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Passive Income for Musicians - My Top Music Affiliate Programs
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Bard Marc Gunn
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Oct 11, 2004 19:51 PDT
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Bards Crier's Music Marketing and Promotion Tips
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unsigned bands by Marc Gunn of the Brobdingnagian Bards,
The Original Celtic Renaissance.
IN THIS ISSUE
- The Bards Crier News
- Passive Income for Musicians - My Top Music Affiliate Programs
- Recommended Reading
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1. The Crier
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You hear a lot of folks talk about the money that can be
made online. And there are some great opportunities for
musicians. But they're not easy to find. Finding the $$$
amounts is even more difficult. So here are some of the
facts about how much I make.
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2. Music Marketing Lesson
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Passive Income for Musicians - My Top Music Affiliate Programs
by Marc Gunn
Read the full article online at
http://www.bardscrier.com/musicbiz/
Recently, there was a discussion on the MusicThoughts list
regarding how to develop passive income as a musician. Of
course, there are many types of passive income open to
musicians, but this discussion in particular involved using
affiliate programs to earn money.
For the newbie, affiliate programs are program online that
allow you to earn money by selling products or services that
you do not own. Companies like Commission Junction, LinkShare,
ClickBank offer a variety of a affiliate programs on every
subject. While companies like Amazon.com (books, music,
and more), MP3DownloadHQ (free music downloads) offer more
specific products or services.
Building a successful affiliate income is NOT easy. And as
internet companies come and go, they are also not a hugely
reliable source of income for the long-term. I prefer to
focus on offering products and services for my active
websites, but most of my websites were created with
affiliates in mind. Consequently, I've learned the affiliate
game quite well.
Most people don't like sharing how much they earn from
passive income. So finding those stats Will be difficult.
But frankly, I prefer helping folks with facts.
So, here's a couple notes on the various passive internet
income sources I earn or have earned in the past:
1. Google Adsense.
Google CAN be great, but a lot of it depends on what keywords
your site is focused on. Head over to PixelFast offers a great
Overture Keywords and Bid Amounts Tool and you can find out
how much people bid on certain types of keywords through
overture.
Having done testing which got me banned from Google I learned
a few things when I was using Google Adsense. I found on the
average, I made about pittance on each of my random websites.
Some however, did MUCH better. Namely the 'free music
downloads' websites.
You'll note at PixelFast that companies bid heavily for those
keywords with clickthrus averaging at about 45c per click.
Seventy percent of the income I earned on Google was from one
free music download website that somehow made it high on the
search results. I'm not allowed to say how much I made, but
you can do the math when a site gets approximately 500 unique
visits a day and has a 5-10% clickthru rate.
The point is if you create and promote webpages with high
impact keywords, you will do fairly well.
http://www.google.com/adsense/
2. Affiliate Programs.
Since I'm no longer with Google, I've sense learned to find
other alternatives using Google style ads. You can those on
my Directory of Free Music Downloads as an example.
I've found other affiliate programs to fill the gaps lost by
Google through:
* Clickbank. I've focused primarily on free music downloads.
The big problem I have with Clickbank is that my Mozilla browser
at home doesn't like their redirects. But I still earn about
$500 per month from Clickbank.
http://zzz.clickbank.net/jmap/?m=bellobard&c=http://clickbank.com
* MP3Dollars. This is a free music downloads site for
MP3DownloadHQ. Their affiliate links are good redirects. So
I've made them much more prominent so as not to lose income
that might've been lost from Clickbank. The affiliate program
is solid paying 50% of the money they earn. So I earn about
$500 per month from them. Best of all, it's paid weekly!
http://www.mp3dollars.com/e.asp?e=11&id=2106
Read the full article online at
http://www.bardscrier.com/musicbiz/
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3. Recommended Reading
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THE GUERRILLA MUSIC MARKETING HANDBOOK by Bob Baker
This hefty manual delivers 11 chapters and 7 best-selling
reports -- over 120 pages of tips and tools you can use to
turbo-charge your music promotion activities.
http://www.bardscrier.com/cgi-bin/music_promotion/jump.cgi?ID=15
HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR MUSIC SUCCESSFULLY ON THE INTERNET
by David Nevue
Learn the marketing and promotion methods that one musician uses
to bring in over $5000 a month in income from the Internet! There
are no 'pipe dreams' sold here. The author details step-by-step
how he finally said good-bye to his day job and starting spending
more time on his music.
http://www.bardscrier.com/cgi-bin/music_promotion/jump.cgi?ID=16
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Fine Tuning
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Marc Gunn, Bard
P.O. Box 4067
Austin, Texas 78765
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