Comments on: The CheckWord Pricing Experiment

By: Mick West

Mick West — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:16:47 +0000

erm, so they can have it in their pocket, quickly, and without an internet connection?

By: Brandon Thomson

Brandon Thomson — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:34:04 +0000

Good grief, Mac users have too much money… why do they pay for something you can get for free online…

By: Game Design Student

Game Design Student — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:26:04 +0000

My friends and I have been planning an app for app store, this post puts it in perspective. 100 sales a week as a “long tail” sounds pretty good to me!

By: Mick West

Mick West — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:32:27 +0000

Yeah, if you could do a new product every month, then after five years, you’d have sold 780,000 copies of 60 different games.

Of course, real life does not always quite work like that.

I’d also like to think that some of the products/games might be quite popular, making it a hit driven long tailed many headed monster.

By: davefb

davefb — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:03:44 +0000

after i finish the ngage thing i’m working on, i’m porting it to iphone….

which i’m looking forward to…… or maybe not ( since the codebase is already port from brew to ds to ngage :-/ ).

was just wondering if there was a model for .99$ product with relatively low production values…
i guess it would start to be interesting if you could get 10 of these 100 sales a week products .

By: Mick West

Mick West — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:07:07 +0000

Sales seem to have leveled off at around 100 per week. So it looks like I’ll have to look elsewhere to make my fortune :) Still, maybe the “long tail” will continue to trickle in. I just need lots of long tails.

You working on the iPhone Dave?

By: davefb

davefb — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:08:17 +0000

any update mick ?

By: Johan

Johan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:14:02 +0000

So now you’re doing 61 sales @ $.99 on average, but perhaps you could sell 7 a day @ $9.99 and make more money. Heck, if you even find one who’ll buy it @ $99.99 each day you’ll make an even sweeter profit. It’s a kick in the nuts to those 1999-a-day who thought it was great when it was free, but who cares about them when you can make real money?

By: Mick West

Mick West — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:44:42 +0000

Hi Dave, yup, the “free for a limited time” is a nice simple ploy for effortless marketing.

Follow up requires me to stop being so lazy, so might take a while :)

By: davefb

davefb — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:20:41 +0000

nice one mick :D.

i’d say that “loss leaders” or ‘free for a limited time’ are pretty much standard marketing ploys though in other markets..
i guess you could even get some ‘nice artwork’ in and do the ‘pretty version’ for a higher price… like a car company might do :)

so the big question.. whats the follow up going to be ;)