Beat Selling Online
Skepticism can be found throughout all ranks of the producer community when it comes to beat selling and making money as a beat maker. Most people who want to become a music producer end up completely missing the fact that the internet is a great venue for your beats to pull in a great full time income just beat selling online.
I think that SEO marketing is the key to success online if you have a website. I really love getting free traffic every day from the search engines without having to lift a finger. I combine that with article marketing, viral marketing and more to create some real buzz for my products (including rap beats).
A lot of that information is pretty advanced and I don’t think it’s where any producer should start beat selling online. The very first place I always tell beat makers to dive into is Soundclick. If you get a high ranking in the Soundclick charts as a producer, you will become a mini-legend in the pretty large community of SC. Go ahead and Google “beats” sometime and you’ll find that Soundclick is the first mass community website to come up in the listings. They have a huge section for rappers so your target audience is sitting there waiting for you.
The best qualities about beat selling online using Soundclick are the following:
1. Rising in the charts on Soundclick is more valuable promotion-wise than any other charts online… If you get to the top 10 on Soundclick, your site is seeing 20,000-100,000 plays PER day which translates into beat selling.
2. The paid promotions on Soundclick (though highly priced and somewhat risky) are well worth it for the most part. Some of their promo isn’t worth $1 but I explain all that in the eBooks I’ve written which makes beat selling online seem like a breeze (you can check out the links in the last paragraph of this article)
3. Rising in Soundclick’s charts is a great way to take a look at the “snow ball effect” of viral marketing. As you get higher in those charts you see a direct increase in sales.
Beat selling online using Soundclick is an easy task. They even have some great forums in place to help you promote. Soundclick should be your primary website and you should use websites like MySpace and Forums to bring in visitors. All you have to do is put your link in the tag of your posts and give people real, honest feedbackon their music. Do this in the Hip Hop section, give rappers your honest opinion and they’ll check out your site in exchange, especially if you have your beats up for free download! Get them to download your beats, then sell to them later.
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