Whats up my fellow "myFlashStore" Producers??!!

Are you having trouble making your first sales?

Are you sending all sorts of traffic to your beat player and your still not making any money?

Here are a few tips that might help you in making those first necessary sales that will determine the success of your online business:

1. Check your prices!! If you never sold a beat over the net, and are trying to sell leases for like $50.00, and exclusive's for like $250-500, no one will buy them! Remember your not known like Timbaland. When I first started with my website (www.cjbeatz.com) I had my leases and exclusives up for those high amounts, and guess what...I did not make any sales what so ever, until I lowered my prices. I say anything around $10.00 for a lease and $25 - $35 for exclusive beats is acceptable to start off with. The key is not to go to low. If a potential customers sees that your selling you leases for a couple of bucks, they are not going to think highly of you, and think twice about buying your beats.

2. Put your best beats at the top of the player!! When a potential customer comes to listen to your beats, what do they see first? The beats on top, right? So, make sure that your best work is on the top, this will help grab the attention of the customer more, and they will be more willing to continue listening. Also, be sure to enable the "autoplay" function on what you think is your hottest beat on the player. Again be sure to put your best beats on top:



3. You need to build a client base before you can raise your prices!! Once you have a client base (people regarded as previous customers) of about 10-15 people, it's extremely important to remember to stay in contact with them, because they are more willing to buy a beat from you than someone who hasn't purchased a beat form you before.

4. Add value!! I can't mention this enough. When you contact a previous customer be sure to add some information that they might seem valuable. For example, if you are contacting a rapper that bought beats from you in the past, to let him know that you uploaded some new beats, figure out where he is geographically located from your previous paypal receipts, and look online to see if there are any open-mic events going on around his/her area, and let him/her know about them. He/She will appreciate this because it is free information that he might find useful. Most importantly, he/she will remember that YOU provided this potentially useful information. Now you have successfully added value to your customers life. Believe me, this is a major key in running a successful business. This does not only apply in beat leasing market but this concept is used in all industries! This is just one of my ideas, but you can see where I'm going with this. Be creative, let yourself get inspired to come up with new ways of addind value to your customers life!

5. Search the forums for artists hungry for beats!! There are hundreds of forums online, where thousands of rappers/singers communicate on a daily basis. Most of these forum websites, that are related to our HipHop/Rap/R&B community, have a section where you can showcase your beats. Artists from around the globe are always looking for new production, you just have to be aware of where your target-market is hanging out.

Here are some forums that I found really useful: www.letsbeef.com | www.jeejuh.com | www.rapworlds.com

Remember, be part of the conversations on these forums! Do not just blatantly spam the whole site. They will quickly ban you if they suspect spamming. So be careful out there. Don't give yourself a bad rep



Chris J.
CJ Beatz Productions
www.cjbeatz.com

Really great advice, keep it coming!

Propz! Thanks

Great info fam. Thanks

yeah cuz this is killing me I got over 1000 plays on my play but no sales, and my beats are cheap cheaps lease beat is $5 and my exclusive is like $100

lol, 1000 plays is nothing my friend, you have to push more traffic to your site. promote, promote, promote!!!! I will say no more...everything you need to know is in this thread...

Very good info. Thanks!

yup keep more of this info comin im takin notes

Great post Chris, the advice is greatly appreciated!!

You got some pretty nice beats too. Keep it up!!

acPhreek


PhreekbeatZ
www.myflashstore.net/acphreek

"If you never sold a beat over the net, and are trying to sell leases for like $50.00, and exclusive's for like $250-500, no one will buy them! Remember your not known like Timbaland."

yes thats true to an extent
but lets keep in mind too cheap prices destroy´s the "game"
i mean i see dudes selling their beats for like 10 to 15 $ dollars
if u ask me ... that is ridicolous
not only do you value yourself really low but serious artists
will have to take their time to take you seriously with those prices
there are poeple out there trying to make a living
when u sell beats for 15 or lower how are you goin to expand
i mean alot of dudes equipment cost more then what you make in a year with those prices.

for example lets say u charge 10$ for leases
u have to lease a beat 1000 times or 1000 diffrent beats one time.
not even considering that most top producers are only able to make like
30 to 40 good beats a year.
(iam talking real production here, not beatmaking, there is a diffrence)

how am i suppose to take you seriously as an artist with those numbers
just to show you what 1000 sales actually mean:
look at myflashstore top sellers there are ones who got 3150 sales and another one got 1414 ... both of them lease there beats for 0.99$
not bad you might think....but i bet that they didnt do this in one month
even keyboards costs more then what they make.

You dont have to be Timbaland to sell a beat for 500$
Timbalands price range is way above our imagination.


anyways...
me personally,
i have never sold a beat below 100$ thats the lowest i usually go
(i got 50$ now on myflashstore becouse iam trying out their free option)

i will never understand how some of you could value yourselfs so low.

BTW
i thought i will share a tip for sales aswell:

make sure you get somekind of artist relationship going
eventually they weill become your friends and think about you first before anybody else when they want to buy a beat

also,
dont be afraid to charge what your worth...
if your music is hot, serious artists will buy it even if its got a 500$ price tag or more.
Learn what you are worth.

Just my 2 Cents
Have fun,
Pete