Selling Music Online

I posted about promoting music online with JustinTv a few days ago, and Ive come up with a few more ideas about how you can directly make money from it. By setting up your own channel and lifecasting or just broadcasting musical performances you can build up a good following on the site. Sometimes certain channels get hundreds of viewers and this can be turned into some decent traffic by placing a link to your music site in your channel’s profile. But there are ways to make money online with your music directly from your JustinTv channel.

The first and probably best way is to get some advertising on your channel. I’m not sure exactly of the specifics of doing this but Ive seen other do it. Some people have small ads in their profile and I’m sure they get some money for having them there. If you have a channel with constant and regular traffic you should be able to come across some company willing to advertise in your profile.

Another way would be to sign up for some kind of affiliate program online, maybe a music related one, and put your affiliate link in the channel profile. If you have people coming to watch you perform music live on the internet they might be interested in musical equipment, and they might click on your link and buy something. With a good amount of viewers everyday you could make a decent sale every once in a while.

Finally, one of the more common ways of making money with JustinTv is to set up a ChipIn donation box. These are donation buttons like the PayPal ones but they give a goal amount to be reached and some small explanation about what the money is for. One person made enough money to get an iphone from donations, and she said thats what it was for.

In general, acting crazy, being attractive, or being weird will get you more views on JustinTv, but having live musical performances can get decent traffic as well. This can be turned into promotion for your music site so you can sell more music online, or you can use some of these methods to make some money directly from JustinTv. None of these methods will make you rich, but they can produce some nice cash on the side or just some good exposure for your music.