As I near the end of my first video production, a 2 year process by the way, I am starting to turn my eye to how am I going to sell it. My production is an hour long nature slideshow DVD with music and narration. I don't expect to get rich but a hundred copies a year would be what I considered bare minimum success.
I have been testing the ebay method out and I am still not sure about it - seems like bargain buyers want crap worth $1 rather than some like like my production which I can't imagine selling for under $10 bucks. The CustomFlix site also might have some potential but it seems like a lot of profit would be gone if they handle it. Now they have affliate programs where you get advertised in a bunch of places which might help. Putting up a randowm website hoping for people to find it and order it seems like a stretch. There are a number of tourist shops that I have targeted but this is maybe 50 places or so - once I send them a copy and determine interest that avenue will be gone.
That was the extent of my marketing until I watched The Apprentice and saw those girls selling totally unwanted and useless stuff to people on the street. We have all seen this tactic before - thats how they sell beer and a whole lot of other things. After this, I have just about come to the conclusion paying some pretty gal $50 to sit under an umbrella at a tourist destination would do more than all my other ideas combined.
I have been testing the ebay method out and I am still not sure about it - seems like bargain buyers want crap worth $1 rather than some like like my production which I can't imagine selling for under $10 bucks. The CustomFlix site also might have some potential but it seems like a lot of profit would be gone if they handle it. Now they have affliate programs where you get advertised in a bunch of places which might help. Putting up a randowm website hoping for people to find it and order it seems like a stretch. There are a number of tourist shops that I have targeted but this is maybe 50 places or so - once I send them a copy and determine interest that avenue will be gone.
That was the extent of my marketing until I watched The Apprentice and saw those girls selling totally unwanted and useless stuff to people on the street. We have all seen this tactic before - thats how they sell beer and a whole lot of other things. After this, I have just about come to the conclusion paying some pretty gal $50 to sit under an umbrella at a tourist destination would do more than all my other ideas combined.