All BeatStars "Marketing and Business Tips"

An Electronic Press Kit, or EPK, is one of the most important pieces of promotional material you can make for your music. Learn what an Electronic Press Kit is, what goes into it, and why you need one as a musician.

While you may be riding solo when it comes to managing your music business, it’s important to remember that you don’t have to make your moves alone. Here's 10 of our favorite recommended tools that you should be using to manage your beat business.

We’re ready to see your music career thrive even more in 2022, which is why we’re laying down our five essential ways to set up your music business as we enter into 2022.

Beat ID revolutionizes how you protect your intellectual property and is an easy path to Copyright management, monetization, and collaboration.

Keep our marketing tips and advice in mind as you go about making (or revising!) your beat selling marketing plan for 2021.

Too many producers out there are on one side of the coin: either they release music frequently or they rarely release anything. Within those groups of producers, some release music randomly and some are very strategic with what they choose to release and when. Which one of these types of producers do you think is doing things the right way?

Surprisingly, not everyone on BeatStars uses Stripe for accepting payments. This may be due to the fact that producers think a PayPal is sufficient, or it may be because producers already have a PayPal account and don’t want to be bothered with setting up another account with this other service. Even still, it could be that producers are unaware of what Stripe is and its benefits to customers.

With our SoundCloud Monetization program, users can earn revenue from actual monetized plays generated within their personal SoundCloud account. When you generate actual monetized plays, you are paid-out directly for each payout period once we receive statements from SoundCloud (see general info below).

This checklist will get you headed in the right direction, and for even more tips, check out our Ultimate Guide To Selling Beats On BeatStars.