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Jul 19, 2005, 9:50 AM
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Re: [Jordan] Help With Business Ideas!!
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Instructional DVDs can be a moneymaker. Here are a couple of things to think about:
- If you expect a long life for your product, and a large market, your DVDs should be replicated, not duplicated DVD-R discs. This is a much more expensive process, but replicated DVDs can be copy-protected. Duplicated discs can be copied by anyone with a PC and a DVD burner.
- Products that have a shorter lifespan or a limited market are probably not cost-effective to replicate.
- If your market is uncertain, Netflix or one of the other on-demand fulfillment services may be the way to go, so you don't have a large investment in stock sitting around.
- If you can't come up with ideas on your own, sell the idea of an instructional DVD to clients who DO have special expertise and a potential audience. Jon Cooksey (http://www.elitevideo.com) sells a program of this sort that he calls "Subsidy Video Publishing".
- Besides instructional videos, there are many more ways for the wedding videographer to branch out:
-Recitals
-Dance, bodybuilding, or martial arts contests
-Video Biographies
-Photo montages
-film transfers
-video transfers from tape to DVD
-Family reunions
-school plays
-school sporting events
-graduations
Regards,
Doug Graham
Panda Productions
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