Selling Self Made Music?

Yes,

I have been selling my music online for several years, some of it custom order, some of it production music, or special project music.

There are a few warriors that are selling their music in the WSO section.

Mark Riddle

I haven't sold any music online yet, but people don't really like my music so it's not too surprising.

You can try selling via these guys: Royalty Free Music & Stock Audio - AudioJungle

and these guys: Soundsnap.com: High Quality Sound Effects and Loops

Selling music is something I want to try to, and when I do I plan to start via those sites.

If you do get going on it, let us know how you fare!

No experience YET... I'm planning to record my own album next year and sell it online... Maybe some major music label will take notice haha =P
Anyway I want to see what happens

I would say... just try it. Go for it!

Go at it i am an indepedent musician myself hip hop artist
U must set it up as a product launch cause its gonna be new to your list and brings them closer to you do a press release blogg about the process. You got to make it an event. My campaign was to sell 500 copies the first month "be in the 500 club"

Make sure you have adequate copyrights protection in place.

Keep promoting through video sites, I think that's where your target audience will hang out besides social networking sites.

There's tons of video sites out there so you may need tool to auto-submit like traficgeyser, you'll also see the feedback from people watching it.

I like it. It has a bit of an "Enya" feel to it. You might consider offering services to people needing music for various projects. One business model is to simply license out your work rather than sell it outright. People can buy the rights to use it on their various projects.

Another option is music libraries, many of which you can upload to immediately for free (such as productiontrax .com), and set your own price etc. Some people make good money doing that, and it's pretty much instant to start, unlike getting digital downloads approved which can take months or even years.

For selling digital downloads, you could go through something like CD-Baby, who submit your track to lots of different download companies, for a fee . . . it takes time to get approved. Or just put them for sale on your own site, get traffic and make sales!

Or find record labels who sell similar material to yours and send them demos.

It's a hard business though . . . the biggest record labels lose money on nearly all their acts, and that's with the world's best marketing departments, large budgets, decades of experience etc. Not that that should put you off . . . some independant composers make a living from it!


Chris

I have musician friends who compose their own music and it's competitive out there, however if you're not competing with mainstream music and find your own niche within the IM video realm you could do well.

People are always looking for good background music for their videos that don't sound like cheap 80's midi files.

Why not try approaching Traffic Geyser and offer some snippets of your work for free?, people could then sign up to your list if they like your music, you can then market to that list.