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The Ins and Outs of iPhone Analytics: What Every Developer Needs to Know – Part 2

This is a two-part series on iPhone analytics explaining how analytics works and what it can do for a developer who wants to integrate it into their iPhone application. Part 1 covers analytics basics and explains what information a developer can get and how it might be useful. Part 2 covers the important issue of privacy and what a developer needs to be aware of when collecting information from users.  

Part 1 | Part 2  

The Ins and Outs of iPhone Analytics: What Every Developer Needs to Know – Part 1

This is a two-part series on iPhone analytics explaining how analytics works and what it can do for a developer who wants to integrate it into their iPhone application. Part 1 covers analytics basics and explains what information a developer can get and how it might be useful. Part 2 covers the important issue of privacy and what a developer needs to be aware of when collecting information from users.  

Part 1 | Part 2  

Create easy iPhone GUI Mockups

teehan+lax has put up a fully editable Photoshop PSD file that allows anyone using Photoshop to explain their iPhone app idea. 

- Information came courtesy of TechCrunch

iPhone Press and Promotion - List of Websites

**iPhone Press and Promotion Website List Page can be found here**

The App Store has been open for over a month now and developers are moving out of the coding stage and into the sales and promotion stage. Many developers are seeing numbers drop over time as more and more apps are added, attention wanes, or popularity goes up and down. I've decided to start a running list of websites that review or profile iPhone and iPod Touch apps to help developers in their promotion efforts. This way, developers working on promotion or looking to launch their app can have a list of sites they should contact with pitches or press releases.  

I've tried to find contact information for as many sites as possible. I've also put a brief description based on my knowledge or a short visit to the site to help you know what each site is about. I've divided the list into general websites and those specifically catering to games, as the games category seems to be particularly active. 

The list will be updated as often as I can, but the comments are open for developers to post other sites they know of or corrections to the list. Site owners and bloggers can feel free to suggest their site in the comments as well. Always list the URL and any contact information. If there are submissions guidelines, please include them as well. 

Good luck to all iPhone app developers out there.

Monthly reports now available

One developer is reporting that monthly reports are now available to developers who had sales during July. As always, good luck to all developers out there. If you are willing to share your numbers with the iPhone App Entrepreneur, please email tom@iphoneappentrepreneur.com. Those with high numbers willing to share their strategies can leave suggestions in the comments. 

An inside look into one developer's sales numbers

John Casasanta from Tap Tap Tap, the maker of Tipulator and Where To? has written an incredible post describing his application's sales numbers. I encourage every developer to check it out. John includes the amount Tap Tap Tap has spent on marketing and how that affected his sales, as well as some background on why he has decided to share this information. Mad props to John and Tap Tap Tap for sharing this. 

As expected, there is good money is iPhone development

9to5 Mac and Macrumors are reporting on developers being pleasantly surprised by their daily download stats. Eliza Block, developer of the crossword puzzle app 2 Across, found that the last three days numbers showed her downloads at around 400 per day, putting her earnings per day near $1800.00. Impressive statistics, and undoubtably a happy surprise for Eliza. I hope other developers are also doing as well, and as always, good luck.