I've been sending out a video query to agents in New York, friends in Hollywood and overseas. The response has been interesting, to say the least.
Some liked it, some didn't. The main thing is feedback.
Now I know what it needs and will go to work on revising it.
A video takes longer to create than an email or letter, but I feel it has more impact.
What I like is that they give the agent/producer/publisher, etc. a chance to see and hear about my work.
The scary part is that they have to look at me.
Maybe I'll just do audio queries instead.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Keep Trying
Spent the past 24 hours trying to get a partial out to an agent.
Everything is fighting it, my computer didn't want to run the word processing program. Fixed it, moved on to reformatting a correctly formatted document that turned into junk on it's own. It's not like I haven't run into this before.
When I worked in the Netherlands, sending tech manuals halfway around the world, you wouldn't believe the way things would print out at the receiving end. That's why I check what I've done before sending it. Even then, it seems like there is some type of problem.
Today, ready to send the partial to the agent, went to another computer, where DSL/high speed is available. Now, I can get on my blog...but I can't get on my email to send them the partial!
To compound this, earlier I called their office, to clarify a couple of questions I had about the submission. Sent to voice mail, haven't heard back. Can't check my email to see if they answered my questions that way.
Are we having fun yet?
Doesn't matter, I don't stop.
Maybe my email server is having a problem.
Either way, I'll get the partial out.
If you're the agent in question, have mercy and a bit of patience, please.
What's that saying? 'That which doesn't kill me, makes me stronger!'
Everything is fighting it, my computer didn't want to run the word processing program. Fixed it, moved on to reformatting a correctly formatted document that turned into junk on it's own. It's not like I haven't run into this before.
When I worked in the Netherlands, sending tech manuals halfway around the world, you wouldn't believe the way things would print out at the receiving end. That's why I check what I've done before sending it. Even then, it seems like there is some type of problem.
Today, ready to send the partial to the agent, went to another computer, where DSL/high speed is available. Now, I can get on my blog...but I can't get on my email to send them the partial!
To compound this, earlier I called their office, to clarify a couple of questions I had about the submission. Sent to voice mail, haven't heard back. Can't check my email to see if they answered my questions that way.
Are we having fun yet?
Doesn't matter, I don't stop.
Maybe my email server is having a problem.
Either way, I'll get the partial out.
If you're the agent in question, have mercy and a bit of patience, please.
What's that saying? 'That which doesn't kill me, makes me stronger!'
Saturday, March 13, 2010
The Sweet Taste of Rejection
Oh, the joy!
Query emails going out, rejections now starting to roll in. Most people would be depressed, upset, angry. WHY?
You have to get rejected to be accepted. When I sold BMWs and Volvos for a living, I learned about sales averages. At that time, you had to talk to about 100 people to sell 1 car. At the dealership I worked at, you were expected to sell at least 10-15 cars a month. Anything less and it was talk with the sales manager time.
Try sending out 1,000 to 1,500 queries a month. You can see why car salesmen spend so much time at the dealership. Now, if you had the same rate of return, you'd have 10-15 agents interested in your 'product' at the end of the month.
Throw in the fact that you're not selling a known product. Raise the return rate to about 200 to 1 or higher. Yep, tough to sell a book.
You can't give up.
Me, I'm just getting started.
Query emails going out, rejections now starting to roll in. Most people would be depressed, upset, angry. WHY?
You have to get rejected to be accepted. When I sold BMWs and Volvos for a living, I learned about sales averages. At that time, you had to talk to about 100 people to sell 1 car. At the dealership I worked at, you were expected to sell at least 10-15 cars a month. Anything less and it was talk with the sales manager time.
Try sending out 1,000 to 1,500 queries a month. You can see why car salesmen spend so much time at the dealership. Now, if you had the same rate of return, you'd have 10-15 agents interested in your 'product' at the end of the month.
Throw in the fact that you're not selling a known product. Raise the return rate to about 200 to 1 or higher. Yep, tough to sell a book.
You can't give up.
Me, I'm just getting started.
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