November 12, 2009

- Using Digital Manufacturing To Create and Sell CD s and DVD s Online

CD’s and DVD’s offer anyone the opportunity to make an online income by selling information, music or digital products in a physical form.

I’m emphasising the fact that CD’s and DVD’s are physical products because one of the major online routes to market, Ebay, does not allow the sale of digital download products.

Traditionally, outsourcing the manufacture of CD's and DVD's was an opportunity few people could be involved with due to high costs and was a lengthy lead time associated with the manufacturing process. The elements required to create the finished product being;-
-    Case
-    Disc
-    Inserts
-    Cover Art
-    Content   

However, with the advance of information technology, digital manufacturing centres have been set up that allow a user to design and configure the artwork from their own home or workplace and specify individual packaging requirements such as cellophane rapping & barcodes. These attributes are then uploaded, along with the product content and stored as a single digital file.

Digital manufacturers such as Kunaki in the United States, make it possible to manufacture a single copy of a specific product, without the setup costs associated with a traditional manufacturing plant.

Anyone using the Kunaki service benefits from the following;
-    No minimum order quantity.
-    Low unit costs of $1 per unit (effective 1st November 2009).
-    High quality on demand manufacture that meets requirements for sale on Ebay and Amazon.
-    The ability to drop ship to any specified location.

Kunaki opens the door for anyone that wants to sell and distribute their product through the medium of CD’s or DVD’s.