selling beats

All fellow producers, how much do you sell you beats for?

All depends on you.Who you're sellin' to?Are they a good friend or an associate?How much you think it's worth?Alot of cats sell their tracks anywhere between 30 to 1,000.It's really up to you.(Don't know too many that go for a g but that's what cats say )

the most i sold one of my beats for was 500, i usually stay in the 50 to 150 range though since most cats from the hood aint tryin to spend a lot of cash unless they really tryin to do it..

1500.00 to 2500.00, only cuz I aint had nuthin out in a minute..

For homies... 500.00.... just make sure the homies spit that fiyah.... so when people hear it, they wanna get at you. Don't just sell beats to anybody that got dough. They gotta compliment your sh*t.

all of my guys get em for free.....but we work together on a regular basis.

Basically no matter how much you sell it for, whether its free, or 80,000...get credit for it, and keep all your copyrights.

I would recomend to: at least have the copyright processing fees payed for by them!

Copyright your tracks before you sell them....some cats might give you a line like you dont need to copyright them, or why dont you pay for their lyrics....but man, they getting something....most of the time, i will give someone a track, and they dont do anything with it in a timely matter.

Its good to also give them a time line.

Look at it like give and take.....if you give them a better price, then make them have lyrics written in 3 weeks....if they dont do anything with it, then the beat is back on your court, and you can sell it again.

BAsically you dont wanna get screwed because someone is layz. Its time you could be selling that beat...90% of the time, tracks i already "sold" other people want. Even if the track is hot or not....everybody always wants what someone else has.

Plus if you motivate them to write to the track...then it will benifit you because they will be networking for you.

Most of the time if someone is willing to purchase a track, they will be motivated to actually do something... its the guys that get em for free that are layz. So just cause someone "blesses the mic" doesnt mean they are a good customer.


And dont ever sell yourself short. You invested in yourself...why sell yourself cheap? Confidence can also make for hot tracks!

peace

Where do you go to copyright your tracks? How much does it usually cost?

i think Bing was the one that posted this altenative to the House of Reps.But i haven't given it a thorough look over yet but i'm assumin' it's gotta be descent.

nah that was bidi. but copyrighting ur beats is like $30 bucks. i think u can copyright as many as u can fit on a cd. the copyright goes into effect the second they approve it which is a week, but u wont get the paper work for like 1 yr. i have not copyrighted anything, cause let cats steal shi* from me. I dont care. ill make more. i probally will later on down the road but for now i sell my beats for like $75 to $100 just based on how long i been doin this for.

http://www.copyright.gov/

Peace

^^^^yeah.

all you have to do is print off the forms....I think its called "sound record form" fill it out, write a check for $30(should still be the price), and mail the shit out.

I don't know if UK copyright law is very different from US law, but over here if you have created something you have immediate copyright. You don't have to pay to have copyright on your work but I'm sure there are organisations like bingerO & cyrus are describing which help prove you have copyright if a dispute ever arises.

Another way to do this is put a CD or tape of your tracks in a sealed envelope. Take it to the post office & ask them to stamp the date over the seal. If you then send it to yourself you will get a few more dated postmarks on it. Once it arrives, store it safely but don't open it.

At a basic level, write the copyright sign, your name & the year on everything that contains your work.