Make your music website pay for itself

I have always had a great love of music, so it happened naturally that my first website turned out to be music related. I admit that the idea of it earning money didn’t even occur to me at the start, and I believe that just like mine most music related websites are started because the owner has a passion for music and not as a deliberate business venture.

But after a while it became frustrating paying for hosting etc (not to mention the time and effort expended keeping the site up to date!) and seeing no return for my effort. The realisation that many webmasters were making good money from their sites only added to my frustration and I resolved to learn how to redress the situation.

Without a product to sell, the obvious solution for monetizing my website was with some sort of advertising, so I eagerly signed up with an affiliate marketing service and proceeded to fill every available space on my pages with various sized advertising banners. I then smugly sat back and waited for the cash to roll in.

When the money failed to show up (I made about 20 cents in 3 months!) I realised that there was more to it than simply plastering any old advertising on my site, so I started to look for specific music related advertisers. I figured that giving my site visitors something relevant to their interests would help the CTR (click through rate).

What I discovered was that there are some very effective and lucrative affiliate programs in the music niche, and in fact when I started to exploit this I made $40 in my first week, which was a big improvement on the previous 20 cents.

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Cut Out The Crap And Profit!

As you know, I’m always on the look out for opportunities to earn some extra money, so it came as quite a surprise to learn jut how much extra I could already have just by doing nothing. If that sounds like an odd statement, let me explain:

I recently quit cigarette smoking and cut down on my alcohol consumption. The cigarettes were an old and out of date habit that was not only a health hazard to me and the people around me, but also burning a large hole in my pocket. And the alcohol had gone from social drinking perhaps one or two nights a week, to at least a bottle of wine in front of the TV every night (that was when I wasn’t out drinking elsewhere!).

Now I’m not writing this to lecture about the health benefits of giving up smoking and restricting alcohol intake, but purely as a financial exercise. So if you are a smoker and a drinker then don’t take this the wrong way. But, like me, you might be quite surprised to learn just how much money can be spent fulfilling these ingrained habits – money which is easy to overlook.

To see how much profit it is possible to make by looking at existing habits and cutting down, it is necessary to examine how much it costs:

• The current price for a packet of 20 cigarettes in the UK is about £4.50 – so with a habit of 20 a day, it would cost £31.50 per week or approximately £136.50 per month.
  
• The cost of the wine varies depending on how much it costs for a bottle, but taking £3.50 as a ball park figure for a bottle of cheap supermarket plonk, then this amounts to £24.50 per week or more than £106 per month.
  
• Add the two monthly figures together and we get a whopping £242.50!

Now I don’t know about you, but £242 per month extra money sounds like a pretty substantial sum to me, and certainly not one to be sniffed at. But I’m not advocating denying oneself any pleasure altogether – after all, what is money for if we can’t use it to enjoy ourselves from time to time?

Anyway, that’s enough of my rambling for today. Simply put:

Sometimes there is money to be had simply by doing nothing…

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I Don't Want To Give You My Wage

Today I am excited! I have completed and uploaded my latest project. It is called "Stealth Income Secrets" and reveals the techniques being used by successful e-book sellers to cash in where others are failing - especially on eBay.

Selling e-books seems to be very popular on eBay, and there are plenty of people selling e-book websites, or guides on how to sell e-books on eBay. Funnily enough, I noticed one listing for a £9.99 e-book which was an original guide written by the seller about his experience of selling e-books. He had titled it something like "The Pitfalls and Rewards of Selling E-Books", which on the face of it is not a very inspiring title. However, I decided to delve deeper and read on to see what was on offer. Well, not much by the look of it, his listing states a lot about how you will not get rich and how you will still have to pay the bills, and that it is not possible to make a lot of money selling e-books.

Well I beg to differ. I have no doubts about the sincerity of this guy, and I'm sure his guide explains quite clearly where you can go wrong selling e-books on eBay. But there are others who are clearly having a great deal of success, and I guess a lot of that is down to how you approach things. Having a negative attitude will influence the things you do in a negative way whereas a positive attitude and optimistic thinking will shine through and help to lift you up to greater things. Think about it, it's true!

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