We just started with App Store promotion and one major problem we experienced in app marketing is being ignored by major app review websites.
Do you think it would be a good idea to have an online list of review websites sorted by respond time to review requests? Has anyone tried to create something similar?
Our primary interest is getting honest feedback from someone who know his stuff, in order to further improve the apps.
Do you think it would be a good idea to have an online list of review websites sorted by respond time to review requests?
Probably wouldn't be practical. I can see where reviewers might give lightening quick response time for killer apps, medium response time for good apps, and mediocre apps go to end of the queue. (oh and sucky apps don't get any response) ...plus other dynamics might affect response time, including number of other apps currently in the reviewers' queue (which might vary from week to week), the author's juice (e.g. EA would have substantial juice), and what's currently in-demand and hot. (e.g. Santa apps during Christmas time)
Just now clicked your e-sig and see you have about a dozen apps.
Looking at mobiExpore Italy and others, your graphics seem okay but I might suggest re-working your UI and menu structure.
Your homescreen has 9 nav buttons (crowded!) and your bottom menubar (considered main nav) includes secondary items such as "Contact Us" and "Conditions", which don't belong on main nav.
Move ContactUs and Conditions to an "Info/About" screen. Just put a small circle with an "i" inside it, on the far right of your topbar. When user taps the (i) the homescreen can spin around and reveal your contact info and TOS.
Now, about those 9 items crowding your homescreen, move the most important 5 items onto the bottombar (main nav). As for where to put the remaining 4 items, just put a "+" as the rightmost item on your navbar. Tapping the "+" will reveal the other 4 items. ...also, you can put some of those items into secondary menus off the main nav items.
I don't know how work (if TRUE) the fantomatique "review queue", we ALL know which is the list of the major sites that can drive an app to the top ... but I am tired to see news, posts, reviews and blah blah blah to the wallpaper of Angry Birds or how eat this morning the CEO of Gameloft ...
Sorry the blame :P
but (IMO) not exist neither list for mediocre, killer or good app....
Exist only drive click, drive impressions, sell banners ... so if a sites talk about "The GREAT last Major Update of the mighty BLAH BLAH introduce GameCenter support!" it drives clicks from google and money....but but !!..is this really a good NEWS !??!?!
Sorry again I'm going OT ...
The rules to the top are only 3:
- great app;
- great budget;
- great luck (if the budget is quite great).
Don't trust in the major sites for an unexcpected success. You must work day by day on your app and hope hope hope ...
Today there is not space for clever indie developers in the major sites.
We just started with App Store promotion and one major problem we experienced in app marketing is being ignored by major app review websites.
Do you think it would be a good idea to have an online list of review websites sorted by respond time to review requests? Has anyone tried to create something similar?
Our primary interest is getting honest feedback from someone who know his stuff, in order to further improve the apps.
Wow. You are new in this. Let me tell u my experience. I had a list of about 20-30 app review sites/blogs/etc. Each time I release a new app, or release a big update, I will send to them requesting a review. I did that for a year (the whole of 2010). None actually reviewed/replied to me. So I stopped sending.
Edit: Ah yup, I did receive feedbacks, but all from the mailbots haha
Just now clicked your e-sig and see you have about a dozen apps.
Looking at mobiExpore Italy and others, your graphics seem okay but I might suggest re-working your UI and menu structure.
Your homescreen has 9 nav buttons (crowded!) and your bottom menubar (considered main nav) includes secondary items such as "Contact Us" and "Conditions", which don't belong on main nav.
Move ContactUs and Conditions to an "Info/About" screen. Just put a small circle with an "i" inside it, on the far right of your topbar. When user taps the (i) the homescreen can spin around and reveal your contact info and TOS.
Now, about those 9 items crowding your homescreen, move the most important 5 items onto the bottombar (main nav). As for where to put the remaining 4 items, just put a "+" as the rightmost item on your navbar. Tapping the "+" will reveal the other 4 items. ...also, you can put some of those items into secondary menus off the main nav items.
@wds many thanks for taking the time to offer your thoughts
Looking at mobiExpore Italy and others, your graphics seem okay but I might suggest re-working your UI and menu structure.
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Originally Posted by Mobiexplore
@wds many thanks for taking the time to offer your thoughts
If you do decide to re-work your UI menu structure I would suggest that you create mockup screens, and start a new thread to get opinions and suggestions from others.
Also, if you'd be interested in paying actual moolah to do the market research (it's actually under $10) , then PM me and I can introduce you to an awesome service commonly used by marketers, where you can post a survey (in your case showing two or more app mockup screens) and get feedback from 400+ people within a few hours.
We just started with App Store promotion and one major problem we experienced in app marketing is being ignored by major app review websites.
Do you think it would be a good idea to have an online list of review websites sorted by respond time to review requests? Has anyone tried to create something similar?
Our primary interest is getting honest feedback from someone who know his stuff, in order to further improve the apps.
Major app review sites will be getting more number of requests from the developer so they cannot review all the apps. However, you can contact certain app reviewers who is constantly reviewing.
At HotMacApps we reply to all emails in a maximum time period of 12 hours. However most emails are replied to within 10 minutes. We hope you will find our customer service to be like no other.
We just started with App Store promotion and one major problem we experienced in app marketing is being ignored by major app review websites.
Do you think it would be a good idea to have an online list of review websites sorted by respond time to review requests? Has anyone tried to create something similar?
Our primary interest is getting honest feedback from someone who know his stuff, in order to further improve the apps.
The responds time is largely depends on submitted app. If editor is interested, they will contact you.
Do you think it would be a good idea to have an online list of review websites sorted by respond time to review requests?
No, the response depends on so many things. So it is repeatable and may seem completely random. I think the best you can do in this aspect is to personalize your letter to review sites and send it to them a few times.
app review sites listed by response time
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