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A slimmed down excerpt of the Preface section of the Mastering the iTunes Affiliate book.
The iTunes Store is making massive amounts of money every day. Your website should be working with the largest music store in the world, adding an extra grand or two in commissions each month to your website’s revenue stream. With a little help from this book, integrating the iTunes Affiliate Program into your website will be well worth your time.
Who Will Benefit
- Anyone who has a site that touches upon music, TV shows and movies, or iPhone and iPod apps should have a good working knowledge of the iTunes Affiliate Program. Once understood, it is easy to make money with the iTunes Affiliate Program.
- All bands and musicians should have a website where fans can purchase their music. Using the iTunes Affiliate Program allows the artists to increase their revenue by adding commissions to their royalties.
- Every developer that has ever released an iPhone or iPod game or application should use the iTunes Affiliate Program to capitalize on more than the sale of each program.
- Any movie or TV fan site should use the iTunes Affiliate Program to leverage its traffic by providing links to specific episodes or films.
- Online communities centered on music, movies or TV shows should take advantage of the revenue stream that the iTunes Affiliate Program can create.
- Finally, any web developer or online entrepreneur should have a working knowledge of the iTunes Affiliate Program. Any of their projects, past or present, that encompasses modern media or deals with affluent users could be a great candidate for the program.
Using This Book
Because this is a technical resource book and not a novel, I encourage you to jump around inside the book to whatever information you need at the moment. However, here are a few suggestions.
If you are just getting started using affiliate programs in general, then you would benefit most from starting at the beginning and working through the whole book. Skim when you want, but the book is designed to take someone from no working knowledge to having a revenue producing website.
If you have already dabbled a bit with the iTunes Affiliate Program, then jump to the Best Practices chapter. Start working through these ideas, and when you need more clarification, jump back to that particular section.
If you consider yourself an expert user of iTunes Affiliate Program, then start at the beginning at the table of contents. Find a section in which you are less versed. Jump to the new content, read up, and repeat as necessary.
Each chapter will start with a brief explanation of how it ties into the bigger picture and how it can be used to generate revenue. Each chapter will finish with a list of steps to follow in order to get the most from the chapter’s content.
What Is In This Book?
This book covers all aspects of the iTunes Affiliate Program, as well as related technologies, platforms and theories.
Chapter One is an introduction to iTunes, the iTunes Store and the iTunes Affiliate Program, and how they relate to each other.
In Chapter Two, you’ll get your hands dirty. Who do you need to work with and how do you get accepted into the program?
Chapter Three plumbs the depths of affiliate links and banners. You will learn how they work and where to find them, what tools are available and how to use them
Chapter Four provides information about more advanced ways to generate links, geared towards those whose sites are dynamically generated or database-driven.
Reports are a major aspect of working with affiliate programs. Chapter Five takes an in-depth look at how to use them, to best advantage.
Chapter Six shows us how we can track our links and banners, aggregate our commissions and click data, and turn it into profitable decision-making information.
Chapter Seven examines the practices necessary to determine, and then capitalize on, traffic from more then just our home market.
Chapter Eight is a compilation of all the best practices outlined in the prior seven chapters.
Chapter Nine contains resources valuable to any user of the iTunes Affiliate Program, including a Frequently Asked Questions section that was compiled from actual questions culled from the Internet.
The book concludes with appendices that offer additional information about topics and technologies mentioned in the prior chapters.
What Now?
A book will help, but the only way to really learn this stuff is to dive right into it. With a little preparation and some hard work, you will be rewarded for integrating the iTunes Affiliate Program into your site with commission checks that grow each month.
