FALSE: you have to master marketing to sell your beats online. - - -
Did you search online for ways to make it as a full time music producer?
Do you find yourself always being sold a marketing course?
If you’re like I was at the beginning of my career, you want to focus on what you’re passionate about: music.
Not copywriting.
Not paid traffic and ads.
Not social media tactics.
Music.
Now I’m not knocking marketing. I think all the high-income skills I have just listed are amazing to add to your arsenal at some point.
But when you start, I find it easier to build momentum by doing what you’re most proficient at: making great beats.
So the strategy I used when I got started was to find people to do the marketing and selling for me. Obviously, everything of value has a price tag attached to it.
If you’re familiar with my work, and my book “The Bedroom Super Producer”, you know that I advocate starting your beat-selling business using the power of music marketplaces.
There are TONS of websites on the web that are ready to sell your music to serious customers RIGHT NOW.
The idea is to understand the following:
What you are good at (what makes you a special music composer)
What their customers need
What type of music sells on these platforms
How can you combine your special gift and the type of music that sells to create a niche where you have little to no competition
Once you have figured these things out, your sales should pick up.
You won’t go from zero to a hundred overnight.
It’s a process.
But what is awesome about this method is that you start automating sales. Passive income allows you to stop trading time for money. So if you get monthly sales from one or several of these online platforms, guess what?
That’s new time you can spend on developing the rest of your business!
Drum kits
Synth presets
Composing services
Mixing services
Mastering services
Custom beats for artists
Online courses
So again you don’t have to learn marketing when you start your beat-selling business. Partner with established players and create multiple streams of automated musical income.
Start small, and start slow.
When momentum starts to pick up, THEN you can start taking more control over your sales process.
I hope this information gave you more direction on how to get started as a professional music producer. If you want to learn more about these concepts, I invite you to read my book, “The Bedroom Super Producer, and stay in touch with me by subscribing to my channel and following me on instagram @delicatebeats.
I’m preparing something very special for producers who want to start building their beat-selling business now.
Stay tuned!
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