Big post today to get you thinking about how to seriously make money from music.
Think it’s a sell out to push products under your artist brand, thinks it’s corny and fake and it’s not about the music? Well you can be poor and about the music. The way I work is that I’m in the music business and if I wasn’t making money I’d be somewhere else.
There’s no reason to be whining and complaining because your music business is failing. You need to get geared up with promotion strategies and music business models that are going to put money in your pocket so you can keep doing what you love.
Hi it’s Matt from Kurb here, I run a company that helps independent musicians promote their music and brands online and manage fan relationships to make money from music.
Our company is all about being affordable so if you’re realistic and realise it might take you a year or more to turn your great songs into a profitable business model, then you can afford to have us help you do that work until your independent music business is making money.
At the moment it’s still $US200 p/month - it will go up again soon - you get all the online music marketing services you need and eventuates to about 14 hours work p/month for that price.
Just email me, Matt at kurbpromo@gmail.com - we can talk. Just a warning though I hate phone calls and will only get on the phone with you if I know you’re not wasting my time.
I just sent this research I did on clickbank.com to another client and
I felt it was important everybody looked at this real examples as to
how sales of affiliate products through newsletters, blogs and
possibly even social media and article marketing can be significantly
more profitable than relying on your primary content which in most of
your cases is your music.
Take a look at some of the offers below you could easily be promoting
through your blog/newsletter/social media/youtube/etc.
just got some clickbank stuff here for you
I just threw in a search term “relaxing” as I thought that would be a
good starting point for your demographic.
look at the prices and commissions and then compare that to the prices
and commissions you get off your actual music.
I’m a big fan of giving your music away free specifically to fans who
buy products - or creating a special preferential group for fans who
buy affiliate products who get special treatment and exclusive free
music.
That way rather than getting $10 out of a fan and they get your album,
you focus on getting up to $20-^0 out of the fan and not only have
they got the album but they’ve also got an additional product, for
which the sales pitch is already laid out.
lets look at what I dug up for you:
this offer is 75% commission on a $39 product that’s $29.75 for you
12 Binaural Beats Mp3 Audios - Motivation | Energy | Relaxation | Life.
Creativity | Learning | Less Stress | Sleep | Meditation | Exercise |
Weight & Fat Loss | Build Muscle = Affiliates 75% Commission - Very
High Converting Product (Up To 15.8%) - For Promotional Material Go To
- Http://www.MyMindShift.com/affiliates -.
there are 93 “green” products the most popular was this, again 75%
commissions on a $40 product = note conversions 1:15- 1:40 that means
for 40 fans who click through you shold get a sale. But of course,
your fans are motivated to buy because . . .
THEY KNOW MOST OF THE MONEY GOES TO YOU!
Free Energy Product - Huge Market - Unique Niche.
A Tweaked Sales Page Increased Conversions By 30%!! Up To 70$ Per Sale
With The New Backend Sale! Conversions From 1:15 - 1:40 , The High
Gravity Is A Proof! Magnetic Energy Product!
Http://www.magniwork.com/affiliates.html For Affiliate Resources!!!
So fans know you’re making most of the money. That’s okay. You’re
committed to making sure they get as much value as possible so they’re
happy to spend. What about this one, it’s $67 for you p/sale. What if
you prepared a special limited personalized release for 100 fans who
bought this product or one of similar value? That’s be a good way to
make $6700, once you’re in the 1000 fan range, this becomes possible.
Possibly even every month.
Convert Your Car Using Gas4Free Water-Fuel Conversion System.
Attention: New Diy Water Car Is Selling Like Crazy! Raising Gas Prices
Has Created Huge Demand! Few Refunds. Promote It Now Before It Becomes
Competitive! Some Affiliates Are Converting At 15% And You Receive An
Amazing $70.00+ Per Sale!
let’s look at the Arts and Entertainment section - there are 373 product offers.
the most popular is one of my favourtie examples - legal video
downloads. you get $25 on sales of legal movie downloads. the cheapest
package is 25 movies for $30. So throw your album in free and the deal
works, does it not? DOn’t you think your fans will be willing to
support you and the whole copyright issue by getting movies and music
legally and getting a great deal?
MoviesCapital.com - Real & Legal Unlimited Movie Downloads !!
Make A Killing Using The Only Legal & Real Unlimited Movie Downloads
SITE!We Are The Future. All MoviesCapital.com Movies Are Licensed And
Downloaded Directly From Our Servers. Coversions Sky Rocket! 75%
Commission!
Music lessons and language lessons can be very lucrative.
Jamorama Guitar - New Changes! Big Commissions! Low Refunds!
Best Selling High Quality Guitar Course In CB! Earn 75% On Our $49.95
Standard Edition! Earn 75% On Our $99.95 Deluxe Edition!! Earn 25% On
Our $149.95 Hardcopy Edition!!! Jamorama Is A Pro Affiliate Program.
Tattoo sites another popular deal for promotions. have your fans even
thought about getting movies, tattoo designs etc, off the web? This
one pays $20 p/sale. The idea over time is to build themes into your
newsletters that make sales appear natural. So you choose something
like tattoos, talk about what you think about tattoos post some tattoo
art, do a youtube video with one of your songs and some tattoos and
then tie in the product at the end.
try this:
“You can get a tattoo design online for just $27, there’s thousands to
choose from, and what’s more $20 of the money goes to me so I don’t
starve. And hey, if you actually end up getting the tattoo I will give
you a copy of my album free, how about that?”
Chopper-Tattoo - Top Tattoo Offer !
The #1 Tattoo Gallery On The Web. Converting Like Crazy! Pays 75%,
Affiliates Must See. Free Music Downloads With Membership Allows
Creative Marketing. New Affiliate Tracking In Email, Exit Ad, & Google
Upon Request: Chopper-tattoo.com/affiliates/
there’s one that sells hip hop beat site membership,
http://www.beats365.com/ again $20 commission.
or you could go completely ironic and sell joke products to people -
as long as they get something worthwhile extra from you and they buy
it knowing and with the intention that you get $30 and that’s how they
support you as an artist then it could work once you have a loyal
fanbase.
How To Be Funny!
Earn 60% Of $49.95 Per Sale! One Of A Kind Niche E-book Teaching
People How To Be Funny In Just 7 Days Flat!
so this is just a sample to get you thinking about what different
products could be offered month after month through your newsletter
and your blog AND our article marketing and social media which will be
far more lucrative than album sales alone.
Of course this is just the higher end of the market we haven’t looked
at free stuff yet - that is stuff that we can get fans to do that make
you money WITHOUT them spending any money at all.
So then we can divide our fanbase into 2 distinct groups, those who
buy affiliate products for preferential treatment and those who can be
otherwise encouraged into revenue generating activity without actually
making credit card purchases,
for now though however it’s important we choose our products and set
the tone for introducing this proposition, as we will do again, month
after month with each new newsletter/blog/etc and corresponding
product.
regards
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