Some of you may have already done this, intentionally or otherwise, but I'm curious what your results were.
I sorted out 30 producers that I felt were qualified and/or had the credentials to do the script I was pitching. All were located in the LA area. The query letters were identical, except for the names of course.
1. 10 were sent from a highly touted list I paid around $100 bucks for and provided "... an automatic query feature from our list of over 1,700+/-...." - no responses.
2. 10 were also sent via e-mail to a "free" list - no responses. One address was invalid even after two sends.
3. Five days earlier, 10 went via snail mail (w/ an SASE) - seven responses back so far, including five rejections, one who wanted to see the synopsis and one who wanted both the synopsis and script.
Kind of tells me something about the effectiveness of using e-mail to query.
In addition - and this came as no real surprise - from the day the query letters were sent to this moment, my web page has produced 7 replies from "qualified" people, none above a 3 on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the highest). All toll, there were 693 hits on the counter, but heaven only knows if that many people looked or if crawlers crawled so that indicates - nothing.
In the future, I think I'll stick to the old-fashion way of doing it.
I sorted out 30 producers that I felt were qualified and/or had the credentials to do the script I was pitching. All were located in the LA area. The query letters were identical, except for the names of course.
1. 10 were sent from a highly touted list I paid around $100 bucks for and provided "... an automatic query feature from our list of over 1,700+/-...." - no responses.
2. 10 were also sent via e-mail to a "free" list - no responses. One address was invalid even after two sends.
3. Five days earlier, 10 went via snail mail (w/ an SASE) - seven responses back so far, including five rejections, one who wanted to see the synopsis and one who wanted both the synopsis and script.
Kind of tells me something about the effectiveness of using e-mail to query.
In addition - and this came as no real surprise - from the day the query letters were sent to this moment, my web page has produced 7 replies from "qualified" people, none above a 3 on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the highest). All toll, there were 693 hits on the counter, but heaven only knows if that many people looked or if crawlers crawled so that indicates - nothing.
In the future, I think I'll stick to the old-fashion way of doing it.
