I am hoping the admins will allow this topic to live for a while. I am in the fairly early process of starting up a baseball related business, I am looking for input from folks as to:
-Do you think this would be a viable business venture?
-Do you think the pricing model would work?
In general we would take raw video shot by HS athletes and edit the video down into something useable as a recruiting video. We would provide instructions for shooting the video. The athlete would be responsible for shooting the raw video. They would upload it to our servers. We would then edit about an hours worth of footage down to 3 to 5 minutes in a format that is compatible with college recruiting. The athlete would retain the rights to the video. We would start with baseball and then branch out into other sports over time.
As far as pricing, here is what I am thinking. $80 for a video. $20 due upon start of the project. This will give the athlete access to our proprietary information on how to shoot position specific video. Things like camera placement, what skills to shoot, etc. $30 upon loading the video up to our servers. $30 upon video completion. I know the pricing model is a little complicated but part of the business model would be providing the user with access to proprietary information on how to properly shoot the video. In addition we would offer add on services such as uploading to you tube or hosting the video ourselves.
You can check out the work in progress website here... http://buildmysportsvideo.weebly.com. Right now we are not live and won't be until the summer sometime. We need to take care of some legal work as well as run financial numbers to make sure its a viable business. There are lots of place holders in place on the website so if you see things such as video that does not look right (yep thats my sons basketball team on ESPN Top 10) or pricing that is way off please ignore it as its just there to test links and such.
