Starting from the ground and working up!
I see many people making beats and working up from nothing. I will explain to everyone how you can make money online with $0... as long as you have internet, a beatmaking background and a computer. In this music/beatmaking market... the whole idea is to gain targeted emails of beat buyers and get a snowball effect going to the point that you gain more and more clients. People think you need money in order to make this happen, but you can simply get emails if you are smart and innovative. I will give a few tips to beatmakers on how to gain emails from the internet with $0 and very little knowledge of anything.
#1. Twittersearch.com
Use twitersearch and use the advanced option. I use this and type in things in the fields that will look thru twitter for emails of musicians. I use different target words and exact phrases to make this work. "Exact phrase" use things like.. need beats, need producer, looking for beats, submit beats, send beats to, email beats, send beats... you get the point... then in the field that says "any of these words" I will type email hosts.. like.. yahoo, aim, aol, rocketmail, ymail, gmail,..... etc and I will enter a bunch of those.. and then I click enter.. and on the pages that pop up.. you can root thru the email addresses with a program called an email extractor. I use something that I paid for.. but email extractors are easy to get for free online depending on your OSX. You can use something online too. Like this.. http://emailx.discoveryvip.com/ and enter the entire txt of the twitter pages (select all on the page and copy, then paste the pages into the extractor).. and extract the emails. I get 100s a day by using these kind of methods and I build my email list.. not by asking people to join my list.. but just by finding people and adding them to my list. If they do not want to be on it.. then I remove them later.
#2. Google.com
Yes... this also works. I will use the advanced search feature on google and use all of the same ideas above to weed thru the webpages and find emails. Some of your google searches will even go thru email extractor sites like the one I listed above and it will take emails from other peoples extracted lists. I will try to incorporate more keywords into the google searches just to widdle down the wide array of things that google searches thru. I will use a word like.. singer.. or rapper.. or something along those lines to assure that I am getting music related emails.
#3. Forums... like Rocbattle.. or LetsBeef
This is more of a manual manipulation idea.. But this will gain you emails. I will go on forums of musically related sites and I will create a fake name and lie to people about giving free beats away to people. I will ask for emails of rappers who are interested in a collaboration or a free beat.. and whoever responds, you will know that they are interested in music of your making.. and that is half the battle. Now you simply steal the email and add it to your list. This is a slow, but sure fire way to find targeted musicians who are interested in your style of music.
#4. Emails sent to your email address...
Most people see this happen and they never take advantage of it. How many times a week are you emailed by someone who isnt smart enough to properly market.. and they send emails to you with their entire email list in the reply section of the email? I see this a few times a week.. and I take all of those emails and just add them to my list. I am not 100% sure if they are all targeted beat buyers, or targeted to be interested in my beats.. but, they will get you a few sales here and there if you take them from people who seem to be musicians or into the music that we are making.
I hope this little but of insight can help some of you get your ideas off of the ground and into the air. I have been marketing for about 2-3 years and we have done some super innovative things to gain 5000+ sales in only 4 years of making beats. I do not have all of the secrets.. and making great music does help.. but these little pointers.. although time consuming... will help you get sales if you have decent quality music. I dont mind helping and telling everyone this because its the new way to market with no money.. so everyone is doing this in some way or another, and I will not influence enough people that this will affect my pockets.. so.. Thank me later after you make your 1st few bucks off my ideas here.
