Turn Your Fan Mailing List Into $5,000 A Month

As a rap artist, using social media is very important in order to give your music exposure and communicate with potential fans and established fans. What also plays an integral role is your success as an artist is building something called a fan mailing list. There are several places you can put the opt-in code to build your fan list, but we suggest that you learn to Build Your Own Music Website. Your artist site is the best platform to collect your fans information, and in this article we will get into why, and also how you can turn that list into a steady income.

Why Build A Targeted Mailing List

The reason why you want to build a mailing list is to stay in contact with your fans and update them on information pertaining to your music and business ventures. This can include a new album release, tour dates, new merchandise or even appearances at music seminars. You want them to be informed of your every move so they can engage in conversation about it with their friends at school, work or social media. You also want to inform them so they can support you financially. More on that later.

How Do You Build A Mailing List

In order to build a fan mailing you need to register to a company that specializes in email marketing and list building services. We have searched high and low for our artists and found that the most suitable company is Aweber Communications they offer all the state of the art marketing tools and resources for you to get started, and also helpful videos that will guide you every step of the way. What you will have to do is register to Aweber and set up a marketing campaign, then place the code on your music website in order for your website visitors to input their information. You can lean how to do so here: Aweber Video Tutorial – Basic Set Up

How Do Rappers Make $5,000 A Month From Their Emailing List

When we were promoting indie artist (some of who are now signed to major labels today) we made them thousands of dollars a month.

When artists came to us for help we were the key to them making income for the first time.

How was this done? Well we set up marketing campaigns to drive traffic to their websites. Once the traffic is at the site they fill out the opt-in form from Awerber Communications and over the course of a few years receive updates on the list below.

Music Releases – You can send newsletter press releases via Aweber concerning the release of your new music for sale. The release can be in the form of an album or just a single. You can release it on Itunes or any other online retail store via a Music Distribution Company, but also consider uploading your music to Hulkshare and Bandcamp as well. We find that artist get a push in sales when they release a single along with a matching video. And remember you don’t need to release an album in order to sell a single. You can be selling singles in between creating an album.

Tour Dates – One of biggest income generators for rap artist is touring. With the decline in album sales, touring is what makes rappers really wealthy. As an up and coming artist you need not worry about not getting your fair share of the pie. There are several companies  like the Kenyatta Booking Agency that will book you for shows. They will also promote you, and be sure to promote yourself via your fan email list so more individuals will show up to your gig.

Merchandise – Music Merch as it is commonly known as today, can allow you to generate a significant amount of income. Now a days it is easy to by a dozen t-shirts for 5 dollars, slap your logo on it, and resell each one for $10-$20. Merchandiser as you know does not stop at T- Shirts. There are hoodies, fitted hats, socks, under wear, pens, mugs; whatever you feel will sell, you can create as merchandise.

The key to success with this is sending your email list discount prices off your merchandise. Enough to where you can still make a profit if you gave them a couple dollars off.

Appearances – The last way you can make money off of your emailing list is to inform them of any appearances/hosting that you may be doing. These can be you appearing in clubs or hosting music seminars. For some of our clients who have some clout we help them organize album and merchandise signings at record or book stores. People pay to take pictures and get an autograph signing. Another form of hosting is at clubs. This can be very lucrative if done correctly. The main key is promotion through social media and your emailing list. Again, the more people that attend the more profits you’ll be raking in!

Overall we have seen both major and independent rap artists benefit tremendously from their email list. We have seen artists go from making no money, to living comfortable off of $5,000/Month. This is  good income for a new artist until he/she reaches stardom making even more income per month. It’s all about getting started. Try out Aweber now and hook it up to your website, and start collecting the information of your visitors, in order to market to them for years!