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Originally Posted by XenonofArcticus
I'm curious how many people have experienced the "oh we got your promo code and now we'll review your app for only $x..." syndrome.
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That's the only reply I ever got, and I tried submitting several applications to several blogs, including iphonealley, appstoreapps, appcraver, and possibly others which I don't recall. Of course the really big ones, like Gizmodo or Engadget simply don't answer.
I even tried doing an ad in response to one of those email. I tracked carefully the sales before the ad, during and after, I plotted the ad hit numbers as reported by the blog and my sales, and found absolutely zero correlation. The ads simply had no effect.
My conclusion is that the app related blogosphere is way too crowded, just like the app store, and the impact each blog has is minimal. I guess to really have an impact you need to have an ad with on of the big blogs. The issue is that AppStore prices don't make it economical to advertise. It's hard to justify a $0.1 per hit price when the App costs $0.99 and only in the wildest dreams you'll get a conversion rate that is better than 1 to 10.
