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There are countless discussions about the pricing of your beats for a dollar. The truth is that there is absolutely no problem selling ANYTHING ｆｏｒ ａ ｄｏｌｌａｒ． Ｔｈｅ ｋｅｙ ｉｓ ｔｏ ｕｎｄｅｒｓｔａｎｄ ａｎｄ ｅｍｂｒａｃｅ ｃｕｓｔｏｍｅｒｓ ｔｈａｔ ａｒｅ ｍｏｒｅ ｉｎｃｌｉｎｅｄ ｔｏ ｓｐｅｎｄ ｔｈａｔ ａｍｏｕｎｔ ｒａｔｈｅｒ ｔｈａｎ ａｎｙ ｏｔｈｅｒ ｐｒｉｃｅ． Ｙｏｕ ｃａｎ ｓｅｌｌ ｂｅａｔｓ ｆｏｒ ＄１， ＄５， ＄２５， ＄１００ ｕｐ ｔｏ ＄１０００． Ｔｈｅｒｅ ａｒｅ ｍａｎｙ ｐｒｏｄｕｃｔｓ ｉｎ ｏｕｒ ｇｌｏｂａｌ ｍａｒｋｅｔｓ ｔｈａｔ ａｒｅ ｐｒｉｃｅｄ ｆｏｒ ＄１．．．ｉｎ ｆａｃｔ， ｏｎｅ ｏｆ ｔｈｅ ｗｏｒｌｄｓ ｌａｒｇｅｓｔ ｃｏｍｐａｎｙ ｈａｐｐｅｎｓ ｔｏ ｄｉｓｔｒｉｂｕｔｅ／ｓｅｌｌ ９９ ｃｅｎｔ ｓｏｎｇｓ． ＄１ ｏｒ ＄１０００ ｓｔｉｌｌ ａｄｄｓ ｔｏ ｙｏｕｒ ｂｏｔｔｏｍ ｌｉｎｅ ａｓ ａ ｂｕｓｉｎｅｓｓ． Ｄｏｎ’ｔ ｓｑｕｉｒｍ ｗｈｅｎ ｙｏｕ ｓｅｅ ｄｏｌｌａｒ－ｐｒｉｃｅｄ ｂｅａｔｓ． Ｓｉｍｐｌｙ ｅｍｂｒａｃｅ ｉｔ ａｎｄ ｅｖｅｎ ｃｏｎｓｉｄｅｒ ｈｏｗ ｉｔ ｃａｎ ｅｘｐａｎｄ ｙｏｕｒ ｂｅａｔ ｂｕｓｉｎｅｓｓ．
Ｔｏ ｙｏｕｒ ｓｕｃｃｅｓｓ， ＳｅｌｌｉｎｇＢｅａｔｓＯｎｌｉｎｅ ｈｔｔｐ：／／ｓｅｌｌｉｎｇｂｅａｔｓｏｎｌｉｎｅ．ｃｏｍ ｃｏｎｔａｃｔ＠ｓｅｌｌｉｎｇｂｅａｔｓｏｎｌｉｎｅ．ｃｏｍ |
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes, to get over hurdles that we experience in life and in business, simply involves making the decision that you will no longer take any more of what "life is giving to you" and deciding to take or give what you want in life. When approaching the growth of your Beat Store Business, it is important to understand and cultivate the power of DECISION. This is the same power that moved you in the direction to launch your Beat Store Business when you may have had doubts about your level of production and how the market would react to it. Or you may have felt intimated by the Internet and technology. However, you made the decision to get over that hurdle and all is well. At this moment, you may be experiencing hurdles with the amount of beat sales you are generating. Regardless if you have low or high volume sales, you are still desiring to sell more. We all want more and at times enjoy giving more. SIDENOTE: Giving More = Getting More Continuing, it is important to understand that it always first begins with a decision that you will generate more beat sales. Then of course, and we've all heard this one: YOU MUST ACT. So DECISION + ACTION = MORE RESULTS. These results, may be that you've producing more traffic to your Beats For Sale or simply more analtyics and metrics that you can readily observe and strategize around for the next ACT to get closer to your desire. As you continue ACTING ON YOUR DECISION to generate more beat sales, what seems like a miracle, you begin to attract and generate the amount of beat sales that match your desire through that decision you made. The key is to know what you want (DECISION) then ACT. Now in terms of the actions, at this point, if you've really allowed yourself to deeply meditate and reach a state of harmonious comtemplation of what it would feel like to have more beat sales, your mind will begin to subconsciously think of ways to make it happen for you which will then influence your actions. So today, decide that you will sell an extra 10 beats per week or month or whatever that equates to in dollars for you. Decide that you want to have that "fill in the blank" after all of these years or months thinking about it and now begin to act on getting it through providing amazing value for your beat buyers. To your success, SellingBeatsOnline This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Related info can be found at: http://sellingbeatsonline.com
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As a Beat Store Business Owner, you'll want to differentiate yourself (actually your business) as much as possible. |
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Here are some tips to remember when developing an Email Newsletter Strategy for your Beat Selling Business: Keep Things Simple You simply want to have your Beat Store visitors type in their email address into your Mailing List form - so make sure that it is easy to find and understand. The best 2 fields to have in your Email Form are Name and Email as well as a short simple message with instructions. Place a Signup form on every page As with Website Monetization, you want to "monetize" every opportunity you have to get an email signup so be sure to have your email form embedded on every page that your visitors would click and land on.
What Are They Getting? In order to get people signed up and targeted, you want to add a list of the things that the subscriber will get when they are a member of your newsletter. You can simply add things like "1 New Beat Every Week", "20% Discount of ALL Beats as a Subscriber", "FREE Recording Tips", etc. You want to get them as interested as possible to get signed up to your email newsletter.
Utilize an Autoresponder Just before you go live with your Newsletter, you should add at least 7 Autoresponder Messages that will be sent out to each new subscriber automatically after they've signed up. This will save you a lot of time and energy in the long run.
Dont Forget Links Lastly, you'll want to have links inside of your newsletter that point your subscribers back to your Beats and Website. Have direct links to your beat pages, a page with your myFlashStore as well as appropriate links in your signature (which you can add to every Newsletter Service). |
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The following is a quick-list of the types of websites you would have your myFlashStore player hosted and embedded on. Recording Resources - These types of websites sub-target artists that are recording (their vocals) into songs (with your beats)! Mixtape Websites - A mixtape website will have both fans/listeners as well as other (mixtape) artists who are actively researching and keeping an ear out on what is new (usually for competitive/innovation purposes). Music Blogs - Though many Music blogs will add and embed music in a site-standard method with their own players and other media format, you'll have a unique advantage by having a dynamic (store) player embedded for your feature on the blog and you can easily generate sales directly from the blog traffic with your Cart/Buy Now button on your myFlashStore player. This is where you'll also want to have a Blog Bio always handy when sending out Marketing and Promotional email to blogs around the web that you'd like to be featured on. Related info can be found at: http://sellingbeatsonline.com |
