As of this writing, there are approximately 240,000 applications currently on the App Store. In fact, about 230 iPhone™ applications are submitted to the Apple® App Store every day. Of those, surprisingly only 20 are games. For people hoping to make a profit from an application, this competition can be a huge problem.
Sizing up the competition?
Are all of these applications competition? In a way, yes. They compete for user attention, they compete for the attention of app reviewers, they compete for attention from the news media, they compete for opportunities to be featured, and they compete for space in every one of your marketing channels. That makes them competition.
Of course, they may not be your most serious competition, since apps are divided up into categories, but they are only the first layer. Once you enter your product category, ‘Travel’ for example, you still have a monstrous 15,167 competing applications.
Competition does not mean that it is impossible to make money. However, unlike the early days of the iPhone, you have to work a lot harder than just simply “having an app.”
In the early days of the iPhone, just having an app on the App Store was almost a guarantee to make at least some money. Now, putting an app on the app store with no external marketing is almost a guarantee for failure.
The Good News
While just creating an app and putting it in the App Store is unlikely to achieve results on its own, traditional marketing efforts still can be very effective in increasing the impact of your app.
We have found that almost nobody cares when a new app appears on the App Store. Reporters, bloggers, journalists, social media gurus, etc – with 240 apps appearing every day, nobody has the time to follow that. However, with a little bit of marketing action, people are still surprisingly responsive to information about new apps.
Foremost, reporters still seem willing to run news stories about applications. Of course, there are some who are burned out and very hesitant to run a story, much less read your pitch, so results may vary. However, finding the right reporters in the right markets and catching their attention with the right pitch can be very beneficial and is still very possible.
This is a classic public relations type promotion, and in fact, some public relations agencies are offering app promotion services that utilize the networks and connections that these agencies already have. In addition to traditional reporters, there are many influential bloggers out there within your potential markets who we have also found to still be fairly receptive to app pitches, especially when approached correctly. This can be a huge benefit as you target reporters and publications within your potential market.
The Benefits to Marketing
The problem with really cool apps is that they are hard to find, and people rarely go searching for them. Instead, they often learn about apps through various news sources and social networks. In other words, there are a lot of people who would buy your app if they knew about it and many more who could be interested depending on the sales message.
Marketing does not necessarily involve paid advertising, but it is a strategic approach that helps you determine how your application will stand out above the competition. Marketing treats your application as a product, and helps you craft a strategy for promoting your application, and making it easier to find.
Marketing can help you accomplish the goal of the app. Perhaps your goal is to create a new source of revenue by selling a paid app, or through an ad-dependant app. Or perhaps it is to connect with your customers and provide them with some sort of mobile convenience, such as a banking app. (You could also check out tips for improving app retention and increasing use, which is especially valuable for consumer engagement and ad-driven apps.)
In any case, marketing helps you reach your goals. By planning marketing efforts early, you can get excitement building before it even launches, which helps ensure its success. However, even apps that have been essentially lost in the vastness of the App Store can benefit from resurgence of interest, and a little bit of marketing knowhow.
Besides helping directly sell the app through active methods, app marketing can also help with the “environment” research, so you know how to price your app, what to say in the app description and many other simple “passive” elements that can make it really stand out.
Finding Help
There are plenty of online resources that provide a good self-starter guide for app marketing. We’re slowly assembling our own as well throughout this blog, as we have time to share tips and insights.
However, if you are feeling overwhelmed or unable to do it on your own, and you want to hire someone with a bit of experience that can get it going quickly and effectively, feel free to contact our app marketing and promotion experts.
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I have spent some time writing about the iPhone, first about the firmware 1.0 and then some articles about the firmware 2.0 with GPS and 3G.
I have compiled all articles in one article for easier reference for you as a reader. This summary article will make it easier for you to find information about the iPhone, and be a better judge for yourself, whether iPhone is the next wonder or just a flop.
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We have previously written about the importance of iPhoneÔ App Marketing in order to help create successful apps. This article will focus on various pricing models that can help you determine how you will price and sell the app. This is only an overview meant to highlight some of the benefits of certain models and situations where one might be a preferable choice. We will do an in-depth look at exact pricing and revenue in an upcoming article. ™®
As a general guideline, the current average non-game app price on Apple’sÒ app store is $2.85, with the average game price a bit lower at $1.20. Even so, prices still vary broadly by category, which makes pricing a challenge. Also keep in mind that Apple, GoogleÔ, RIM, and MicrosoftÒ all take out a share of each app sale, which should be included in any pricing model.
As in the retail world, app pricing is an art as much as it is a science. Some publishers go with what feels right, what is competitive, what makes it feel valuable, what they think customers will pay, and what will put them on track to make a return on their investment.
Below, we will cover ten of the most popular pricing models, as well as some of the benefits or dangers of each.
App Pricing Models:
Free
Free is usually the best option for people and companies using mobile devices to engage customers. In some ways, this is used as advertising and marketing, since publishers are using the app to encourage customers to buy products or promote their services. However, this also allows you to engage your customers directly and create a more meaningful relationship (such as using it as a medium to provide feedback, take advantage of sales and promotions, etc).
In this model, the cost of development is usually recovered by an increase in loyalty and sales.
Free with Advertising
Many apps are funded by advertising placements within the application. This can be beneficial because you can continue to receive revenue long after the app has been sold, but it also depends heavily on the retention rate of the app – meaning the rate at which people continue to use the app after purchase. Also, the rate at which people click an app tends to be fairly low and pay-for-placement is very low. But even so, it is a nice passive source of revenue, which can add up over a longer period of time.
It is not recommended to include advertisements in paid apps, as people have generally become accustomed to being able to pay for an app to avoid ads.
Start Free, convert to Paid
One intriguing option is to offer an app for free upon release, and then start charging for it a short time later. This strategy is focused on building a large fan base and positive reviews, which then help bolster sales once the app is offered for sale. This transition generally occurs once the app has received enough positive feedback, downloads and reviews that a rating will be shown on iTunesÒ.
This can backfire if you don’t forewarn users that the app is only free for a short period of time, but it can also be a great way to build a large following that you can use to promote your app once it launches as a paid version.
Start high and adjust down
After the marketing flurry that accompanies an app dies down, and sales begin to slow, one method for increasing visibility for an app and promoting downloads is to offer a discount, sale or price cut. This allows you to reignite interest in the app and boost sales. This can be a temporary promotion, such as a sale, or a permanent price cut.
This can be an okay strategy as long as you do not start too high and it helps you narrow in on the right price. On the other hand, this takes a lot of app marketing to work effectively, which adds additional time and costs.
Free AND paid version
A common practice in some categories (such as games and entertainment) is to offer a free version of the app, and then an upgraded paid version. In many cases the free version may be a partial demo, allowing users to try the app before purchasing it, or may include advertising. The paid version would offer the full version of the app and usually not include advertising.
There are some benefits to this method as it allows people to try the app and test it out before buying it. However, creating two versions of the app also requires more development time and more initial costs, as well as additional time upgrading or bug-fixing the app.
Free and Donate
Similar to the duplicate free and paid versions mentioned above, this option also has two connected versions. In this case, the free version is a full version of the app. However, also uploaded to the app store is a “dummy” app that is downloaded simply as a method to donate to the developer. This is common on the Android market especially, but is also seen on the other app stores.
The downside to this method is that it depends heavily on the goodwill of your customers. If you have a very good app, and a very loyal community, you may be able to make your money back, especially if you are developing something in your own free time. However, for more expensive apps or commercially developed apps, this is a less popular choice.
Micropayments
Some apps rely on a completely different revenue model that allows people to buy things within the app. This is seen most commonly in the Facebook® game FarmVille, by Zynga. Through micro-payments, Zynga reportedly makes over $100 million a year.
Even though only a small percentage of users will make micropayments, the payments actually tend to be quite large, and much larger than most users would pay to download the app. Also, micropayments can be done outside of the app store, meaning that you can avoid the 30% share that the store would normally take.
Micropayments require some incentive in order to get people to use them. Usually this works well in certain types of games, in which users could purchase in-game items that offer some benefit (usually things that save real-life time, or offer some advantage in game).
Subscription
Apple is currently working on a subscription model that would allow magazines and others to use a subscription model. This would allow users to “subscribe” to an app magazine, such as Sports Illustrated, and receive each edition as they are released. The benefit to this model is that users do not have to manually find and download each edition.
Although details are sparse, this likely would not be an option for most applications and would require an additional layer of approval. Google and Microsoft are also loosely rumored to be working on subscription app models, but will likely not release any details until a workable AndroidÔ/WindowsÒ Phone 7 tablet is released.
Education and Bulk Discounts
Some apps are eligible for education discounts or bulk discounts. This requires specific approval, but if you intend to use your app as an educational tool in schools or something, then this can be a good promotion to encourage schools and/or organizations to buy large quantities of your app at a discounted price.
Gift an App
This isn’t a pricing model, however we thought it would be a good fit in this category, even though it is only available on iTunes (sorry Android users). When purchasing an app on iTunes, next to the “purchase app” button is a small drop-down menu. This contains the option to “gift this app”, which will let you buy it and send a download code to a friend.
The code can only be used once, but can be a good way to send an app to a friend, relative, client or coworker. As the publisher, you can also build your app marketing and promotions campaign around this, which can be very successful depending on the app and the target market.
Other Resources
Amadeus Consulting is primarily a custom software development company, with extensive experience developing custom mobile applications on many different platforms. Over the years we have also become very successful at helping clients and publishers with marketing and promoting their applications to a new and quickly growing audience. If you are interested in our app promotion services, please don’t hesitate to give us a call.
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It might have happened in the past, or it’s bound to happen in the future — at some point you will accidentally delete an important text message from your iPhone. When this happens, and you are franticly looking for a way to retrieve the data from your iPhone, what options do you have?
Are there really any “quick and easy” ways to recover text messages on an iPhone that were accidentally deleted? The good news is that there is definitely a couple ways to easily retrieve deleted text messages from an iPhone.
1) IPHONE SPY STICK
An (www.iphonespystick.com) looks like an ordinary USB drive, but the way an iPhone Spy Stick Data Recovery Tool works is you simply plug one end of the cables into the iPhone, then the other end into your PC.
Using the included software (of the iPhone Spy Stick), you’ll be able to immediately recover and read deleted text messages , recover deleted photos , call logs, and even GPS locations.
THE GOOD?
No need to jailbreak the iPhone.
Nothing to install directly on the iPhone.
Extremely easy to use.
Works “after” the data is deleted versus having to install something before the data is deleted.
THE BAD?
Requires constant access to the iPhone.
Somewhat expensive considering the cost of option #2
2) IPHONE SPY APP
The second option is to get your hands on iPhone spy app that is often used to catch cheating spouses, monitor teens cell phone use and track employees. Even though this type of software is referred to as “spy” software, it’s fast become a popular way to back up your iPhone logs, thus helping you recover deleted data.
The main reason why this method is becoming a popular choice, is because there is no “syncing” or manual back up tasks to remember to do. Your iPhone data (text messages, call history, etc.) are automatically backed up every single day. This means if you ever accidentally delete a text message, and then need to quickly recover it, all you have to do is log onto your account and then in just a few clicks, you’ll have full contents of every message that was either sent or received from your iPhone.
In summary , software is essentially a real time personal back up solution that requires absolutely ZERO work on your part. Everything is done for you. The ONLY thing you NEED to remember, is that you must install the iPhone spy app software BEFORE any messages that you want to retrieve are deleted.
THE GOOD?
Works exactly as advertised.
More affordable than an iPhone Spy Stick.
Entire text message history is retrieved, not just recent ones.
No further access to the iPhone is required once the app is installed.
THE BAD?
Installation takes time, especially for anyone who isn’t comfortable installing cell phone apps.
You must install spy phone software BEFORE any messages are deleted that you want to retrieve.
Requires a data connection such as 3G or Edge.
Requires that you jailbreak the iPhone.
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