142. How To Make Money Selling Music Online & At Live Shows Without Being “Sales-y”

Don’t feel shy, uncomfortable or even pushy about selling your music. Offering items for sale gives your audience a way to support you and thank you.

Struggling with how to make money selling music online? No one wants to feel like they are being sleazy or tacky when asking for sales. Today, I will share some tactics you can utilize during live performances and online. Your audience wants to thank you for the experience you have created so don’t rob your audience of supporting you.

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How to make money selling music online

How do we market correctly?

Show, don’t tell

Educate your audience

Announce it MULTIPLE times during a live or online show

Assume they want to buy in your announcement

Sales becomes a call to action to get something they already want

This podcast opens the door for a series where I will be doing on promoting and selling music iun a more practical sense. If you are struggling with how to make money selling music online, you’ll find lots of useful information to put into practice in your own music business.

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ABOUT HOST BREE NOBLE

Bree Noble is an entrepreneur, musician and speaker. She founded Women of Substance Radio, an online radio station that promotes quality female artists in all genres, in 2007.  She launched the Women of Substance Music Podcast in November 2014, a 5 day per week show which promotes Independent female artists. Her podcast has hit #1 in New & Noteworthy for the Music, Arts and Society & Culture categories and #4 Audio Podcast on all of iTunes. She draws on her extensive experience running her own music business, both as a solo musician and as an Industry professional, to train and mentor other female musicians. Learn more about the station, the show and the artists atwww.wosradio.com. Connect with Bree on Twitter @BreeNoble or on Facebook or on Instagram @breenoblemusic