This is the #1 question I get from producers. It is def a good question, and an even more simple one to answer.
The answer is – Both. But here is a technique – Use Soundclick as a traffic generator for your own site. Treat Soundclick pretty much as google listings for artists looking to download or buy beats. So now you are thinking like a business man. You see, your own website is exactly that, you can put up anything you want, there are now guidelines for putting up sample beats, you don’t have to have any advertisement banners anywhere,, it is completely yours. So you are free to market your beats however you like. Soundclick will have those limitations, which is why it is best to use a site like that for getting traffic, then once they come to your website, you can showcase your catalog. Because let’s face it, having your page on Soundclick is like having a store in a crowded shopping mall, there are tons of other producer pages up selling the exact same thing you are, and they are just a click away. Now when you take those visitors from Soundclick out of that shopping mall and bring them to your very own website, they are no longer a click away from visiting another beat page,, they are completely tuned in to what you have to offer. Your conversion rates will increase indefinitely when you do this.
Now don’t get me wrong, Soundclick is a still a profitable site. I made over $2,000 my first month selling beats online, and the only thing I had was a Soundclick page. But the thing is, as a business man, I knew that it was not a good idea to just keep all of my eggs in one basket – that basket being Soundclick. Because, what if one day the site gets shut down? Then what? So that is why you should have your own domain, and website, so that you do not have to rely on a third party beat site.
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