Tips For Aspiring Producers

By Helena Joyce


Selling beats using the internet is an extremely smart way to make profit. What is as good as generating revenue by doing your interest: music? And this is pretty similar for any passion: it doesn't make a difference if you are a painter, a writer or a singer: when you can get cash from what you love to do that is definitely an amazing emotion.

However, before starting to earn cash you need to know several things regarding the "how"! You can't speed into a business lacking the knowledge of just a few rules. Indeed, you read it right: I said "business", as it is a business. If you want to make money you must consider your art like a business, even if it is art.

And I am quite certain you would agree with me on that: although you may do art that doesn't signify you don't aspire to generate profits through it, art is not free...or at least: not necessarily, especially when you want to do this for a living. You must think about it as a profession. Justin Bieber sings, this is art but it is also his each day job. And also, of course, he has an entire team to market is art.

Marketing. Yes. Because if you want to sell your beats on the net you will need to think about marketing strategy identical to any kind of company needs one. What do you truly desire? Just think about this question. Are you a beatmaker trying to make a career of it or simply somebody who want to sell beats occasionally? Let me tell you something: you need to use the exact same strategies to both situation. Just because potential buyers don't know about you: you need to find a way to acquire presence. But how? How to take the first step?

Right now all is about networking. Here is the key. Use the net to your advantage. How can people find you if you are not visible? So the very first thing to do is definitely to make a web site. However I'm speaking about a professional one. Don't let customers discover you on myspace or soundclick. It may help however let me say you that straight: that is not professional. Just remember you must treat your art like a business. If you would like people to pick up your beats give them some serious reasons to do it. And this is also important to have your own web address. You could find several providers on the web that provide interesting formula.

So you have a web-site! Greetings! What is next? First be sure you have different sections on your web site. I observe lots of producers who only have an individual webpage to sell beats however in my humble opinion it's much better if you try to make customers the most comfortable as they can. They have to feel home. Give them reasons to come back on your web site...Let them interact. You could install a forum for instance. This way singers, rappers or songwriter might write about any matter or maybe advertise on your website. Think about it: a rapper just bought online one of your beats and place the final product on the forum, other artists gonna see it and it can be great publicity for you. They would keep coming back regulary on your site and that way you can link up with all of them.

Add a community forum in addition to all of your social networks, don't forget to post your precedent work with some rappers then the brand-new visitors can discover the final products which give a greater idea of what they can do with your beats. Post your biography and references if you have any. Think about all that. Learn how to transform your website visitors into a potential clientele.

At this point the obvious question is: how to sell your beats. You will discover various methods however the most well liked is usually Myflashstore. They feature a flash or html 5 player you should use on your internet-site. You set it up, add your beats and you will be ready to go. For the payment, this work with Paypal and I recommend to work with that mainly because people trust Paypal. But in the case you don't want to use Myflashstore you can set your own store and put a Paypal link for every beat.

The secret is also in diversity: it doesn't really make a difference if you produce hiphop beats or even pop beats. But if you do several type it's more effective simply because you will amplify your clientele. If I realize I will get pop, rnb even more on an internet site I most likely going to select this one first. However if you only do one type make sure to propose beats that doesn't sound all the same.

High-quality. It is obvious however lots of beatmakers disregard quality. Yet it's rather personal, anyone will get a beat simply because in its judgment that is the best beat never made however another person could consider it is only garbage. It's up to you, Do you think you are skilled? Take a look at the levels of competition and step your game up. Constantly do the better work you can do and money will come anyway.

At this point the matter is: how can you obtain traffic to your website? where are the artists? The answer is very simple: if you are searching for traffic go to all discussion board you can finds rappers, singers, songwriters and speak to them. Introduce yourself in a pleasant manner, don't just simply come and say: "buy my beats". You also have an abundance of artists on twitter and facebook. That's a great beginning but this is not the key.

What is the secret? Well, you obviously gonna find traffic to your website from ads on forums etc. But you have lots of them who seek beats on search engines. They browse "buy beats" or any keyword phrases related to beats and find internet sites that sell beats just like you. So the next step would be to rank your web sites higher to allow it to be visible on Yahoo and Google. And this is a very solid competition because this business is very profitable but if you can get on the 1st page of Google you evidently obtain visitors due to the fact people see you.

How to get on very first search engines page? It's all about marketing. And your web-site must contain interesting contents. That's exactly why I have written you must maintain your internet site professional. Think business, think marketing methods...and dream BIG.




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