Sell Music Online

Selling your Music Online

Selling your music online is actually no different to selling anything else online - although most of your visitors are probably looking for a free mp3 - it just requires "hard work". It doesn't matter weather you are selling flight tickets, pet food or CDs it is the same equation (remember what I said, "it's a numbers game"), about 1-5% of visitors buy (it's possible to increase the percentage rate for a correctly targeted audience). Ask yourself the question, "Would I be satisfied with fifteen sales per month?" Because that may be all you get. The calculation:

High: (500 unique visitors per day) X 30 = (15000 unique visitors per month)
Low: (50 unique visitors per day) X 30 = (1500 unique visitors per month)
Average: (275 unique visitors per day) X 30 = (8250 unique visitors per month)
about 1% of visitors buy
High: 150 visitors buy per month
Low: 15 visitors buy per month
Average: 82.5 visitors buy per month

Of course it is all a guestimate (there are quite a few variables). But if you are only selling 15 CDs per month at £10 each, your turnover is just £150, not much profit there!

Do not concentrate on your website in isolation to everything else, it is important that it is a part of your overall marketing strategy. To make your website sell effectively you must take every opportunity open to you. Point your potential customer towards your website using both online and "real world" techniques. Then give them content, create the right environment and give your visitor what she wants - you will then sell your music.

How To Set Up A Music Store

Setting up an open all hours, 24/7, Internet music store to sell your music worldwide, is an exciting and positive step forward for independent musicians and small record labels. It opens up the world, and allows you to keep full control over your music, your business and be totally independent (no middlemen:-). It'll give you the chance to reach new audiences and be big in New York, Berlin, London, Paris and Japan, as an unsigned band, without a record deal and without compromising!

What You Need
You need a store that is designed to integrate seamlessly with your existing website. Obviously it has to be easy to install, easy to customize and above all, easy for everyone to use (you and your customer). The store should be 100% online and 100% automated, with all the tools necessary to: sell your songs and albums as music downloads. manage the communication with fans, customers and the press. You must have a safe, secure and easy payment system for your customers, they will not buy your music otherwise.

easybe.com To The Rescue With The 1-2-3 Music Store
The 1-2-3 music store has been especially designed for musicians and music experts, not for techie computer programmers. Technical skills are not required to get the 1-2-3 music store up and running, because, the easybe technicians will set it up for you for £20, so there will be no complicated techie stuff, you just need a good ear for music! - any problems are delt with promptly. Not only will you be able to sell your music online, but you will also be able to offer free downloads, cover art, sample listening, reviews and ratings. You will always have complete control over the price of your music.

How The Payments Are Handled
The 1-2-3 Music Store uses PayPal to handle all payment transactions, simply because they are the best in their field. PayPal is the market leader in secure internet payment systems - with millions of registered users - they accept, convert and process five different currencies (US Dollars, Canadian Dollars, Japanese Yen, British Pounds and Euros), so you can be continuously open for business in 38 countries worldwide.

There are no setup costs for a paypal account: Sign up here for PayPal and start accepting credit card payments instantly.

Technical Requirements
for runnung the 1-2-3 Music Store

• A web server Unix / Linux / Windows / Mac
• Php version 4.1 or later
• Php SAFE_MODE needs to be OFF
• MySQL database version 3.23 or later
• web browser on Windows, Mac OS, or Unix/Linux with Javascript and cookies enabled
• FTP program to upload the necessary files to your web server
• PayPal Business account

The Easybe Installation Guide is easy to follow, so you should be able to install the software quite easily. If you have never done anything like this before, make use of their excellent installation service, where they take care of the setup for you. If you're not sure whether your web server meets the requirements, send an email to your provider, visit easybe.com for an example email!

How To Get The 1-2-3 Music Store
Get the 1-2-3 Music Store now from easybe.com. It is available as a downloadable php script.

A licence costs $48 for an Artist/Band and $148 for a Record Label. The "Band" and "Label" versions contain the same features, but will be used differently - that's why the price is different.

There are no additional costs for using the 1-2-3 music store, once it's up and running, that's it!

easybe.com 1-2-3 Music Store

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