhone application is very different. First off it’s much more expensive than simply creating iPhone styled pages and secondly you need to have a specific reason for creating an iPhone application. An iPhone application needs to fill a niche and actually needs to do something beneficial for the user to install it. It has to have either entertainment value, provide a service or do a task the operating system doesn’t like mapping for example. Given the recent changes in the iPhone operating system you can even “push” content live to a user’s phone. It has to be unique.

]]> http://news.buzzgain.com/the-single-most-effective-one-time-sales-promotion-for-our-application/comment-page-1/#comment-5 The single most effective one-time sales promotion for our application Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:57:42 +0000 http://news.buzzgain.com/?p=67#comment-5 [...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptIphone developers responded to a survey by App Store HQ blog on the most effective marketing for their applications. Here are some of the results: Soliciting user reviews – 2.01 / 7 responses Making frequent updates to increase App Store visibility – 2.3 / 10 responses Paid PR – rating 3 / 2 responses Offering a Lite version – 2.58 / 12 responses Submitting to app review blogs – 2.4 / 10 responses Developers gave 3/3 rating for Paid Public Relations. But more people tried o [...] [...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptIphone developers responded to a survey by App Store HQ blog on the most effective marketing for their applications. Here are some of the results: Soliciting user reviews – 2.01 / 7 responses Making frequent updates to increase App Store visibility – 2.3 / 10 responses Paid PR – rating 3 / 2 responses Offering a Lite version – 2.58 / 12 responses Submitting to app review blogs – 2.4 / 10 responses Developers gave 3/3 rating for Paid Public Relations. But more people tried o [...]

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