As recently as ten years ago. independent musicians who hoped to sell music were forced to invest in not only studio time for recording and production, but also the costs associated with pressing compact discs and printing sleeve inserts. Fortunately, the Internet allows today’s musicians to recoup recording expenses more quickly and to make a greater impact with the potential for global audience reach. Before you decide to wait for a record deal to go into the studio or to go old-school with disc pressing, take a moment to consider the benefits of selling songs online.

How Choosing to Sell Music Online Saves You Money

Recording in a professional studio isn’t cheap, so you’ll need to recoup your expenses as quickly as possible to avoid financial hardship. Even if you choose to invest in some audio equipment and record your music on your own, you’ll still be forced to spend a bit of money in order to get started. No matter how large or small your investment, it’s important to earn that money back in order to stay afloat.

Pressing physical media is an added expense, but the costs associated with discs continues to add up over time. They must be shipped to you, then you must ship them to any buyers. They require climate controlled storage space to maintain integrity, and must be replaced in order to replenish stock as albums are sold.

Choosing to instead sell music online allows you to upload one master to your web store, which can be resold an infinite number of times without running out, so you never need to replenish stock. You don’t have to pay for your music to be shipped back to you from a pressing plant, nor do you have to pass shipping costs along to your customers when they purchase your product. There’s no need to haul heavy crates full of compact discs to shows in order to sell music at your merch table, and you don’t have to miss out on potential sales because you ran out of product. In the end, choosing to sell music online is cheaper, more efficient and less labor intensive.

How to Sell Music Online

You may be surprised by what you need, and what you don’t need, to sell music on the Internet. Contrary to popular misconception, you don’t need a custom-built website capable of processing payments or hosting large files. You can easily add a sales page to your existing site with simple, cut-and-paste HTML coding if you choose the right tools and services.

What you will need to get started, though, are the most vital tools in online sales: payment processing capability, secure file hosting, and automated content delivery. For the sake of efficiency, it’s best to choose an ecommerce platform which combines all of these features under one virtual roof while also offering valuable selling tools, like affiliate network access. Services like PayLoadz.com make it easy to set up your webstore and start selling music, whether you’re planning to sell full albums or just selling songs individually.

With the support of an ecommerce platform, setting up a web store is quick and painless. Before you know it, you’ll be earning money from your efforts and actively building your fan base.

 

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