Comments on: MTV Veteran: “My Pitching Secrets. The Top 5 Mistakes Producers Make. And How to Avoid Them!” http://www.documentarytelevision.com/commissioning-process/mtv-veteran-my-pitching-secrets-the-top-5-mistakes-producers-make-and-how-to-avoid-them/ About the business of the factual TV business / Now in 123 countries Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:32:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Tom Stevens http://www.documentarytelevision.com/commissioning-process/mtv-veteran-my-pitching-secrets-the-top-5-mistakes-producers-make-and-how-to-avoid-them/#comment-129 Tom Stevens Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:29:46 +0000 http://documentarytelevision.com/?p=4602#comment-129 Peter! Great information…since meeting you back in May at Michelle DeLong’s conference, we have retained an entertainment attorney and made in-roads with eight major networks. Yes, still shy of our first sale, but as a production company I have burned the boat behind me and have no other course than to succeed.

I would be happy to share the inside information I’m collecting, through hard work and persistence, as I move forward. Thanks to you my job is a more focused proposition. When budget warrants would love to retain you.

Tom

]]> By: Paige AllOvertheMap http://www.documentarytelevision.com/commissioning-process/mtv-veteran-my-pitching-secrets-the-top-5-mistakes-producers-make-and-how-to-avoid-them/#comment-128 Paige AllOvertheMap Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:20:13 +0000 http://documentarytelevision.com/?p=4602#comment-128 Great article! I love what you wrote about the goals for the first pitch meeting in #1. So true. The goal should be to make a connection with the people in the room and make them feel like they could work with you at some point in the future. Look beyond the pitch meeting.

]]> By: James M Conkle http://www.documentarytelevision.com/commissioning-process/mtv-veteran-my-pitching-secrets-the-top-5-mistakes-producers-make-and-how-to-avoid-them/#comment-127 James M Conkle Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:47:19 +0000 http://documentarytelevision.com/?p=4602#comment-127 GREAT stuff. For most of us that are new to this process we are more likely to shoot ourselves in the foot,, if not the mouth.
As a huge fan of Peter’s, now adding Sohini to my list, I have come to read and reread all of his posts.
Thanks for these important words of wisdom.
Take care and see you on the road.

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