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Topic: How many clips to send?
| Author | Message |
| bjtecson | Posted – 12/31/2007 3:41:36 PM | show profile | email poster If you're a new freelancer querying a publication, how many clips (hard copies) do you usually mail them to keep on file? I was thinking three would be the magic number, but if have several good samples, how many is too many? |
| Cyrus | Posted – 12/31/2007 5:11:11 PM | show profile I used to send no more than 5 when I was on the journalism side. However, today it's easy to put your portfolio on the Web, give people a URL and put all your clips there. I'm not suggesting this completely replace hard copies, but rather be used as a supplement. ------ Cyrus Afzali Astoria Communications www.astoriacomm.com |
| WritingEd | Posted – 1/1/2008 1:41:18 PM | show profile Hard copy vs. links to stories doesn't really matter to me as an editor. What I like is the ability to look up the initial query from a writer and ideally find an article he or she has already written that would make the person a good match for an upcoming assignment I may have in mind. So I guess in my opinion you really can't send too many (provided the packet you mail is a manageable size to file away). |
