Where do music producers sell their beats?
A common question new music producers ask is where do music producers sell their beats? It’s great to have hot beats, but if you don’t know where and how to sell beats, how are you going to make money? Making money is the name of the game, right?
The best answer to where music producers sell their beats is to sell your music on your website. This method, like any other, will require planning. With this method, you are responsible for building your site, finding buyers, and ultimately setting up a way to process payments when you make sales.
This will take more time than any other method, but you will have more control over your beat sales. You can also build a prospect list using this method. This way, you can continue to promote to people who have already visited your site.
If you don’t know how to create a website, you can hire a web designer or buy a template.
Another place where music producers sell their beats is on third party sites. Third party sites will host your beats and some of them will even complete the sale transaction with your buyers. Some of them will allow you to customize your assigned page. To do this you will need to know some programming language or pay someone to customize it for you.
One good thing about third-party sites is that they are usually easy to set up. On some of them, you can upload your songs in your specific format, add an image, some biographical information, and you’re done.
You should always check the rules and regulations of the third party site as well. You don’t want to have all the songs loaded and your business running smoothly only to find out later that you’ve violated some rule you missed.
This brings us to the next point about third party sites. They are in control of your business to some extent. This means that if something happens to your site, you will eventually lose. Your server could crash, it could be infected with a virus, it could be hacked, etc. You and your beats are at the mercy of the third party site.
Even with these seemingly negative aspects, you can still make a lot of money with third-party sites. It all depends on how much control you are willing to give up.
One last and very traditional way to sell your beats is to use the old music trading system and submit beat demos. These may be in CD or mp3 form, but they still work. Sometimes people like to have a package in hand instead of listening to heartbeats online.
Either way, you must take action. You can use one of these methods or all of them together. If you are serious about selling music as a business, you will find that you will get the best results using these three methods.
