My app is now in the iTunes store. Besides submitting a lite version, what else should I do?

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by amichail • 17 years ago

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How do you promote your iPhone app(s)?

cubicle672• 17 years ago

How about telling us what it is :)

amichail• 17 years ago

http://www.numbrosia.com

cubicle672• 17 years ago

Few quick comments:

It's not available on the Australian iTunes Store. Not sure if this is just a time thing (seems to take 24-48 hours to filter out from the US to other stores)

From the screenshots on your website, the title text is clipped on the top and left of the 'N', on the right of the last 'a', and along most of the bottom.

For iPhone apps, look counts for a huge amount. If you can take the bronzy sort of look you've given the title and apply that as a theme across the whole game I think it would make a huge difference towards how people perceive it. At the moment it screams "I'm new to this and this is my first app". If you could whip up some custom tile backgrounds etc it would change the look (and hence people's impressions) in a big way.

I'm not sure there's much benefit on you doing a Lite version for this. How will you differentiate between the Lite and Full versions? Still, it's probably worth a shot and see if it makes any difference to sales (get figures for the full version for a few weeks, then release the Lite version and see how much it affects things)

Good luck :)

Devils-Avacado• 17 years ago

Make it not look crappy?

mmiguel• 17 years ago

check out admob - they have a download exchange (basically a link exchange for apps) that a lot of developers use.

http://www.admob.com/exchange/

My app is now in the iTunes store. Besides submitting a lite version, what else should I do?

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