how much do you average per month (this year) ?

Soundprodukt 24 Oct 2014 12:34
About 250 USD
LivingroomClassics 24 Oct 2014 15:39
Soundprodukt: were you featured also? and did you find out that time somehow brought you more sales? i mean, did the accumulation of views brought sales which in turn brought eve more sales? or to what would you attribute your success?
Soundprodukt 25 Oct 2014 12:13
As far as I know I have not been featured. I would have been notified in that case, right? I don't do any kind of promotion, so all the views come from P5 I guess.
Sales started slowly in 2012. That's when I started to grow my portfolio. From May 2013 my income is more or less stable, but it's mostly generated by few tracks.
LivingroomClassics 25 Oct 2014 20:14
interesting.
ErickMcNerney 27 Oct 2014 02:46
My average has been about 35$ a month this year so far, but the first several months of the year I had nothing. Most of my revenue and sales have come from the last few moths, where I have averaged about 80-90$ a month.
LivingroomClassics 27 Oct 2014 07:37
you're a regular uploader i see. pretty involved i mean.
(i presume u did upload to ptrax and other sites too, not just p5)
ErickMcNerney 27 Oct 2014 07:53
You are right :) I have no sales on Ptrax, Luckstock or AudioSparx though (some on Audio Jungle though).
but I am just including my sales from P5 in the forums.
LivingroomClassics 27 Oct 2014 12:11
luckstock brought me only 18 bucks in almost an year.
cant even withdraw, it has to be 20 to be able to.

on ptrax u only have 12 tracks, put all you have on p5 on ptrax too, incl effects.

also, i see that, at least on ptrax, u didnt use all the available tags.
i think you can put in about 35, but u have clips going with just 8 tags or so.

also, u could try "beatorchard", "musicrevolution", "revostock", "soundcheque", "themusicase", "tunefruit" and "tunesociety".

i think u do know that on audiosparx the tracks u've uploaded u wownt ever be able to remove.
they are forever on their servers and u can never take them down. thatz y i didnt want to go there (presuming they wouldnt have rejected my anyways)

on aj the system is very flawed, in my opinion, it promotes only a handful of contributors that end up making 90% of the site's sales, at the expense of the rest of 80-90% contributors making only the rest of 10%. it's extremely unfair, i find... no chance of equality or such.

knowing audiosparx are so strict i expected they would get regular sales for contributors, how come u dont have any?

it might sound weird, but try going with 40 (maybe even 50) bucks for full trax on ptrax, see how that works for a month or so.

also, split ur trax, make edits where you can - crop some loops from the full lengths, and intros also (where u are able).
do sell them as different entries (but name them accordingly to the orignial clip) - dont include them in the same clip page (for example on p5, make different uploads for each edit - they come up better in searches).

making those edits (loops, intros) u'll end up with some 600 clips perhaps here on p5 (and on ptrax etc). that will probably double your income. but dont upload them all in one day. keep them going regularly, not in bulk.
LivingroomClassics 27 Oct 2014 12:20
oh and also, i see you have clips like this one:
http://www.pond5.com/stock-music/36380537/surprise-piano-3.html

(and a lot more, as far as i checked) that are heavily massively underpriced.

i wouldnt sell that particular clip for less than 20 bucks.

ur not gonna make a lot with 5 bucks for such clips, and the clients
im not sure appreciate a clip that is only 5 bucks (maybe a negative psychological effect
telling them it's too cheap so something is wrong with it?), and of course, you
are hurting the market, and the rest of us trying to make the buck....

seriously, u need to pronto change those prices.
make any music you have at least 15 bucks.

the price that music sells best on p5 is said to be $23 (by p5, in the edit clip page).
the recommended price for any piece of music (so, no sfx) is $15 (as in, if you let them
price it for you). 5 is just extremely too low and too damaging to the market. i really doubt
you will get sales like that.

i experimented with prices and at one point i sold a clip even for $90 (on p5) and on $70.

dude, drop the 5 dollars price for music :D
LivingroomClassics 27 Oct 2014 12:21
and clips like this:
http://www.pond5.com/stock-music/40911728/new-door-opens-ident.html

can absolutely be sold for $15.
dont underestimate it.
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