This article is about to explain to you how you can create your own website like this one in few simple steps, with a very cheap investment, this article is made for music artists and music producers that want to learn how to create their own music /
beats selling website
.
Get a domain name and a hosting plan
The domain name is the address of your website, you may choose a domain name like: www.yourname.com or www.yourbandname.com, the price for a domain name is about $10 a year.
Hosting is a service that host your website on the internet, hosting plans costs about $4 a month. I reccomend using Hostgator to purchase a hosting and domain name. you can get them both in the same plan.
You can use the coupon code to get 25% off for your hosting and domain plan - hosti25OFF
Install 'Wordpress' on your domain name
WordPress
is a website builder, it is 100% free and is it the most common website builder nowadays. install wordpress on your domain name throw your hosting plan and select one of the themes in wordpress that is fits to your needs (this website is on a theme called 'The tweney eleven theme').
You can install plugins inside of wordpress to customize your website. one example for a plugin is a social media icons plugin, that is showing links to your YouTube / Facebook / Twitter / Linklend etc... at the right or left side of your website.
Another example for a plugin is a facebook comments plugin that you can add at the bottom of the pages in your website.
Embed videos from youtube and songs from soundcloud
If you want to have youtube videos on your website, go to the page of the video that you want to have, click on 'share', and then on 'embed'.
copy the code and paste it inside a page on your website. youtube lets you select the size that you want the video to be.
Soundcloud have a very similar process, simply go to the song that you want to embed, click on 'share' and then 'embed', and copy the code to your website.
Notice that you need to copy the code as an 'html' and not as 'text' inside the page of your website.
Sell your music via music player
If you are a music producer, ' My Flash Store ' is the best music player out there for you, you can sell your beats throw this player, and you have the option for instant delivery which is a big benefit for your customer and also for you. they are giving a free trial for up to 10 beats.
If you are a music artist, You have 2 very good options, The first is ' VibeNation ', they have a nice music player, and they are giving a free trial for up to 5 songs. the second one is ' Song Cast Music ', and you can sell your music on itunes with them also.
Create a mailing list
Collecting emails of the visitors that are coming to your website is critical, especially if you are a business. you should create a sign up form that people will subscribe to when they are visiting your website, you can give out something for free in exchange for their bae and email address. if you are a music producer, you can give out a free beat, if you are an artist, you can give out a new song, or anything else that worth value for your visitors.
This way you can keep in touch with them, send them emails for updates, etc.... In order to do this you need to register to an email marketring service. there are 2 services that are the best out there for email marketing today. the first one is called ' AWeber ', they are offering a $1 trial for the first month, the second one called ' Get Responce ' which are giving a free trial for the first month.
After the first month, these services costs around $15 to $20 per month, it is a must if you are selling products or offering services.
This method lets you send out email to all your subscribers in one time, it is legal and it takes minutes. you can also automate your emails with pre written emails.
This is how you can create a website like this from scratch.
If you have any questions about this you can
contact us
, we will try to help you the best we can.
