This of course works best when you have your own dedicated beat site such as a WordPress Beat Site.

There are many techniques and tricks to accomplish this but the key is to be in front of an audience.

Furthermore, and although we have suggested operating your beat website like a store, ultimately, you must do things that separate you from the rest.

One of the best ways to do this is by establishing a beat blog so that you can passively (market) generate beat sales rather than spamming.

In this podcast, Josh from the Beats4Real FaceBook Group talks about some of the repetitive marketing messages you’re probably sending out to your Social Media network and provides some insight into what you can do to stand out.

When you have an actual website for your beats and Music Production company, you make that first step towards having an advantage over your competition. Furthermore, it is also not enough to just only have a re-directing domain name that points back to your myFlashStore or SoundClick pages.

What you need to have going forward to succeed in this Internet-driven business is to have a real fully-dedicated Music Producer Beat Website capable of going beyond the basics of selling beats and having a beat blog as we’ve mentioned throughout this website. With a full-on Beat Website, you will have a more flexible and seamless beat selling and buying experience for your artists, a customized blog with membership areas, various mailing list configurations, an artist forum and many other advantages through your full website features.

With our years of experience and expertise dealing with the Internet and hosting, we have come to the conclusion that the following are the best and most widely used throughout the Internet business as well as within the online beat selling industry for Music Producers and Beatmakers.

BlueHost

http://bluehost.com
BlueHost is our personal favorite and what we are using here at SellingBeatsOnline.COM
BlueHost provides the following for your Beat Website:
- UNLIMITED Domain Hosting
- UNLIMITED GB Hosting Space
- UNLIMITED GB File Transfer
- UNLIMITED E-mail Accounts
- FREE Domain
- FREE Site Builder w/ templates
- Secure Shell, SSL, FTP, Stats
- CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL
- $100 Google Advertising Offer
- 24/7 Phone, Chat & Email Support

HostGator

http://hostgator.com
HostGator is a popular choice amongst Music Producers and Beatmakers due to the inexpensive pricing plans as low as $4/M (with a multi-year contract)
HostGator provides the following for your Beat Website:
- Unlimited Disk Space and Bandwidth
- Flexible, Easy to Use Control Panel
- Unlimited Sub Domains, FTP Accounts, and Email Accounts
- 99.9% Uptime Guarantee
- No Contract with a 45 Day Money Back Guarantee
- Safe Harbor Certified (Details)

However, this must be utilizing a Email Marketing System such as AWeber that can capture the email address of your beat website visitor.

Although giving away a free beat may attract artists that are only interested in getting a free and not paying for one, you can at least get creative with your marketing and continually send them other related content in which they will value and possibly buy something else from you sometime in the near future.

Although we here at SellingBeatsOnline.COM make it our mission to help out Producers at all levels, we do believe the top most important idea for Producers is to take a step back and think bigger in terms of their Music Production e-Commerce strategy.

Going forward, you need to think of yourself as a Business Owner as we’ve previously mentioned.

Business Owners own businesses.

Business Owners own a variety of businesses that most likely target different markets and segments within a market and certainly as it relates to pricing structure.

Create 3 Beat Businesses

Going forward, you want to create 3 Types of Beat Store Businesses.

1. High-End Beat Products
As the name suggests, this separate Beat Selling entity will target only high-end beat buying customers that will gladly and effortlessly pay anything starting from $100-$250 and up for your beats. These are the most ideal customers that can make you very wealthy especially if you sell many beats to this segment.

2. Low-End Beat Products
These are artists that are willing to pay a few bucks, usually within the $.99 cent to $15 range for your beats. The customers are great to offset hosting and other smaller costs associated with your beat selling business.

3. FREE Beat Products
These are artists that simply browse around and download any and all beats that are free. Keep in mind that there is absolutely nothing wrong about artists that want free beats. Sometimes artists just want to write to a beat. However, you should always be thinking like a Business Owner. Don’t just giveaway the free beat. Can you maybe capture their email address from a Mailing List form or get them to tweet out that they downloaded your free beat.

As you begin to think of your strategy for targeting these 3 customer segments, you’ll at some point want to create and establish separate websites for them.

Just imagine if you were bigger (financially) than you were right now. If you were a much more successful entrepreneur, Music Producer and business person, you’d most likely have a variety of multiple related businesses.

Since you are already active in the business of marketing and selling your beats, instrumentals and music, it is a good idea to begin expanding your portfolio of beat businesses.

For instance, if you’re currently making, marketing and selling DubStep beats why not expand and sell Crunk beats. Or if you’re making underground golden era style beats why not sell modern, pop beats or electronic-influenced beats.

Notice, that there was no mention of making the beats.

Rather, in addition to expanding your portfolio what about expanding the way you approach the business of selling beats online altogether.

Why can’t you network and work out some deals with other Producers and license their beats to be re-published and sold by you under your brand. You might even work out a legal partnership in which you joint-venture and take on the market with a unique brand, organization or production company.

If is very easy to stay silo or stay within a circle of producers that you already work with, but why not expand your network or company by forming partnerships or engaging in small but lucrative deals that mutually benefit both or all participating parties.

The idea of selling beats on the Internet dramatically disrupts this once controlled industry. By being creative you can truly create amazing opportunities for yourself and/or your existing circle.

Stay tuned for further exploration into these possibilities.

It is of course easy to fall into the trap of thinking your beats are only singable and only used by recording artists. Thinking this way is drastically limiting and you may not even know it.

Not only do artists need beats. If you think about it (and we’ve done some thinking for you) artists alone are a small-tiny segment of the total market out there you can be penetrating and marketing to.

Sure, you may have been targeting recording artists but these days its necessary to expand your beat sales business. The great thing about the Internet is you don’t need to stay in one market (recording artists) and it’s easy to establish yourself in these other markets.

For instance, if you look at your current online presence and activity you can clearly observe the market(s) you’ve been targeting and serving.

You’ll also be able to observe just why you’re getting the type of beat sale results you are currently experiencing. IF you serve more markets, you at least have multiple sources to pull from even if you still weren’t completely satisfied with your overall beat sales performance.

When you look around and observe you’ll see other markets and industries such as ......

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I’d say it’s mainly due to the fact that its content is video.

We live in a visually-engaging world and YouTube has captured what we loved so much about TV.

As you’ll notice throughout SellingBeatsOnline.COM, marketing is heavily covered and rightfully so.

If you’re not marketing then you’re not making money from your beats.

Aside from FaceBook and Twitter, YouTube in itself has ......

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