Thanks. I’m by no means the only one who found out that corporate tracks sells well, but I have not gone into so much detail about how to make a corporate track that sells. And its always nice to see a new blog about selling royalty free music online 🙂

http://www.sellingmymusiconline.com/2014/01/06/how-to-write-a-corporate-motivational-track-that-sells/

“How to write a corporate track that sells”

i also belong to film music network and taxi and have had some interest in my music from some of their clients. recently a client heard one of my songs via film music network and wants to use it for a corporate video from kaiser healthcare out in san francisco. it only pays $150 but it’s a little step in the right direction!

Every time someone buys one of my tracks it makes me happy. Instead of making music for myself someone actually appreciate it enough to pay money for it. And another bonus is that many more people will listen to the music and hopefully like it too.

Also I find it interesting to start businesses and combining that with my passion of composing music is just a great combo for me.

You sure can make a reasonable living from making music. I have no training in making the compositions I do and they sell pretty well. If I were more persisting in making new tracks I’m sure that I could make a living from selling royalty free music – within a reasonable time frame.

Running a business can also be about fun and passion – you just have to find the right concept and hire others do the work you don’t want to or are not good at yourself.

Is it easy to make a living from our music? Absolutely not, but it can definitely be done I have no doubt about it. Others have done it so why not you?

A battle uphill and finally making it into a full time living makes it even more fulfilling to succeed.

Thanks for commenting and welcome to the blog. 😀

I think the idea of having a long-term career in the music industry is a pipe dream. We can make music for fun and continue at our respective day jobs to pay the bills.

Music should be about fun and passion, never about work and business.

When it comes to corporate music, I don’t agree with you that the market is overcrowded. There is a lot of corporate music available, but not much of it is well produced. If a composer was to specialize in composing high quality corporate music I’m sure he would become successful at the stock music libraries.

About creating music in other genres is of cause also a good idea. This way we can find niches where there’s is high demand, but little music available – then compose more music for the niche and test if it holds.

Like you I am also surprised when a get a sale for music I never thought would sell. A sale of a cooperate track is no surprise to me, but in other genres it sure can be 🙂

Right now I’m in process of uploading some piano music I made 10 years ago. Like you say – uploading everything we have rocks!

maybe it is worth to have also a look at niche categories.

on audiojungle I uploaded tracks that i made years ago just for fun and just to “record something”.
such as these ones:

http://audiojungle.net/item/covered-spy-games/4351142?sso
just a sketch for a person who asekd me for a track for a platform game. it never contacted me again…

http://audiojungle.net/item/ceremonial-tribal-percussion-/3290885?sso
an experiment made with different kinds of percussion i have at home. not originally tailored for royalty free markets…

http://audiojungle.net/item/tuaregs-dilemma/2779322?sso
an experiment with a Saz. this one was entirely recorded using a Saz bought in turkey and a zoom h4n in multitrack mode (almost everything was one-shot-recorded, i did not even turned on Sonar to record this…). i never thought someone could buy it! 🙂

that actually sold (a few $ but someone was interested… and i was surprised in actually selling them!)
so even niche markets can have a role here…
my other suggestion could be: upload everything you have or you record! 🙂

Yes I get your point. It’s unclear that the article should be seen in reference to libraries like Luckstock, Audio Jungle, Pond5, Revostock etc..

At libraries that are focusing on pitching the music for broadcast (TV, movies) the music sold will be more varied. Here the musician will also be getting more money from broadcast royalties.

But getting accepted in these libraries are probably harder and as you mention you need a lot of music.

Thanks for your in-depth comment!