Sell Your Music Online:  6 Hot Tips to Help You Sell Your Music Online

If you talk to most musicians, you'll find that one of their main goals is get their music
heard and sell their music.  The problem is, many artists have access to the internet,
but just have no idea how to use to use power of the internet to sell their music. 
Read this article to get 6 Hot Tips to help you Sell Your Music Online.  


1) Let Some People You Don't Know, Provide Feedback on Your Music.

Even though you may think your music is the greatest thing since sliced bread, you
should let other people you don't know listen to your music and provide you with
feedback. You may find areas where you need to tighten up your music
e.g. production quality before you can expect to really increase your music sales.


2) Make Your Music Website is Easy to Navigate so Others Can Buy Your Music.

When your fans come to your website to purchase your music, you need to make it really
 easy for them to understand where to go to download your music or purchase your
CD's etc.  Your order button needs to be easy to access throughout your site, and needs
to be working if you want to sell your music online.


3) Provide Your Website Visitors with Access to More Than One Mailing List.

You may already know that having a mailing list and communicating regularly with your
subscribers provides you with a good way to inform your audience about upcoming projects
and increase your music sales. What you may not know is that some people may be more
likely to join your mailing list if they know exactly what they will be getting if they subscribe
to your list.  You could test this out on your site by creating two different mailing lists. 
One general list that people sign up to with no extra incentive, and one list for people who
signed up to receive a free report or newsletter from you.  You may find that you start to get
more subscibers to your mailing list if you give them different incentives for joining your list, and
more subscribers means that you have more opportunity to sell your music online.


4) Make Sure Your Website Visitors and Customers Can Easily Contact You

It is important that you provide your website visitors with a way to contact you if they
have any questions about your website, or buying your music. They may be more inclined
to buy your music if they know that you are available to answer their questions. 
If you receive similar questions from others, you can create a frequently asked questions
(FAQ) page on your website to answer these questions.


5) Leverage Social Networks to Promote and Sell Your Music Online

There are a lot of great social networks available on the internet to help musicians sell
more of your music.  MySpace is a good example, but there are a lot of other Social
Networks you can get involved in to help you sell your music fast. If you want to find
other Social Networking sites, you can search for "social networking for musicians" in
a search engine and find other networks you can tap in to get the word out about your music.


6) Listen to Successful Musicians Who Have Had Success Selling Their Music.

Who better to learn from than a musician who has had great success selling their music?
If you listen to what successful musicians have to say, you may be able to pick up some great
tips from them that you may have never thought of which can help you sell your music online.


Visit the following link to get access to a great resource and interview from a successful
musician, David Nevue, who has other great tips to help you successfully promote your music.

Sell My Music: Exclusive Interview with Successful Musician and Author, David Nevue.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Traci Crowley provides resources that help you Create,
Produce, and Sell your music from home.
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