App Marketing

[StingRay]

Hi! Do you have some really good hints and tipps how to make your app more popular?!?

(Some blogs to post,...)

I've got some mails from 'App Marketing Agencys' but i have no budget for that and so I have to do it on my own.

would be great if you could share your knowledge with the community.

[DTownTony]

From what others have told me you will rarely make your money back from buying dedicated advertising space, and most of those agencies are "iffy" at best. The best way is really the cheapest which is to post about it in forums (Toucharcade is great for this), send out review copies to as many people as possible, and try and get as many customer ratings as you can (you can do this by just offering promo codes in forums and asking them to review). One thing that has helped with my game "Pocket Ninjas" is to include a "Rate It" button in the game that leads to your app in the app store. Its really bumped up my ratings numbers which helps visibility. Also, keep updating your app when possible, it'll also help it stay visible. The best way of course is to make a killer app

[cfullerNY]

i dont know if i am remembering wrong, but i think you cannot rate an app you got a promocode for

[jregork]

This guy has 4 or 5 very long in depth articles about his experience marketing his game:

http://bulletproofoutlaws.com/

[Jacob]

Just read through them jregork. Excellent articles