Imma tell you guys what I did...
First thing I did.. was connect with mah dude "Gagong Pinoy" (friend of mine, and also one of the best C Walkers on tha face of tha earth).. He made me a nice background picture for my community pages (see my avatar. I have a big ass version of it).. He made me a banner (see my sig) and he also made a header for my soundclick (which now don't work. Friggin' soundclick x_x')..
** Note this was before I updated the page Next thing I did was write down my leasing rights, exlusive rights, rights for my free beats and lastly the rights for custom made beats. Each type of purchase has a detailed description on the terms and conditions. This is real important. Cuzz people wanna know what they are buying.. Just as you do when you gon' buy something in a music store for instance..
After I had that covered. I started signing up on every community page I could find (still have a lot of signing up to do lol..). You know all the 'primary' ones, myspace, soundclick, mybeatshop, pickabeat.net, twitter, etc.. etc..
After that I also got myself a speedyshare account for the downloads. I'll get back to you on why I did that. I also wired my personal bank account to PayPal. Via PayPal I made my personal "Pay" button. (Check my soundclick).
The reason for these two things is simply the customers. As we all know if we see something on the net in this case beats, we do not want too much hassle in purchasing the thing. I made it very simple for my beatbuyers to buy an instrumental from me. They just go to my site, pick a beat they like. Go to the paypal button and choose the type of purchase they wanna make. After that they only have to fill in the name(s) of the instrumental(s) and make the money order. As soon as I get the money order. I send them the link (from my speedyshare account) of the desired instrumental. I upload the tracking outs to my speedyshare account too. It's real handy. No hassle with sending CD's n'ish. They just do a instant download. They instantly happy ya digg
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What I learned from the sellmorebeats.com is a few simple things..
For instance. Give
TITLES to your beats.. Might sound stupid, but giving titles to your beats makes them more unique. Translates the essence you felt when you made the beat into words, and that can connect with the listener. For example if I put a beat online with the title "Knock ém Down". You expect something street, some music that makes you stomp some people. The fact that you saw the title you get a certain feeling, and if the beat corresponds with your feeling, you gon' like it even more, you can relate to it. This is a small factor that contributes in the final decision of making a purchase.
Also pick
one price and keep your pricing consisstent (lol did I write that right?).. Keeping the pricing consisstent will build a form of trust with your beatbuyers which will result in them coming back regurly cuzz they know you charge an 'x,xx' figure for your tracks and it never changes. Also in your pricing make the amount somewhat unique. For example. instead of selling leases for $ 40,- try puttin a price in of $ 39,- or $ 39,99. This is also a pull-factor for getting potential beatbuyers to your page. Another scenario: When browsing the charts, peepz see al kinds of "rounded up" prices like $ 40,- and $ 50,- and so fort, and then another price popps up of $ 39,99. Without even wanting it your eye will immediately catch that.
only that puts you a leap before your competition. Cuzz after they look @ the price they read the description and even listen to ur beat and because of that you might have another potential beatbuyer =D.
These are just a few pointers from sellmorebeats.com and they really work! So i'm gon' find out more about this by purchasing the program ya digg ^.^