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Vincent Ferrari
05-14-2009, 07:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.mobileorchard.com/6-tips-to-get-your-app-noticed/' target='_blank'>http://www.mobileorchard.com/6-tips...ur-app-noticed/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Getting app reviews is part of a larger category of getting your app noticed. This article, expanding upon and broadening the earlier piece, provides six straightforward ways to get your app some attention."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1242301983.usr18053.jpg" /></p><p>Oddly enough, they missed one very obvious way: don't be afraid to give away "review copies" to sites that write about apps and such.&nbsp; It only makes the connection to the product stronger for people who read those sites.&nbsp; If you pass on it, you're passing on a very easy way to get some free publicity.&nbsp; They kind of hint at it in number 3, but it's more than just a press-release thing.&nbsp; Give away copies.&nbsp; Most sites, when presented with a free copy of software, will happily review it (unless of course you're a site like Engadget that gets thousands of things to review every day).</p><p>I think the best tip of all the ones given, however, is number 6.&nbsp; Nothing says "I'm listening" like a responsive developer who incorporates user suggestions into the final product.&nbsp; I've been lucky enough to meet a few of them as Executive Editor here, and it really proves to me that they care about their product enough to not be stubborn about it.</p><p>Any of you folks out there have an app you've developed, by the way?</p>