Today we are going to be looking at how you can make money from your music even if you never sell anything.

This turns you from just another musician, to one of those special people who knows how to control hits on the Internet. Now people will pay good money to piggyback on your marketing efforts.

It’s how massive websites, YouTube stars and a bunch of other smart people make money online without getting branded as advertising whores…

…so make sure that you get in on a piece of the action too.

- Chris

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Music Marketing Challenge Day 30 – Making Money From Advertising is a post from: Promote Your Music a web site full of free information on how you can easily get more fans, more gigs and more sales with your music marketing efforts.

To use a cheesy old school phrase “today the rubber meets the road” because we are finally going to reap the rewards of all your work so far, by setting up the first thing you can sell to your fans.

Your people are going to love it because we’ll be offering a great deal, and making it real low risk for them. But it will also be very powerful for you because you can now filter out the super interested fans who are willing to spend some money.

This video is a little longer than usual because we need to cover quite a few steps in setting up your automatic sales machine. Stick with it though, because once you learn this process you now have the power to sell anything you want ever direct from your site, all on your own.

This is going to put you in full control of how you generate income from your music career and mean that you don’t have to pay any other companies to process your payments, wait for ages to get paid or give anyone a cut of your income. That is MASSIVE!

So watch the video a couple of times if that helps get this process into your head, and then do the steps. Even if you mess it up first time that’s better than doing nothing.

Note on testing: One quick thing I should have mentioned in the video is that whenever you set up automatic systems online, make sure you’re the crash test dummy for any little bugs, rather than the fans. You want to give people a slick process and if you confuse them right off the bat then they will probably not trust your site again.

So with all that said, let’s get into it!

- Chris

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Music Marketing Challenge Day 29 – Selling Your Stuff is a post from: Promote Your Music a web site full of free information on how you can easily get more fans, more gigs and more sales with your music marketing efforts.

Facebook and Twitter = 100 / 500 Beans

You can Hit the share buttons below this video get yourself an easy 100 beans right off the bat, and I’m going to credit you for up to 3 shares per day.

I’m also going to award a 500 bean bonus to the person who sends the most creative or interesting message about the competition, so if you decide to edit the standard message I’ve created you’re in with a shot for that.

Now add your comment to facebook, you can just say “I’ve entered” or get a bit creative. Remember the best update will get a 500 bean bonus.

For Bloggers = 250 Beans

If you have a blog and write a post about my contest with a link to this page, Shazzam! You’ve just got yourself 250 beans.

Just email me the link below so I can check it out…

Why should you win? = 250 / 1000 Beans

Next up you can simply email me and let me know why you should be the winner and how the classroom will help you in your career, I’ll credit 250 beans for every email I get, and the 3 most convincing people will get a GIANT HALLUCINOGENIC bean with the power or 1000 tiny beans.

Post a link to your music in the comment box below = 250 Beans / Automatic WIN!

Finally you can leave me a comment below with a few words about your music, and a link to where I can hear it. Every commenter gets 250 beans and if anyone has me dancing round the office like a weirdo they’ll pick up the “Bean of destiny” which means you win a place in the classroom by default.

It’s that easy!

You can choose to do everything on this page or just throw your hat into the game with something small, but remember beans mean prizes and the more you do the better chance you have of achieving ultimate victory.

So now it’s time for a few friendly rules, I’m not sure of the format of giveaways, so I just made them up as I went along.

Rules

1. The competition closes 11.59pm on February 29th. Winners to be announced shortly after that.
2. Winners will be the people who get the most verified beans.
3. You must Play nice. No bots or automated entries please.
4. My decision is final. I am the law…oooh writing that made me feel kind of strong!
5. Ummm – can’t think of anything else at the moment – but I reserve the right to add stuff if it crops up

So that’s it, the legendary hunt for the magic beans Starts RIGHT NOW!

By the time you have finished reading this others will already have a stash in their sack. So If you want to win you should get started right now.

It’s not too late…you never know who is going to get lazy and decide to trade their beans for a magic cow.

Good luck, and stay tuned for updates on who’s winning.

- Chris Rockett

Win a Year of Access to Music Marketing Classroom is a post from: Promote Your Music a web site full of free information on how you can easily get more fans, more gigs and more sales with your music marketing efforts.

Whoa there cowboy!

Seems like we been talking about getting hits for ages, so I have one more little idea for you before we move on. The concept of infiltrating other websites in a cool way, that will build your email list fast.

After this we are going to be creating your money machines and pressing GO on your email marketing plan to get those virtual cash registers ringing.

Exciting sheeat!

- Chris

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Music Marketing Challenge Day 28 – Infiltrating Other Websites is a post from: Promote Your Music a web site full of free information on how you can easily get more fans, more gigs and more sales with your music marketing efforts.

This lesson is very “old school” music marketing, but to be honest with you people are sometimes over-excited about the latest “flavor of the month promo” tactics and forget about the basics that always work.

Ignore this one at your peril young Skywalker!

I can’t tell you how many gigs I go to where musicians are totally dropping the ball…I would say that 95% of people have totally forgotten that one of the main reasons to spend all that time booking shows, and making sure everything goes well, is to build a following.

Loads of cool musicians are forgotten about because they have no way to follow up with people who liked the show.

We’re also going to cover how open mic nights can be part of a healthy music marketing diet…I know a bunch of people will think I’ve gone mad, but hear me out, and then throw the abuse

So without further adoo let’s look at how we can take one of the oldest music marketing tactics and give it a little modern twist.

- Chris

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Music Marketing Challenge Day 27 – Collecting Fans at Gigs / Open Mics is a post from: Promote Your Music a web site full of free information on how you can easily get more fans, more gigs and more sales with your music marketing efforts.

This lesson is all about how you can use existing online communities to add even more people onto your mailing list…

The little tweak I like to add to this process is PASSION!

Because if you’re just taking part in a forum for the sole purpose of music marketing, you’re going to find this really boring and give up after a couple of weeks at most.

But having a passion for the topic you’re contributing to will turn this into a long term marketing strategy that you look forward to everyday.

Note: Make sure you watch to the very end of this one because I’m going to reveal something we’re doing inside Music Marketing Classroom to have other people do your forum marketing for you. This one idea alone has the potential to build your fan-base faster than anything else I’ve shared.

- Chris

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Music Marketing Challenge Day 26 – Forum Marketing is a post from: Promote Your Music a web site full of free information on how you can easily get more fans, more gigs and more sales with your music marketing efforts.

The other day we turned you into a music journalist by suggesting that you go out and interview movers and shakers in your music scene. (A great way to meet influential people and attract a buzz and hits around your blog.)

Well today we are going to take the whole “journalist” concept one stage further by starting to review music and products in your life.

This is going to be fun because you’ll be talking about stuff that you enjoy and is something that you would probably do anyway with your friends, but now you will be talking to your new blog friends as well.

There are a lot of hidden benefits to writing reviews but the main thing is that you get a chance to rank high in Google and it’s another way to reach out to people who will be on your wavelength.

This is the last blog post technique I’m going to share before we move onto a few other ways you can pick up hits to your site…

Thank you for sticking with me this far, it shows a real commitment to this process and people who make that commitment make things happen.

- Chris

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Music Marketing Challenge Day 25 – Writing Reviews is a post from: Promote Your Music a web site full of free information on how you can easily get more fans, more gigs and more sales with your music marketing efforts.

Today we are going to be creating your “definitive guide” and the brilliant thing about it is that everyone at all interested in the kind of music you play will probably want to check it out…which means consistent on-going hits from proactive music fans.

How cool!

- Chris

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Music Marketing Challenge Day 24 – Definitive Guide to Your Music Scene is a post from: Promote Your Music a web site full of free information on how you can easily get more fans, more gigs and more sales with your music marketing efforts.

The opinion post is like interviewing a whole bunch of cool and interesting people in your music scene all at once.

For that reason these posts can become a hive of activity with people eagerly diving in with there own thoughts. All this attention will obviously bring a lot of new people to your blog, which makes us happy right

The keys to a successful opinion post are originality, spreading the link love with contributors and making it easy to take part.

- Chris

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Music Marketing Challenge Day 23 – Opinion Blog Posts is a post from: Promote Your Music a web site full of free information on how you can easily get more fans, more gigs and more sales with your music marketing efforts.

This is the kind of blog post where you get to talk about life, the world, music and whatever exciting things are happening for you at the moment.

You’re not trying to be Shakespeare here; the goal is short snappy and interesting posts that keep people coming back to get another little glimpse into your life.

Tell your “small time musician makes good” story a bit like Rocky Balboa, and take your people on the journey from when you were just another contender to the point where music can become your job.

- Chris

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Music Marketing Challenge Day 22 – Keeping A Journal is a post from: Promote Your Music a web site full of free information on how you can easily get more fans, more gigs and more sales with your music marketing efforts.