As usual...

I did hardly anything I'd planned to!

But not without reason. The press release I started to write, and then I thought: Hmm, this isn't a game! Gamerelease.net may not be happy if I missuse the press release system.

But that's not to say I didn't keep myself busy. I've been searching for places to review/advertise the sciOmeter and after a previous experience with google-ads (not that they were bad, just a waste of time!) I did a bit of research on which site(s) would be best.

Okay I know this is going to cost me cash, and that's fine. You don't get anything for nothing...well that's not true I guess with free iphone apps but you know what I mean. So I've given myself an *unspecified* budget, but it's not much! After all, I'm getting married this year and that's expensive! Rather than trust random sites about their popularity I made use of http://www.alexa.com/ which is a web statistics site and is a fairly good (although not perfect) indicator of how popular and visited a website is.

According to this, one of the most popular iphone site on the net is http://www.iphoneapplicationlist.com/ now there's no public information about their advertising rates. I've send details of the sciOmeter for their perusal and also sent a separate email regarding their advertising costs - that'll wake em up a bit.

I'm not impressed by that site itself though, it looks unorganised and I wouldn't want to click on anything there. Plus apps get added to the forums at a frightening rate at certain times of day. I don't believe (and this is just my personal opinion) that this is a good place to get the sciOmeter noticed!

Moving on I was being eagle eyed and watching the number of youtube watches of the video go up from 21 to 22 (heh) when I noticed that our channel has a subscriber! And infact that subscriber is an iphone app reviewer called CrazyMikesApps! So I did a bit more research and his site, http://www.crazymikesapps.com/ is ranked at 364, 402 (at the time of writing this) which is supposed to mean it's the 362,402 most popular website in the world. I'm sure that's not specifically true but the point is he gets a fair few visitors. After looking at his advertising services and costs I've decided to go for it and have requested a review & video(or podcast) review along with a months' worth of advertising. I even made that "animated" gif advert especially!

In terms of sales figures I've tripled my sales figures since the other day! That makes it sound so much better than it's actually doing, but it does mean I've had at least 1 sale per day which is encouraging. More than that it's surprising because the sciOmeter has had ZERO exposure out there. It's also nice to see that every copy sold so far has been to someone in a different country so globally it's taking over!

Muhahah...oh wait, I'm not supposed to do the evil laugh until 1 million sales...