How to Sell Your Film on the Internet

Video Transcript

"KEVIN LINDENMUTH: Selling on the internet is a whole other thing because that goes with your publicity and your sales and all that. If you have your website and you're selling your own document, you've got a lot of press for, and in the press, you'll have a link to your site and all that stuff. So, that will help, with internet sales doing it yourself. Do it through like a PayPal account or whatever or people could pay you with a credit card and all that stuff. There are other sites that will actually pay you some type of residual for how many times it shown, and there's a very little money on this but I've actually tried this just to see if it works. And companies, like I think CinemaNow, and there's a couple other ones where they took the movie in each, I think twice a year I get a residual for like a small amount and that's something. For hundreds and hundreds of showings, you get like 10 bucks or whatever, so. But I have like a dozen movies, so it's worth it a little bit and it's kinda extra money. But, again, how much is that interfering with the actual sales of physical DVDs I'm going to get. So, I think selling on the internet or having your movie being able to be downloaded by people on the internet. Internet should be a last avenue of distribution. I mean, you should go either sell it yourself or through a distributor or whatever, do that for a couple of years. Once the word of it is around, it is in the movie and all that. And then, when that kinda dies down, or you can put it on the internet and try to make some money that way because otherwise, we go it backwards, all people are just going to watch it for 50 cents or a dollar on the internet rather than pay $12 or $25 for it. So, I mean that's a big difference. It may come to the point where there'll be more money for things directly shown on the net but it kinda hasn't come yet. So, the rule of thumb is just physically get those DVDs out there, do that for a couple of years, and then you could put it on the internet or whatever."