On Feb 1, 12:00 pm, "Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> When someone criticizes a free app or wants more you could be waiting in > >> the wings to pick up that money "on the table." > > The problem with this sales method is it requires human intervention > in the sale. For a 99 cent item, the cost of sending the response far > outweighs the 69 cents profit. Not saying it isn't an opportunity to > convert a problem into a sale but it wouldn't be efficient to use this > as a sales method. >
True, but alternatives are not answering the email at all, or being drawn into a long email conversation. To succeed using this method, you need to either increase the price of the app or decrease the cost of the labor. .99 is not the only possible price for an app, though $99 may not be acceptable to the market, even if equivalent PC software costs that much. You can reduce expenses by being more organized through autoresponders or a ticket based system as mentioned here. I am saying this as someone who needs to follow my own advice. If trends continue and I insist on answering my own email in my present, inefficient way, I'll have to hire someone else to do the *programming*. Nathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
