Thứ Ba, 15 tháng 1, 2013

How To Sell Your Music As a Music Studio Producer

The dream of any talented music studio producer is to get recognition and make money. One strategy to set yourself up for success is to start making money by selling your beats.
If you want to go independent right from the start, you could set up a website for yourself and sell your beats directly to other music makers. When you list your beats, give details about what type of license accompanies each product. Exclusive use means that the buyer purchases the right to be the only one using that specific beat. With non-exclusive use, you are only giving him the right to use the track. Visit a website called openmindentertainment to check out one such website.
When you create a site that will be exclusively yours, you are in charge of all types of admin such as adding payment methods and paying for web hosting. The advantage is that you will be able to keep your earnings.
Not everybody is able to support that level of independence and fortunately there are several websites where you can upload your beats in order to sell them. In most cases, they might charge a percentage of commission on sales. Because these websites are known to play host to a large number of producers, they attract many visitors. Your main challenge will be to get noticed by the punters.
Definitely one of the larger websites is beast4tracks. The site boasts well over 1500 producer accounts, with beats available in genres as diverse as old school, new school, hardcore, gangsta, horror core, electronic, experimental, mid west, east coast, crunk, dirty south and soul. The rate of commission you will be paying on sales, depends on your place in a three-tiered membership hierarchy. You will get your earnings through PayPal.
If you want to investigate a different beat selling website, go to http://www.hiphopinstrumental.net. Beats are sold at $25 for non-exclusive use, and from this, the website takes 50 percent for admin. There is the option to charge more and offer your beats for exclusive use, but the site will still take half as their cut.
To gain prominence for themselves, users of the website mybeatshop can engage in beat battles. Just some of the genres available are gangsta, dirty south, snap, reggae, and crunk. You can get paid through check or PayPal.
When you create an account on the website budgetbeats. You must also budget for an upload fee, which is from $0.99 per single upload. Alternately, you could purchase a package of 20 uploads for $12.99. The payment method is PayPal.
For a producer who is ambitious about promoting his music and getting it out there, industry, you could consider checking out another kind of website. The website called taxi provides up-to-date news about music and entertainment needs and offers you the opportunity of getting your music heard by executives at the top TV networks and record companies. There is an annual fee of $300, but for that, you will have access to the front-line movers and shakers in entertainment, which could lead to big things for the talented music studio producer.
To become a music studio producer, you need to know how to market yourself and your music. A successful music producer attracts good artists, gets the right contacts and is able to promote his music effectively. That's not easy when you're first setting out. However with the advance of internet, there are things that you can do to reach an audience like never before. Check out these tips on how to market your music.

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