What are the dominant economic characteristics of the online movie industry?
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- Technology\n- Themes\n- Budget\n- Castings\n- Exposures\n- Reach\n- The time\n----------------------------
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So far it is more important to have the financial resources to succeed over the internet than having the best services offered to the public. That's why small businesses are having a difficult time succeeding over the internet.\n\nHas it occurred to you that there are over 200 million listings under the key search words ONLINE DVDS and FLORISTS, but the most successful ones are found on Yahoo's home page, email sites, etc? You must have the financial resources (or a good tie-in somewhere) to pay for premium advetising space and have long-term exposure to build name recognition for your business.\n\nI live in Shreveport, Louisiana (population of 400,000). Based on my estimates, online DVD rentals generate over $20,000 per month in this area. Netflix generates most of the revenue because they knew how to use the internet towards their advantage. I believe there are many small businesses that can succeed over the internet if the right services are offered to public, but right now Yahoo and Google are not offering the services needed for small business owners to succeed over the internet.\n\nI am building a web site platform called SeeMeOn.Com that will offer the services needed for small businesses to succeed both locally and abroad. The public will have a choice to search for information and services only area businesses can offer or search abroad to find more information and services from businesses outside the area. Due to a large number of businesses that are trying to promote their site over the internet, only a limited number of businesses will be able to offer their services abroad. I know it may be unfair, but it is necessary to create a healthy online market for small businesses to florish over the internet.\n\nI know you may be skeptical about this idea, but as more people are working harder and having less time to get things done during their busy schedule, you can expect the internet to play a more viable role in helping the public find information and services in their area. With a local web site platform you can purchase a gift certificate from a local golf shop or health spa as a last minute gift, know what self-development courses or sports clubs will be offered to you or your five year old that you'll forget, learn a about a product or service before going to your local store to make that purchase and much much more.\n\nIf you are interested in learning more or become partners with us in a very lucrative enterprise, please send your email to rascoe627@yahoo. We will keep you inform of any future developments. \n\nThank you for your time and I am looking forward to hear from you.
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Internet Promotion - Advantages and Disadvantages\n\n\n\nThe emergence of globalise trade, increase in foreign investment and cross-border transactions have put many small businesses under pressure to find innovative ways to continue to market their products and services. This is especially difficult given that they often operate on tight marketing budgets.\n\nIn the quest for cheap marketing alternatives, these small businesses continue to use conventional marketing tools such as newspaper, magazine, radio and television advertisements, unaware of the advantages that Internet Promotion offers. All too often, these entrepreneurs focus on the disadvantages of Internet Promotion and fail to adequately take advantage of the opportunities that it presents. Moreover, their preoccupation with conventional marketing strategies is driven by a misconception that these are cheaper than Internet Promotion.\n\nTo most small business entrepreneurs, marketing or promoting their products or services via the Internet can be a daunting task. However, with adequate information small businesses can benefit significantly from Internet Promotion while minimising the disadvantages that it presents. In fact, it may prove to be the marketing strategy that generates the highest return on investment.\n\nThe Advantages\n\nCost Effective and Enduring Marketing Strategies\n\nThe Internet has become the information superhighway for the buying public. Most persons prefer the hassle free transactions that Internet shopping can offer. As a result, the Internet has become the most powerful selling tool. Internet Promotion offers cost effective ways for small businesses to enhance their product or service distribution networks. For example, the use of portals can help create new marketing channels and logistics, or provide better or faster product access for customers.\n\nIn comparison to other forms of marketing, Internet Promotion presents the advantage of reduced budget and storage costs, when compared with printing brochures, producing television or radio advertisements or managing a call centre. It presents a fast and cost effective option for penetrating new markets.\n\nMarket Penetration\n\nWith millions of person using the Internet to search for products and services, small businesses can penetrate other markets at a fraction of the cost of traditional marketing methods.\n\nWebsites act as virtual storefronts, allowing businesses to stay open 24/7. Internet Promotion gives a business greater visibility, thereby creating more opportunities for increasing its customers at relatively low cost. Never before has it been easier for an upstart business to be able to reach out to literally millions of potential customers and to position themselves for success, without the need for costly infrastructure and overwhelming marketing costs. Thanks to the Internet, new businesses can become popular almost overnight.\n\nLow Cost, Instant Communication\n\nEmail makes business communications instant, whether the customer or business affiliate is across the street or across the globe. It makes it easier for customers to maintain contact and readily facilitates repeat purchasing. An effective online strategy can therefore turn a small web business into a virtual cost saver and income-generating machine. The net result is that the small business can gain significant competitive advantage in a given market.\n\nMany online businesses have therefore resorted to the use of ezines, blogs, pop-up ads and other online marketing tools to let customers know about new products or services as well as provide information relevant to their respective industry. The benefits of this strategy are two fold. Marketers can effectively heighten brand awareness for relatively new products on the market whilst strengthening customer relationships, with shorter time frames.\n\nContent is Timeless\n\nInternet Promotion also provides the advantage of being enduring. Whereas participation at a trad
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Well, I think what has been going on is driven by economics. The reason that great ideas are not coming up anymore is that pure film screenwriters are less in demand and so less paid. The reason being is that movies are not so much a focus of many people's lives anymore with so many other distraction like TV, I-pods, internet chat etc.. as technology advance. So the movies industry is oging through a slow phase of creative destruction to leave room for other diverisons in our lives. yes, certain movies do make mega bucks but if you look at the average film and its revenue per person adjusted for inflation, the heyday era of movies is a long lost memory. I don't think we will ever see a day like the fanfare surrounding the opening of gone with the wind. I suggest you look it up online. It was like a 3 day holiday/celebration in all over the country before the film premier. Hope this helps
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Four forces -- the bargaining power of customers, the bargaining power of suppliers, the threat of new entrants, and the threat of substitute products -- combine with other variables to influence a fifth force, the level of competition in an industry. Each of these forces has several determinants:\n\nThe bargaining power of customers \nbuyer concentration to firm concentration ratio \nbargaining leverage \nbuyer volume \nbuyer switching costs relative to firm switching costs \nbuyer information availability \nability to backward integrate \navailability of existing substitute products \nbuyer price sensitivity \nprice of total purchase \nThe bargaining power of suppliers \nsupplier switching costs relative to firm switching costs \ndegree of differentiation of inputs \npresence of substitute inputs \nsupplier concentration to firm concentration ratio \nthreat of forward integration by suppliers relative to the threat of backward integration by firms \ncost of inputs relative to selling price of the product \nimportance of volume to supplier \nThe threat of new entrants \nthe existence of barriers to entry \neconomies of product differences \nbrand equity \nswitching costs \ncapital requirements \naccess to distribution \nabsolute cost advantages \nlearning curve advantages \nexpected retaliation \ngovernment policies \nThe threat of substitute products \nbuyer propensity to substitute \nrelative price performance of substitutes \nbuyer switching costs \nperceived level of product differentiation \nThe intensity of competitive rivalry \npower of buyers \npower of suppliers \nthreat of new entrants \nthreat of substitute products \nnumber of competitors \nrate of industry growth \nindustry overcapacity \nexit barriers \ndiversity of competitors \ninformational complexity and asymmetry \nbrand equity \nfixed cost allocation per value added
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From the 2005 Video Software Dealers Association annual report http://www.idealink.org/Resource.phx/vsda/annual-reports/index.htx  :\n\n- In aggregate, consumers spent more than twice as much money buying and renting DVDs and VHS cassettes in 2004 than in purchasing tickets at the theatrical box office. \n- Consumer spending on home video in 2004 exceeded $24 billion. \n- Sell-through accounted for over $16 billion, an increase of 15% over 2004. \n- Rental generated $8 billion, remaining flat with 2003.\n\nOther sources of information and statistics on the video rental industry:\n\nVideo Software Dealers Association (Has history of the home video industry, quick industry facts, and industry growth charts. Available free online.)\nhttp://www.idealink.org/Resource.phx/vsda/news/newsindex.htx\n\nMotion Picture Association of America\nhttp://www.mpaa.org/researchStatistics.asp
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Yes, they are different.\n\nElasticity of demand is the change in quantity demanded associated with a change in price.  This is the slope of the demand curve.  This slope is always negative.  The lower the price, the higher the demand and vice versa.\n\nElasticity of supply is the change in quantity supplied associated with a change in price.  This is the slope of the supply curve.  This slope is always positive.  The higher the price, the higher the supply and vice versa.\n\nLet's take a simple example.  Movie tickets increase by $1.  As a result movie attendance decreases by 10%.  The elasticity of demand would be -0.10%.  For every $ increase in price, quantity demand drops by 10%.  However, given the same increase in price there is a 20% increase in movie showings.  For every $ increase in price, quantity supplied increases by 20%.   \n\nFor any business venture, you have to price your product and services with a good understanding of the elasticity of demand.  Depending on such elasticity, it does not make sense to increase price beyond the point where your revenues and income break even with where they were in your original price structure. \n\nElasticity of supply deals more with the operation structure of the industry you operate in and external competition. \n\nIf you want me to clarify any of the above, please contact me through "Answer."
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computers and movies.
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i think the online business. if it is offline based on your fields and your interest !
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They probably dont have the best success % because they dont use as high tech or high quality equipment.\n\nThis would cause their movie to be worse quality and the viewers wouldnt like the movie as much\n\nAlso, they wouldnt be able to get the same graphical features and special effects used in other countries.\n\nAlthough, because their equipment isnt as high tech, it doesnt cost as much for them to make a movie and therefore they might still have a possible chance to profit off of it
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It is a market dominated by a small number of sellers.  Examples today include:\n1. The Automobile Industry and the automobile gas industry\n2. The cigarette industry\n3. To some degree, the movie industry\n4. In certain niche markets of the clothing industry\nThere are lots of oligopolies around the world.\nBon Chance
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Movies make most of their money at the box office.  They want to make sure everyone has the opportunity to see it in the theater before they release the video.\n\nOnce the video comes out, people aren't going to see it in the theater anymore and they make less money from the sale of videos.  Instead of charging you every time you see it like in the theater, you can buy it once, watch it as many times as you want, with at many people you want for about the same price as one or two movie tickets.  Plus, the retailer, distributor, manufacturer, and marketers all need to share that money.
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boxoffice.com should help\n\nask parent companies for details
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It's good if you buy a product or service from the US.  It's bad if you sell a product or service to the US.  The film industry, for instance, is likely to experience a downturn, since the primary attraction for US film companies to shoot in Canada is the gain on exchange by paying for labour in Canadian dollars.  As the Canadian dollar strengthen, the gain decreases, so less work for Canadian film workers.
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how about the evolution of small business due to the internet
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A lot depends on the theater you go to.  I've been to theaters that have new digital projectors and look real crisp.. I know that part of the decline is due to the faster turn around of dvd release from what it used to be, so people are more willing to wait, rather then spend $8.95+ for a movie, $5 for a drink and $5 for popcorn.  I'm sure from this decline movie theaters are tighting their wallets and less are upgrading their systems, thus allowing home theaters to surpass in quality.
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Filmmakers can only control the showing of any portions of their movie that is released on the Internet.  The showing of any part of their film is under their control.  Any other information released is not under their control.  However any critic that would release the whole plot and ending of the movie would not be in the business very long.