taxi to provide chart on submiss vs. forwards

[jlaplante]

Here goes: after one month,Submissions: 7Forwards: 0Pending: 15Deals: 0And I thought my songs were brilliant. 0-7

[ddusty]

Here is a feature I would like to see. When viewing the listings, I would love a little icon telling me if i had submitted to that song already. Sometimes I scan the listings when I am not ready to submit. Then I come back to it and I have to cross reference with previous submissions. Just a little thing. Quote:And I thought my songs were brilliant. 0-7 Remember the two most repeated facts here on the forum:1. Someone passed on the Beatles!2. A brilliant song will be returned if it is not on target for the listing!Don't let it get you down.

[michaeldean]

billg wrote:Quote: The song has been returned quite a bit also which makes me feel like it's not genre specific enough for those listings. I know it's not cool to "spam" the listings but sometimes, for me anyway, i have to go out on a limb because there's just no telling what genre some of tunes fall into. What? That brought me up short - are you saying it's not cool to submit to several listings at once?Where does it say that?? Seems to me if you're paying your $5 per listing you should be able to submit to whatever you want.Am I wrong about this? Help me out here...

[billg]

I didn't mean that we shouldn't submit to many listings at once, I was talking about submitting only to listings where our music is a "perfect fit". It doesn't help anyone to submit "outside the box" hoping something will squeak by, I was just making the comment that I feel like sometimes I'm going out on a limb because I'm not really sure where my stuff fits in . I may be getting better at this though because after only about 9 forwards for 42 submissions in about 10 months I'm now up to 20 forwards for 63 (I think) submissions with the additional forwards coming in just the past few months. But then It could just also be a fluke in that for awhile I saw a lot of listings I thought I could submit to. This month I don't see any! -billg

[michaeldean]

Oh. Ok, I guess I mis-interpreted what you were saying. Thanks for the explanation. Still, I'm not seeing how even submitting "outside the box" is "uncool". Aren't we paying for the priviledge?Sorry, I don't mean to grill you over an offhand statement, it's just that the way it was worded made it sound as though it's some unwritten law that everybody's aware of - and since I'd never heard of it, it kind of gave me a start.

[davewalton]

Quote:Still, I'm not seeing how even submitting "outside the box" is "uncool". Aren't we paying for the priviledge?I think he meant outside the listing "box". If you're a car salesman and I come to you wanting a blue truck, why would you show me a gray SUV? Same with the listings. These are (usually) very specific things that the record label, music supervisor, etc are coming to Taxi for and Taxi screens so that they only get what they are looking for (i.e. blue pickup trucks). Even if you have the snazziest grey SUV and it beats the blue pickup in all areas (appearance, performance, etc), it won't make it past the screeners because their client isn't looking for a grey SUV. For me at least, once I got pickier about the listings I submitted to, things started happening. My forward ratio went up and my submission fee outlay went down. If you submit music that's "outside" of the listing (i.e. not what its asking for) then your forward ratio goes down and your submission fee outlay goes up... probably not what any of us wants.Outside of Taxi, same thing. A music supervisor for a TV show asks for "Armenian Electronica", if you send anything but that it's a waste of time.HTH, Dave

[djdeweese]

Nice to see the stats in this thread. Since this week is my one year anniversary with Taxi, I wanted to post my numbers too:70 songs submitted for 35 listings17 songs forwarded for 10 listings6 songs pending for 5 listings0 deals, 0 calls/contactsThat gives me an average of roughly 24% forwards by songs (16 songs out of 70) or 29% by listings (10 listings out of 35). I'm trying to get better at reading the listings and (hopefully) learning from criticism that show up from multiple reviewers to improve my ratio for the next year. We'll see...

[karyn]

23 submissions and 2 forwards before I cancelled. I just rejoined. I love how easy it is to submit on line now rather than snail mail.

[marcblack30]

21 Total submissionsDispatch 6 returns2 forwardsStandard listings6 forwards 4 returns3 pending0 dealsmember since May '07

[daniel481]

Something like 35 submissions since the beginning of september and 13 forwards, 0 deals so far.I'm looking forward to the first one!Dan