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And if you have a free account with tunesat, those promos can max out your 50 detections per month in a few days. I had a non-paying promo run every15 minutes for three months. It cost me all my tunesat detections.
I guess you get what you pay for 🙂Bump
But Chuck, how do you know if don’t try. It took me 3 years of blind submissions to find the RF library that has become my best money maker by far.
Yes, like most I have invested many hours uploading and tagging tracks to libraries that have sold nothing and even gone out of business. There are many more that only sell a handful of tracks or TV placements a year. I stopped submitting to most of those, but I continue to submit new tracks to the ones that have the potential for an occasional decent payout. I think of them as my “scratch off lottery tickets” and they contribute to my bottom line.I do not search out new libraries to submit to anymore unless there is a great deal if positive chatter on MLR.
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Have you done everything you can to streamline youer submission process to it is fast and efficient? I go through a process after I finish a track that includes making alt. mixes and a word doc that has all the info I could ever need for that track including tags, tempo, instruments etc. This makes submissions much faster because I just copy/paste needed info.Bump
My experience was very similar Chuck. I had exponential growth for my 1st 5 years or so. I’m starting to show signs of leveling off now (into my 7th year). However, I am now getting 1-3 large sync fees per year. That combined with a larger library still has me at 10%-20% annual growth. I expect that will end soon though.
Search out my post “5 year report” I did a couple of years ago if you haven’t seen it.Same experience here. Less than 25 and $0 but at least I feel certain they will earn some RF dollars once I get them up. I do make a lot more on back end than RF though.
Art, you still haven’t posted them on the RF sites? Ha, that’s funny. I dragged my feet too. The tagging, argh. I still haven’t gotten all 25 done. Many need some tweaking now that I have a few more years of experience.
@Jerry
Unfortunately, I’m not good enough to get in to the “major” exclusive libraries … yet. Maybe somedayI recently had 25 tracks released from an exclusive library (actually converted to non-Ex). They earned me less than $200 in back end an no sync fees in five years.
I put them in a couple of RF libraries a few months ago and they immediately started selling and have already surpassed the exclusive income I made with them.I still do some exclusive stuff if I get a call for music that is “in my wheelhouse” and I can knock it out quickly. I hope to do a “heavy” time intensive track or 2 this year and submit it exclusively to see how it does.
I still have never gotten a sync fee for an exclusive track, just cable network back end. Most of my placements are still non-ex, but that takes time to see results.
I still make more from RF that back end so non-ex it my preference.
Please don’t delete it Art. I wrote three awesome tracks in the time it took Mr. Baker to write that, 🙂
Honestly, it was an enjoyable read Mr Baker. English major?
CheersI have dozens of those Jay. One is even listed in both Series and Non-Series. I’m waiting to get double the royalties for them, but it hasn’t happened yet. 😉
I assume its just a clerical error. There’s no shortage of thos with ASCAP