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leon
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Posted: Fri Mar 7th, 2008 11:02 pm |
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i hate submitting hard copy plays to theatres. you gotta print 'em, address, bind, oh how i wish someone would do this for me...
maybe a home business for a playwright?
how would it work? the business charges possibly a dollar more of the playwright than the playwright would pay him/herself. and the reason is postal volume.
if the business enters the parameters of each play on file in a database. then when an op announes and only will accept hard copy submissions, the business uses the parameters of the op to select the plays that are reasonable submissions.
and the profit comes when instead of submitting ten or fifteen individual plays at $4.50 per play, the business packages a bunch of plays into a small box and mails the submissions UPS ground or postal ground for about twelve dollars or so for the entire batch.
So possibly each playwright is charged about 8 dollars per submission (close to what he/she would pay anyway) and the business pockets the savings. If 12 submissions, that's 12 times 8 or 96 dollars, less printing (20 dollars), postage (12 dollars) and a profit of about 64 dollars.
A playwright can select the limit of submissions he/she would want to make each month. Thus, no crazy bills. Or maybe a pay upfront each month arrangement?
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katoagogo
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Posted: Tue Mar 11th, 2008 12:07 am |
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| The time involved is worth more than a buck.
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leon
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Posted: Tue Mar 11th, 2008 02:03 pm |
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katoagogo wrote: The time involved is worth more than a buck.
no, kato.
each batch of submissions (for one call for plays) should earn 50-60 dollars. mostly, by batch mailing stuff instead of individual mailings.
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katoagogo
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Posted: Tue Mar 11th, 2008 05:15 pm |
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You still have to print them out, put them in a binder and stick 'em in the correct folder.
That takes time. -- at least 5 to ten minutes. On top of that -- you have to wrangle the correct resume with the correct cover letter -- and record it for the customer.
That's more time.
That's more than a buck.
As to throwing them in a box to Yada Yada theater -- I get that box and I'm taking any of them seriously because it is very impersonal.
Theater -- above all else -- is personal.
What you need is a personal assistant.
That's worth more than a buck.
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katoagogo
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Posted: Tue Mar 11th, 2008 08:40 pm |
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I left out the time it takes to get to the post office and wait in line -- plus gas.
And the time it takes for me to communicate with you -- and the fifty or sixty others. Even via e-mail that takes a lot of time.
And the angry phone call because it turns out you didn't send me page 5 or it didn't print out right -- but I didn't check because the couple of minutes that it takes to check is cutting way into my profit margin.
Way way more than a buck.Last edited on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 08:43 pm by katoagogo
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