I do not. I’m in the process of getting my own app developed and in my research I found that if you sign up for the iTunes Affiliate Program (www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/) , use your unique link where ever you send people to the iTunes Store or App store and you get a commission on anything they buy within a 24 hour session or until they click another affiliate link. So even if they don’t end up buying your app if they buy anything you’ll get a commission! So, make sure you include affiliate links inside your app too.
I’m not sure what type of analytics they provide back to you for any purchases or activity but hopeful it’s something to overcome the data disconnect once inside the App Store.
We were interested in Distimo their reporting on rankings. Unfortunately, you have to be in the top 200 (it seems) to get ranking info. Appfigures is better for this. They do hourly rankings (thanks to ajlburke for recommending it, we just signed up today).
They do have a nice dashboard and the site is easy to use.
Thanks. So, we had a $100 credit from Google to use on adwords. That was interesting but not something that would work if we had to actually pay for it. In terms of other marketing, Apple gives you 50 download codes so we handed those out to local bike businesses & nonprofits.
Our experience is that people rarely redeem the download codes, but will often reciprocate kindness. Our biggest sales came when we gave some promo codes to a bike courier company, and they tweeted about the app to their 3,000 followers.
Aside from that we comment on some of our favorite cycling blogs with our url. That's it. Suggestions?
A small press kit with some screenshot of the app that you can send to blogs and biking websites. I would use your promo codes with bloggers rather than bike businesses, unless they have large followings like the courier company.
a) Glad you like it. Simplicity was a goal.
b) Yes, totally agreed & in the works.
c) This will be in the next release.
d) We actually have a ticket in with Apple to get this fixed. There's nothing we can do on our end. Terrible.
Probably made the same mistake I did with iOS 5 and the icon. You have to define in the root level Custom iOS target properties: Icon already includes gloss effects BOOLEAN YES
You've probably only set it under Icon files -> primary icon
You can tell if you did it right if it shows up without the shine in itunes connect when you upload.
Thanks for the link to distimo.com analytic, I'm looking into it. My marketing suggestion: contact blogs that a cyclist would read, blogs by/for cyclist or even a blog by a boutique bike shop. Perhaps some will write about your app.
You can check out the app in the app store: http://bit.ly/Bike-Maps-App