Finding the Right Members to Work With

Today I want to talk about finding the right members to work with for your beat selling company. As a leader in teaching others how to sell beats online I couldn’t think of a better blog post for the day. Finding the right members to work with is top priority if you expect to be running a fully functional business by the end of the dreaded five years (when 80% of businesses fail within the first five years).

Choosing the right people to work with has much less to do with their actual skill than you’d think. I’ve worked with hundreds of producers over the years and one solid thing I’ve learned is that there is no such thing as a functioning business if some of the people on board are non functioning people. While somebody may have skills, if they don’t know how to handle an exclusive sale (for instance) when the time comes, then you’re automatically going to have trouble.

I remember one specific situation where this foolish wonder of a man opted to join my team and I chose to let him on board. Now, keep in mind this was a long time ago when I still accepted new members once in a while to “give them a chance”, usually being a bad decision which is why I don’t work with producers at this point except for those on my crew currently. Anyway, an exclusive or semi-exclusive sale comes along and he is supposed to deliver track-outs, which are the stem files of your song.

Basically, you need to bounce down each individual instrument to a new track, so the kick would be one file, the melody would be another file, the snare would be another file, etc. Until you have a full compiled folder of all the right files in place, which is then delivered to the customer. Anyway, literally weeks passed before this guy sent me anything, after the sale was already made and money already spent by the customer.

Keep in mind we have a 48 hour delivery promise with a maximum of 72 hours. We try to warn our customers that sometimes it can take longer but, in general, we promise a 72 hour delivery window. So after weeks had passed, this foolish producer sends me the wrong files. Literally made this customer and myself wait weeks before sending the wrong files (he did not understand what track-outs/stems were). After sending them, he said that’s all he had and he didn’t have the files required to actually land the sale.

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