10 Absolute Best Strategies To Sell Your Music Online

Everyone has a blog nowadays, so use that to your advantage. Have a website that actually sells where customers can sample songs and purchase the albums.

You can also have your page link directly to an Amazon page to buy your album and whatnot as well. But make it direct for the customer and easy.  It’s not easy they will go somewhere else.

Having the ability to pre-order something makes a customer feel special and included in the latest and greatest upcoming album. With their preorder you can offer them a single at the time of purchase as a gift. This also helps to create more excitement.

If people love the single, they’ll be playing it all the time, and then you can easily create the buzz for other to also buy the album when it releases.

Seriously you are probably rolling your eyes at this one because doesn’t that eat up revenue. Yes and no, because when you offer a discount for signing up for the site or an email list or whatnot, you are generating the excitement for the album itself. And who doesn’t love a discount?

But YouTube is a video service. Yes it is. However,  many people go to YouTube to look for a video or hear a song they heard on the radio, because you can listen to the whole thing. This has to be one of the best ways to sell music online because they can get everything right there as a preview and then buy it directly from you.

Also you can provide a link to where to purchase each song, right under the song. This is like a professional singing business card for the masses.

In order to be successful at digital music distribution you have to market yourself, which means keeping people engaged and up to date with the happenings of the world and with your business. So make sure you show your personality, share snippets of new songs coming out, and ask for feedback on whatever. People love to get involved and this can definitely help.

Social media is a huge thing right now. Everyone is here sharing their stories and their information and when you really dig down you can start a great conversation about something or a topic on Facebook. People really get into their debates and their feelings and you can post videos, and respond to comments. Plus it makes it more personal.

Responding to comments and writing about yourself or your bands lives keeps people interested. They can easily say (if you link to some awesome article) hey I like that too let me check that out and boom, you have another follower.

This is the most important piece of advice. You don’t want to change your tunes or your looks or whatever for what you think society wants. You’ll always have people who don’t like you, but when you are authentic in everything you do, people can see that, they will see the passion that emulates from you and your band (if it’s a band) and they will flock to you. It’s really first and foremost.