Soundclick Layouts, Beats for Sale: Review of My Muzic Image

Producers that utilize Soundclick to sell beats online, know that having a strong online presence and brand are important. When someone visits a music producer's soundclick page they are initially looking for two things. The first is high quality, soundclick beats. The next is a clean, aesthetically pleasing visual presence or overall image. If a producer's design is clean and the instrumentals are industry standard quality, it makes it easy for recording artists to download beats.

When I started my music production business in March of 2010, I did not have a strong Soundclick presence. I was using a basic free layout and was not getting much web traffic to my Soundclick page or people buying my beats. In the summer of 2010, I was fortunate to run across Christopher Perkins in my phone contacts (Owner of Mymuzicimage.com). Perkins is a very talented graphic designer and animator.

To start selling beats online, I upgraded my Soundclick account from the Basic account to V.I.P. account. This allowed for more customization of my Soundclick page where people could download my beats. I asked a close friend to give me a basic design to get me started.

This is what the 1st Soundclick layout looked like

After speaking with Perkins, he stated that he had no experience doing Soundclick layouts for beatmakers or producers, however, he said he would use what knowledge he'd obtained from his schooling to prepare a layout for me.

This was his first layout for me which included flash animation

After he'd created this layout for me, I began to see a slight increase in my website's traffic but I did not have any beat sales yet. I was making some progress but nothing substantial. Perkins was very easy to work with and business oriented during this entire process. His turn around rate was super fast.

Based of my first experience with him, I decided to solicit his services again for another Soundclick layout in late summer, 2011. I described what I wanted and allowed him to take creative control.

This was the next layout Perkins prepared

I was very pleased with the layout. Perkins designed the layout exactly as I'd described. He was a gentleman and a scholar once again and provided quick service.

After utilizing this layout, I began to see a near immediate increase in web traffic and also made my first instrumental sale with this layout!

I continued to use this layout up until around the first of the year (2011) when I decided I was ready for a layout change once again.

Guess who I called?

Perkins delivered once again!

I was extremely pleased at how quickly this layout was turned out given the immense detail and time required to put it together!

Here is my latest Soundclick layout from Perkins

Service as always was excellent!

Overall, Mymuzicimage.com and Perkins have done an outstanding job providing excellent web design and customer service. I now use Perkins and Mymuzicimage.com for all my company branding and graphic design needs. I am also pleased to say that with his latest layout I've sold $1000+ worth of beats and instrumentals to recording artists, businesses, and singers across the world. I highly recommend Perkins' services!

If you are interested in Soundclick layouts, logos, flyers, or any form of graphic design or animation, visit Perkins' website at Mymusicimage.com

I plan on being a life long customer!

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3 Easy Tips to Climb SoundClick Charts

It is widely known that producers have been able to make 1000's of dollars selling beats online via SoundClick. Recording artists have been able to build tremendous buzz on the website, too. However, there are still many people who may not know exactly how to get to the #1 spot on SoundClick charts. The following information will provide you with some helpful tips to get to the top of SoundClick.

Create an Account

The first step is to log onto SoundClick's website. You will want to register an account with SoundClick. Set up your username and password. You will want to create a name for your artist/band/music production company.

The next step is critical in increasing your SoundClick pages' traffic. SoundClick has special preference for its paying customers. Consequently, SoundClick members that create VIP accounts get special benefits, namely an extra boost in the charts. This is important because the higher you move up into SoundClick's charts the more opportunities you have to get free traffic to your webpage. The more traffic you get to your page, the more opportunities you will have to get beat sales and/or sales of your music. It costs about $10 USD to purchase a VIP membership on SoundClick.

Upload Beats, Instrumentals, and Music

Now you want to begin uploading your music so people can download your mp3s online. Upload as many instrumentals, beats, and songs as you like. SoundClick does not have a limit on how much music you can load onto their servers. You can either allow people to download beats/songs for free or you can just have a streaming links available.

Promote, Advertise

This is the last but most important factor in climbing SoundClick Charts. You want to constantly be promoting your beats, instrumentals, songs, or music. You will want to focus on driving unique listeners and viewers to your page.

A great way to easily do this is to allow people to download your music for free. If you are a producer, you should put in your title that your instrumental is a "Free Download" or "Free D/L". If you are an artist make sure you promote your songs in the same manner. The reason for doing this is to entice more unique viewers to your page.

You also will want to get active in music forums. You will want to begin posting links to music on your SoundClick page for people to review. DO NOT SPAM. This is the worst thing you can do! Look for threads within music forums where you can post links to your material. MAKE SURE YOU SAY IN YOUR POST TITLE "FEEDBACK RETURNED" OR "DROP LINKS". This will encourage people to check out your music because you're offering to check out theirs. It will also provide you with the unique views you need to move up the charts. Make sure you provide GOOD FEEDBACK!

The aforementioned items are just a few methods to begin promotions and advertising. You can pay for advertising and use social networks among other things to drive traffic to your page. The key to climbing the charts is establishing a consistent advertising pattern. The more traffic you are driving to your page the more unique viewers you will get. As you continue to drive traffic to your page you will continue to climb the charts. Don't get discouraged if you don't make it to #1 over night. Climbing the charts is a process. Stay consistent and persistent until you reach your goals.

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