If You Want To Sell Beats Online Here Are Resources You Can Use To Start Today.
To have 100% control of whatever you upload to the internet you will need to own a website domain.
Any file that you upload to the internet is stored on a database.
Your own computer can host your files or you can use a website hosting company.
There are free plans you can use with website hosting companies that are pretty reliable. For a more sophisticated website similar to a youtube or Facebook, you will need to purchase a subscription.
Just like the files for your website you will need to store your beats on the internet so a buyer will be able to download them instantly after purchase. The best place for your beats, as display below, is Airbit.
Today the internet is saturated with new beatmakers and established industry producers.
Sell your beats on Centric Beats without the hassle of creating your own website, building a social presence, or building a customer list.
Here are websites and resources that i currently used in the past to sell my beats online.
First, you will need a domain name for your website. With 1&1, domains for sale start at $1.00 with free private domain registration. Renew for .com and most extension like .net will only be $15 yearly. They also have web hosting, where you upload your website files to, but i prefer to use a company that specializes in web hosting to have the flexibility of a cp panel to create subdomains and test other web or mobile apps.
a2hosting
A2hosting is a website hosting provider. Your website domain needs a place to store the files you will need for your website.
You can also create personalized email addresses and add other domain names that you already have and for the ones you might purchase in the future.
Every domain you add to a2hosting will automatically become SSL certified.
You can also buy domains and host your website amongst a variety of related things.
There are many different methods to create a website. The fastest and easiest way to create a website is to use a website builder. This is a tool most website hosting providers will have.
Another method is to select a web application from there list of web apps you can install onto your website, I used WordPress to create this website for free.
You can’t go wrong with wordpress. WordPress will have just about ever tool you will need to create any type of website for free.
Subscribe to a Plan – Subscriptions
Airbit
Airbit.com is where you upload your beats.
Airbit has come a long way from being MyFlashStore over 10 years ago.
Today you can upload sell songs or sell beats and you can even completely connecting your domain to a premade website provided by them with a paid subscription.
They also have a youtube content id program to detect and collect stream revenue generated by any of your beats uploaded to youtube on your channel or anyone else.
With a free account you can only upload 10 beats, but the great thing about it that you will still receive 100% profit from you sales.
Create a free account – Airbit
tubebuddy
Tubebuddy is a free & easy to install browser extension that helps grow your youtube channel. If you have over 1000 followers on twitter and tweet a link from tubebuddy on your profile, Tubebuddy will give you a free paid subscription for 7 days.
Create a free account – Tubebuddy
Filezilla
FileZilla connects your website to your computer for you to be able to upload files directly to the folder to where the files to your website are being stored.
Download Software – Filezilla
Microsoft Window Expression
Microsoft Window Expression is a free HTML editor.
As far as the functions relevant to your website, you will be able to edit the raw code to your website. You can even, with FileZilla and Adobe PhotoShop, create one from scratch.
Download Software – Microsoft Window Expression
Adobe
Adobe is a company that makes photoshop. A web app developer with a large array of apps to edit or create and edit things like images, animation, visual and audio sound effects, web apps, mobile apps, etc.
To get the latest version of PhotoShop you can download it from Adobe for a free 7-day trial. After that, there will be a monthly subscription fee of $9.99 or a yearly subscription.
Download Trails – Adobe Software