Honestly, my strategy is to simply give away some of my music for free by getting people to promote my sites in return.

But I am more interested in succeeding online by helping other local musicians and indie bands to become more successful by providing them with effective tools and strategies to expand their fan-base and increase their sales online.

I was glad to see the legitimization of Napster and the crackdown on other file sharing sites. It was a relief knowing that people's computers were crashing due to unsafe downloads. And it was great to hear that music thieves were being fined left and right for illegal music downloads. Truth is that these people just don't care and probably never will, and the sad thing is that many of them are fellow musicians.

 

OK, now for the solution!

Why not turn your music fans into affiliates? Give them a reason to buy then promote your music rather than share it! Stop the financial bleeding of your hard work and implement THE NEXT NEW THING that will take the online music industry to where it should be! Put an end to the current gaffs associated with mp3 sharing. It's pretty damn difficult to financially leverage off of the viral spread of your music IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO BRING YOUR LIVE GIG TO THEM!

IMPLEMENT a game changing Strategy that BENEFITS E V E R Y O N E ! Your fans will love you even MORE for providing them with an Affiliate Business Opportunity! Let's face it, and if you already haven't realized it, the new trend will be for a good percentage of people to become affiliates for things, products they like and merchandise associated with hobbies and activities they're passionate about. More and more people are looking for ways to make extra money online with the current economic downturn and it's pretty easy and fun to do.

The Affiliate Strategy explained a little further...

First let me introduce Problem #1 with offering an affiliate program for your fans. In order to stay legit (in the U.S.) with the IRS you would normally have to collect SSN's and issue 1099's to your affiliates in order to participate. Why? because most affiliate scripts have the affiliates generate money for the site, at which point the site turns around and pays the affiliates. Uncle Sam unfortunately needs to be aware of what's going on, otherwise you risk getting shut down and fined lots of money! With what I'm about to introduce to you, that problem is solved. That is because this affiliate script pays its affiliates INSTANTLY and DIRECTLY from their referrals! In this case, you are not in essence an "employer". No need to get involved with SSN's, EIN's or 1099's, though you should obviously report your earnings during tax time, and as a sole proprietor in the beginning to simplify things even further.

Problem #2: the perception that giving up your profits from mp3 (or any other merch) sales to pay affiliates is a losing strategy. First of all, good luck in being able to network to the potential fans that they will be able to network to, give credit for when credit is due. Secondly, the money forfeited in order to provide an incentive for your fans to promote your music WILL BE FAR EXCEEDED BY THE BUSINESS THAT THEY GENERATE FOR YOU! Take a look at any successful online affiliate marketing program and you will find time and time again that 50% commissions are a given. For well established brands the percentage diminishes some but that is because they use affiliate programs online simply to trigger impulse buys....everyone already knows of their existence.

With an Affiliate Strategy that runs itself, is easy to maintain and provides your fans payouts to recruit more fans you will finally go viral in a financial business way online, and not just left to try and scramble to find ways to capitalize on the sharing of your music. You will be giving your fans a sort of stock opportunity in your brand, turning them into an army of passionate affiliate entrepreneurs!

Here are just SOME of the benefits of applying this Affiliate Strategy

Shortly, you will be provided links to check out the product details page, so here's a quick overview...

• Offering your fans a sort of stock opportunity for them to become affiliates will give them an incentive to promote your music the right way to help you succeed!

• By giving your fans the tools to become affiliates, they will be working to expand your fan-base and increase your sales!

• Build your list and optionally incorporate a professional email auto-responder such as A or B seamlessly!

• Already have an exclusive members only website, or members only section to an existing website? Protect and Monetize it with having it as part of your Affiliate Membership with THIS script and have your affiliate fans promote it for you!

• And much, much more!

To check it out with the intention of hosting and installing it yourself...

To check out ALL the details, features and benefits
with the one time payment option

To check out ALL the details, features and benefits
with the multiple installments payment option

To the somewhat experienced website owners this is pretty basic stuff but for newbies it can be a bit of a learning curve. It is definitely within everybodys reach with just a little time, effort and patience. To help speed up the learning process, check out these quality cPanel video tutorials
 

Become a 'Bands Promoted by Fans' Affiliate without joining the site!

JOIN and PROMOTE a site that offers an awesome affiliate program AND WILL HELP TO EXPAND YOUR FAN-BASE AND INCREASE YOUR SALES!

What you need to do is sign up and start your affiliate promotion campaign now!

Just click the PayPal order button below to secure your membership. After payment, you will need to first create your membership on the "Return to Merchant" page. Then click on "Affiliate Signup" and fill in the required fields to complete your Affiliate profile. Start promoting the site and begin to earn money by referring others to do the same! Your commissions will be recurring!

For YOUR band/sales page, you will need to send:

1. Band, Artist or Producer name for url
2. link to your zipped mp3s, (4shared.com works fine, you can password protect it then remove it after I've downloaded them) I need to upload the zip file to this server in order for this affiliate strategy to be secured.
• 1 jpg, png, gif etc... (optional)
• whatever text or bio you would like on the page (optional)
• 1 mp3 player embed code (optional), check out mp32tube
• 1 YouTube embed code (optional)
3. the price you want to charge for your mp3s download
4. If you have an auto-responder account, then provide your opt-in code to paste into your band/sales page (optional)
5. *Also, if you have an older album that you want to offer at a discounted price (OTO One Time Offer) to thank your customers for their initial purchase, you are allowed to do so! I will need the materials for this just like the initial sales page, but for the OTO. The OTO page is displayed right after your fans purchase but before they are directed to PayPal for payment. The OTO is optional but a great added benefit. If you choose, your affiliate fans can also have this added incentive to promote your music if you want to offer them commissions on the OTO!
6. Buttons and banners to go into your Affiliate Center for your Affiliate Fans to grab with their affiliate id embedded in them: (optional)
• 135x60 jpg, png or gif
• 468x68 jpg, png or gif
• 125x125 jpg, png or gif
• 180x240 jpg, png or gif
• 240x320 jpg, png or gif

So, what happens if you don't join?
What are the Consequences?

Basically, you will miss out on all the benefits of joining this site. You will begin to realize the truth of my words, and ultimately settle for the same old tiring ways of trying to recoop your loses from giving away your music.

In other words...
nothing.

When you embrace a new strategy like this you will be implementing a game changer designed to reward your Affiliate Fans for expanding your fan-base and increasing your sales virally!

What's the catch?

I'm not really sure. I think it's a win - win situation. We have something in common, we BOTH want to succeed online. You want to succeed online with your music and tour the world, and I want to succeed online with offering deals like this one.

Become a 'Bands Promoted by Fans' Affiliate without joining the site!

P.S. Unique bands, producers and music artists of all kinds are waiting for a site like this to be presented to them.

P.P.S. You could be the one to present it to them and earn those 100% commissions on 1/2 of your sales. That's $67 for the 1st month then $7 every month after for EVERY OTHER REFERRAL you bring in that joins, Paid to you INSTANTLY & DIRECTLY from your referrals!