Happy Catz Lite is now live on Android Play

Scouser

After months of no purchases I decided to create a lite version of Happy Catz (50 levels & mobclix ads)

hgvyas123

KongoRatz

techdojo

Hope it stimulates some sales, but the reality is these day's if you want people to know it's there then you have to tell them!

Creating an app is only half the battle these days's, marketing it is the other half!

Scouser

@techdojo: That's the thing and it's set for some major Tweeting/FBing and other forms on non-spamming spamming

@hgvyas123: Thanx

ar2rsawseen

@Scouser the reality is that Google Play is not the place to sell your product.
With all the marketing effort we had, contacting 100+ review websites, getting reviewed at some of them:
http://jenots.com/mashballs/Mashballs-Reviews

It only gave couple of sales, most income is from advertising.

Scouser

That's possibly true, I'm waiting on approval from SlideME and am looking at other marketplaces.

Also uploaded to GetJar & Aproov (links supplied when app approved)

john26

I've only had two sales for my game Nebula Retro.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simpleinteractive.nebula

I released a limited free version (with no advertising) and only got 21 downloads!

@ar2rsawseen: your list of review sites is helpful. I hadn't heard of any of these websites. I'll try to get my game reviewed on the sites you've listed. So far I haven't tried getting reviews and really haven't done any publicity/advertising. (which probably explains lack of downloads)

I set up a Facebook page for the game but frankly it doesn't look very useful for advertising.

Scouser

@john26: You may also want to consider publishing on other sites as well as Google Play. Try slideMe to start with. I did notice I get more downloads through slideMe than Google Play. Also slideMe tweets about your app on submission & release to their followers.

I notice the FB idea usually consists of spamming your friends to "LIKE" your page to get it noticed which will soon alienate your friends if you develop multiple apps.

techdojo

A good tip might be to partner with someone who is content rich and skills poor, by that I mean someone who has the content for your app (or content that can be converted to work with your app - ip, characters, scenarios, brands etc) and doesn't have the time / ability to produce apps for themselves.

You then get them to do all the marketing, shouting, FB likes etc and you (and your OTHER apps) get a free ride on their marketing wave, repeat until you have enough of a following yourself to create your own wave.

Alternatively - create an app / game / whatever designed for a particular niche and then find out where all the people who are in that niche hangout, then join the crowd, become the expert (or at least contribute sensibly to that niche) and then announce your app and let the niche do the work for you.

These are exciting times for developers but IMHO long gone are the times when developers could lock themselves away and not communicate with their market (read - the people who will give you MONEY for your product!), modern day developers who are serious about their potential to make money have to embrace the blog, the forum, anywhere and everywhere where their customers might lurk!

ar2rsawseen

Here are couple more sites that we have tried to contact, that you might find useful
http://www.lisisoft.com
http://www.androidauthority.com
http://www.androidtapp.com
http://appmodo.com
http://latestandroidapps.net
http://www.androidappsreview.com
http://www.bestandroidappsreview.com
http://www.lifeofandroid.com
http://www.androidrundown.com
http://apps400.com
http://appstouse.com
http://www.100bestandroidapps.com
http://www.askyourandroid.com
http://androinica.com
http://mobilemasher.com
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk
http://www.playandroid.com
http://droidgamers.com
http://www.androidgamesreview.com
http://www.appspy.com
http://www.gamezebo.com/

ar2rsawseen

@scouser the main aim of twitter and facebook pages is to allow your players easily to follow news about their game.

Then when you get some followers you need to create conversations, because every time they will respond, it will automatically post to their twitter/fb timelines, which will attract more members etc.

But in the beginning, yes it's mainly spamming to friends. Well, you have to start somewhere, don't you?

unlying

Yes, Google Play has this problem. It is hard to sell something. I convert mine 150 000 downloads of free version to only 5 downloads paid version. Ads brings much more money.

Scouser

Also now available on slideMe market

ar2rsawseen

@Scouser nice, updated at BuiltWithGideros.com

Scouser

@Arturs: Could you change the developers URL on BuiltWithGideros.com from http://www.absolutelyaverage.com to http://www.castlegateinteractive.com please.

ar2rsawseen

@Scouser fancy name!
Done

Scouser

@Arturs: Thanks. I let the wife pick the name

techdojo

Is that enough for her to try and claim %50 of all app earnings?

ar2rsawseen

@techdojo aren't you married?
Wife's usually get all 100%

GregBUG

in my case...
also 120%-150% )

OZApps

in my case...
also 120%-150% )

Is that a portion of all future earnings?

If not, please tell me how to get the 120-150%. I am happy to give 100% to the wife and keep the remaining 20-50% for myself as I want

Scouser

@GregBUG: In my case, she's already spent %200 of all earnings and is now trying to spend 300% of all future earnings (

hgvyas123

currently i feel like a SUPERMAN

i am THE bachelor [ THE is the intentional no need of moopfing ]

Scouser

Really strange figures. Currently after 4 days, no promotion whatsoever (This will change at the weekend), and 1 update (another will appear at the weekend with added stuff) Google Play has 9 downloads & SlideMe has 216.

Flurry says that there have been no installs from Central America, Africa or Oceana. Europe and Asia are the big installers.

On a side note, @atilim flurry reports this error:

class java.lang.NullPointerException Msg: com.giderosmobile.android.GiderosRenderer.onDrawFrame:220 android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.guardedRun:1332 android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.run:1116

Unfortunately, I have no more information than that

techdojo

@techdojo aren't you married?
Wife's usually get all 100%

My wife "claims" 50% of my earnings but in reality "takes" more like 150%

She had her credit card stolen once, I actually waited six months before cancelling it and informing the bank as the thief was spending less than she was.

marbolec

I hope you would share the mobclix plugin with us