Now that you have earnt some money perhaps you could buy one of my tracks? No wait you would have to sell that special track 57.35 times.
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That would be another way to rank up, good idea. The non elements members buy the tracks from each other 
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Personally Iāve done alright selling corporate and cinematic here on AJ. Iām sure some buyers have been siphoned off by Elements but I can still make sales in corporate and cinematic. And I donāt price dump these tracks either, most corporate for me is between $15-20 and some of the cinematic is higher than that.
I get what youāre saying about stuff thatās new and fresh but my unique tracks donāt really outsell the cookie cutter onesā¦ if anything, the cheesier I make it, the better it sells. My two top selling items are both logos that took me probably 15 minutes each to make.
I admit I donāt have much perspective on all of this though. Iāve only been here since December so I donāt remember the āglory daysā where people were actually making a full income on this site. I never expected that personally, my goal was somewhere between $500 and $1000 per month as extra income. Havenāt made that mark yet but Iāve done much better here than on any other site.
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Despite the beginning of the discount sale week on envato still no sales 
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The same situation, even despite my tunes are on 40%off sale campaignš¢
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Same here, no sales in 23 days, which have never happened before.
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I got a surprise sale over the weekend, which raises my tally for this month to an awe-inspiring 2 (TWO) sales. If I get a third sale before the month is over, color me impressed.
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A Miracle in 2021 just occurred
Happy Ukelele (Music Broadcast & Film License)]
Invoice: $835.00
thank God for production companies in LA with money to spend! Now everyoneā¦please, please dump your prices to $3, In fact Iād lower the Broadcast License and Film to $13! You see, no one has any money for music these days. Panic, fire sale! Lower your prices! Hurry! ( I AM BEING Very Sarcastic here)
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what does it mean to reset prices?
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@SteelSound: I donāt understand!?? Your standard license price for this item is 39!?? What do you want to try to tell usā¦??
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@SteelSound i guess, your words need a lot of explanation. I was reading your post now 4 times - I donāt understand anything.
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Does that mean, that the called price for a Happy Ukulele Broadcast & Film license was serioulsly meant? $835 for an Ukulele song??? I would not have dared to even quote this price during upload.
Heās being sarcastic
I think heās making a sarcastic point that everyone feels like they have to price dump, but in his case he just made an $835 sale so that means you can still make sales without price dumping.
That said Iām not sure the correct strategy is just to set prices at $800 and hope that one day some mega studio will stumble across your track and buy it. Especially if itās a happy ukulele song which might be the single most saturated style on the entire site. Not taking anything away from Steel Sound but a sale like that is kind of like winning the lottery, just because you win doesnāt justify playing the lottery as a good idea for everyone
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Yes, I sold a Broadcast license today ( a silly happy Ukelele tune) to an LA Production company for $899. So this is something to celebrate on audio jungle! This also means that people still do respect our work, and some are willing to do the right thing and pay that Broadcast License fee we ask for.
If only ENVATO would display all 5 license tiers in PLANE VISIBLE SITE. I think all of us would sell a lot more of these broadcast licenses. So please everyone stop the insane $5 madness and respect your work.
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Correct, there is some sarcasm here, but this did in fact happen to a saturated style. The point IS, YES, we do not need to price dump!!!
.** I do not agree with you at all either about winning a lottery. If Envato clearly displayed the prices of ALL 5 license tiers, add9audio, (no menu clicking to see the other prices) we all would sell a lot more licenses for higher prices. My theory is āout of sight, out of mindā .
What do customers see the most?
$5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5
SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE ON SALE
CHEAPER CHEAPER, SAVE SAVE, SAVE SAVE
GO UNLIMITED FOR $16.50 a month
Composers though LOVE to shoot themselves in the foot and lower prices when the customers are just laughing and laughing at everyone for devaluing themselves to ādog shatā in the sewer, worthless slave laborers who can not even respect themselves.
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I kind of see where youāre coming from, but are you suggesting that if buyers saw the $899 price tag they would be more likely to buy it? I highly doubt that. In fact if buyers were able to easily compare the broadcast license cost for your ukulele track vs. all the others, I doubt you would have made that sale at all.
but are you suggesting that if buyers saw the $899 price tag they would be more likely to buy it?
Yes, That is EXACTLY what I am saying. If customers did not have to click on the pricing menu and actually saw all 5 tiers
$39
$199
$399
$599
$899
They would buy tiers 2 through 5 a lot more than youād think. i really do believe that.
Prices out of site, Prices out of mind.
This is not the first time I sold a license for that high either on AJ. I have gotten $999 two times before.
I was going to keep this next story to myself but I may as well share it. I recently had a production company in Israel write to me about licensing a tune for my $899 rate. This financial services firm, a crypto and stock broker āFinancial Technologyā firm wanted to make sure there was no aggravation or risk whatsoever with the license, so they e-mailed me privately to ask āIs this REALLY your song? and if so, my client needs you to guarantee that you own all the rights and we actually prefer to deal directly with you and have you issue the license so we feel comfortable using the music on a global ad campaign.ā
I was absolutely shocked! Enterprise clients STILL do not fully trust Enavtoās policies about music copyrights.
Why?
ā¦because all customers see is
$5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5$5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5 $5
SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE ON SALE
CHEAPER CHEAPER, SAVE SAVE, SAVE SAVE
It simply cheapens everything. It does not build trust from Enterprise clients with Big money. This company by the way, is traded on NASDAQ. So there you have itā¦Enterprise clients perception is that AJ is nothing more than a cheap stock site, race to the bottom piece of shet, that can not be trustedā¦and they KNOW that there is a lot of stolen music and "copiedā music getting sold on here.
It is so sad because over the years we gave ENVATO so many wonderful ideas as to how they can appeal to BIG MONEY clients, but they never listened. In fact, they did the exact opposite, they lowered prices and promoted lower prices. Every idea we offered was greeted with getting spit on, in the face, then kicked in the head, every time!
The $835 earned is going to be far more earned than those $5 āpopular tunesā getting sold 30 to 40 times a week. Those authors will earnā¦what?..$50 selling 30 or 50 units at $5? Envato books $250 in revenueā¦well whoopeee doo! I know I can not get excited about those numbers. However, these authors get all the praise and are constantly rewarded with front page promotion on the site because they made $50 selling 40 units at $5ā¦? Sorry, but this is not impressive!
That policy just sickens me too. Itās another kick to the head, and a shove into the sewer.
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Congratulations on the sale. Itās true, there is still a market for big licensing deals. There are numerous indie publishers making good deals still besides the royalty free market.
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Well said, David.
Since Iām already here which is rare these days, Iāll say this:
The clients always trust the more expensive products. If they see a $5 tag everywhere (which AJ now actually has become - a dollar store) the BIG clients will be suspicious. Heck, any client will to a degree. Add to this some stolen music and music with copyright issues, add to this an already and still pretty confusing licensing terms table - and say bye bye to a customer. Many places to get music for cheap (even for free), faster and hassle free now. And so the ābigā deals go there too.
Whatās even funnier (not really, honestly) that not only it is destroying the market for literally everyone, but guys who do it actually earn nothing too. Itās kinda sad and pathetic too. Trying to get lucky selling 50 times and then earn $50? I mean you can do that with 1-2 salesā¦ not very exciting and I donāt understand any logic behind it.
Envato is not punishing this behaviour (actually rewarding it) because itās financially a smart move for the company, I get it. Not so good for the most authors. And even worse for everyone in the long run. It will not end well.
Before some of you may want to start blaming the Elements authors, think for a second. It is a natural progression of where the entire industry is going, you canāt fight it. And not everyone can be included on board. But understand that Elements is almost entirely driven by Envatoās decisions and the future of AudioJungle and your earnings here is still very much in each authors hands. Even too much I guess, as the ADP experiment pretty much has failed in general. But only you can decide as an author what the future will be for AJ.
Being here for quite a while now I remember the old sayings around these forums, that being an AJ author is a marathon not a sprint. Well it looks things quite have changed since then. Everyone is chasing a quick dollar now it looks.
Thoughts?
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