While this website has lots of specific information about selling beats online, learning how to make money selling beats is something that can be generalized as well. There are some basic principals you can follow to obtain more success online. As long as you have the proper mindset, the right information and some basic marketing tools, you can make money selling beats. I put together a quick list of some of the things you need to know to sell your beats.

How to Make Money Selling Beats Online

Step 1: Learn from the Best

Obviously we sell courses on selling beats, but we’re not here to gloat about how great we are. By “learn from the best”, we mean obtain as much information as you can about marketing your beats. If you want to achieve results, knowledge is one of the most important factors. If you gave somebody a million dollars to build a business, sure they can probably succeed just by spending. But even then, you can waste hundreds of thousands of dollars simply by using bad marketing techniques.

For instance you need to be able to build your numbers for long-term success. Sending a bunch of traffic to a website and making some money should not be your main priority. Instead focus on long term goals like building an email list, getting sustainable traffic to a YouTube account, building your Facebook numbers, and so on.

Step 2: Get the right Tools

Obviously I love using email list building techniques, it’s my favorite form of marketing and I take it very seriously. There’s no easier way to earn some cash if you’re thinking about how to make money selling beats online. I always recommend Aweber for marketers trying to get their music online, because it’s the best email list building system on the planet especially for beginners without coding experience.

Aside from that, there are many other tools to choose from. The question you have to ask yourself is: what are your current goals and how do you want to achieve them? When I ask clients what their goals are, they seem to usually say “My goal is to make $XXXX per month”. The problem with this type of goal setting is that it doesn’t say anything about how you’re actually going to make that money.

If there’s no actual plan to action, then you will likely fail. The biggest reason most small businesses fail is that they do not plan correctly. Do you want to focus strongly on social media, search engines, local marketing or what? If you don’t know exactly what you’re going to do and how you can do it, then you are likely not going to succeed. This is why I put research and knowledge as Step #1… Because without knowledge, you will likely fail. Be sure to do research and learn the right ways to market yourself before doing anything else.

Step 3: Get out the Notebook

Some people may have systems that work better for them than a notebook would. But for me, if I want to make money selling beats or doing anything else for that matter, I always put my efforts towards my notebook before I actually start a campaign. The reason is, when I’m typing it seems kind of like a mindless task. I don’t have to focus to type something on a keyboard. But when I’m writing on a notebook with a pen, I am putting my mind to writing it.

What ends up happening is as I write, I come up with new ideas. So I like to pull out the notebook when I am ready to make some moves online. I find it difficult to sort all my thoughts and ideas for a single campaign or marketing tactic without writing it out.

Take advantage of your writing abilities and always write out your ideas. Keep writing through your ideas, too… Meaning poke holes in the ideas that don’t work and put the ideas that will to the top of the priority list. Ask yourself questions on paper, challenge yourself to find future issues with your planned campaigns and fix them before they even arise.

Step 4: Network and Work Your Ass Off

While a lot of the best information on how to rise to power is actually in our immensely powerful eBook “Power”, I’ll go into one other form of building power right now. If you want to make money selling beats you need to network with the producers and artists around you. Try to make deals that provide both you and another party some good opportunities. I love bartering and trading to get yourself to a higher level of success.

The only problem with bartering is that it’s difficult to make sure both ends of the bargain are going to be fulfilled. But this can be powerful as well in it’s own way if you can find ways to bind contracts. Try to do half of the work upfront in exchange for half of their work up front. Deals like that can help you succeed.

If you want to learn more about how to make money selling beats, please visit our home page and purchase some courses. Enjoy!

Today I wanted to write an interesting article that I think a lot of people will find helpful. I wanted to explain a personal experience I’ve had over the last couple of weeks that has changed the way I have started looking at marketing in general. Let’s say you have a slow couple of weeks one month and you sit around your computer, twiddling your thumbs, thinking that you just no idea what to do, right? I think this is a common place for anybody to be in especially running a business.

It’s not like we have somebody hovering over our shoulder telling us exactly what to do and what to think. It’s more like we are running as the captain of our own ship, but we don’t really have a clear destination or even all the skills necessary to man the ship. So it’s up to us, as entrepreneurs and small business owners, to fill in the gaps wherever we can and do our best to come up with a game plan each and every day.

This month, I had caught up with all my web design projects and I had a bit of free time on my hands. I decided to spend my time actively searching for ways to boost my current marketing capabilities, because hey, why not? What I did is I researched the internet and found all sorts of top notch SEO companies that either didn’t have websites or needed websites done. I am pretty proud of my portfolio for web design, so I went around sending short but sweet emails to lots of SEO providers and other advertisers.

What I found is that many of these people actually showed interest in what I was trying to offer them. Especially the guys who I had been paying for advertising on a regular basis. The fact is there are people out there who are business minded just like you and I, and they might be willing to make trades for instrumentals and all sorts of things. For me, I was able to trade 3 web design packages to gain over $3,200 worth of free advertising and SEO for my range of companies. Imagine my relief when not only do I not have to focus on SEO or advertising for a while, but I got it all for free!

As a music producer, you can easily duplicate this same process. Imagine offering exclusive, custom instrumentals to artists in exchange for promotion? All you have to do is research and find some people who have something you want, whether it be promotion deals, services or more. You can bring yourself to the next level in your business easily simply by following these easy tips.

I actually discuss a lot of this kind of stuff in my extremely valuable, yet low price eBook, Power. I have always thought that negotiating services is a great way to get things done. This Monday or Tuesday I have a call arranged for a person wanting web design for their barbershop, for instance. When I call them I’m going to offer them a $300 discount in exchange for doing my girlfriend’s hair all pretty. Saves me hundreds of dollars and hey, if I can make some money as well as earn a great hair style for my lovely lady, then why not? Win/win.

Today I wanted to chat about how to make money selling beats and with your online business in general. It’s one of those things: you have to be willing to put in the work if you expect to make the kind of money you want to make. Personally I’ve been making beats for the past few weeks and preparing for a massive beat selling campaign I’ve been working hard on.

While I want to wait until I have something like 30+ beats ready to go before I go hard spending on advertising, I think that preparing 30+ beats is something that most people will fail before they finish at. This is why I thought it was so important to write a blog post about doing whatever it takes to get the job done, to make more money online and to start becoming a better financial asset to your life.

Who will actually spend 10 hours a day trying to make their dream work? And let me tell you- the people around you (if you have any) won’t make it easier to do this. I mean preferably you live by yourself or with roommates. Myself personally, I have a kid and a girlfriend. Coming with both of those things is large responsibility. Will you be in a position where if you work 10 hours extra a day, you won’t be stopped or asked to stop?

I know for me sometimes working so much seems like a drag. I don’t get to spend as much time with my family and that’s what matters most to me. However if you want to exceed or start a new campaign, there’s only one way to do that. You need to be willing to put in the work and investment necessary to make it happen and make it work.

Personally I’ve been working overtime lately to get client’s websites done and more. I have some huge plans coming up and actually I have multiple campaigns about to get started. This entire year I’ve been building up to this moment, putting in every last ditch effort I can come up with, in order to make my dreams come true. Though I’ve already achieved many of my life long dreams, I still fall short of many of them.

My financial goals are great, and the weight I put on my own shoulders is extraordinary. I have a lot of people to look after and a lot of expenses to maintain. In order to maintain this and continue to grow, I have to be willing to put in more hours of work than the competition. I need to be willing to actually spend the time on my computer, and sometimes that includes even extra hours in order to debug the computer itself or software issues.

While it may seem like spending 2-3 hours a day making beats is good enough, or maybe that is even harder than you’re currently working, the fact is you need to be willing to put in more time than that if you expect your business to truly succeed. There’s just no way to crank up to the living-wages mark without spending enough time working your ass off to get it off the ground.

Do you think you can succeed without working?

Are you waiting for somebody to come along and pick you up? You’ll be waiting for the rest of your life, statistically speaking, that’s what the odds are.

Are you thinking that running a business is as simple as 1-2-3? Don’t believe the BS you’ll hear from fake marketing gurus. There’s no easy way to run a business when you’re first starting out especially.

Do you already have your business making some money? Well, 80% of businesses shut their doors in the first 5 years. With a website it’s much easier to maintain “open doors”, but will you make enough to live off of 5 years from now?

I’m not here to try to talk you out of making your dreams as a businessman work. I’m here to tell you that without the proper work ethic, you are going to fail. Point blank.

Work Ethic Isn’t the ONLY Thing You Need

There is one more thing, one VERY important thing, you need to INVEST IN YOURSELF!

If you don’t have a website up and running, EMAIL ME RIGHT NOW and spend out of your savings, credit cards or whatever else to MAKE THIS HAPPEN! Because if you sit around and wait on your dreams, NOT put in work and pay for others to help you put in work, you will fail outright.

Think I’m kidding? Listen to this…

Before I even finished writing this blog post, right before I actually wrote this paragraph that I’m writing now, I stopped what I was doing midway through and spent some money on services for my business. I invest in myself nearly every day, and monthly you could certainly say that my highest expense is my business.

I love spending money on my business, because it comes back around to me. When I send my money out, I like to make sure that they come back with more money on their return. This is similar to what Mr. Wonderful on Shark Tank always says. If you want to become a real entrepreneur and money making master, then you need to WORK YOUR ASS OFF and INVEST IN YOURSELF.

Hit me up RIGHT NOW if you are serious and are ready to SPEND MONEY and TIME to make your DREAMS come true! Contact us today and let’s get you started NOW.

Today I wanted to speak on the truth behind selling beats online and how the market is currently. I feel like most people have a misinterpretation of selling beats online and don’t know what they’re getting into. While it is definitely harder than you might imagine it being, the fact is that it is possible and it’s not out of reach for normal people like you and me.

The first and most important rule to selling beats is simple. Get ready to work your ass off. If you are not already working harder than the competition, then you will immediately find that you will not go far in this mystical land of selling beats. While it may seem mysterious and impossible to figure out, the truth is that just working hard is one big part of running a small business that most people miss.

If you’re starting out you’ll need at minimum 20 good, strong beats to get started. However in my case I would never start a paid campaign before I had at least 40 beats ready to go. Currently I’m getting myself prepared for a new beat selling campaign which I’ve been working on for a while now. I have cash set aside for promoting on big websites such as Soundcloud and Soundclick. But I won’t spend a dime until I know I can actually make my money back.

Even though I have a team of producers, I want to personally have 20 beats posted of my own beats before I get started. Then add another 10 beats from each of my top producers on Beats4Legends. This is how I want to start as it is the same way I’ve started in the past. Before I start spending big on promotions I need to first have all my ducks in a row, which means plenty of beats ready to sell and advertising money ready to spend.

It’s tough coming up with enough beats to get going as I have other projects and clients to work for in the meantime. But you have to work extra hard in order to get started if you want to be successful. Pricing your beats correctly also becomes important, as well as how you’ve designed your support structure. Customer support will make or break your business without exception. You need to respond fast, fulfill orders quickly and overall make sure you’re ready to take on the business before going forward with advertising.

Today I thought to discuss the power of branding for your business. If you are a serious business owner (or plan to be one) you should be thinking about your branding as your first concern. It is so vital to your overall success that it can literally make or break your campaign. An improper branding campaign for your business can hurt your sales more than any other factor.

To be able to understand the true importance and power of your branding, first we have to discuss the art of writing sales copy. If you don’t recognize these terms, I would implore you to do some research into writing sales copy. One of my favorite websites to learn new ideas about writing copy is the blog at CopyBlogger. The term “writing copy” refers to the art of writing content that sells. This can be especially useful for creating advertisements, making website pages built to deliver sales for products and more.

For instance, one statistic I always like to refer to is that 80% of the total effectiveness of any advertisement can be found in the headline? This means that if you simply write your headline wrong, you’re surely going to see dramatically less success whether it’s an advertisement or the opening header line for your own website. Have you ever noticed that people seem to share links on Facebook all the time without even researching the links they’re sharing? It’s because people literally read the headline and click share! Most readers don’t even look past the headline.

Curiously, many people don’t take the time to research and verify sources before committing to sharing a post on the internet. In the same way, the majority of people who come to your website are not expecting to purchase something, but if your copy is right, they will be ready to buy by the time they leave the page. Anyone can sell anything to anybody and that’s the truth. Like the old saying, you can sell ice to a snowman. With the right kind of persuasion you can get anybody to buy anything, as long as it appeals to their nature, their needs and their wallet, you will have a selling product.

But the only real way to use sales copy to make more sales is by providing excitement and evidence towards the idea that your product will actually help them succeed in whatever way you’re aiming to sell them on. This is why when it comes to your beats, proper headlines will only go so far. What’s the reason for this? Easy! The reason is because anybody who comes to your website can listen to your beats right away. So, as they say, the proof is in the pudding :).

But that doesn’t mean you can’t make people perceive your beats at a much higher value by simply using the right headlines. For instance, if you have worked with ultra famous rappers such as T.I., Lil Wayne, Eminem, 50 Cent or others, then simply mentioning that in a headline can dramatically increase your overall selling power. The way people perceive you is everything no matter what business you’re attempting to start.

Which Brings Me to Branding

Branding is very similar to writing copy and the art of sales copy. The only real difference is that the thing you’re trying to make look good in this case isn’t your products, but your business as a whole. Branding is everything from the graphics you use to the quality of your website. Of course we do professional eCommerce design, check out our portfolio and pricing if you’re interested. But while the look and feel of your website is a huge piece of the puzzle, it’s not enough. You need a proper slogan, headlines, and most importantly you need to set yourself apart from the competition.

Powerful forms of branding can include graphics and design, your logo, your website, the features your website has and more. Your branding can be found in your voice tag for instrumentals posted, your advertisements and more. Every single headline, piece of content, photo, video, graphic and more can have an effect on your overall branding and sales. If you want to succeed as much as possible you are going to need to pay close attention to not only how you are perceived by your audience and clients, but also, how do you carry yourself and your business?

Ask Yourself: Does your Business, Overall, Come Off as Professional and Trustworthy, or Amateur and Weak?

This is a fundamental principle of branding. You have to take a real long, hard look in the mirror (metaphorically speaking) and figure out whether or not your business is perceived by the public as being super awesome or super lame. Everything has a small roll to play, from the quality of the graphics you use, the quality of your web design, your logo, the quality of the videos you produce for your business, etc.

Every little thing piles up when it comes to branding and it is all very important to understand if you expect to make the kind of money and see the kind of success you probably want to see. So now it’s time to ask yourself, are you doing all you can?

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I hope to help you achieve a higher level in your business, but to do this you have to invest and support us. :). Have a great day and may your success always rise!

Today I wanted to talk about refunds, disputes and tough clients. I think it is a common question for people selling beats to think, how do you go about handling a situation where a customer is asking for a refund? What happens if the customer simply won’t budge or is being unreasonable? Well today I wanted to discuss some of my own experiences to help you in understanding these unwanted encounters, what you can do to fight back, and when you should budge.

First of all I want to discuss services because I think that a lot of people do custom work, etc, for payment and the word “refund” can come up. For me I think that with services it’s always best to do half down, half after in terms of payments. That way nobody feels cheated and the conversation of refunds never has to come up. If somebody pays half down and you do your best to satisfy their needs, which you should do anything and everything to try to make a bad situation right no matter what, then you shouldn’t feel bad keeping their money.

For services it’s considered a deposit scenario. Major credit cards, debit accounts and even PayPal advocate no refunds for services. The reason is because you receive payment and begin work, so you’ve been hired to complete a task and it’s your job to simply do that task. If you’ve begun working it’s your job to do everything in your power to satisfy the needs of the client you’re working for. But having said that, don’t put in ten hours of work and then when they ask for a refund, comply.

Having said that, if you are selling any sort of service your refund rate should be extremely low. There’s a big problem if one out of two clients end up asking for a refund or being pissed off about your experience with them. For me it’s probably one out of every fifteen clients will end up asking for a refund when it comes to services. I like those odds because if the vast majority of people you work with are satisfied then clearly you’re doing something right. Don’t be the person who sells services and gets refund requests constantly because you don’t have the skills or resources to complete the tasks they’re asking you to complete.

When it comes to items that are ship-able, and non-services, the ability to get a refund for a client is higher. It’s harder to win any dispute when it comes to these situations, but I have a trick up my sleeve for this kind of thing. If somebody is dissatisfied for any reason I like to try to make the situation right. Usually this can be done through bribing, by giving the customer some free extra goodies in exchange for ending the dispute.

I like going this route because it is the only way to make sure even the majority of your disputes can be solved with everybody being happy in the end. Realistically there’s almost always a way to get to this point and it should be your first priority whether you’re selling beats online or selling other products.

If you’re actually shipping an item, sometimes you can still make the situation right by actually offering to send another item, so it even works with those situations. But if somebody does ask for a refund for an item shipped, the dispute will begin and you will indeed have to deal with it. However you can request they send the item back and you’re certainly not responsible for paying for the shipping and handling going the other direction. If a customer wants to go this route, then that’s their choice but they have to get your item back to you, so don’t let them keep both if you can help it.

Hopefully this has been an enlightening article for those of you who sometimes come across tough or even impossible clients. You can’t please everybody, and if somebody is insulting you and your work, asking for a refund when you’ve already done tons of work for them, now you know what to do and how to handle each particular situation.