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Thanks! Great advice. Signing up for appfigures & appannie right now...
My tale led to an interesting discussion on Hacker News a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878871
On thing you may consider doing, if you aren't already, is using one of the many libraries available which ask users to rate your app. In the last release of one of my apps I implemented one of the libraries and I saw the amount of ratings soar. Especially the positive ratings.
That is very cool, thanks for sharing! Are you doing any marketing for it?
Thanks for sharing! What are your experiences with Distimo?
They do have a nice dashboard and the site is easy to use.
On thing you may consider doing, if you aren't already, is using one of the many libraries available which ask users to rate your app. In the last release of one of my apps I implemented one of the libraries and I saw the amount of ratings soar. Especially the positive ratings.
Apple screws the developers and we all bend over. What a joke!
Congratulations! I went through a similar process with my first app as well. A few things I'd recommend: - Use appfigures.com and appannie.com to track your sales and rankings. They provide much nicer reports than those provided by Apple. Also, they'll tell you if reviews come in, and even translate them for you. I'm personally addicted to the hourly ranking updates from AppFigures. - Never stop promoting. Do somethi…
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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. Thanks for the honest feedback!
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.