How to Start a Mobile Ringtone Business
A cell phone ringtone allows you to show off your personality. Your cell phone says who you are as a person, whether by the design of your mobile background the type phone you carry, or your ringtone. Each ringtone has its own personal touch. Starting a ringtone business from your home offers a potentially profitable way to earn a living. The ringtone business, once thought of as a fad, took in $500 million in the U.S. in 2009, according to Business Week.
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Know the types of ringtones to offer to your consumers. Many music sites list the most popular. Research to find or create different varieties and genres of ringtones. Use care when creating music ringtones from recording artist, you don't want to get sued over legal rights. As an alternative make ringtones of popular known songs such as holiday and patriotic tunes, TV shows and movie themed songs. Be creative. You can even play your own instruments and create your own unique ringtones with your own special style. Keep your ringtone in organized files and folders showing the different categories and genre each mobile ringtone falls into. This helps when clients start navigating your site to make purchases.
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Produce and edit songs into ringtones. Once you've produced various songs, edit them into ringtones using your music or ringtone editing software. Most ringtones are anywhere from 10 to 20 seconds in length. Use the most recognizable part of the song--a clip from the beginning, middle or end.
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Decide on the prices you want to charge for your ringtones. Prior to launch, set prices on how much you want to charge for each individual ringtone, as well as setting bundle rates, where customers can buy more mobile ringtones at one time for a fixed price, recommends Russell Dean Vines, author of "Composing Digital Music for Dummies."
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Find a hosting site to begin marketing your ringtone business. Your website needs ringtones to download directly to your client's cell phone. Popular sites like Yahoo.com offer domains and Internet tools to assist you in getting your business off to a good start. They offer online storage for your organized ringtone files and folders, as well as payment methods so your customers can pay for their ringtone merchandise online.
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Advertise your mobile ringtone business. You can do this through popular social networking and cell phone forum sites or other Internet resources such as music forums, suggests Tad Lathrop, author of "This Business of Global Music Marketing."
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