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Eight Best Ways For Indie Music Artists to Gain Revenue

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Written by Jaron Lewis

No doubt about it, being an indie music artist is tough. It’s not like being a mainstream music artist, and it can be really hard to get off the ground with your career. That said, it’s not impossible, and there are ways to go about it: in fact, there are eight ways right here that you can gain revenue.

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Today's indie artists can greatly benefit from the use of Google AdSense.

With Google AdSense you can write your own content for advertisements and have them placed around the web, getting paid per click as they catch people’s attention. Well written content can net you hundreds of dollars a day.

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You can also partner up with an advertisement company to put sponsored ads on your site, which can be very profitable.

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A third tactic is opening a YouTube AdSense account: with this, YouTube will pay you every time one of your videos is watched.

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There’s also a cool site called Share Cash, in which you can upload your mp3s and users can download them for free, but the site will still pay you up to twenty bucks for each download. You should also seek to get sponsored: if you can build a decent fanbase and find ways to get them invested in your success, many companies will be interested in helping you achieve that success.

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You can also sell your services to others for a commission profit. Once you’ve gotten a decent following and have potentially hired the services of a company for yourself, you can sell them to other artists for that commission and make tens of thousands of dollars, and in the big leagues, even up to six figures. In order to grow your fanbase, check out our artist academy and other marketing courses.

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Speaking of acquiring a large fan base, once you become popular there are many ways you can work your fame to help you make more money. For instance, once you are popular other artists may want to work collaborations with you, and that’s something you can charge thousands of dollars for, especially if you offer some promotion help for your less fortunate partner.

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Ads are still super effective, especially if you use them correctly. Facebook has one of the most efficiently directed ad systems around. Making use of it is a great way to make sure your ads are presented to the group that is most likely to react to it, making you a lot more money.

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Ads are still super effective, especially if you use them correctly. Facebook has one of the most efficiently directed ad systems around. Making use of it is a great way to make sure your ads are presented to the group that is most likely to react to it, making you a lot more money.

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