When it comes to making money from selling music a lot of people seem to have it all wrong. Instead of focusing on trying to make money on album sales, maybe you should be focusing on other forms of income. The fact is you’re not going to make the amount of income you want from simply selling albums online. You can earn some income from this but it’s not going to be enough to pay all your bills unless you have other forms of income as well.
One of the best ways to promote yourself and make money is through various types of online advertising. One of the easiest ways to earn cash is simply to advertise your YouTube account and videos. You can earn money from advertisements you may place on your website using Adsense, a platform through Google which allows you to post advertisements for other companies on your videos. You get paid 68% per click, and since some clicks can be worth $2-$10, these can stack up quickly.
The fact is you’re going to need to pull together several sources of income if you want to sustain a reliable music career. YouTube and advertising is a great way to do that. Adding more services or products to your line is always a great way to get business and to have things pick up as much as possible. Selling merchandise, selling beats, selling albums, YouTube advertisements, streaming services and bundles/package deals are a great way to increase your income.
But what’s my favorite path to making income from your music? Definitely placements. A lot of people don’t understand that getting placements is actually not that difficult. But the problem is that you need to own the rights to your music. Obviously I am a music producer that runs Beats4Legends LLC so you can find plenty of beats and instrumentals on our home page for sale. But just because we have instrumentals for sale doesn’t mean that is the only thing you’re going to need. But connections are not as important as you might think.
While getting your music into the right hands is most definitely important and necessary to get placements, there are actually opportunities all over the internet and offline for getting your music into the right hands. There are even services that help you get out there like Taxi.com, which you pay a yearly amount or monthly for your music to be in a database that publishers can get ahold of.
This is for serious musicians only. You better not be using samples, have your music copy-written and have recorded your music professionally. But Taxi is not the only service available to help you achieve the results you want in terms of big boy publishing deals. But this is where the REALEST money in the industry is, and it is the easier way to earn a couple thousand, increase record sales and more… All from publishing.