The application is a free app and anyone can download it.  The user starts off with $0.01 and every day they can add $0.01 to their total amount of money they have.  They can also make in-app purchases to add more to thier daily bonus and remove ads from the app.  With a $.99 in-app purchase they can remove the ads and add $1 to their daily bonus to make it $1.01.  Everyday they can then come back and add $1.01 to their total without making any other purchases.  They then compete against others in a high score type fashion to show the world who is the richest.

If you are interested please drop me a line at wesleythurner@gmail.com or leave a comment.

I adjusted the price of my cable color coder app from $.99 to $1.99. There was a drop in sales by half, but the revenue is the same. So I think I’m in the right price range, ill see after a few more months before I adjust again.

I need to continue updating all my apps. It is difficult to maintain so many apps and I’m working on releasing another app.

Amazon App Store

Everyone should know about this app market, It has its pros/cons.  Many people use it only for the free app of the day and nothing else.  My Cable Color Coder app does well due to a lack of competition, but my free app downloads are low.  I continue to have sales, but nothing compared to Google.

First year free/ $100/yr after that.  70/30 revenue split.  min payout?

AppsLib

“Appslib is present on over 2 million Android tablets from a range of Manufacturers including Archos, Arnova, Coby and Naxa among many others.”

“Preinstalled on these tablets, Appslib is the first stop for users of these brands to download apps.”

It is also an easy way to get your apps tested on numerous tablets.  When I uploaded Ultimate Pinout it was visible on all most all of the devices, however my paid version Ultimate Pinout Pro was not visible on any tablets.  Time will tell if this is some sort of approval process or some sort of anti-paid apps thing on these devices.

No registration fees, 70%/30% revenue share for paid apps and money is transfered via paypal.

Update:  This site has been horrible for my apps, after months I might have totaled 50 downloads of free apps and no sales of paid apps.  Despite the number of tablets they claim to have, they don’t seem to have users.

SlideMe

A long process to sign up and the payouts are confusing at best, we will see how it goes.

70/30ish split maybe? dependent on how customer pays and how you withdraw.  Paypal/bank withdrawls

UPDATE: This has so far been the best market outside of Google, to include Amazon, for me and my apps.  I have had over 1000 apps downloaded in a couple months, which is way better than Amazon App Store, but still nowhere near Google Play Market.

GetJar

My free aps were already listed on the site.  I haven’t tried to add paid apps.  anyone else use them?

Note:  If you have any alternatives, comments, results, etc. please comment below and let us know.

Ads

I am disappointed in my ads  I mroe than tripled the number of impressions yet made less money then last month!  I have been consistently getting more than 100 impressions a day last month, hopefully this month I can push it closer to 200.  I expect more impressions next month, hower I’m worried that revenue will remain flat.  I simply went with admob and now I really want to try some other ads.  We will see what I have time for.

Downloads

Every day my daily average of downloads is increasing.  With about a 35% retention rate, I am slowly building my user base.  All of this is and should continue helping with my ad impressions.  It was my first full month for Ultimate Pinout and I’m happy with the downloads.  It started off slow but quickly increased and we will see how the next month is.

Sales

Sales have been surprisingly good!  I need to redesign my old app, yet it is still selling decent.  It should continue to post a couple sales each month.  The Ultimate Pinout Pro is starting to take off and should do better next month.

First, AppBrain, most people know it as a review site and an old way of browsing apps on your computer and have them download to your phone.  The site has a great Changelog Section, where the history of an app can easily be seen.  You can easily see how active a developer is with their app.  Do they update often?  or is it possibly an abandoned effort?  The other info important info that can be gleaned is how many downloads they are getting.  Is the app skyrocketing as it’s popularity takes off? or has it been sitting at 1,000-5,000 downloads for over a year?

Second, is ChangeDetection, it can be used for keeping track of changes to your competition’s Android Marketplace page.  This can be very helpful when your competition changes their app description or uploads new screenshots.  You can learn a lot about how they market their app and if they adjust their marketing to target a specific demographic or another app’s audience.

With these two simple methods, you can keep track of the competition with minimal effort on your part.  It is an easy tool to use in developing your on marketing and making adjustments as your competition does.