A Quick Guide to What Sells (In Music, or Otherwise)

Great products or services that sell: 

 

• Connect emotionally

 

• Are simple enough in concept to grasp immediately

 

• Are remarkable enough to be shared

 

• Are easy to share and describe

 

• Are radical enough to exclude some people

 

 

Products or services that don’t sell usually: 

 

Are overly complicated

 

• Require a huge buy-in immediately, without the customer knowing enough to commit

 

• Are about the seller, not the customer

 

• Aren’t remarkable enough to spread

 

• Don’t have a clear goal

 

 

When you’re creating something, start with product and create something remarkable. No amount of marketing is going to sell something that doesn’t fit enough into the first category.