Marketing and Selling Mobile Apps: A 101 Primer -- Application Development Trends: ": A 101 Primer
Mobile analytics vendor offers developers tips and tricks for making money on your smartphone applications.
Mobile analytics vendor offers developers tips and tricks for making money on your smartphone applications.
Let's say you've developed the greatest smartphone application in the history of smartphone applications. You're sure everyone who tries it will love it. Now you have two related problems:
How will you get the word out about it, with so much competition in the field?
How will you make money off of it, so you can continue to improve it, and build more applications?
According to a PDF guide (registration required) by mobile analytics and billing company Bango, the promotion/selling starts with getting your new application noticed in whatever app store(s) you're releasing in, whether it's the iPhone App Store, Android Market, BlackBerry App World or whatever. Your app will likely be added to the 'new' or 'recently added' list, Bango says, but with so many new apps coming out, that promotional boost may not last long. Consider being ready with several quick updates, 'in an attempt to refresh your position,' the whitepaper states."(leer mas)
