Selling Beats Online Today
Did you know that selling beats online can be easy and it’s not really that big of a deal to get it right? Beat selling is a booming industry right now and many people still believe that they have to work a terrible 9 to 5 job that they hate… When they’re sitting on a bunch of hot beats, which are gathering virtual dust on their computers. Why not sell rap beats on the internet?
The first and most important thing you need to understand is that it’s definitely possible, right now more than ever before. Don’t believe the hype if you hear that it’s a bad time to enter the music industry right now. There is plenty of hope, independent record labels are experiencing an incline in sales every year! Over 50% of all money made through record sales in 2009 were made by independent labels… That’s impressive! It shows the number of successful independents are going UP, not down.
I was sick of being told that I had to get a real job, and so I went ahead and started a beat selling company that started selling beats online at a rate of a full time income. I will teach you some of the basic ways I was able to achieve this.
Before you do anything, it’s important that you start researching and planning your attack. The key to starting any successful website is to have the right research done so that you understand the market in and out and you’re able to really take over quickly. Start on a website called Soundclick and begin learning all you can.
Soundclick is the biggest website online to sell beats because it’s completely equipped with everything you need. It allows you to upload songs, promote them using Soundclick’s internal features and best of all… There are 1.5 million rappers on the site as well, meaning your going to be jumping into a huge number of potential prospects and clients!
You can sell beats efficiently using this website and it’s the best place to start out. Once you’ve got some sales coming in through your Soundclick, it’ll be easy to expand onto other websites such as RocBattle and MyBeatShop. This has at least proved to be the easiest thing for me and my buddies to do, though some people find success quicker on other websites than Soundclick, like the two just mentioned.
When you do start promoting, make sure that you gather email addresses along the way in an organized fashion. Make sure to convince all the rappers you speak with to join your mailing list. You can do this easily by offering a free lease for joining, which will make them feel like it’s a good deal. If you make it beneficial for them you’re going to see better results than if you just get on your hands and knees to beg them for their email!
Once you have a mailing list of 1,000 or more, you’ll be looking at a money-generating list which you can come back to any time. Gather every rapper you come into contact with, and give them free stuff so you seem like the good guy. Many of them will eventually become buyers if they stay on your list (which most of them will).
Learn how to start Selling Beats Online, click the links in this paragraph to learn Beat Selling.