Free Ways to Advertise Beats

[tone_aot]

Whasup fam. I'm trying to figure out some free ways to advertise some beats online. I would like to sell beats online and buy equipment only off the money i make from the beats. I haven't really got much traffic to my soundclick site. I was wondering how to get it poppin off. Any suggestions?

 

[BeatsBuY]

Well, as I have found, it's not easy to sell beats on the web. I've sold beats, but I sell more local and one on one with a person. I think people don't trust buying beats on the web. And also, there are people who try to play you by not paying. So I recommend selling beats in your area. Find artists and go to studios. Build your name there. It's taken me a long time just to get the BeatsBuY site to get known and have good cred. Word of mouth is the best way.

But, you can post your brats on sites that sell beats. Just do a search on google for buy beats. You can post on sites for free. I haven't got any buys form posting.. Ya, a lot of emails I get back, but no buys. It's mostly younger kids checking out beats, and they don't have a lot of money...

In terms of getting traffic. Myspace is really good. Make a hot page with your best beats. Tell what you do and add your sites. And always when you get a friend request, add a comment saying thanks. Ya, I know that's easy, but you will get traffic.

 

[bknot1]

also..ontop of what BEat said.. when you on soundclick...look at the artist in your city or state..you will be amazed by how many artist thats in your area..hit them up to see if the looking for beats ...its all about networking..checkout some other artist site to check out their musc..leave real comments and they will get back to you when they return the favor and some of them are seriously lookin for beats...

you can also search google for artist looking for producers or beats..and you will see some wanted ads on some sites..


good luck

 

[bknot1]

selling beats online is a slow process unless you doing it for very cheap..then you get all the kids hitting you up for beats..

 

[Fieva]

Selling beats online is like watching paint dry. Most people on the net are looking to get theirs for either very cheap or free. Soundclick is a very good way to post your whole arsenal on the web for people you meet locally. That's how you can spread word around.

What I did in the past (I haven't sold too many beats lately because I've been working on HM and my solo album yadayadayada) is put about 20 full beats (or about 70 or so samples ranging from 1:30 to 2 min flat) on a demo CD that you bring with you to prospective clients. If the clients are homies then I bring the full beat CD so that they can hear changeups and what not. If not, I bring the sample CD with me so in the off case I do get into some shady shit, they're not getting full beats on that CD.

None the less, have at least 1/4th of your beats available on the CD to listen to in a sample format. That way if they're feeling your work, you can give them a business card (I strongly suggest using a business card, it's more professional than just writing your site down and you can get them really cheap for the quantity). When they see your business card, it'll have contact info and your site on it. That way, they'll want to check your site out to see what they didn't catch in the initial interview.

Also, if you have artists that you're tight with, work out deals with them. Let them have a free beat for every 3 people that they bring you who buys a beat from you. Musicians love stuff for free so you can make them do some of the hustling for you and bring you new clientele. Hell, I have artists who put out good word for me at MC battles and around the underground network simply because I promised to put in a little work for them whether it's cross-promotion, a discount on buying beats, or a beat outright for free (it still has paperwork though don't sleep on that).

A little time, a little drive, a little hustle, and a little magic and you can make that happen homie.

Fiev.