Best App Ever Awards: Better Odds

148Apps is running their Best App Ever contest again this year to “help publicize the very best apps available” across 55 categories.

I’m a bit of a broken record when it comes to app marketing: word of mouth to drive app discovery and social proof to give potential buyers remorse-free permission to purchase.

The Best App Ever contest fits nicely into my app marketing world-view. Wining an award is great social proof. Securing a nomination is driven by word of mouth. Securing a nomination is also good social proof, and with 550 nominations to be filled there’s plenty of room. And, of course, if you snag a nomination you’ll get sales from people discovering your app while voting.

It’s good stuff all around, and I want to help:

I’m part of the contest’s “nominating committee,” which selects half of the nominations. I’m going to nominate applications that come from Mobile Orchard readers and listeners.

If you’ve got a spectacular app that really stands out then I’d like to hear about it.

To avoid a crushing flood of self promotional comments I’d ask that you write your own blog post pitching your app for a nomination in a specific category and back-link to this post. I’ve got track-backs turned on, so you’ll get a link with the title of your post from here back to your blog.

Please don’t send me promo code! I can always write you to ask for one, provided your blog makes it easy to contact you.

Here’s one additional incentive: the magazine iPhone Life will feature write-ups for a number of the nominated apps in the issue they’re releasing for Macworld Expo. I’ll submit a few featurettes on the apps that I nominate, so there’s the potential for nice press coverage.

Have at it!