Get your rhythm and make money online by selling beats

  If you are interested in making music, can play a musical instrument and can compose impressive hip hop or rap beats you can make a god income by selling the beats online. You do not really need to have you own recording studio to create the beats if you are music savvy there are several softwares that will not only help you to make beats but also let you make studio quality recordings from the comfort of your own home.  

To begin with you will need to make at least a few dozen beats before you start marketing them. A good software for making beats like fruity loops, sonic producer pro, music producer pro or Sony acid pro. If you are new to beat making you will need to familiarize yourself with these softwares. There are several videos available on Youtube and other video sites that will teach you the best way to use these programs. Once you have a few dozen beats ready you need to devise a marketing strategy. Your strategy should include both online and offline efforts.

If you have an ear for music, you can create your own songs for people to pick up and purchase. By making your own music video where you showcase your talent, you can become a sought after talent. Or you can make your own music that can be downloaded for computer or mobile phone applications. In this technologically advanced age, there are many out there willing to upgrade their systems with the use of music you created and they purchased.

 Let’s start with the offline marketing steps by building a network with local musicians and performers. Give them a few of your beat complimentary. This way you can ascertain that your beats are being heard. It is a good way to build a local fan base. Also if your beats are good and the audience appreciates them you will have built a potential local customer base. If possible try to collaborate with people who know the music industry well.  

  The next step is to put efforts online to sell your beats. The first thing that you will need is a website where artists from all over the world can buy your beats. Getting your own website is very easy and most popular web hosting providers will host your site for under $10. Once you have your website up and running the next step is to attract a targeted and interested audience to your site. Even if you get 1000 visitors each day but if they are not related to the music industry or are not performers themselves, the number will make little difference to your sales figures. So, the important thing is to get to the buying customers, if you are selling hip hop beats you will need to attract audiences that are interested in this niche.  

There are several ways to attract niche audience. There are several sites where you can go to sell your beats, two of them are gotbeatsonline.com and rocbattle.com. The second site not only allows you sell your beats but you can also battle them against the beats of other artists. This is a good way to increase your popularity and garnet some attention.

The next step would be use link building. But it is important that you talk to webmasters of sites that are related to beats and/or the music industry. It wouldn’t make a lot of sense to exchange links with a site that’s related to affiliate marketing. Make a list of websites that hip hop/R&B artist regularly visit and try to get in touch with the webmaster of these sites for link exchange.

You want to get your site out to rank in the top five of every major search engine. This includes major search engine sites like Google, MSN, Yahoo, and more. Do some investigating by typing in your niche beats on one of these sites and click enter? Do you see all the results? You want your site to be listed in the top five and no more than ten. That is because the search engines will list the most popular and most visited sites first.

You can also hang out on popular social networking websites like Myspace and soundclick to promote your beats. Finally if you want to market your product which in this case are your beat you need to know where and how to advertise them. Banner advertising is one way of marketing your beats. However it is important that you place the banner on a site related to hip hop music like rapmusic.com because a lot of upcoming artists and musicians hang out at this site.

Chat rooms, websites, online radio broadcasts, communities of music lovers, and even online stores that sell music can all be ways for you to get your name and music out there. Remember, the people visiting these sites are already interested in music, and many times specifically your genre, so you will have a captive audience to listen to, critique, and purchase your music.

Another way is through Google Adwords, the best part about Google Adwords is that they will display your advertisement only when a search query related to your niche is entered s you can be sure that the people watching your website are in some way linked to the music industry or are at least looking for information about it.

Learn from other musicians so you can repeat some of their successes but avoid their mistakes. Read or listen to music interviews so you can learn strategies and tactics musicians have used day in and day out to sell their music online.

Finally, you can use popular music forums to promote your work and website. Just visit as many hip hop forums as you can and put a link to your beats in the signature section. Since many people visit these forums, you will get a number of people who would be interested in checking out the beat website.