So You Want to Start a CD Replication Service, Huh?
October 17, 2009 by Dunkin
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 services 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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How To Choose A CD DVD Replication Service
As someone who had worked in the industry, I'll explain.
There are two ways to make CDs, depending on the volume.
If the volume is low, like a couple hundred, what's usually done is they'll just do them on regular CD-R's, but give you the fancy silk-screen printing on it so it'll look almost as good as the "real thing". They have machines that'll do like 10 copies or more at the same time. A tech just loads CD's and wait for a few minutes. In fact, they even have "autoloaders" with robot arms that'll do it automatically. However, CD-R media cost cost more than actually duplicating CDs (see below), and the cost just go up, no economy of scale. To them, to 10 is about the same as do 100, just different amount of time involved. Per disk cost is higher, but almost no setup fee (packaging is extra).
If the volume is high, they'll do it the real way: they'll take your "master", and create a "gold master" from it, which means they will actually use the grooves in the media and create a STAMP. Then the subsequent CD's are punched, really, then lacquered and stuff so it looks like the CD you see in stores (also goes through packaging and all that) The initial setup fee is higher, as the master costs a couple hundred to make, but subsequent disk costs are lower (not counting packaging, jewelcase, inserts, and so on.
So, initially the CD-R method is cheaper… Then there's a cross-over point after which doing the master/stamping way is cheaper.
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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