One of the most common questions I get from my belly dance students is about the music. “Where can I get that?” they ask with hunger in their eyes. They want the latest bands, the cool music we’re playing in class, the choreography tune. Until now, my response has been that I don’t copy music for them because I want the musicians to get paid. After all, they’re in business, too. So, I would send them to buy a CD. Or maybe you could find it online. But all that has changed now.
Solve the belly dance music dilema
Now you can send your students straight to iTunes or eMusic.com and they can download it directly. Okay, that’s not news. The new part is that you can become an affiliate of both those websites and make a commission on every sale. It’s the best of both worlds: your student gets the music cheap and easy, and you make a little money on the backend.
It all works through affiliate marketing. Basically, that’s an arrangement between two websites–the company selling the product (called the Advertiser) and the website recommending the product (called the Publisher–that’s you). All you have to do is put up a page on your website or blog entitled “belly dance music” or “class music” or something like that. Then your students go there and you have links set up that go straight to the song on iTunes or eMusic. Those links have a special code embedded in them that tell the Advertiser where that sale came from. At a certain point, you get a check as a commission for all those sales you made for the company.
It’s a win-win-win situation. Your student gets the music. The advertiser gets a sale. And you get a percentage. Sweet!
How do you become a belly dance music affiliate?
If you already know all about affiliate marketing, here’s the short answer:
The iTunes program is on the LinkShare network. And the eMusic program is on Commission Junction.
If you don’t know what the heck I’m talking about, you can learn all about making extra money online with your business or hobby on my affiliate marketing blog.
