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Need help acquiring new clients 2017-06-18 02:32:11 Post No. 2496666
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I am a filmproducer. Most new clients of mine have come to me through good recommendations from earlier clients. Objectively looking at what I do, i would say that I am good, perhaps very good at it. Its mainly commercials, company films, infomercials, etc.
I am now in a position where I need to scale things up but I am not sure of how to reach out to new companies. How do i even begin to compete with big production companies?
Friend of mine says; just sit on the phone all day, though you might hate it and book meetings with decision makers, visit them, show them how your idea of a movie can add value/increase sales for them. Hand out as many tenders/quotations as possible. Eventually jobs will start pouring in.
Serious suggestions are appreciated.
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Film fag here.
Your friend is right. Also you need to have a website with a bunch of demo stuff. Good demo stuff.
If it wasn't shot well, lit well, sounds well and edited well, then you wont get any love.
Network with as many people as possible in the biz.
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Buy the dip
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>>2496666
Your friend is somewhat right. Phoning is decreasing its efficiency for years now. Set up a website, very flashy, very slick, don't reinvent anything, just follow up on someone's template who you think is pretty successful and improve from there. Have quality content from your portfolio there and textual explanations of your creative process for at least some selected works. After that is done, look up potential clients and start sending them e-mails. On top of the e-mails, quite literally go up to their doorstep and knock, say you sent a mail and is looking for clients (learn to turn it around mid-conversation to make it seem like you're giving them an opportunity of course). Call people also, if they are far from you/unreachable without appointments, but e-mails are very important, because it stays on their box even if they ignore it at first, whereas you can call all day and no one will know it was you.
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