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10-31-2009, 12:08 PM
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How many of you landed your manager off of a Cold Query?
Just curious, how many of you out there landed your manger/agent from a cold e-query?
Did some of you do it the easy way with "networking"? |
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10-31-2009, 06:01 PM
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Re: How many of you landed your manager off of a Cold Query?
I did...but with my first manager, it was through a referral.
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10-31-2009, 06:15 PM
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Re: How many of you landed your manager off of a Cold Query?
I did...but my most recent manager was not my FIRST manager, so I was able to use the names of my former reps for some cache....
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10-31-2009, 07:13 PM
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Re: How many of you landed your manager off of a Cold Query?
I did. Probably 200 queries, 8-10 requests for reads and 3 offers of representation. I picked the one that gave me the warmest fuzziest feeling.
I guess I should also add my queries were specifically targeted to managers who did my kind of stuff.
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10-31-2009, 07:42 PM
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Re: How many of you landed your manager off of a Cold Query?
I've had three managers - landed the first two off of cold queries.
Current manager i was referred to by my agent. Landed my agent off a cold query.
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10-31-2009, 09:17 PM
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Re: How many of you landed your manager off of a Cold Query?
that's great information. just goes to show that it is a numbers game and you'll eventually get there as long as you have the goods. best, LA
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10-31-2009, 09:43 PM
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Re: How many of you landed your manager off of a Cold Query?
Most of the folks I know all did through some form of query or another. Mostly through emails.
Have a great logline/concept, strange what doors open for you. EJ
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11-01-2009, 12:30 AM
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Re: How many of you landed your manager off of a Cold Query?
Aaron Guzikowski, writer of PRISONERS:
"I entered some contests, placed in a few of them. Then I wrote a query letter to a couple management companies, asking if they wanted to read a horror script I wrote. I think it took a couple of weeks to hear back from the company I ended up signing with (though you don’t actually sign anything)." http://www.limitemagazine.com/2009/0...on-guzikowski/
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11-01-2009, 01:59 AM
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Re: How many of you landed your manager off of a Cold Query?
Cold query involving maybe about 400 queries, 150 which were using a different script from the one that got me my manager. I got 5 read requests.
All by email. And I live in Malaysia. |
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11-01-2009, 06:11 AM
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Re: How many of you landed your manager off of a Cold Query?
Both my first and my current manager I contacted through a cold e-query. I agree with EJ - a good hook written into a good log will you tons of read requests, and will open doors.
If you are not getting a lot of requests off of your query, I would suggest you read Chris Lockhart's post on Two Adverbs (and it's been linked to here many, many times) concerning the construction of a logline. |
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