The easiest and cheapest way to do your own Louis C.K. style indie film release
Who is Louis C.K? Some famous comedian who set up a simple site and made a million bucks in a week selling DRM free copies of his video for $5.
With this site I'll show you how to build a $32,000 site for free ^_^ and sell digital downloads of your film at the lowest cost to you, retaining all your rights and cutting out all the middlemen who want to take a cut from you.
Here's how to do it!
Who is Louis C.K? Some famous comedian who set up a simple site and made a million bucks in a week selling DRM free copies of his video for $5.
With this site I'll show you how to build a $32,000 site for free ^_^ and sell digital downloads of your film at the lowest cost to you, retaining all your rights and cutting out all the middlemen who want to take a cut from you.
Here's how to do it!
Step 1: Encode your film so that’s its an H.264 mp4 file
- High quality, maximum compatibility
Price of step 1: $0 if you use free software like Handbrake
Step 2: Setup a free paypal account
- Accept paypal payments +credit cards
Price of step 2: $0
Step 3: Set up an account with DPD
-Hosts your movie file, secures your download links, handles delivery and payment processing using Paypal
Price of step 4: FREE 30 day trial then $30 a month if you choose to sign up
-Free hosting with unlimited bandwidth and traffic. Louis C.K. paid $32,000 for his website design but you can build one almost identical with blogger in about an hour for free
Price of step 3: $0 or $9 a year if you buy a custom domain from Google, Godaddy or where ever
Price for the whole thang = $370 a year, if you sell your film at $5 a pop then you need to sell about 80 downloads a year to break even as paypal would take about $0.30 from each $5 sale
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