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How to get CDs and DVDs produced professionally for next to nothing

by Kev on 6 May, 2011

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Presentation is everything in business and if you offer your customers CDs or DVDs either as products in their own right or as part of your marketing, there’s little point unless they are produced professionally.

I’ve produced CDs for two of my businesses. For one, I was acting as a mini duplication company for a client and for another the CD was part of the product. Our options were either to have an external company produce the CDs on CDR and using inkjet printing on the surface for the label or to buy in the equipment to do the same ourselves. We opted for the latter and it was profitable enough. [click to continue…]

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5 facts about Franking Machines you probably didn't know (but should)

by KevPartner on 2 November, 2010

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I’d been meaning to do it for months but finally we’ve got a franking machine for our candle kit business MakingYourOwnCandles. Wax, in particular, is expensive to ship and it seemed, on the face of it, that we’d save a lot of money – particularly in the run up to Christmas.

However, I was nervous of getting a franking machine – partly because I didn’t fully understand how it worked and partly because it represented a contractual commitment, unlike SmartStamp. [click to continue…]

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