Following Up After a Pitch: How to Proceed

Once you have gone through one of the most challenging phases of the sales process — the pitch — it’s time to wait for feedback from the producers, executives or investors to find out if your project is going to be selected.

In this post we will talk about how these agents in the film and TV industry communicate their final decision, and what the appropriate and most effective way to answer them is, whatever their verdict.

1. Managing the waiting

2. Things you should know about a company’s deliberation process

3. How to respond to their decision

1. Managing the waiting

After finishing a pitch, the ball is in the executives’ court: it is now their turn to make a move and decide what they’re going to do with your project, with the promise of contacting you as soon as the assessment has concluded.

However, while they return to their headquarters to start the decision process (the phases of which we will address later in this post), it’s worth sending a thank you email to the professionals who listened to you, showing your gratitude for their time and the valuable opportunity.

In the same email, you can also take the chance to attach new materials about your project, such as the pilot, the bible…