A related point is this: If Amazon sales make up 1% of your Android sales, and your Amazon sales increase by 1000% for a day after the giveaway and settle at 500% for a few weeks (bringing it up to ~10% and then ~5% of your Market sales), but your Android sales drop 20% right away because you've just given away your app to those users who would have bought it on freebie day, and settle at 5% lower because of a resulting loss of ranking in the Android Market, you could come out with a wash or a net loss as a result.
Also, as Felipemnoa pointed out, the NET numbers make a huge difference. If the promotion takes you from 1 to 10 units, or even 10 to 100 units, a similar promotion might make a relevant difference for an app that's already at 200 units a day. Tim On 5/16/2011 10:34 AM, Felipemnoa wrote: > My point is that one would need the actual numbers to make an informed > decision. If you are starting from zero then is really easy to > multiply your sales. Is the same true if you already have traction? > Would it make that much of adifference? I.e would it help angry birds? > I think Amazon is asking too much for too little in return. > > On May 16, 2011, at 4:08 AM, Psym <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> >> On Monday, 16 May 2011 02:34:52 UTC+10, Felipe (Noa Technologies) wrote: >> >> If you go from one app per day to 10 apps per day that would be >> 1000% increase. Not really impresive to tell you the truth. Not >> for wanting to have far more control than even Apple. >> >> >> Umm... ok, and if you are selling 100 a day then 1000% would be 1000. >> I'm not sure what your point is. Are you saying that 1000% isn't >> good? If a salesman improved that much he'd be employee of the year. >> >> I think that an app which did have a single download a day would >> actually see a much higher percentage increase since I suspect that >> the impact of the free app of the day is most likely an absolute >> increase in numbers rather than relative. But for the sake of >> argument, let's say it is relative and that you are only selling a >> single app a day; why would you turn down the opportunity to sell 10 >> a day instead? >> >> Anyway, it's obviously up to the approached developer whether to go >> ahead, but I'm just putting it out there that I'd consider our >> experience with it a success. >> -- >> 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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > -- > 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. -- 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.
