Two Week Sales Report
uSightRead has been on the market for two weeks now, so how are sales? I’ve sold a total of 68 copies. Not too shabby. The estimated revenue is about 95 dollars (not taking into account currency conversions) which means that I’m about 6% towards my goal of paying for my MacBook. Of course, it takes a while for Apple to pay out, and you have to have more than $250 to trigger a payout. It’ll be a while before I actually see any money.
The one thing I haven’t done is spend much time on marketing. The most I’ve done was the guest post for 47hats, a post on the Business of Software forums, and one on Talk Bass to try and get some user feedback. The feedback has been awesome. One of the changes was to this website. A comment on 47hats said that if he came to the website and saw the development blog with all the code and such, that as a musician, he wouldn’t look any farther. To that end I’ve re-wickered the website to have a proper front page with this blog and a link from there.
We’ll see if that has any effect on my goal tracking. I just set it up in Google Analytics on the 16th, but there’s only been about 20 clicks on the “Buy Now” button. I think after I get done with the next version of uSightRead then I can start a big marketing push. Try and make some annoucements on sites that target musicians rather than developers or MicroISV’ers.
