When you’re submitting files to AudioJungle, take your time and think each element of your submission through.

If a buyer was looking for an audio file like yours, what would they look for? Does your description provide any compelling reason to listen to your file?

A file with a title like “song” or a scant description isn’t going to do well, and the reviewers aren’t going to spend their precious time coming up with new ways to help you market your work just because you didn’t. Spend time thinking about how your file needs to look to viewers to turn them into buyers.

Don’t submit carelessly. Your goal here is to make some money from your music, so put some effort into the submission itself and remember that people read before they listen.

In last week’s quick tip we talked about the importance of simply promoting your portfolio page to sell more audio stock. It doesn’t matter how you get started, so long as you get out there and get people clicking your portfolio link.

But promotion is a fine art, and the simplest and most effective way to increase the effectiveness of even the most basic promotions is to know your target market and sell to them. Selling microstock to a road engineer isn’t likely to work. Sell microstock to those who actually need it: electro musicians who need samples, corporate multimedia types and podcasters who need jingles, and so on.

Take a look at your portfolio and ask yourself, realistically, who would want to buy your audio and for what purposes. Then you know who to target your titles, copy and promotional efforts towards.

Having trouble getting anyone to buy your audio files? Perhaps you just want to sell a few more than you have been for a little more pocket money. For most AudioJungle authors with flatlining sales figures, the solution is simply to start promoting your portfolio. If you do nothing but upload your files and sit back and wait for the money to pour in, nothing will happen, yet the failure to promote is the most common reason that new AudioJungle authors don’t sell any audio.

Become active in the forums, leave comments on the blog and let visitors to your own website know about your AudioJungle portfolio. The more visitors checking out your portfolio page, the more likely your sales will increase. There’s a fine art to marketing and promotion, but the first step is to simply get your name, and your link, out there.