A Mate of mine and I
were at school together. The school had put on one of its annual talent shows.

As budding entrepreneurs, we decided we could make a fast buck out of this event.

A mic and minidisk recorder was set up just in front of the stage where by our fellow pupils would sing, dance and play instruments.

As per usual the event was a sell-out of proud parents wanting to see their children perform.

We recorded the show over 2 nights, allowing for people to mess it up on one of them and took names and addresses and a payment of £10 per CD at the back of the hall as parents were leaving.

A couple of hours messing in Adobe Audition (or whatever it was called back then, I cant remember the name - Cooledit I think) and we had a 21 track CD ready to be burnt.

All in all the discs, cases, printing of covers and postage cost us about £3.50 per disc.

We must have had at least 100 orders for each of these CDs.

So £6.50 profit x 100 = £650 quid!

How did the school let us do this? We promised them a 10% cut, what wasn't stated was it was a 10% cut of the profits, not the gross.

Almost 300 quid each isn't bad for a few hours making CDs!
(stevio is on the prowl for a girlfriend!, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 13:15, Reply)