How To Sell Your Beats Online

By Elie Turner


Selling beats on the net is definitely a excellent way to generate an income. What is better than generating revenue by doing your hobby: music? And this is pretty much the same for any hobby: it doesn't matter if you are a painter, a writer or a singer: if you can get cash from what you love to do that is a wonderful feeling.

However, before beginning to get bucks you need to understand a few things regarding the "how"! You can't speed into a business with no knowledge of just a few rules. Indeed, you read it right: I said "business", as it is a business. If you are looking to earn cash you have to think about your art like a business, even though it is art.

And I am fairly sure you might agree with me on that: although you may do art that doesn't necessarily mean you don't wish to earn cash through it, art is not free...or at least: not at all times, in particular if you would like 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 every single day job. And, of course, he has a complete team to market is art.

Marketing. Yes. Because if you wish to sell your beats on the world wide web you will have to think about marketing strategy similar to any kind of enterprise needs one. What do you truly want? Ask yourself this question. Are you a beatmaker trying to make a career of it or just someone who wish to sell beats occasionally? Let me explain something: you need to use the very same strategies to the two case. Due to the fact that potential customers don't know about you: you have to find a way to obtain visibility. But how? How to begin?

Currently all is about networking. Here is the key. Use the internet to your benefit. How could people find you if you are not visible? So the initial thing to do is definitely to make an internet site. But I'm speaking about a professional website. Don't let people find you on social networks or soundclick. It will help however let me say you that directly: it is not pro. Just remember you need to treat your art like a business. If you want people to select your beats give them several serious reasons to do it. And this is very important to have your own domain. You will find several providers on internet offering interesting formula.

So you have a web page! Congrats! What is next? First of all make sure to have different sections on your website. I see lots of producers who only have just one page to sell beats but personally I think it's more advantageous if you help to make customers the most comfortable as possible. They must feel home. Give them reasons to returned on your web site...Let them interact. You could insert a community forum for instance. That way singers, rappers or even songwriter may write about any specific topic or advertise on your web site. Think about it: a rapper just purchased one of your beats and place the final product on the discussion board, other artists gonna see it and it might be great publicity for you. They are going to revisit regulary on your internet site so that way you can connect to them.

Include a forum and also all your social networks, don't forget to publish your previous work with some rappers then the brand new clients can hear the finalized products which give a better idea of what they can do with your beats. Post your biography and recommendations if you have any. Take into consideration all that. Learn to transform your visitors into a potential purchasers.

Now the evident question is: how to sell your beats. There are various alternatives however the most well-known is probably Myflashstore. They offer a flash or html 5 player you should use on your internet-site. You set it up, upload your beats and you will be ready to go. For the remuneration, this work with Paypal and I suggest to utilize that because people trust Paypal. But if you don't want to use Myflashstore you can set your individual retail store and place a Paypal link for every beat.

The secret is also in diversity: it doesn't matter if you produce hiphop beats or even pop beats. But when you do several type it's more effective for the reason that you gonna improve your clients. If I know I will get pop, rnb and more on a site I most likely going to choose this one at first. But if you simply produce one genre make sure you propose beats that doesn't sound all the same.

Top quality. It is evident however a lot of beatmakers pay no attention to quality. Then again it's rather personal, a person will buy a beat mainly because in its perception that is the best beat never created however another person would consider this is just garbage. It's up to you, Do you consider you are gifted? Check out the competitors and step your game up. Always do the best work you can do and money will come anyway.

At this point the matter is: how to obtain web traffic? where are the artists? The answer is very simple: if you are looking for web traffic check out all online community you can finds rappers, singers, songwriters and speak to them. Introduce yourself in a pleasant manner, don't just come and say: "buy my beats". You also have numerous artists on twitter and facebook. That's a good start but this is not the secret.

What exactly is the secret? Well, you surely gonna find customers from advertisement on community forums etcetera. But you have a lot of them who seek out beats on web search engines. They seek "buy beats" or any specific key phrases related to beats and find internet websites that sell beats the same as you. So the following action is to list your website much higher to ensure it is visible on the search engine. And this is an especially solid level of competition because this business is often rather highly profitable but if you can get on the first page of Yahoo and Google you undeniably obtain viewers because people find you.




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