[Keith Brown's Promotions] How To Make Money From Your Music Website With Aff...

[Keith Brown]

If you have a music website, then there’s an amazingly simple way you can make hundreds, even thousands of dollars with little or no work.

It’s called “Affiliate Marketing.” All this means is that a company will pay you for telling your website visitors (or anybody you know) about their valuable products.

The company gets new customers, your website visitors or customers get new products to help them, and you get paid. It’s a winning deal all around.

In addition, generating commissions is easy. Simply let website visitors know about a certain product by putting banners on your website, telling your email subscribers about it, or mentioning the product after your name in all of the emails you send to others in the music industry.

There’s virtually zero effort involved.

Of course, you’re probably wondering, how’s this different than getting advertisers to place ads on your site?

Well, with affiliate programs you get a piece of the sales generated. Instead, a few bucks in advertising fees, you get a big chunk of the profits – resulting in hundreds or thousands of dollars!

Not to mention, that in order to find good advertisers, you need a very highly-trafficked website. With affiliate programs, you can generate commissions with as little as 1 visitor at your site that buys your recommended product!

This then brings us to the next question, “How do you go about finding good affiliate programs?”

Practically every online business has an affiliate program. The problem is that few actually have “Affiliate friendly” programs. They often give low commissions, offer a lack of support, and the products have horrible sales rates (meaning you might have to send thousands of visitors to earn anything).

On the other hand, a good program is responsive to your questions, pays generously, and has good banners, emails, and other ads already created for you. You just copy and paste.

A number of these programs can be found in affiliate directories, such as:

• http://www.associateprograms.com/directory/

• http://www.affiliatescout.com/

When you go to these directories, there is one main factor you should look for… you’re going to have the most success with a product most relevant to what your website visitors want.

For instance, if you have a music website for unsigned artists, then you should promote a course that shows artists how to get signed.

If you’re site covers the topic of starting a record label, then you should promote an affiliate program on how to start a record label.

Do you see why? These are the products your visitors are most likely to buy. Finding a relevant product versus promoting unrelated products means the difference between generating sales by only referring 25 visitors or 10,000 to get a sale.

It’s vital to offer a product your customers desperately want.

After you’ve found this most targeted product for your visitors, email subscribers, or customers, then you need to pick a program that’s going to make you money.

This means in most cases you’re not going to want to even deal with a product that only pays a few percent of the profit. No matter how good the other aspects are, it’s going to be hard to make much with low commissions.

In addition, the program should also be responsive to you. You can test a program by sending in a question.

If you get a quick response, then you know the program is most likely on top of all issues surrounding the affiliate program. It’s not just there for the sake of having an affiliate program.

Finally, the product you promote should solve a burning problem your customer has. For instance, if your website visitors are interested in getting their music heard, then the product you offer should solve this burning problem.

Simply put, by affiliate programs are a great way to make easy cash from your websites. The only challenge you face is finding a good one!

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Posted By Keith Brown to Keith Brown's Promotions at 8/19/2008 11:06:00 AM