So You Want to Start a DVD Duplication Service, Huh?

November 16, 2009 by  

Why would someone want to do business in CD duplication? After all, everything is moving to iPods and smartphones, right? Think again. Most music is still listened to on a good old CD. So if you thought CDs were on their way out, do not count on it just yet. But are not

DVD duplication just for folks who need thousands of discs…I ca not handle that many CDs! Not necessarily. In fact, the big companies often focus on mass production often at a fairly high cost. That leaves the door open for you. I mean sure, you may not make a million dollars a year, but you can bring home a respectable profit if you work at it.

 

Software vendors, music artists, and companies who need to secure their data all need a place to turn to for CD duplication needs. It is time for you to be that person. You may already have most of the equipment necessary for production. First, you will need CDs (no kidding, heh). Next, you will need a computer (either a desktop or a laptop should do the trick) that comes with CD burning capabilites. Third, you will need the software to actually burn CDs. Finally, you will need the most important thing…the customers, silly! Even if you do not have the equipment, it iss not hard to obtain. Most computer companies and general merchandise outlets (Sears, Wal Mart, etc.) offer computers and software of all sorts. And the cost is not out of this world, either.

 

Now, back to those customers…who should you go after. Find out what local bands are in the area. Where? Check MySpace or Facebook. If you are attending school or college (or have a friend or relative who is), ask around there. Bands are looking for someone quick and easy to get their music mass produced. They maybe can not afford a professional company, but you might be just what they are looking for. Another target is a small business. You would think someone in the company would handle it, would not you? But you would be surprised at the number of companies who do not have the time or computer knowledge to handle their own data backup. Usually when that is the case, they simply decide to do without the backup. As we both know, that is a bad idea!

 

My suggestion is to go online and see what the big wigs charge, then use that as a template to figuring out how much you will want to charge. If you set a sensible price, nice turnaround time, and superior disks, you will not only have customers coming back, word of mouth will really get you jump started. So if you are interested in starting your own

DVD replication services , now is the time!

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23 Responses to “So You Want to Start a DVD Duplication Service, Huh?”

  1. tano sanusanusa on May 7th, 2010 5:52 am
  2. cum ghan on May 11th, 2010 8:04 am

    there was a few advertising in the Computer Trader Newspaper. See if you can get your hands on a copy. I think they may have just stopped printing this newspaper so be quick!

  3. camille on May 13th, 2010 5:13 pm

    Smartphones tend to do more than the regular average phone. On a smartphone it makes email and web surfing easier. The phone is better designed and more stylish. They can read certain documents such as word or spreadsheet.

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  7. Rajgopal on July 5th, 2010 1:06 am

    Dear Pinal,

    Recently, i came to know about your blog. Lot of information gathered by me going through your site. Awsome!!!!.

    I need to know more about cluster services and replication services offered by SQL 2005. Effective use of both, advantages and disadvantages.

    Thanks and regards

    Rajgopal

  8. Tech_Recruiter on July 17th, 2010 9:43 pm

    thank goodness for HA datacentres, hosted services and hot-hot replication :) Most run a 4hr, 24hr and 72hr window for services

  9. whitelassiblog on August 8th, 2010 6:19 am

    Nice introduction. However, one has to make sure that the nodes of the cluster are named identically. Otherwise, they might not form a cluster. From the command line, we can give the -g switch to specify the cluster.

    Interestingly, in JBOSS 5, they have removed the farming service from JBOSS, which was helpful in replication of services across the cluster. Dont know whether they have come up with an alternative or not !

    aayush

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  13. Erik on November 13th, 2010 10:41 am

    Hi Barry,

    I really like the fact that you seem to heavily rely on open source software.

    Whenever I'm hoping to establish a new service, I try to base them on open source software. However I've found it hard to find any good realtime file replication services for Linux.

    Would you mind telling how you guys handle it? I assume you do file replication between the datacenters.

    regards,
    Erik

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  18. Rajgopal on May 16th, 2011 9:56 am

    Dear Pinal,

    Recently, i came to know about your blog. Lot of information gathered by me going through your site. Awsome!!!!.

    I need to know more about cluster services and replication services offered by SQL 2005. Effective use of both, advantages and disadvantages.

    Thanks and regards

    Rajgopal

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