You’re Going to Die on Soundclick

Today I wanted to write a blog post about something that I think all of us can easily relate to (or at least all of us who are making money online selling beats). The fact is, Soundclick is an old, desolate place. The entire site is based on flash, which is old technology that doesn’t work on mobile phones. They also have a mobile version of the site with very little capabilities for those of us who use smart phones.

But you know what is really crazy about Soundclick? It’s the crypt for many business owners. Almost every guy you see in the top sellers on MyFlashStore and other websites such as that these days are doing this by selling beats on Soundclick.

The only problem with this is, I can name a handful of people who would completely be out of sales and be done with their entire business come tomorrow if Soundclick got shut down. The reason this is something you should actually worry about is that the website not only is based on technology that’s so old it’s ridiculous at this point, but it’s promo slots aren’t even selling as much anymore.

The honest to God truth is, nobody wants to use Soundclick because it’s so old. Yet on the other hand, every top seller is on Soundclick right now and using highly expensive advertisements to push themselves into the charts.

So my point comes down to a simple question:

Are you going to die on Soundclick?

If Soundclick one day visits your page and finds a sampled beat that they’re not OK with, that’s sometimes all it takes to get suspended from their site for life right off the bat. Not to mention they will suspend you for whatever other reasons they can think of and most of the time it’s not really something justified.

The biggest names on Soundclick who used to dominate the charts every day can’t even be found in the charts anymore. Take a wild guess why this is? I would say it’s because… They died on Soundclick.

You know I can’t even express how many stories there are of people who go from making good sales every single month to dying on Soundclick because they got suspended, they can no longer keep up with the website due to personal reasons, they can’t pay the super high expenses in order to rank, etc.

If you look at the top 25 at any given time, you’re going to see nothing but newbies. People who have been around and ranking on the website for maybe a year or two, but all the old names are gone.

This is actually part of a mass extinction of Soundclick. At one point in time I released highly valuable secrets on how to rank on this website, and there were hundreds of producers at that time (roughly four years ago) who used the secrets I taught them on how to rank in order to go big or go home.

Out of all of the people who used to rank four years ago using the tactics I taught in an eBook which is no longer available for sale, literally none of them are actually ranking today. All of them spent big on Soundclick, even with the cheaper, easier inexpensive methods I taught them, and they couldn’t keep up with the costs.

The only way to get out of the Soundclick circle is to create a business model which enables you to live off of your beats without being on that website. Now, this is not something many of us are going to want to admit because Soundclick makes us money so why should we care?

Well the smartest people I know are actually moving off of Soundclick completely. I know guys who are even successful on that site but you’ll see them only focusing on their main website. This is because Soundclick will consume you like a wildfire if you let it.

Which brings me to my next point…

Over 80% of businesses fail in the first 5 years.

So it’s no wonder why ranking these days is so much less common and there are simply less people doing it. It’s because you’re not going to survive in a business that is supposed to last 5+ years if you are using any third party site for the majority of your sales.

You need promotional strategies on Soundcloud, Twitter, Facebook and other websites if you expect to survive. Many people pay big for Soundclick and don’t even end up getting anywhere with their music. Many of them I assume have been suspended, lots of big names I can personally verify have been banned from Soundclick forever. Mine being one of them, for releasing our course The Reverse Engineer (buy now).

But the real question still stands…

Are you going to die on Soundclick?

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