Want to sell more beats? Start doing this.

[FrancisM]

A group of guys and I have been working on a solution to the problem that many of us have been facing for many years now. The situation where good producers spend their time making beats and aren't able to make money out of these pieces because of lack of network and visibility. We believe that this gap needs to be closed and that the only thing that should determine the sales of a producer's music is the quality of his work and not the size of his personal network.

We are here to change the industry and we would like to hear your word as a producer so we can build something useful.

So please fill out this quick 1-minute survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JXDMKGD

 

[thegroundabove]

So you're looking to build a middle man type site where you drive traffic to it? Similar to a soundclick or AudioJungle type thing?

 

[bandcoach]

could you not think of the alternatives involved in each question?

at first glance this will take the average participant more than 10 minutes to fill in - you will lose most by 2 minutes

there is no method for gathering participant data such as age and gender or amount time they have been making music - you will not be able to extract much meaningful information from this when you commence analysing simply because you do not have the means to categorise nor to summarise responses

offering predetermined response and a choice of other will let you streamline the process for participant and still capture outlier data. a quick example for your first two questions

1. How do you currently market your instrumentals?
website
mailing list
on-line ads
print ads
other
2. What do you use to conduct transactions?
paypal/western union/other money transfer
bank accounts
certified cashiers cheque
other


gathering participant data you should probably use the following ranges

A) age
<18
18-24
25-29
30-39
40+

B) gender
Female
Male

C) time making music
< 1 year
1-5 years
6-10 years
11-15 years
> 15 years