Learn How to Sell Beats Online

Beat makers all over the planet are starting to realize that one of the best jobs they could ask for is staring them in the face: the internet. Every day new websites and services are being built that help producers license their beats effectively online and make good money doing so.

Many beat makers use websites like Soundclick and MySpace to promote their instrumentals, hoping to make money licensing them off to rappers at low and affordable prices.

I wrote this article in order to help my readers fully understand selling beats on the internet and how it's done. I want to start at square one.

First of all, no producer in their right mind is going to feel good about putting huge amounts of funds into a website if they have no idea what they're doing. Start small and work your way up. There are plenty of forms of free advertising. SEO, forum and article marketing are all included.

You may choose to create an account on MyBeatShop or RocBattle but let me give you a small warning first. If you look at those websites and you study who's signed up with them, you'll realize that they are both communities completely made up of beat makers. This goes to show that there are many more producers listening to your music on these sites than rappers, which makes it very hard to sell anything.

I love using Soundclick.com before any other websites because it's honestly built for musicians of all shapes and sizes. For instance, there is a Beats section with over 800,000 producers signed up but it also has a Hip Hop section with over 1.4 million rappers! This means your target audience is right there, on the site!

I love MySpace as well because it reminds me of deep space. You're so far away from everything it feels empty! I mean that rappers all over MySpace are lost in the midst of millions of people, so most of them have no idea where to find beats. There is no "producer" section on this site, so if you can find rappers then they're most likely interested!