"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
– James Bryant Conant
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Today I called Abrams to follow up and get a final yeah or neigh on them repping me. I figured the answer was no, but hey, I thought it best to hear it from the horse's mouth. I called and spoke with Beau and the conversation went kinda like this:
Me: Hi Beau, its Jillian Reeves de Ortiz.
Beau: Oh, Hi Jillian!
*Awkward pause while thinking, huh? He seems pleasantly surprised to hear from me considering they obliviously have NO interest in repping me.
Me: Hi, well, I'm just calling to follow up. I dropped my demo off last week and just wanted to see if Eric had a chance to see it.
Beau: You dropped your reel off last week?
Me: ...Yeah...
Beau: That's strange, I haven't seen it. We were just talking about you a few days ago and Eric said he was waiting on you to bring in your reel.
*What?!
Me: Really?? I literally came by your office and dropped it off last week on Monday, the day of the power outage.
*So he puts me on hold so that he can look for it, comes back and tell me he can't find it but he'll keep looking and give me a call back. End of conversation.
Now...how crazy is that? I always say that communication is everything... but do I take my own advice?? Nooooooo. Well, I guess I kinda do, but it took me long enough! What if I had just decided that they weren't interested in me and didn't bother calling to follow up (which I sooo almost did)? I would have totally seemed like a typical, crazy, flighty actor & probably made Alexis look crazy for referring me. At least now, even if they aren't interested in repping me, we have established a positive history with each I'm sure I would be reconsidered down the road. So following up is ALWAYS good! I mean all they people say is "No". Well, actually they could say "WOULD YOU STOP CALLING HERE YOU CRAZY #$#&@!!"....but even that's not so bad if you think about it...hmmm..ok maybe it is, but I STILL recommend doing it.
Good lesson learned or should I say "reinforced"!
– James Bryant Conant
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Today I called Abrams to follow up and get a final yeah or neigh on them repping me. I figured the answer was no, but hey, I thought it best to hear it from the horse's mouth. I called and spoke with Beau and the conversation went kinda like this:
Me: Hi Beau, its Jillian Reeves de Ortiz.
Beau: Oh, Hi Jillian!
*Awkward pause while thinking, huh? He seems pleasantly surprised to hear from me considering they obliviously have NO interest in repping me.
Me: Hi, well, I'm just calling to follow up. I dropped my demo off last week and just wanted to see if Eric had a chance to see it.
Beau: You dropped your reel off last week?
Me: ...Yeah...
Beau: That's strange, I haven't seen it. We were just talking about you a few days ago and Eric said he was waiting on you to bring in your reel.
*What?!
Me: Really?? I literally came by your office and dropped it off last week on Monday, the day of the power outage.
*So he puts me on hold so that he can look for it, comes back and tell me he can't find it but he'll keep looking and give me a call back. End of conversation.
Now...how crazy is that? I always say that communication is everything... but do I take my own advice?? Nooooooo. Well, I guess I kinda do, but it took me long enough! What if I had just decided that they weren't interested in me and didn't bother calling to follow up (which I sooo almost did)? I would have totally seemed like a typical, crazy, flighty actor & probably made Alexis look crazy for referring me. At least now, even if they aren't interested in repping me, we have established a positive history with each I'm sure I would be reconsidered down the road. So following up is ALWAYS good! I mean all they people say is "No". Well, actually they could say "WOULD YOU STOP CALLING HERE YOU CRAZY #$#&@!!"....but even that's not so bad if you think about it...hmmm..ok maybe it is, but I STILL recommend doing it.
Good lesson learned or should I say "reinforced"!
posted by Jillian at 11:51 AM
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