4 Easy Steps to Make a Beat Selling Website

If you are music producer or beat maker, you know that having your own website to showcase your beats and instrumentals is essential. Often times upcoming producers are strapped for cash and on a strict budget. The following will offer you instructions on how to make your own beat selling website.

1. Create A Free Blog

Creating a blog is one of the simplest ways to sell beats online. There are plenty of free websites available where you can create a blog. Blogger, WordPress, and Tumblr are some of the most popular ones. You could also just Google "Free blog" and you will find plenty of resources online. If you aren't tech savvy and don't know much about HTML code, try Blogger. If you have a little more experience with HTML code and are interested in more customization of your website, start a WordPress blog. If you are interested in being more social with other bloggers, try Tumblr.

Once you've chosen your blog platform and set up your online profile. You will likely want to customize the look and feel of your website. If possible, use a white background or something similar to make the information posted on your site pop out (i.e text, pictures, videos, beats, etc). There a literally thousands of free blog templates and themes available online to customize your site. Google search them and follow their installation instructions.

2. Choose a Domain Name & Hosting

You will want to come up a with a name for your website. By default you will usually get a domain name from your blog platform that is self-hosted. It will look something like this:

so and so beats dot blogspot dot com

or

super hot instrumentals dot wordpress dot com

or

i make dope beats dot tumblr dot com

Try to come up with about 3 different domain names that you like just in case the domain name you choose is already in use.

Once you pick your domain name(s), you can visit a website like GoDaddy.com to purchase a custom domain name. If you need help call the customer support line. GoDaddy will typically try to sell you some extra stuff with your domain name. Ignore the sales offers and just get your domain.

You can get by without changing your default domain name, but it is highly recommended that you buy a custom one. This will help customers easily recognize your brand. In any case, make sure your site ends in dot com. You should also try to avoid hyphens in your domain name.

If you want to use your own blog hosting you can buy it through a website such as HostGator.com or GoDaddy.com. Having your own hosting will allow you more control and customization of your site, but again if the budget is tight you will be fine for now. Call the customer support lines if you are in need of help getting things setup.

3. Create a PayPal Account

You will need to create a PayPal Account to start collecting money from the beats you plan to sell. This is very simple. Just visit PayPal.com and enter in your information.

4. Upload your Beats and Instrumentals

One of the best ways to get your beats uploaded to your blog is to have them hosted via a flash store. It is super easy,convenient AND best of all its free to get started!

Visit Myflashstore.com or isellbetternow.com and create a free profile. Once you've completed that upload your hottest beats or instrumentals for sale. You will be able to only upload a limited number of instrumentals on the free profiles. These beats will be hosted on their web servers which is great! When someone buys a beat they will be emailed a download link to the beat. This completely automates the sales process so customers can download beats instantly!

Be sure to go in the settings section in Myflashstore or the user details section of isellbetternow.com and list your Paypal email address to begin receiving payments.

Next, you will want to post the embedded code for the flash player on your blog.

On isellbetternow.com the embedded code will be in the user details section.

Myflashstore will have the embedded code listed under the members tab in the players link. You will click the get code button to access the html code.

You will finally want to copy this entire code and past it inside of one of your blog pages or posts. Put this code in the html section of your page or post.

YOU ARE NOW READY TO SELL BEATS ONLINE!

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Tips for Selling Vinyl Records on eBay

Many people use eBay to sell and buy items new and used. It's an excellent way to make money off something that's been sitting around collecting dust or to find something that you've been searching for that is no longer sold in retail stores.

Selling vinyl records on eBay is a big business and you can get in on some of the action, too. It's easy to get started. Just pull out those albums stored in your closet or basement and start going through them to see which ones you're ready to part with.

Once you get a stack of albums ready, here are a few tips for selling vinyl records on eBay to help you get the most from your collection.

· Do some research to determine what is in high demand so you can get an idea of the value of the albums you have.

· Evaluate their condition because this will affect the price as well.

· Set up your account and review the rules so you can compile with them completely. You don't want to get in trouble for breaking the rules.

· List your albums individually with a detailed description. This should include each track and the length of time they play. It should also include the record size, rotation speed and vinyl grade if known.

· Provide a photo of the cover and add this in the description along with any extras that come with the album.

· Give an accurate account of the condition of each album. If it's in excellent condition, that's great and by all means list it as such but if it's in good condition, don't exaggerate. Include any damage to the cover as well if any.

Selling vinyl records on eBay is not difficult but it's important that you know as much about the albums up for sale as you can. This will make it easier for you to set a fair price for the records that you sell. Just because you consider something to be very valuable, doesn't mean that everyone else will.

Value is determined by a variety of things besides the condition of the album. For example, supply and demand plays a major role in how valuable records are. The ones that were mass-produced are not as valuable as the ones that had only a few copies made. The ones recorded on high grade vinyl will also be more valuable than the ones recorded on low grade vinyl. Be aware that records can sell for as little as a $1.00 or they can go for hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

After you gain some experience selling on eBay, you'll pick up a few tips of your own that'll help you along the way. It's a learning process so the more you do it, the easier it'll become. Selling vinyl records on eBay can be quite profitable once you get the hang of it.

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180 Gram Records is a premier producer and distributor of collectible vinyl records from best selling music artists and other limited-run collectible merchandise. They offer select and expertly crafted items to satisfy the demands of collectors, music enthusiasts, and fans alike.

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Top 5 Best Selling Albums in Britain in 2010

2010 was a great year for music in Britain with some amazing album releases. Album reviews were flying off the shelves for breakthrough brands, but it was the old guard that ruled the roost at the top of the album charts. The top 5 best selling albums in Britain is filled with established acts and while there aren't any that I can pick out as favourites of mine, you can't always ignore the numbers. When there is that many people buying an album there's got to be something about it that has grabbed the attention of the masses.

5. Plan B, The Defamation of Strickland Banks

The only breakthrough album release of 2010 fell to London wide boy, Plan B, or Benjamin Balance-Drew as he's know to his mum. The release of The Defamation of Strickland Banks, his second studio album, in April 2010, led to an instant number 1 in the UK album charts. It sold over sixty eight thousand copies in its first week and went on to sell a whopping eight hundred and twenty six thousand copies throughout the course of the year. Album reviews were fairly positive overall with ratings ranging from six out of ten to four out of five, but his move away from his rapping routes prompted one album review from the Telegraph to describe it as being "populist" although the overall tone of the review was generally favourable.

4. Rihanna, Loud

The ups and downs of Rihanna's personal life has been well documented by the media, but when it comes to her albums it always seems to be on the up and up. It including high grossing hits Only Girl in the World, What's my Name and S&M. Released in November 2010 the album the album went in at number 2, selling in the region of 91,000 copies, but later climbed to the number 1 spot. Though it was released late in the year, it still managed to sell 839,000 copies in total. Rihanna's Loud received average to favourable album reviews from the mainstream press.

3. Lady GaGa, The Fame / The Fame Monster

When Lady GaGa first appeared on the music scene it was as though she appeared out of nowhere and was suddenly everywhere. Now it feels like she's always been there. The illusion of her meteoric rise to musical prominence has been fuelled by the trash media and paparazzi that she seems to target so much in her music. The love hate relationship continues in The Fame / The Fame Monster and while it was originally released in November 2009 as an EP as a re-release of The Fame, it still went on to be the third best selling album of 2010 in the Britain.

2. Michael Buble, Crazy Love

Who'd of thought it. Michael Buble had the second highest grossing album of 2010, epitomising the fact that you can never underestimate the buying power of easy listening loving ladies everywhere. The smooth singing Canadian has turned into a power house of selling album selling prowess and in 2010 he really hit the mark with Crazy Love. Michael Buble's fourth studio album, Crazy Love is another crooner loving record and went straight in at number 1 in October 2009, but maintained sales all the way through 2010 to guarantee it a place in the top 5 best selling albums in Britain in 2010. Selling more than 1, 227,000 copies, but to be fair, it doesn't really matter how many albums he sells, he's never going to get into the Rat Pack.

1. Take That, Progress

Back during the 90s Take That were the bees knees with the girls at my school. They wore Take That emblems around there necks and probably cried like crazy people at the news that they were breaking up. It is these same girls, now women, that have secured Take That's resurgence to musical hegemony of a certain persuasion, making their album, Progress, the biggest selling album of 2010 in Britain. Released on 15th November 2010 and returning Robbie Williams to the Take That fold after his long dark days alone in the California sun, it inevitable charted straight in at number 1. Despite the release being so late in the day in 2010, it still managed to sell in excess of 1.8 million records. Album reviews were very positive, giving it an average of around 8 out of 10 in both popular and industry media, but more than anything, it gave Robbie something more than just aliens to believe in.

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