Hello everyone, just wanted to introduce myself to the community. I am Tony C, producer for Maseed Productions . I'm just starting off in the on-line beat selling market. I've had my site up for about a month now and have sold 1 beat (although the sell didn't come via soundgine, it came direct through my website). I'm trying to figure out ways to market to a larger audience and wanted to know how some of you guys are doing it? I'm starting to add more "what I consider as mainstream tracks to my beat page so I'm hoping that will garner more sells. The 1st trap beat I did (The King) already sold 1 license the day I posted it. Any feedback is appreciated.
Answered by VPower
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I make 95% of my sales on the Soundgine player. The other 5% of my sales are from phones calls because they want to negotiate on an exclusive they heard on the player. The fact is Soundgine is pound for pound the best beat player, it's like Mike Tyson in his prime. I've used them all, MFS, Beats1 and Soundgine out converts them all day.
Having said that, You could have the world's most advanced beat store but it all comes down to your marketing and how you funnel traffic to your website, this is the hardest part but anybody can do it with enough work. That's awesome that you sold your first beat and that you created mainstream material, I think as a business you need to do this.
Think of your local business, they carry products that appeal to the people not what the store owner likes. Once you have established a collection of mainstream music, you can create music you personally want to create ans even go experimental if you want.
I don't know what your marketing structure is but your Soundgine player is not on your homepage. When I clicked on your "Music" tab I expected to see the Soundgine Player......
If Maseed is your main website to sell music then consider having the player easily accessible for people to hear and buy from. Soundcloud isn't buyer friendly so I wouldn't make that a priority, sure Soundcloud is a popular player but you want people to listen and buy not just listen.
It's all about funneling. Video blog and put your link in the description, create a Facebook fanpage and point that to your website. Write articles and pay to have them go into music blogs. I can go on forever but you get the idea.
It has taken me 3 years to gain enough traction to almost make enough to make this full time. For me, if I make 5k a month, that's enough to quit my part time job.
So to answer your main question if I sell beats on Soundgine? Hell yeah. It's the Lamborghini of all beat/music stores but it requires a driver...you.
