Yes, today I made my first sale. On February 2 my first royalty free tracks was available online and here 17 days later I made my first sale. $13.98 are now the balance in my account at pond5.
I only have 5 tracks online at pond5 at the moment and the track that was sold has been viewed only 6 times. I see it as a good sign that I was able to make a sale this fast.
One of the key elements in this game (as I see it) is to have a lot of material out there so the chances of someone finding your music is better. With only a few tracks online and no sales a person still found one of my tracks, liked it and hit the buy button.
Targeted users, number of views, quality music and good pricing equals sales
A part of my strategy is to get targeted users to listen to my music. I am not just interested in getting a lot of people to view my music. I want people to find what they are looking for. I Therefore try to optimize my titles and tags in the best possible way. I think my music has a decent quality and if I can get the pricing right as well I am convinced more sales will come.
To be able to experiment with pricing I need to have a lot of sales. Right now my pricing is only based upon my competitors prices. They are therefore in same price range. But in the future (if I get enough sales) I will definitely try to find that sweet spot between price and number of sales.
So what royalty free track made the first sale?
The track that was sold is the one I call A New Hope (kind of funny it has this title and made the first sale :-)). It is a track that has a corporate feeling to it but could also easily be used for other stuff. I made this track thinking that I could be used for a variety of things and maybe I was right. Only time and the number of sales will tell.
I am working at more tracks and some of them has been produced with the same mindset as “A New Hope”. With more music in production and a lot of related stuff going on I am even more convinced that I can make this project work.
Thank you for buying who ever you are 🙂
First sale feels reeeeally good, doesnt it. Congratulations. 🙂
Thank you very much. Yes it sure does feel really good 🙂 And the first sale came much sooner than I expected. It is also very nice to know that people want to use and appreciate the music we compose. Just had a listen to some of your stock music – great stuff 🙂
Thank you – funny, I just found out that I mixed you up with somebody from youtube. We got to know each other from YOUR vid about the TASCAM CV Piano and I thought it was actually HIM but he just favourited your vid. And also he never told me his real name. So for the last two months or so, we wrote about our favourite vst plugs and pianos and all the time I thought it was you I’m writing to, hahaha, ….that’s the Internet. 🙂
Anyway, thanks for having a listen to my portfolio, too.
Good luck to you and many sales.
PS: And thank YOU (!) for the TASCAM CV Tweak, was very helpful, although I’m using PianoOne from Soundmagic now, because CV Piano is too heavy on my CPU.
It’s funny that you wrote for that long before finding out 🙂 I’m glad you could use the CV Piano Virtual Grand Piano video.
Nice website, this is exactly what I’ve been doing. It’s great to know there are others out there doing the same thing. Keep up the good work, your posts are great!
Thank you for the encouragement. Yes I also like to know that others are doing the same. I hope you’re having success with your music and if you post a link I would love to have a listen. It sure is a great way to earn some extra cash doing what you love 🙂
Unfortunately I lost my daytime job so my primary focus is for now on other projects (affiliate marketing) that can make money in a shorter time-frame. Therefore not as much are happening here on the blog as I would like, but I can assure you that I will be posting about and working on new music stuff in the future.
Composing music and promoting it are much more fun and fulfilling than trying to sell other peoples products.