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You’ve put an enormous amount of time into writing your script. You’ve worked into the wee hours of the night with the help of smooth glass of scotch to stay awake — or maybe it was an extra cup of coffee in the early hours of the morning that you squeezed into your busy schedule to finish the most challenging scenes. Or maybe you’re lucky enough to be retired with lots of time on your hands! Whatever it took to get you here with a “pretty much finished” screenplay, you did it and it’s a miracle!

Now you’re ready for the HARD PART!

Marketing your script!

LOL, of course, we know writing a script is hard too, but marketing is an entirely different animal because the results are not in your control!

Whether you see the potential for your script to be a blockbuster powerful story that needs to be told on Amazon Prime, it’s time to market your miracle — starting with writing a query letter email that does it justice and then figuring out who to send it to!

And if you’ve already tried to condense a 100-page screenplay into 100 words or find just the right producers to pitch your script to, you know it’s not easy — especially when you don’t like marketing to begin with and you don’t have any connections! And even worse, if you have connections, they refuse to help you or you don’t know what to say to them!

The truth is, marketing is NEVER easy! — It’s as simple as that.

So now what?

Maybe you submit to one of those anonymous online sites where you pay something, fill out a tiny form online, and hope for the best. Because you never interact with a human being. So you cross your fingers that the site is legit and hope you get a call or an email from a Netflix guy or girl who “can’t wait to read it!” But nothing. You never hear a word. So you end up back at square one.

The problem is…. When you don’t hear something back, you don’t know if it’s because not a single producer saw your pitch — and you just paid for the site owner’s trip to Jamaica — or if your pitch just wasn’t that good or what! You just DON’T KNOW! 

And there’s nothing you can do to find out.

There’s GOT TO BE another way! Right?

RIGHT!

You need to approach producers who are verifiably good target potentials for your script. You need to have Confidence that you have a Great Pitch, and then you need to be able to follow up to make sure they saw your pitch!

The bottomline…

You need a marketing approach that you can get SOME ANSWERS!

Well, I’ve got some GOOD NEWS for you: You’ve FOUND the right place to get those answers!

Introducing...

The Smart Girls Script Marketing Campaign with query letter and producer list.

You no longer have to worry about whether the site you submitted to anonymously was legit or not. Or whether they have people really looking at your pitch. 

With the Smart Girls Script Marketing Campaign, our signature service, you will receive a custom list of producers and production companies and their contact info with emails, hand-selected as as potential targets for your script. By having the email addresses, you can then follow up with them multiple times to build a relationship and get them to read your work. You could even get an app to see if they read your email if you really want to know.

You’ll also get your Email Query Pitch written and we’ll even include a collection of follow-up Email Templates so you know what to say after the fact. And if you already have your own killer, boss Email Query Pitch, you can just have us just create the Custom List of Producers so you don’t have to do the tedious research.

Could you do this on your own?  Sure, you could, but….

Requirements For Marketing Your Screenplay

Well-Targeted List of Producers

It doesn’t matter how good your idea is or how well your script is written if you don’t target the right people. You must target companies who might be interested in a script like your, the same or a related genre.  If you throw a pitch out to everyone in Hollywood, it’s unprofessional at best and desperate at worst. You must target companies who have done projects of related genres. But even that is not enough. You also need to find companies at the right level in the food chain of Hollywood. If you send your query letter to the big studios and top production companies, you’re almost guaranteed to a reply with a threatening letter from their legal department warning: “If you ever send material to us again, we’re gonna x#lk@djfozv#e– ” Targeting companies who are just right is like Goldilocks finding the right bed. You need to find production companies who might be interested in a project like yours and they need to be at the right level in the Hollywood hierarchy. Not too big and not too small.

Strong Query Letter

The second thing you need is a great query letter that tells your story in a paragraph or so that is as high a quality as your script itself!  You have to encapsulate your story in such a way that the producer has no choice but to want to be intrigued. 

To have your best shot — and you should do everything possible to get it — to have your best shot, ideally you tell them just a few of words about yourself, to make them shake their heads and say, “Yeah, that makes sense that you would write this… Send it to me.” 

Every little bit that you can do to get them shaking their head “yes,” the more likely they will read your script and you’re on your way.

Solid Plan For Following Up

Having the two things mentioned so far —  A Great List of Producers to target and a Strong Query Letter that encapsulates your story brilliantly — go a long way toward stoking the imagination of a producer who could be right for your script. 

But there’s one more thing that is critical to have in place before beginning your marketing plan.

You must have a Follow Up plan in place. I used to send out email blasts for writers and even follow-up with a second blast as part of the ir marketing package because follow-up is so important. And it worked great for a while! 

But then, the effectiveness of emailing out once or even twice kept dwindling because people get so much email these days, and so much junk.

Don’t get me wrong — Emailing is still the ultimate best choice for pitching — and even if you pitch to someone in person, you are going to end up emailing and need to follow-up! 

There’s NO WAY OUT OF IT!

To be successful, you will have to follow-up with producers to have a legitimate shot at something happening for you!

That’s why you need to have a plan in place to Follow Up by Email before you even start or your marketing is doomed before you send out the first email!

About now, you might be saying:

"But... Melody, I don't have all three things for my marketing plan..."
or
"I only have one of those things or two of those things..."
so
"What should I do?

Well, after more than two decades of helping writers connect to Hollywood, I’m not gonna leave you hanging. I have created a Service that incorporates all three of these things.

The Smart Girls Script Marketing Campaign

With this Signature Service from Smart Girls, you get all three of these critical elements needed to market your script.

Custom List of Producers Targeted for Your Script

You will receive a Custom List of producers who make films or TV shows in your genre or who make related types of projects. To do this we pull from our own Smart Database of over 3000 names and we do additional research when needed.

Professional Query Letter Pitch

We will write a professional query letter pitch written for your screenplay highlighting its most appealing elements a

Approachable Production Companies

And thirdly we will select the companies of the right size and at the right level so you have your best chances of making contact with them

How Does It Work?

To kick off your Script Marketing Campaign, we have you complete a form with lots of questions about your script, where you see it fitting in the market, and about your background, and related information.

You take your time on completing that, then you let us know you’re done, and we take it from there.  We’ll draft a query letter for your review. We will create a strategy for identifying the companies who could potentially be your very best targets to offer your script to.

Then you’ll get to review the query letter and our research strategy and make any changes.  Then we move into the home stretch for finishing up!

We will do a final review of everything, we’ll finalize your list of producers, then we’ll email you everything you need to kick off your campaign.

You’ll have your Email Query Pitch, a spreadsheet and directory of your producers with as much of their contact information as we can gather.

We’ll even give you follow up email templates because it’s so important to follow up!

Are You Excited and Want To Get This Show On the Road?

If you’ve heard enough, just choose your option below.  Click on the button and it’ll take you to our Hollywood Business School site and then you just have to follow instructions. And if you have any problems, you can call me directly at my office at 818/907-6511.

Need to hear more about this Script Marketing Campaign before you decide? Keep reading. I’ll tell you about some of the extras you get and also maybe answer some questions you may have.

Choose Your Option To Get Started!

Query Letter & Email Messages ONLY

$ 275
  • You will receive a query letter pitching your script along with 6 Follow-Up Email Message Templates to use for various situations.

Query Letter, Emails, AND Custom Research Of 60 Producers

$ 497
  • This packages includes the query letter, four follow up email messages, and the custom list of 60 producers researched for your script.
Most popular

Custom Research Of 60 Producers – PRODUCER LIST ONLY

$ 275
  • For this, you will get a list of 60 production companies identified as target prospects for your script

What You Get with Your Script Marketing Campaign

An In-Depth Questionnaire starts the process by asking you a variety of questions about your script so we can strategize on our approach and create your pitch.

A professional query letter pitch that sets “the hook” in your story to make it as appealing to producers as possible.

A Custom List of 60+ TARGETED Hollywood executives for you to market your script to, selecting from our database of thousands of ACTIVE Hollywood film and TV executives.

A Directory of your Custom List of Producers with as much contact information as we can find: Emails, Mailing Addresses, Phone Numbers, and occasionally a Social Media link.

Immediate Access to our Screenwriters Green Room where you will find lots of information on the process for each step of the way. From getting started to the follow-up phase.

A CSV/Spreadsheet containing all of the information on the producers we have selected for you so you can follow up with them to your heart's content.

Bonus Material: You will find various complementary PDFs and other information to increase your education on Marketing Your Screenplay or TV script!

Bonus Material: Follow Up EMAIL TEMPLATES. For the critical follow-up phase, we are including templates of emails telling you what to say and when to send the various follows-ups!

When you are armed with all of these materials, you will have everything you need to give yourself that chance to make the true connections to Hollywood that could potentionally make your script into a movie!

Hollywood success doesn’t happen after one mystery email is submitted for you or one pitch is posted online where you have to hope a producer comes by and looks at them in their spare time.

Success in Hollywood comes from  building relationships  (aka connections) with producers over time. And THAT one email you send personally and follow-up with properly.

If you want to give yourself a chance to sell your script and start building those relationships, a Script Marketing Campaign gets you in the game and creates the opportunity for that to happen.

There are no guarantees in Hollywood, but you DO have to take action for anything to even have a chance to happen. Don’t sit back and wish you had done something…. take action. It’s easy.

To get started, select the package you want down below, then click on the Add to Cart button and follow instructions from there.

If you’re wondering if we’re real, feel free to call Melody at our office at 818/907-6511 to place your order — during regular business hours in Los Angeles, Pacific time, of course.

This Proven Step-By-Step Script Marketing Campaign Finds Hollywood Executives For You To Target for Your Specific Screenplay

Getting your screenplay read by Hollywood producers is entirely separate aspect of screenwriting which is as important as writing the screenplay in the first place. — and not nearly as much fun! 

But the fact is, obviously, if you write a great script but no one knows about it, then nothing can possibly happen. It all boils down to one thing…

You have to tell the RIGHT PEOPLE... the RIGHT THINGS... in the RIGHT WAY... at the RIGHT TIME... to inspire them to want to read your screenplay.

Whether it’s the first time you’re marketing a script or you’ve done it many times before, your first step toward getting your movie made is getting your pitch in front of the right people.

That means you need a great pitch that makes people want to read your script. And then you need to find the right producers who could potentially be interested in it.

It’s simple… but it’s not easy.

That’s why we do it for writers like you. So you can spend most of your time writing and let us do the research for you. For your Script Marketing Campaign, we will research and find a Custom list of producers/production companies who would be the best targets for a script like yours.

To get started, select your option below.

Choose Your Option To Get Started!

Query Letter & Email Messages ONLY

$ 275
  • You will receive a query letter pitching your script along with 6 Follow-Up Email Message Templates to use for various situations.

Query Letter, Emails, AND Custom Research Of 60 Producers

$ 497
  • This packages includes the query letter, four follow up email messages, and the custom list of 60 producers researched for your script.
Most popular

Custom Research Of 60 Producers – PRODUCER LIST ONLY

$ 275
  • For this, you will get a list of 60 production companies identified as target prospects for your script
Do Companies Accept Unsolicited Script Submissions?
Plain and simple, many companies do not accept unsolicited letters. That's exactly why you have to diligently research to find companies at the right level who are more likely to be open to it!

One of the biggest frustrations you will face in marketing your script if you haven’t already is getting someone to even read your pitch — because so many companies have a “No Unsolicited Pitches” policy.

At Smart Girls we track over 2000 production companies of various sizes, and as much as possible, we keep track of which ones have super strict policies against reading unsolicited material. If we see a consistent pattern of them returning unsolicited materials, we put mark that in our database and we quit selecting them for our clients.

While most large companies in Hollywood legally cannot accept unsolicited pitches, there are many smaller, producers who would love nothing more than to find a great script that they could move up the food chain with. They are the ones who can get to the bigger companies on your behalf.

Those are the companies we seek out to put on your list.

We strive to find producers who are hungry for a script in your genre. Then we put them on your list.
To Review Here’s What You Get With the Script Marketing Campaign

A professional Email Pitch and Query Letter presents your script with its best possible “hook.”

A Hand-Picked List of 60 Producers Chosen Specifically For Your Script, eliminating the ones we know don’t take unsolicited letters.

A complete, detailed report of exactly who you are sending to so you can follow up with them for as long as you wish. We include any of the email addresses we’ve been able to find for that executive and company we’ve chosen for you.

 We’ll even send you a set of mail merged letters and labels which you can then print and mail out, if you want to send hard copies.

and lots more…

You will feel a great sense of satisfaction knowing that you are finally putting your script out there. You will know you have taken a Big Step toward giving yourself a legitimate chance at getting in the Hollywood game, where you could potentially sell your screenplay for hundreds of thousands of dollars and see it made into a REAL Hollywood movie.

Bonuses to Help You Make the Most of Your Campaign

BONUS #1

Script Marketing Launch Basics Ebook

This ebook includes a checklist of what to do to make sure your script is ready to go and also to protect it as best you can from IP theft. You’ll read about some of the pros and cons of email marketing versus sending out letters like in the past.

You’ll also get inside tips on writing your letter and bio or tweaking them when  someone else writes them for you. You’ll also get tips on making follow up calls and initial contact with assistants.  This ebook covers the basics of getting your marketing campaign started on making your First Contact with the industry.

BONUS #2

Follow Up Impact Ebook

Once you’ve completed your script and maybe even done your inital contact, you need to follow-up. What does that even look like? How do you do it?   You’re heard “you gotta know someone to make it in Hollywood!” This book covers the part they left out about that adage.

You’ll read about the most important kind of person to try to find for you in Hollywood. You’ll also get tips on a variety of phone call situations and what to say.  It will also give you ideas on practice tips to prepare you for follow-up phone calls or even meetings. You’ll also get general tips overall for your marketing efforts.

BONUS #3

13 Ways to Leverage Your Script Marketing Package

This Guidebook covers such things as the most common mistake writers make when marketing their screenplays and an easy way to avoid it. The basics of marketing screenplays explained in step-by-step detail. Why almost everyone is dead wrong about marketing to Hollywood, and what you should do to be confident you have a strategy that is right for you. The one thing you must do to be successful in Hollywood…. Fail at this and you’ll regret it!
To Get Started Marketing Your Screenplay…
  • Click on the choice of 3 buttons below or call us and place your order over the phone (818/907-6511), and yes, you will get us LIVE (Mon-Friday, 10:00 – 5:00 Pacific time).
  • If you are ready to find a a Hollywood Producer to Champion You, let’s do it. Just choose your package below and let’s Get Started!
  • It will take you to a secure checkout over at our sister company Hollywood Business School (HBS).
  • Just click the buttons and you’ll get a chance to review it all before paying. The HBS site is also the residence of the Bonus Course you get, the Talent Agent Mailing Green Room. Here you go:

Click the best Button  for you NOW!

Choose Your Option To Get Started!

Query Letter & Email Messages ONLY

$ 275
  • You will receive a query letter pitching your script along with 6 Follow-Up Email Message Templates to use for various situations.

Query Letter, Emails, AND Custom Research Of 60 Producers

$ 497
  • This packages includes the query letter, four follow up email messages, and the custom list of 60 producers researched for your script.
Most popular

Custom Research Of 60 Producers – PRODUCER LIST ONLY

$ 275
  • For this, you will get a list of 60 production companies identified as target prospects for your script
As Soon As You Place Your Order, Here’s What Happens:
  • You will be sent a link to the Smart Girls Online Green Room. In the Green Room, you will be guided through the process. You will first get a link to the form to fill out of all the information we need to write your letter and select your executives.
  • After we write your letter, you get to review it along with the Marketing Strategy and you can make as many changes on the letter and strategy as you want until you’re satisfied.
  • Then using our proprietary custom-created SmartStudio™ software, we hand-pick the Hollywood Producers (or Agents and Managers) to target for your script.
  • After we’ve written your letter and picked your people, finally, we will email you all of the materials you need to start marketing to Hollywood, with lots of supporting documents to tell you exactly what to do. 
Once you do THIS, you are “In the Game”

You have actually “bought the lottery ticket,” meaning you are actually giving yourself a chance for your dream to come true. You have taken the actions that make it possible “literally” that something amazing can happen.

If you’re ready to make your dream possible and you want to get started, simply click on the right package for YOU!

Will This Work For You?

Some writers ask us: “Does this service really work?” or “Will it work for me?”

Since we started in 1992, we’ve maintained an 80% Success Rate of getting our clients’ scripts read by legitimate Hollywood producers as a result of their Script Marketing Campaign. No, that does not mean they sold it. It means they made a contact with a Hollywood producer and got them to read it, which is a critical first step.

That is the FIRST STEP and that is what you are paying for with this service — to take that chance on making a Hollywood connection who will read your script for real.

And this is for people who have no connections whatsoever in Hollywood. Writers who have never sold a script or had one made into a movie. For those who have gotten options or had movies produced, great. But it’s also fine if you are brand, spanking new.

The fact is that I cannot guarantee that a top Hollywood producer will buy your script for $250,000 (believe me, no one can).

But I can tell you that your query letter pitch will be professional and you will get a list of legitimate Hollywood producers to target specifically for your script and you WILL be in the game.

You will have your solid list of Hollywood producers to target and follow up with, not just once, but for as long as you wish.

Our clients have had many different types of successes, which could happen for you. What’s possible?

Although There’s No Guarantee, Here's What Could Happen:
  • You might get an “option.”

  • You could make an outright sale of your script.

  • A producer with a connection to a studio could take it to the studio and get them to put the money up to make it.

  • You have a list that you follow up with over time and you get someone interested six months from now.

  • A producer could  read your script, decide it’s not right for them, but they love your writing and hire you to do re-write one of their scripts.

Our clients have gotten their screenplays read by almost every major studio and production company in town, as well as by hundreds of small producers who can be your “proxy,” so to speak, to take your script around to the Big Shots in Hollywood.

We’ve helped all types of screenwriters at all levels take a big step forward their dream. We guarantee that when you do your script marketing campaign that you will be marketing to dozens of  active Hollywood execs who could potentially be the right person to champion it around town to get it made into a movie.

Who Am I to Be Doing This, you might wonder?

Since I started Smart Girls, I’ve worked with over 7000 clients. My writer clients have gotten their scripts optioned, had their scripts produced, they’ve gotten rewriting assignments, and writing assignments from the ground up.

Others have gotten TV staff writing jobsagents, first-look deals, and so on.

When you do a Script Marketing Campaign with us, you set the wheels in motion and open the door to many possibilities for your screenplay and your screenwriting career.

If you are ready to give your script a chance to be a movie, then stop reading this page and place our order!

Too many writers wait too long and then someone else comes out with the same idea and it ends up being a hit – while they’re still waiting on the “best time” to market their script. I would be happy to work with you to take the next step toward  your dream!

There’s no guarantee you’ll sell your script, but you will certain be creating a chance that it could happen.

If you can’t take a chance on marketing your script for a few hundred dollars, why would a producer ever want to put millions into making it?

Just imagine what it would be like to see your movie being advertised on TV with “Now running at a theatre near you!” Imagine it.

Take action now. Give your script that chance and give yourself the satisfaction of doing it.

Choose Your Option To Get Started!

Query Letter & Email Messages ONLY

$ 275
  • You will receive a query letter pitching your script along with 6 Follow-Up Email Message Templates to use for various situations.

Query Letter, Emails, AND Custom Research Of 60 Producers

$ 497
  • This packages includes the query letter, four follow up email messages, and the custom list of 60 producers researched for your script.
Most popular

Custom Research Of 60 Producers – PRODUCER LIST ONLY

$ 275
  • For this, you will get a list of 60 production companies identified as target prospects for your script

Still Have Questions? I Have Answers.

In the past Smart Girls always gave printed letters to clients, but at this point in time, it is better to send by email as your main effort. However, since fewer letters are sent by regular mail, you could use it as complementary strategy to your email. Just ask and we can mail merge the letters and labels for you and send those files for you to print when you're ready.

Getting representation is always a loaded issue for writers. The fact is that if you have GOOD representation, meaning someone who has clout AND also believes in you and your projects, that is idea. But most of the time, you will find it hard to get the attention of an agent or manager if you are a newbie writer with no feature film credits released in theatres or serious TV series credits.

No, we do not send out for you. The standard service includes you getting a spreadsheet with the email addresseses we have for the production companies and you can email them yourself. We do offer as an add on service that we can do the First Contact for you for $200 additional. Some writers like this because it gets one more step out of the way for them, then you can focuse on the follow up only.

It is very rare to sell a screenplay outright. Instead, if you are fortunate enough to get a deal you will more likely get an option, which yields 10% of the sale price.  The selling price will vary greatly depending on several factors. It could range from a $40,000 sale price which New Line Cinema used to pay for an outright sale, to $125,000 or $250,000 for a "spec" screenplay that has potential.

The biggest reason so many crappy movies get made is that a Hollywood executive is held accountable for the movies they greenlight. You have some true creatives -- who get thanked for taking chances at the Academy Awards. But most of the time, executives play it safe by doing things for which they will have a justifiable excuse that the failure was not their fault. These include: Make the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th movie in a successful franchise.... Having a star attached (then they blame the star)... and or having a great director attached (blame them!)...  Hollywood is about making money just like any other Wall Street firm. The question is what will make money. Some execs do have deep souls and want to make movies that promote their values AND make money. Many are doing their job to make money for the firm they work for.

I never use the word "easy" or "easier" with the phrase "to get made." NO PROJECT is easy to get made. But in the spirit of the question, everyone right now wants a hit on Netflix... or maybe Amazon. They offer a hybrid distribution opportunity  for movies, limited run series, and ongoing series. When you have a long movie that can be broken into several episodes for a limited run series, this can mean more money for everyone. But likewise, you may have a story that is whole and complete in itself. First and foremost focus on what is right for your project. Secondly, if it authentically lends itself to be a limited run series or series, that can be promoted as well. 

No you don't. Not to start. The whole process of the Script Marketing Campaign that Smart Girls works with you on is to help you build contacts. Most of our clients do not have Hollwyood contacts they can go to, so we help you "get to know" them. You don't have to know someone up front... although if you do, we can advise you on how to best reach out to them.

My clients have pretty much had every conceivable thing happen, from getting their movie made to getting an option, to million dollar deals being close and falling through, to being hired to write scripts for a company. But you should decide on whether this makes sense for you. Each script is unique as is the zeitgeist. The question is: Does it make sense to you that you need to have a query letter pitch and find the right companies to send it to to give yourself a chance? If yes, then let's get to work on this.

This is a valid concern. Be sure to register your project with the WGA and also copyright your work with the U.S. Copyright office. Once you do that, you have  the first level of protection should someone try to steal your work. If you think someone has stolen your work, then you need to hire an attorney. But your starting point is to Register with the WGA and Copyright with the U.S. Copyright office.

We have no reason to sign a contract as our service and what we provide is published on the internet.  We also do not guarantee a specific outcome as we have no control over what producers think of your idea or project. However, we are happy to sign a non-disclosure agreement which indicates that we will not share your idea with anyone directly. We are not producers so we will definitely not produce your idea.

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