On demand media fulfillment

[Hamish Macmillan]

Dave,

As a Rimage employee my post is obviously going to be biased, but since you mention that you’ve considered buying a Rimage system I’m going to present the case for having your business in-house, since that’s essentially what our products enable current outsourcers to do. I’ll try to keep this as unsalesy as possible.
The benefits are:
1. Complete process control – order timing, production quantities etc
2. Inventory management – no wastage through overruns, change control (both content and labeling), 1 – 100’s produced as required, all unique if necessary.
3. Product quality control – media and print: with ousourcing, the results could be A,B or C quality. Insourced, you choose both.
4. Workflow management – current disc publishers can be complete network appliances which operate like network printers, receiving and queueing jobs from multiple content creation sources. These jobs can be either fully authored images or data files with the labels tied in through XML.

Hope this helps.

[Chris Blair]

I’m late to this thread, but I have to agree with Dave in that some of you were being a little harsh with your advice. He’s not selling a retail DVD. According to one of his posts, he said:

it’s a web application for a specific industry….I get sales to consulting companies… but the appeal is mostly limited to about 200,000 companies worldwide. At least a third of which are existing customers.

So his “margin” can’t be calculated simply by deducting the cost of replication/duplication, printing, packaging etc.

This isn’t a frozen pizza and the grocery store reference someone made was totally ridiculous. This is a software application that no doubt he’s spent considerable time developing. Just about everyone on this list is willing to pay $600 for Photoshop, $1000 for Final Cut, and $1500 and up for After Effects, Digital Fusion, 3DS Max, Lightwave etc.

Like those apps, his application is probably specialized. Plus, he noted that he updates it sometimes twice a month, which makes it unique to the other software listed. No doubt that’s why the companies that buy his application continue to do so.

Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
http://www.videomi.com

[Charity Lund]

Molding Box is a professional printing and fulfillment house that also specializes in short run media duplication and replication. You can store your disks in their warehouse, and they will ship them for you on demand. They also have an advanced inventory software and an API integration for your shopping cart so you’ll always know how much of your inventory you have, and your customers’ info can be transferred to your CRM so you can still market to them down the road.

-Charity

Shipping made sexy.