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Dear MFS blog readers, it's been a while since I've posted here & there's a good reason for that (more about that later). I decided to get back & let you guys know about some great techniques & steps to make, so you can get a pretty solid monthly income selling beats online! Let's get right to it. As I said, I've been away for a good reason. Well, the reason is that I've been working on some pretty crazy stuff lately, real big stuff, that's also the reason why I stopped selling beats on my website. But something weird happened. Let me tell you this short story: So I got in touch with some great industry personalities, songwriters, managers, A&R's. My job as the producer was to make a bunch of songs. Not a big deal for me, since I'm a bit experienced already. 1 Song (fully produced & written) takes about 1 day of work. As you can imagine, after I made a bunch of songs I had a lot (really a lot) of free time. What did I do in that free time? Partying, drinking, smoking? Those who know me, know that that's not my thing. Of course I started a few more projects to make EVEN MORE money...that's my mentality, can't change it...haha. Anyways. Something crazy happened. As I was trying to make some money some funny ads pop'd up. Of course I closed them, because I hate ads, just like anybody else. But I had that banner in mind all day long, because it said I can make $463,46 (or so) online, all on auto-pilot. Ok, so I had to google that, it sounded too promising to me. As you can image, I kept digging & tried to get more & more information about making money online by not working at all (meaning all on auto-pilot). So I bought many courses, software & ebooks...just because I was really curious about this whole thing. I can't tell you how many hundreds of $$$ I spend within a few days, haha, but I don't regret it to be honest. Before I tell you the simple method, I'd like to warn you: You will never make money by 100% No Work. There is always a little bit of work you have to do, but once you're done, you're on auto-pilot & you can watch the money come in. Simple, but it takes a little effort! Ok, let's start:
That's it basically. Let's make it clear - you won't make $300 Million dollars every day using this technique, but you'll have a solid & regular income by exactly following the steps. I'll post a lot more in the future, because I learned so many techniques & tricks that can be done on the internet - you can't even imagine how huge the internet marketing is right now, but I'll reveal some of the knowledge every time I post on here. I hope you enjoyed the article - if you did - please, please, please: Share it on Facebook & Twitter by simply using the buttons that are provided by myFlashStore - it's just 2 clicks literarily. THANKS! If you have any questions, feel free to contact me: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
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The great thing about myFlashStore and any other Beat Selling solution is that the sales process is automatic.
All you have to do is MARKET, MARKET, MARKET, MARKET...and....MARKET.
You absolutely have to keep this in mind.
How do you market?
Well, this very post you are reading is a form of marketing as I will share with you a growingly popular website with tips, insights and information on how to market and sell your beats, it's called SellingBeatsOnline.COM and we also contribute to the myFlashStore Blog.
We usually indirectly promote with FREE marketing such as this post as we are giving away free information that someone, whether 1 or 10 producers will find useful or at least it will give them another boost to keep going! This is called value and is exchangeable for traffic and/or money.
Our blog contributions, forum posts, Twitter tweets and other methods are all forms of marketing that bring in new readers/subscribers and new opportunities to generate income.
Keep in mind that it can also at times get boring or seem useless when spending a lot of time marketing and not seeing equal results. You'll might tend to stop or worry, but the key is to continually market so that you at least have a snowball effect so that your name/brand eventually gets out there and people are coming to you, in this case for your beats.
That's about it. So keep on with your marketing and get those beats sold.
To your success,
SellingBeatsOnline This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
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Hey guys, I saw a lot of producers uploading their beat-making videos on YouTube & actually being successful by doing this. Why? Well, Artists LOVE to see producers making HIGH QUALITY & PROFESSIONAL beats. They'd rather buy a beat from somebody who can prove that he's using professional gear to make his beats. I haven't tested this yet, but I know this from successful YouTube producers...and their view numbers talk for themselves! When uploading, make sure you put a link on the description, so artists who want to check out your beats don't have to do long research. Hope this will help some of you guys! |
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Hey guys, I thought about another quick tip - to share with you, which is probably very effective. MyFlashStore allows us to change the background image for the Bubble Store. This is pretty cool, because a lot of websites are designed in certain Theme colors & now you can adapt even your beat store! That will help you look more professional & organized as a Business Company & you will gain way more respect and attention from your visitors! Besides that, it looks better if your beat store looks unique, not like 10,000 other beat stores :) If you're not sure about how to design or size your Custom Image for the beat store, feel free to contact me & I will help you! This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
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Sometimes we really just need to STOP and take a BREAK! With the world advancing in front of us at lightning speed, it is very easy to get caught up in all of it and not stop to rest, think, contemplate, plan, relax, live, or simply do nothing. For most of us through conditioning, we are taught that we have to work hard to get by. Though this is true, we tend not to focus more on ourselves to re-group or re-calibrate to make sure everything is still in check with us. In the online beat game, it is easy to get pulled and pushed in all sorts of directions from having to market your beats, reply to existing beat buyer customers, read up on educational material, sell more beats, get new equipment, get rid of old equipment, find new sounds, backup massive gigs of beat files and everything else in between. STOP and BREAK for a moment! Get back to you. Don't (yet) plan or think about anything but the moment you have when you've stopped. Then, after how ever long you feel necessary to stop and break, get to your game plan again, review and revise it, feel good about it then get back out there...and when you feel its time to stop again STOP. SellingBeatsOnline.COM is the leading "new-thought" resource on the Internet for selling beats. The website features a variety of articles, videos, insights and downloads for its members and freebies for the public. To your success, SellingBeatsOnline This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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What's up guys!
Many producers struggle with this: Master Bus Compression...use it or not? If yes, what settings are relevant for me? What does it do? In this post I will show you how I do & use it. The following information is very useful, because I learned this from Grammy Award Winning Producers & Mixing Engineers, so it's really Gold worth! Most of the records in the Industry use Master Bus Compression. I prefer the Waves SSL Compressor on my Master Bus, because it has a certain characteristic which no other plug-in achives. It works best, for me at least. These are the setting, which I use everytime!
Sometimes, I play with the make up gain knob, if too much signal is coming in. Some Mixing Engineers would also change the Release time. There are certain tracks, which sound better with another release time. I also created 2 tracks, so you can listen to the HUGE difference between COMPRESSED & UNCOMPRESSED.
Uncompressed Version:
Compressed Version:
I'm pretty sure that everybody will hear a huge difference & effect. This is actually the tool, that adds the final "radio characteristic" to your music. Hopefully this post helped you guys! PS: Make sure you share this on Twitter, etc & feel free to comment. Thanks! |
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What's up guys! Since there are so many possibilities nowadays to send your music to A&R's and Music Executives, I'd like to share a few important information with ya'll.
Hopefully it was helpful for ya'll!
PS.: Don't forget to share this on Twitter!
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One thing you'll want to do is treat all of your customers equally. As much as you do not want to deal with "broke" artists, the reality is that they are usually just acting "broke" (through conditioning) If they were truly broke, they probably would not be on the Internet rather they'd most likely be on the streets begging for food. If they say they don't have enough money for X beat at $X dollar, direct them to Y beat at $Y dollars that is similar to X beat. Give them reasons why they should want to eventually get the X beat that they really want and that when they purchase it, they'll be automatically added to your "VIP Buyers List" where they'll receive artists tips and other high quality beats. Tell them you value their future business with you and that you'll be there for them when they need you. Tell them of "free" offers to keep them always looking out for your emails and new beats and trust that your universe will bring them back to you with more than enough money to buy the initial beat they wanted plus other beat products.
Related info can be found at: http://sellingbeatsonline.com To your success, SellingBeatsOnline (for myFlashStore Blog)This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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If you're not learning then you're dying. If you're not planning then you'll die. In this beat business you must always be learning and planning. With the knowledge you acquire, you must now apply it to your activities and to do this effectively you must plan. It is not important to create a big massive business plan at this stage. Simply endulging yourself into an Excel or Google Spreadsheet where you can add various items and numbers is enough to get you started. When you first learn about things you can do such as tracking your beat website performance or the benefits of having a mailing list, you can then start adding items to your Plan Sheet of the things you will do and act upon.
Related info can be found at: http://sellingbeatsonline.com To your success, SellingBeatsOnline (for myFlashStore Blog) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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It is human nature to want to get feedback especially in any creative field. However, when you get little to no feedback, that can potentially affect your creative endeavour as no one is telling you if they like it or not. One way to take the initiative in getting feedback (from a business perspective, as your sell beats), is to observe your traffic, clickthru rates as sales figures. This is equally if not more valuable feedback as you can readily improve such things as the layout of your beat website, your campaign strategies as well as linking tactics. A great tool to get started with tracking the progress of your beat website is Google Analytics. It tells you the amount of Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly traffic numbers, incoming/outgoing links, and more. You can also setup "goals" in which you set a path that your Beat Buyers would go through to get them a series of steps to an eventual beat sale or mailing list signup.
Related info can be found at: http://sellingbeatsonline.com To your success, SellingBeatsOnline (for myFlashStore Blog) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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When you know that you haven't in any way marketed your beats for the day, instantly stop doing what you're doing and get onto an outlet (Twitter, FaceBook, a forum, YouTube, etc.) and promote your beat website. One thing to keep in mind is that you don't just have to market your beats for sale. You can simply post an excerpt from your blog with a link to the full article linking back to your beat website.
Related info can be found at: http://sellingbeatsonline.com To your success, SellingBeatsOnline (for myFlashStore Blog) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Most of the most important thing about being in the creative industry is to be yourself. I know you've probably heard this thrown around and it's sort of lost it's meaning but it really does make the difference between being a struggling musician and a huge superstar. |
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Many producers get frustrated dealing with artists who constantly ask for free beats. It's time to turn that frustration around and turn it into an opportunity. There are many reasons why artists ask for free beats, maybe because they haven't got any money at that point in time, maybe because they don't see the value in paying for beats, or maybe they think they are too good to pay for beats, they should just get everything free (yea right, too good huh, Jay-Z pays for beats, you better than him?). Whatever the reason, accept the fact that their understanding may not be the same as yours, and you shouldn't get disheartened. |
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Good businesses know that joining forces with other good businesses can increase revenue massively. What this means is that two or more businesses combine their products/services/skills/money in order to create a new entity to generate more profit. There are tremendous benefits to joint ventures including (among other benefits), creating profit without developing any new products or services yourself. |
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A lot of producers ask me why they are not making any beat sales. To be honest, I don’t know the answer to that question; all I know for sure is that they are not trying hard enough to market themselves. A few messages to a members on Facebook is not good enough, the key to marketing is doing anything and everything you can to build a relationship with customers that will result in sales. |
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It's time you stand out from the crowd and make your mark! With myFlashStore you can do just that, with an astonishing new feature that will let your true originality effortlessly shine through. We are very proud and excited to announce the introduction of... |
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Greetings from SellingBeatsOnline, YouTube is the #2 search engine on the Internet today. The great thing about what you do is that it is media related and can be attached to video with ease. One thing to remember is that MILLIONS of people are searching YouTube everyday just as they would search Google. Eventually, we'll start to search YouTube for things we would most definitely only use Google for. In your case, as of today, many artists are searching YouTube for beats and beats for sale. So here are 3 simple tips to ensure that your Beat Videos are effectively optimized.
TitleName of your beat video exactly what it is about or offering. If you're selling old-school underground sounding beats then put that into your Beat Video Title. If you're selling a club beat for $300 (three-hundred) then be sure to put that into the title. If you're giving away 2 free beats with your $25 beat as showcased in your beat video then put that in the title. DescriptionBe sure to write at least 1 full paragraph or 4-7 lines describing your Beat Video. A sub-tip is to have a script that you'd add to all of your Beat video descriptions after the actual specific beat video description for the respective video. TagsOne way to generate an effective and optimized list of tags for your beat video is to extract words that you've used in your beat video description. Also, use tag words that represent the things and subjects contained within your beat video. SellingBeatsOnline is the leading online educational resource covering the world of selling beats on the Internet. Pushing the boundaries by offering limitless insights to improving and enhancing global Beat Store business online, SellingBeatsOnline aims to advise and contribute to the online beat selling industry through interactive and media rich content. Related info can be found at: http://sellingbeatsonline.com To your success,
SellingBeatsOnline This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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