Selling Beats Online: Where Should you Sell Your beats

Selling beats online allows they everyday bedroom producer to make money by doing what they love and reach artist who are hungry for beats everyday. There are three beat selling platforms I will be discussing in todays post; Beatstars, Traktrain, and Airbit. The image belows shoows each platfoms website building functions available to you

Airbit
First on the list we have Airbit. Airbit is one the very first beat selling platforms I joined when I first started selling beats online. Airbit is one of the easiest to use platforms with their fast UI, Batch Uploading features, and Youtube monetization. Airbit allows you to selling your beats on their marketplace and use their brand new infinity store as your very own beat selling website. You can also embed their mobile players into your own website as well. There are alot of good things to say about Airbit, but here are just a few amazing things offered to you as an Airtbit member which in clude features that they have and a few that they dont have.

PROS:

• Batch uploading on PC and mobile devices
• Youtube Monetization
• Add collaborators (collaborators do not need be a member to get 100% of split sales)
• Fast UI
• Better Marketplace Ranking
• Fast beat uploads​
• Batch Editing
• Autotagging (old and new beats)
• Analytics and Stats
• Resend Beat Emails to Beat Buyers Who may not have received their beats
• Website redirection (redirect beat buyers to your website after purchasing beats)
• Give bulk deals on beats
• Give coupon codes for beats (can give usage limits)
• Create beat playlist that sho on the mobile player
• ​Analytics and stats

While these are some amazing features, there are a few cons as well which include

Cons:

• No Automatic Collaborator Splits (You have to manually pay each collaborator)
• Marketplace is not as active as other beat selling platforms​
• Do not keep 100% of sales made through the marketplace

Beatstars
Beatstars is one of the top beat selling platforms out right now. They have been very present on social media and in the mix with connecting with producers and artist. Beatstars has made a name for themselves being the leading beat selling platform with many artists visiting their marketplace adn buying beats. Beatstars marketplace is one of the many reasons producers join the beat platorm, in hopes of sparking a following and selling alot of beats to artists. Beatstars has many features that give it the top spot. Below are list of pros and cons to being a Beatstars Member.

PROS:

• Amazing Marketplace (beats have the potential to be sold more by artists looking for beats)
• ​Keep 100% of your sales made through the marketplace
  
• Automatic collaborator splits
• Amazing marketing intergrations with services like printful, many chat, aweber,fanconnect
• Create your very own website with their pro page 2 website (create a more detailed website for artists to visit and buy beats, sell soundkits, and services, and create blog posts)
• Auto tag beats for free downloads
• Batch upload on PC (desktop browser)
• Intergrates with youtube to showcase your youtube videos
• Use their blaze player pro as an embed mobile beat store on your already established website
• Offer memberships to artists
• Music distribution Directly through Beatstars (allows for youtube moneization as well)
• Mobile app for artist looking to buy beats
• Soundlcoud and Audiomack monetization
• Datacrusher intergration (cart abandonment service for pro page 2 wesbites)

CONS:

• Must be a beatstars pro member to receive 100% commision on collaborators sales
• Beats will not be labeled correctly when downloading beats or when artist purchase beats (will be given a random alphabetical name)
• Cannot autotag old beats (only new uploads will be tagged with new custom tag)
• Services inquiry feature on pro page 2 is not as detailed. Artist does not have the option to fill out form and pay at the same time
• Ranking is slightly difficult due to Beatstars algorithm

Traktrain
Last on the list is Traktrain. Traktain is one of the newest beat selling websites to emerge from the scenes. Traktrain has been gaining quite a buzz over the last few years as the next best beat selling webistes. They are aninvite only platform which means, not just any producer can join and be apart of the team. to be accepted into Traktrain you have to submit a request to join. If your beats are good enough then you will receive an email with an invite code to join. Trak trains main feature that has been the most talked about all over social media is their landing page design which allows for you to create an amzing website landing page where artist can buy beats, contact you, and more. Although they are one of the newest platforms out they do have a few pros and cons to them. 

PROS:

• Fast UI
• Fast beat uploads
• Embedable beat player widget
• Marketplace Ranking
• Analytics and Stats
• Collaborator sale splits
• ​Analytics and Stats

CONS:

• Cannot upload custom voice tag
• Manual Beat Uploads (No automatic conversion from WAV to MP3 files)​

All three of these platforms have many features that the other one does not have. You may find somthing you like in one thhat you cant find in the other. The bottom line when it comes to choosing a platform to sell your beats, is to look at what they can offer to you at this very moment that is best for your business. As for me I use both airbit and beatstars as both having things that theother doesnt offer and they both help me runu my business they I need to.Once you figure that out, all you have to do from then is to sign up and start uploading your beats. i hope this helped you narrow down your decision on which platform to use.