Find a beat artist. You can find beat artists online through beat-selling sites and music forums.
Find a recording engineer. If the recording engineer is you, then you will need to get some equipment to lay down your audio. Use free programs such as demo versions of FruityLoops or Ableton or the free audio recorder Audacity to make your beats at home. If you are willing to fork over some considerable cash for a professional program, many audio professionals use Reason to make beats and Pro Tools to record sounds to use in the beats. For most people, freeware like Audacity is sufficient to get a good song laid down.
Name your project. Choose something short, appropriate and easy to remember. If you're stuck, try pulling words out of a hat or choosing words from a book you like at random to inspire name ideas.
Get copyrighted. If you are interested in producing beats, that means that you want them to make some money. The best way to protect the financial investment you've made in the beat is to get it copyrighted.
Promote your beat. The Internet offers a wide variety of easy and fun promotional tools that are low or no cost. You can start your own website, but some artists and producers opt for a simple MySpace or Facebook page. If you would rather use a more artsy approach than popular social networking, free artist promotion websites are all over the internet. To get your beat on the radio, send it to some radio stations and get all of your friends to call or email them and ask them to play it. Local radio stations are your best bet to start. Find a podcast or videocast that broadcasts to an appropriate audience and ask them to review your beat.
Sell your beat. A wide variety of online companies will happily host your complete beat for sale or revenue share. Upload your beat on a few beat sales websites and see what happens. Most sales sites take a cut of the commission, but some offer pay services that allow you to work commission free, which can be beneficial if your sales are high enough (see Resources).