Post Sale Analysis
Here’s my Google Analytics showing traffic before, and then during the 7 day sale period. As you can see, before the sale, I was averaging 50-70 visits per day; during the sale that shot up to almost 2,000 on a couple of days.

Breakdown by Day
The following table shows revenue generated on each day, PayPal fees, and how much I make.
Date Revenue PayPal Fees In My Pocket 16/01/2010 £32.23 £4.02 £28.21 17/01/2010 £192.96 £32.40 £160.56 18/01/2010 £52.79 £7.24 £45.55 19/01/2010 £100.40 £15.37 £85.03 20/01/2010 £106.29 £14.84 £91.45 21/01/2010 £156.21 £24.24 £131.97 22/01/2010 £72.81 £11.49 £61.32 23/01/2010 £22.98 £1.59 £21.39 Totals £736.67 £111.19 £625.48
So, it’s not a massive amount of sales; but for an indie, and considering I was getting less than one sale per day (!) in the weeks leading up to the sale, it’s not so bad.
Breakdown by Platform
The next table contrasts how the Mac and Windows versions did.
Platform Revenue #Sales Average Sale Price Mac £180.61 134 £1.35 Windows £556.06 548 £1.01
So, while I did get a much higher volume of sales for the PC version, Mac users are seemingly more generous!
Big Spenders
The next table shows the best sales I had, with a number of people opting to pay the default asking price, or above! Sadly, the most popular price point was 1p (I expected it might be).
Amount #Sales £19.99 1 £15.99 1 £15.00 1 £12.99 3 £9.00 2 £7.99 1 £6.99 1 £6.00 4 £5.00 17 £0.01 240
So that’s just the raw-data. I’ll do another post, and talk a little more about my thoughts and what I feel I learned from this little experiment. In the mean time, get Qwaking, and enjoy the game…

The traffic boost is impressive.
Could you please share your traffic sources? Where did you advertise your promotion? Which web resources drove the most traffic to your site during the promotion?
Hotdeal sites like hotukdeals.com/bargainspy.co.uk/dealspwn.com ?
Indie forums such as forums.indiegamer.com and forums. tigsource.com ?
Sites, devoted to retro gaming and old computer games, such as retrogamer.net, lemonamiga.com, assemblergames.com ?
Non-windows sites such as gp32x.com, macrumors ?
Or “web2.0-themed” sites such as digg/reddit/stumbleupon?
Did you advertise your promotion via facebook?
Thanks!
Hi Ann, I’ve done another post, with some more stats and my own thoughts on the sale; which I hope will answer most of your questions. I felt my best sources of traffic were the deal sites; I posted myself on indiegamer and tigsoruce (and actually assembler games); but fans of Qwak also made some noise on retrogamer gpx32 and various amiga sites. I also spammed destructiod and they all jumped on my case! (it’s cool, we’re all friends now). I also got a little traffic from twitter; but I’m pretty new on twitter (30 followers now) so maybe that’s not as big impact wise as it might have been. Nothing to speak of from the web 2.0 sites you mention, or facebook.
All the best,
Jamie.