We had our first DVD sale this week on Amazon! Sharlet and Arlene have 8 DVD’s they’ve finished (with me doing the filming, editing & production), with 7 more at least half completed. A couple weeks ago we decided to sell them on Amazon via their CreateSpace.com. The first DVD we posted was [1] Age Proof Your Brain.

You upload your artwork (DVD case insert and DVD disk face), send them a DVD ready for duplicating, do a little on-line setup such as product description, etc, and they will burn, print, and mail a copy whenever anyone orders it. Very cool. You can even skip the artwork and just give them plain text to print if you prefer.

You will make a higher percentage of profit on DVD’s that sell through CreatSpace.com than you do through Amazon.com, but my guess is that you’ll sell more through Amazon.

The only thing I wish CreateSpace would do differently is to allow computer files to be included on the DVDs. I like to put the PowerPoint presentations Sharlet and Arlene use in their talks on the DVDs so someone can print them out and follow along if they want, but that isn’t an option with CreateSpace. I’ll continue to include them on the DVDs I burn for backroom sales at speaking events or direct orders when someone calls our 800 number (800-379-5017) - a little extra bonus for those sales venues.

Yesterday I mailed off the second DVD to CreateSpace and today I should have the third ready to send them. Not having to worry about order fulfillment, processing credit cards (let alone the liability of having credit card information), or having a merchant account is absolutely great.

If you have books, CDs, or DVDs you want to sell, you should check out [2] CreateSpace.com.