While this website has lots of specific information about selling beats online, learning how to make money selling beats is something that can be generalized as well. There are some basic principals you can follow to obtain more success online. As long as you have the proper mindset, the right information and some basic marketing tools, you can make money selling beats. I put together a quick list of some of the things you need to know to sell your beats.

How to Make Money Selling Beats Online

Step 1: Learn from the Best

Obviously we sell courses on selling beats, but we’re not here to gloat about how great we are. By “learn from the best”, we mean obtain as much information as you can about marketing your beats. If you want to achieve results, knowledge is one of the most important factors. If you gave somebody a million dollars to build a business, sure they can probably succeed just by spending. But even then, you can waste hundreds of thousands of dollars simply by using bad marketing techniques.

For instance you need to be able to build your numbers for long-term success. Sending a bunch of traffic to a website and making some money should not be your main priority. Instead focus on long term goals like building an email list, getting sustainable traffic to a YouTube account, building your Facebook numbers, and so on.

Step 2: Get the right Tools

Obviously I love using email list building techniques, it’s my favorite form of marketing and I take it very seriously. There’s no easier way to earn some cash if you’re thinking about how to make money selling beats online. I always recommend Aweber for marketers trying to get their music online, because it’s the best email list building system on the planet especially for beginners without coding experience.

Aside from that, there are many other tools to choose from. The question you have to ask yourself is: what are your current goals and how do you want to achieve them? When I ask clients what their goals are, they seem to usually say “My goal is to make $XXXX per month”. The problem with this type of goal setting is that it doesn’t say anything about how you’re actually going to make that money.

If there’s no actual plan to action, then you will likely fail. The biggest reason most small businesses fail is that they do not plan correctly. Do you want to focus strongly on social media, search engines, local marketing or what? If you don’t know exactly what you’re going to do and how you can do it, then you are likely not going to succeed. This is why I put research and knowledge as Step #1… Because without knowledge, you will likely fail. Be sure to do research and learn the right ways to market yourself before doing anything else.

Step 3: Get out the Notebook

Some people may have systems that work better for them than a notebook would. But for me, if I want to make money selling beats or doing anything else for that matter, I always put my efforts towards my notebook before I actually start a campaign. The reason is, when I’m typing it seems kind of like a mindless task. I don’t have to focus to type something on a keyboard. But when I’m writing on a notebook with a pen, I am putting my mind to writing it.

What ends up happening is as I write, I come up with new ideas. So I like to pull out the notebook when I am ready to make some moves online. I find it difficult to sort all my thoughts and ideas for a single campaign or marketing tactic without writing it out.

Take advantage of your writing abilities and always write out your ideas. Keep writing through your ideas, too… Meaning poke holes in the ideas that don’t work and put the ideas that will to the top of the priority list. Ask yourself questions on paper, challenge yourself to find future issues with your planned campaigns and fix them before they even arise.

Step 4: Network and Work Your Ass Off

While a lot of the best information on how to rise to power is actually in our immensely powerful eBook “Power”, I’ll go into one other form of building power right now. If you want to make money selling beats you need to network with the producers and artists around you. Try to make deals that provide both you and another party some good opportunities. I love bartering and trading to get yourself to a higher level of success.

The only problem with bartering is that it’s difficult to make sure both ends of the bargain are going to be fulfilled. But this can be powerful as well in it’s own way if you can find ways to bind contracts. Try to do half of the work upfront in exchange for half of their work up front. Deals like that can help you succeed.

If you want to learn more about how to make money selling beats, please visit our home page and purchase some courses. Enjoy!