| Selling beats online can be a very profitable endeavor. | | | | price low is because I want people to purchase |
| This is true now more than ever with the introduction | | | | without having to worry about if they can afford it. |
| of 3rd party arbitrary beat selling websites. | | | | Most people spend $20 on McDonalds every week. |
| Arbitrary beat selling websites are fairly new and have | | | | The higher the price the less sales you will make. After |
| made it a lot easier to sell beats now-a-days. Us old | | | | all my testing I've found $19.95 to be the most |
| school online producers use to have to sell everything | | | | profitable price point for me. |
| manually. We made money, but with the birth of these | | | | 2. Have a good variety of beats - Many times I see |
| sites you can literally make thousands of $$$ in your | | | | producers making the mistake of only making a certain |
| sleep. | | | | type of beat such as Dirty south, or strictly Westcoast. |
| These websites allow you to have your own special | | | | This is a huge mistake because you are alienating |
| profile and allow you to upload your beats and people | | | | many artist who need other types of beats. Try to |
| can pay to download them. Soundclick has | | | | make beats that fit into every category so you have |
| implemented something like this, but no where near as | | | | something for everybody. |
| effective. | | | | 3. Promote on your own - Most arbitrary sites do drive |
| These websites are a golden ticket to your online | | | | targeted traffic to their site, but you want to start |
| success. | | | | driving your own traffic as well. Send artist directly to |
| The best feature these sites have is they allow you to | | | | your beat page so they can listen to your beats and |
| set your own price. Also you don't need to interact | | | | ultimately by beats from you. When artists visit the |
| with the customer. They pay and download instantly | | | | main page you are in competition with hundreds of |
| after receiving payment. This eliminates a lot of | | | | other producers. |
| headache on your part. No more dealing with problem | | | | Many of those artist will listen to the first few beats |
| customers, payment disputes, or any other problems | | | | they see on the front page. And if your beats aren't |
| customers tend to complain about. | | | | on the front page there is a good chance they won't |
| I'm going to go into detail on how to maximize profits | | | | get heard. |
| on each one of these websites. I suggest placing your | | | | Arbitrary beat selling websites are a great way to sell |
| beats on as many of these sites as you can. | | | | beats online. They provide you with an automated |
| 1. Charge no more than $50 for your beats. I usually | | | | system for selling your beats, which allows you to sell |
| stick with $19.95 for every beat. The reason I keep the | | | | beats without you physically having to do any work. |