Pitch organisations that have already posted a dated video need
For US production companies: 300 contacts fitted to your work, researched within 4 business days of your order and emailed in your name. Ask, and we refund what you paid.
Pitch-Now Dated-Need Finding for Studios
No payment and no commitment.
Email us hello@studiobiddesk.com
If you ask for your money back, we first offer to credit what you paid toward a redo or another of our offers. If you still want a refund, we refund what you paid. We make that offer once and do not press it, and a refund is never more than you paid. Refunds go back by the method you paid with. Guarantee
When referrals slow, the slate empties
Without outside help, studios rely on referrals and their own outbound. When referrals slow or a project wraps, the pipeline dries up and crews and edit suites sit idle. Outbound that works takes selling hours: researching who needs video now, writing cold emails and answering replies. That is time an executive producer would rather spend bidding and producing.
What a batch gives you
A batch is one month of researched outbound for one studio. We start only from organisations that have posted a public, dated video need: an open RFP, a video-producer job post, a launch or a campaign. We write to their decision-makers in your studio's voice, from your own domain, and send the interested ones your booking link.
- 300 contacts at brands, agencies and public bodies with a public, dated video need, each with the signal's link and date, why it fits your work, and the decision-maker's role, name and business email from public pages
- A 3-4 email sequence to each contact, written in your studio's voice from messaging you approve
- Sending from mailboxes on your own secondary domain, in a separate client workspace, with your postal address and an opt-out in every email
- 30 days of reply handling from the first send, sending interested prospects your booking link
- A weekly status email
- A batch report of contacts, sends, replies and booked meetings, with a file of contacts and replies you can import into your own CRM
- After a first paid batch: one batch a month, leaving out contacts already written to
See the research first: your free dated-need finding
Before you pay anything, we build your free dated-need finding. It lists 10 brands, agencies or public bodies with a public video need, open or dated within the last 60 days. That can be an open video-production RFP with its buyer and close date, a video-producer job post, or a launch or campaign announcement. Each is matched to your work type, with its link and date, why it fits and the role to write to. It also holds one draft opening email in your studio's voice.
- It does not say that any of these organisations will reply, meet you or hire you.
- Each need is open or dated within the last 60 days when we build it; RFPs close on their stated dates.
- Decision-makers are named only where a public page names them; otherwise you get the role.
- We read RFPs only for buyer, scope and close date, not their terms or your eligibility.
- No payment, no commitment, and nothing is sent in your studio's name.
- One per company, identified by its web domain.
Email hello@studiobiddesk.com with your studio's website or AICP listing. That is all we need: we build the rest from public pages.
How it works
Get your dated-need finding
We send it with our first email, or when you email hello@studiobiddesk.com with your website. It needs nothing from you.
Reply with your questions
Reply by email. We answer by email and, when you want to go ahead, email you the order terms for a first batch.
Set up once
You buy a secondary sending domain and add its DNS records, send your booking link and postal address, and approve the email sequence.
We email 300 contacts in your name
Each contact gets a 3-4 email sequence from your domain. The batch is billed on the day its first emails go out.
Replies, meetings and your report
We handle replies for 30 days and send interested prospects your booking link. You get a weekly status email, then the batch report with an importable file.
Price
- USD 5,500 per batch of 300 researched contacts, billed when the batch starts sending
- After a first paid batch: USD 5,000 a month for one batch a month
- A batch is billed on the day its researched list is delivered and its first emails go out.
- The monthly plan is billed at the start of each month and continues month to month until you cancel.
- No minimum term and no setup fee.
- Cancel before the next billing date by replying CANCEL to any of our emails.
- Want more than 300 new contacts in a month? We offer one extra batch at USD 5,500, and nothing extra is billed without your consent.
Not included
- No cold calls, texts or LinkedIn messages
- No pitching, bidding, attending meetings or writing treatments or proposals for you
- No access to your CRM, mailbox or calendar account
- No contact data from a sending tool's lead database; contacts come from public pages
- No legal reading of RFP terms or eligibility; we read only buyer, scope and close date
2-Meeting Guarantee
If your first paid batch books under 2 meetings with named marketing decision-makers at organisations with a dated video need within 45 days of its first send, we run your next batch at no charge.
A meeting counts when a named marketing decision-maker at an organisation with a dated video signal books through your studio's booking link. The 45 days run from the batch's first send. The remedy is one more batch, not a refund, and it applies to your first paid batch only. Full terms: https://studiobiddesk.com/guarantee
FAQ
You're new. Why would I trust you with my studio's name?
You don't have to start on trust. We are a new business, so we show the work first: your dated-need finding lists 10 needs, each with a link you can open and check. Nothing goes out in your name until you approve the messaging, and it goes from a domain you own. If your first paid batch books under 2 meetings within 45 days of its first send, we run your next batch at no charge.
Will this win us projects?
We cannot promise that any organisation will reply, meet you or hire you. A booked meeting means a named marketing decision-maker at an organisation with a dated video signal who books through your link. Meetings are not projects: pitching, bidding and winning the work stay with you.
What do we have to do?
For the dated-need finding, nothing. For a paid batch, once at onboarding: buy a secondary sending domain and add its DNS records, send us your booking link and postal address, and approve the email sequence. You may add reel links then too. We never need access to your CRM, mailbox or calendar account.
How long does a batch run?
Sending starts once your domain is set up and you have approved the messaging. Billing starts on the day of the first send, and reply handling runs for 30 days from then. You get a status email every week and the batch report at the end.
Who keeps the domain and the contacts?
You do. The sending domain is yours, and each batch report comes with a file of every contact and reply to import into your own CRM. If you don't receive that file within 5 business days after a batch's 30 days of reply handling end, we keep handling that batch's replies at no charge until you do.
What if a contact's need is old or its link is broken?
Every contact should carry a working link to a public video need dated within the last 60 days. If one does not, tell us within 14 days of the first send and we will replace it with one that does within 5 business days.
How do billing and cancelling work?
Your first batch is USD 5,500, billed when its first emails go out. After that, one batch a month is USD 5,000, billed at the start of each month, month to month, with no minimum term and no setup fee. To cancel, reply CANCEL to any of our emails before the next billing date.
What is not included?
No cold calls, texts or LinkedIn messages. We do not pitch, bid, attend meetings or write treatments or proposals for you. We do not access your CRM, mailbox or calendar account. We read RFPs only for buyer, scope and close date, never their legal terms.
See your dated-need finding first
Email hello@studiobiddesk.com with your studio's website. We send your dated-need finding, answer your questions by email, and send the order terms when you want a first batch.