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		<title>Tweeting from an Ad on the iPhone Using URL Schemes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I’ve been experimenting with promoting out app &#8216;Friend Focus (for Facebook)&#8216; by ‘turning out the vote’ &#8211; ie getting our existing users to help us promote Focus. Once I’ve found a formula that works well we’ll implement the scheme in app and figure out a way to reward users for helping us, but for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Months of iPhone App Sales Stats, Cause and Effect.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 17:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hit Tennis has been out for six months now, and here I share sales figures for those six months. Recently sales have been in decline, but I managed to boost sales over the last month with a variety of marketing tactics: price drop to 99c, release date trick, translation into French, hitting the top 100 paid games...
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		<title>Understanding App Store Top 100s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 23:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understanding the unique ways the app store works is critical in deciding app store marketing tactics and understanding the spikes and drops in app sales figures. This article explores how the top 100 lists in the app store work, and a future posting will look at how this applies to real sales data.]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Stats Tools for iPhone Apps</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AppViz charts all your app store sales reports for you, and for a huge time saving it logs in to iTunes Connect for you and downloads them automatically. An added bonus (assuming you can stomach reading them) is that AppViz will download all your app reviews too! AppViz charts new downloads, upgrade downloads, all downloads, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screen Capture Tools for iPhone Apps</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PhoneFinger and SimFinger are handy tools for making demos of iPhone apps using the simulator with screen capture software...]]></description>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s TV Ad Causes Hit Tennis Sales Spike?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Feb 17th I had a 5x sales spike in my iPhone game Hit Tennis. Cool &#8211; a little extra income, but what caused the spike? I looked at Google Analytics and over the next couple of days I Googled and Yahooed looking for a new review or something, but nothing. The only clue I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Day 4x sales boost for iPhone Games &#8211; Hit Tennis numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[iTunes Connect just opened its doors after the Christmas break, allowing iPhone developers (me!) to log in and check our sales stats for Christmas. I&#8217;m very pleased to discover that Apple managed to get some extra pressies under the tree for me this year in the form of 4x sales increase for Christmas! Check out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First 24 hrs Going Well for Hit Tennis</title>
		<link>http://www.markj.net/first-24-hrs-ok-for-hit-tennis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first 24hrs, Hit Tennis has over 20,000 free downloads. I think its in the top 50 for free games, and I got some good press at Pocket Gamer in the UK. Today bugfixes.






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		<title>Hit Tennis game for iPhone iPod touch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just released Hit Tennis for the iPhone and iPod touch, its available now on the app store!









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		<title>iPhone App Store Price and Category Analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The iPhone app store is bursting with apps and I wanted to put some numbers to it. (I should have just looked here: http://projectx.mobclix.com/appstore/ :-). A little copy, paste, and Excel later I have a spread sheet with 5,293 apps from Oct 16th 2008 in the US app store.

99c is the most popular price point [...]]]></description>
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