Tips For Aspiring Producers

Selling beats on the internet is a very good way to make money. What is better than earning money by doing your passion : music ? And this is pretty much the same for any passion : it doesn't matter if you are a painter, a writer or a singer : when you can get money from what you like to do that is an amazing feeling.

However, before starting to get money you need to know a few things about the "how"! You can't rush into a business without knowing a few rules. Yes, you read it right : I said "business", because it is a business. If you want to earn money you need to consider your art like a business, even if it is art.

And I am pretty sure you would agree with me on that : even if you do art that doesn't mean you don't want to earn money from it, art is not free...or at least : not always, especially when you want to do that for a living. You need to think about it as a career. Justin Bieber sings, this is art but it is also his everyday job. And, of course, he has a whole team to market is art.

Marketing. Yes. Because if you want to sell your beats online you have to think about marketing strategy just like any business needs one. What do you really want ? Ask yourself this question. Are you a beatmaker trying to make a career of it or just someone who want to sell beats occasionaly? Let me tell you something : you need to use the same strategies for both case. Because potential buyers don't know about you : you need to find a way to get visibility. But how ? How to get started ?

Nowadays all is about networking. Here is the key. Use the internet to your advantage. How can people find you if you are not visible? So the first thing to do is to make a website. But I'm talking about a professional website. Don't let people find you on myspace or soundclick. It can help but let me say you that straight : that is not professional. Remember you need to treat your art like a business. If you want people to invest in your beats give them some serious reasons to do it. And this is also important to have your own domain name. You can find different providers on internet that offer interesting formula.

So you have a website ! Congratulations ! What is next ? First of all make sure you have different sections on your website. I see so many producers who just have a single page to sell beats but in my opinion it's better if you try to make your visitors the most confortable as possible. They need to feel like home. Give them reasons to come back on your website...Let them interact. You can install a forum for instance. That way singers, rappers or songwriter can write about any topic or advertise on your website. Think about it : a rapper just bought one of your beats and put the final result on the forum, other artists gonna see it and it would be good publicity for you. They will come back regulary on your website and that way you can connect with them.

Add a forum and all your social networks, don't forget to post your previous work with some artists then the new visitors can hear the final products which give a better idea of what they can do with your beats. Post your biography and references if you have any. Think about all that. Learn to transform your visitors into a potential clientele.

Now the obvious question is : how to sell your beats. There are different solutions but the most popular is probably Myflashstore. They offer a flash or html 5 player you can use on your website. You set it up, upload your beats and you are ready to go. For the payment, this work with Paypal and I recommend to use that because people trust Paypal. But if you don't want to use Myflashstore you can set your own store and put a Paypal link for each beat.

The secret is also in diversity : it doesn't matter if you do hiphop beats or pop beats. But if you do several genre it's even better because you gonna increase your clientele. If I know I can find pop, rnb and more on a website I probably gonna choose this one first. But if you only do one genre make sure to propose beats that doesn't sound all the same.

Quality. It is obvious but a lot of beatmakers forget about quality. However it's very subjective, someone will pick up a beat because in its opinion this is the best beat never made but someone else might think this is just crap. It's up to you, Do you think you are talented ? Look at the competition and step your game up. Always do the best work you can do and money will come anyway.

Now the question is : how to get traffic ? where are the artists ? The answer is simple : if you are looking for traffic go to any forum you can finds rappers, singers, songwriters and talk to them. Introduce yourself in a nice way, don't just come and say : "buy my beats". You also have plenty of artists on twitter and facebook. That's a good start but this is not the secret.

What is the secret ? Well, you certainly gonna get traffic from advertising on forums and so on. But you have plenty of them who look for beats on search engines. They search "buy beats" or any keywords related to beats and find websites that sell beats just like you. So the next step is to rank your site higher to make it visible on Google. And this is a very strong competition because this business is very lucrative but if you get on the first page of Google you obviously get traffic because people see you.

How to get on first Google page ? It's all about marketing. And your website needs to contain interesting contents. That's why I wrote you need to keep your website professional. Think business, think marketing strategies...and dream BIG.

Now you are probably curious to know where to buy beats online and in my opinion DREAMBEATZ MUSIC is the best to buy beats. They are serious and propose different type of licenses. The beats are just amazing and this is probably why they get such traffic.