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CD DVD Duplication Replication – Effective Low Budget Marketing

Word of mouth is the best form of marketing. It creates trust. People often will pass up a better deal to work with someone they trust will do the job and do it well. One very effective way to accomplish all of this is doing mass marketing with your own DVD or CD.

You’re probably thinking this could be expensive. Well let me show you how this works. You can get yourself a cheap camcorder on Ebay. After you videotape yourself you can have it transferred for twenty dollars on to a DVD. You can then have one thousand mass copied for seventy eight cents each or less. I will show you the process.

Before I do let me explain something important. People will throw away an ad before looking at it. But people will have a hard time throwing away a CD or DVD before looking at it or listening to it. They will feel obligated to check it out. We grew up that way. We all feel that CDs and DVDs are expensive. You just don’t throw away a Disc!

Now this next part is interesting. Because they have now invited you into their home by listening or viewing your disc, you have seriously become a bit of a celebrity. It’s the way the mind works. By hearing your voice they will feel like they know you. If you keep your presentation within fifteen minutes and fill it with information about your service or what you do then they will be interested. Do not sell them on anything. Teach them.

Even if it is something they are not interested in they will remember you. When they are talking with someone who is interested or needs your service they will bring you up. This is how the mind works.

To produce your own DVD first get yourself a cheap camcorder. You can get cheap ones on Ebay. Put the device on a stand or get someone to hold it for you. Like I said before, keep it within fifteen minutes and don’t sell your audience. Teach them. Show them what you do and what you have to offer. Knowledge will sell. We are built to learn. It’s good for us. It’s interesting.

Then go online and do a search for “Video Transfer” in your area. On the left side you will see a list of people hungry for your business. Find someone who will transfer video for no more than twenty dollars. Next go online and do a search for DVD duplication in your area. If you go to the store and buy your own cheap DVDs you can find someone who will burn one hundred for you for one dollar each. If you want a thousand you don’t need to buy your own DVDs. They can mass replicate them with full color graphics on the face of the DVD for less than eighty cents each.

This is a great way to market yourself. People will know you. They won’t forget you and deep downside they will appreciate the information you have given them. It’s interesting how much we hold ourselves back from learning about things. Knowledge always gives us possibilities and opens new doors. All of our hopes and dreams are limited to only what we know. All our decisions are based on only what we know.

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DVD Duplication of Old Vhs Tapes

Do you still have old copies of VHS video tapes stacked on our home and office bookshelves collecting dust? If you are like me, you have a video player sitting disconnected underneath your DVD player.

If you are in the same boat, then you will be happy to know that the copying process of switching valuable content from VHS tapes over via DVD duplication is really quite easy. It’s a great way to preserve and also share your old tapes, whether personal or business related.

The process of converting to a DVD basically requires a VHS tape player, or a camcorder. Simply plug either the camcorder or the VHS tape player into your PC, as long as your computer has the ports for plugging in these devices in. You also need a minimum of 512 MB of RAM and a 2 GHz processor, plus about 20 GB of hard drive free space. Your computer also requires a CD-RW drive. You will also need a video editing software program.

There are several conversion options if you want to transfer VHS tapes to DVDs, and if produced properly, the DVDs can look even better than the original VHS tapes including formats such as VHS-C, SVHS, Hi8, regular, as well as Betas. Here are a few tips on how to do this.

First you will need to capture a VHS video to a computer video editing program using an analog-to-DVD converter. You would otherwise need to encode it to MPEG-2 format, then publish your DVD. This provides some flexibility to edit the video as you wish by adding transitions, music or special effects. One drawback is that it is time consuming.

You could also capture the video to your computer as an MPEG-2 using hardware capture devices that will convert VHS to MPEG-2, then author the DVD. Some inexpensive hardware analog-to-MPEG boxes offer good quality because the analog source video does not have to be converted to DV before it’s encoded to MPEG.

Last, the fastest and easiest way to convert VHS to DVD is to connect your VHS VCR or camcorder to a standalone DVD recorder. This works like a VCR, and the VHS to DVD recorder basically gives you a DVD copy of your tape in real time. However it is important to make sure your analog video is of the best quality possible because any flaws in the original video tape might be magnified when encoded to MPEG-2 and then converted to the DVD.

It takes very little time to copy VHS tape to DVD. If you are not the type to take on this kind of project yourself, a DVD authoring and production house will be happy to handle it for you by way of their own conversion and DVD authoring processes.

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