Mark Simon Books

LECTURES

TV Power Pitch Workshop
What to Bring to a Pitch
Pitching at TV Conferences
Turn Your Book into a Hit TV Show
Pitch TV Without an Agent
Get a Job In The Entertainment Industry
12+1 Industry Secrets
Storyboards
Workshops from 1 hour to 5 days
Producing Animated Shorts
Improve the Quantity and Quality of Indigenous Animation
Storyboard Workshop
The Thriving Artist
Make over $100,000 per year as an artist.
Selling with Passion
Get More Freelance Jobs
Your Resume Sucks!
Resume MYTHS Exposed
Details below.

TV Power Pitch Workshop

The best idea won’t sell without a great pitch. Learn what is needed in a great pitch and what to avoid. Then practice your TV pitch and get experienced feedback before you’re sitting in front of a network executive.

• 5 of the Greatest TV Pitch Strategies of All Time are revealed
• Interactive TV pitch practice
• 3 Questions You MUST be Able to Answer in a Pitch
• Critique of attendee’s pitches
• Develop killer TV log lines and hooks Speakers include Mark Simon and Jeanne Simon, producer for Nickelodeon, TNN, Cartoon Network and Animal Planet.

1.5 - 2.5 hours

What To Bring To A TV Pitch

What should you take to a pitch for a sitcom vs. a TV movie of the week? Follow up a great pitch with what executives expect you to leave behind. Find out…

When a Full Script Is a Must
What Goes On a One-Sheet
Why a Fully Produced Pilot Could Kill a Deal
Speakers include Mark Simon and Jeanne Simon, founders of SellYourTvConceptNow.com and producer for Nickelodeon, TNN, Cartoon Network and Animal Planet.
1 - 2.5 hours

Pitching at TV Conferences Seminar

Flying to Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Paris and other cities to pitch a show can be extremely time consuming and costly. Save time and money by pitching your concepts at TV conferences. These successful producers will teach you how to:

Land over 25 TV pitches in 1 day
Pitch to international companies in one place
Sign deals on the floor
What to bring
Speakers include Mark Simon and Jeanne Simon founders of SellYourTvConceptNow.com. Mark has landed over 35 pitch meetings in 1 day and he’ll show you how to do it too.
1 - 1.5 hours

Turn Your Book into a Hit TV Show

For authors and publishers. With the right visuals and the right pitch, books can become hit TV shows.
Books that have become hit shows:

8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter starring John Ritter
Dave Barry’s collection of books became Dave’s World starring Harry Anderson
Life Strategies by Dr Phil led him onto Oprah and then his own hit show
She’s Just Not That Into You became a talk show with author Greg Behrendt
Goosebumps
Dragon Tales (which Mark worked on)
The Magic School Bus
TV industry creators/​producers Mark & Jeanne Simon will show you how to:

Develop a killer ‘Hook’ from your book
Pull the story from your words
Discover what Hollywood is looking for
The real money comes from sales because of your book, not of your book. Turn your pages into dollars.
Speakers: Mark Simon and Jeanne Simon founders of SellYourTvConceptNow.com.
1 – 1.5 hours

Pitch TV Without An Agent

Do you ever feel frustrated that you can’t get meetings without an agent? But you can’t get an agent because you don’t have enough credits? There is no need to feel bad after this lecture.

Understand why agents seldom work with neophytes
Land pitch meetings without an agent
Meet dozens of top executives in one day
Look like an industry insider even if you’re a newbie
Mark Simon has landed over 35 pitch meetings in one day, without an agent, and he’ll share his secrets with you.

1 – 1.5 hours

Your Resume Sucks!
Resume MYTHS Exposed

A presentation by Mark and Jeanne Simon authors of Your Resume Sucks! The Simons have worked on over 3,000 TV and film productions as freelancers and they have reviewed thousands of resumes.

They will reveal secrets about resumes that no employer wants you to know.

Discover How to Beat The Number One Screening Technique All Employers Use
3 Tips for Entry Level Job Seekers That Make You Look Like a Pro
How the First Line of Your Resume Can Put You in the Top 1% Of Job Seekers
Avoid the Top 5 Mistakes on Most Resumes
Make Yourself The Right Person For The Job – without Lying
“Just wanted to let you know that your form of resume has been great. I get a response to every resume that I send to prospective employers.”
- Margot McDougal

1 – 1.5 hours

The lecture is based on Simon’s book, Your Resume Sucks!

Get a Job In The Entertainment Industry
12+1 Industry Secrets

This seminar answers the No. 1 question Mark is asked,

"How did you get started?"

Mark is a 20+ year veteran of working on movies, commercials and TV series. His industry war stories will inspire and entertain you.

Job search mistakes most people make.
3 job search techniques that NEVER fail!
Mark moved from Texas to Hollywood fresh out of college. He had no industry connections and still quickly rose through the ranks of film-making and ended up working with such industry greats as Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Tony Curtis, Antione Fuqua and many others. You can do it too.

Whether you're an animator, writer, actor, director or a beginner, Mark will help you jump start your career.

Producing Animated Shorts
Want to win awards?
Want to pitch and sell your own animated series?
Discover the benefits of producing your own animated shorts from Mark Simon, a successful producer who has done dozens of animations and won over 40 awards for his work. His work has been seen on Nickelodeon, G4, Comedy Central mobile, Spike & Mike and soon on prime-time Fox after the Simpsons.

This presentation breaks down the benefits of producing animated shorts: portfolio pieces, festival screenings, publicity, pitches for shows, etc.

Animation too costly?
Don't know how to get it done?
What do you do with it when you're done?
Secrets to get free crews
Land better jobs
Successfully pitch your shows
Hear great war stories about his Timmy's Lessons In Nature shorts as they were pitched and sold around the world on the way to winning Grand Prize in Nickelodeon’s first-ever Nicktoons Film Festival. The lecture is based on Simon’s top-selling text, Producing Independent 2D Character Animation.

This topic is relevant to all forms of animation.

The Thriving Artist
Make over $100,000 per year as an artist.
Award-winning artist, business owner and best-selling author, Mark Simon, captured live at the National Caricaturist Convention on what it takes to be a THRIVING ARTIST .

Mark’s 85 minute, non-stop energy presentation is packed with insider secrets and industry stories you won’t hear anywhere else.

Earn 25% More Money - Without Doing More Work
3 Career Mistakes Most Artists Make
How to Get Great Art Jobs
Fighting the Starving Artist Myth
How to Negotiate the Rate You Deserve
Turn Clients into Evangelists for You
Marketing Mistakes Most Artists Make
Secrets to Get Started as an Artist
Know Your Rights
Job Interview Tips
The Secrets to How Freelancers are Hired
Portfolio Presentation Tips
and much more.
Stop struggling! Mark reveals how you can make more money faster and succeed in your creative career.

Selling with Passion
Want to close more sales?
Want better sales presentations?
Whether you're a salesman, business owner, writer or producer, you're in sales and the passion you bring excites your audience and closes the deal.

Secrets to finding the passion
Tips for expressing your passion
Learn how to make your presentations more exciting and successful from a proven deal-closer, Mark Simon.



4 Day Storyboard Master Workshop

Learn the Ultimate Storyboard Artist Secrets from
Mark Simon
author of the best-selling book
Storyboards: Motion in Art

Mark owns the largest storyboard studio in the Southern U.S. and has worked on over 2,500 productions for clients such as Nickelodeon, Disney, HBO, Universal and Sony just to name a few.

In just four days of hands-on training, you’ll learn what some storyboard artists never do.

How To Make Yourself Invaluable
What Demanding Directors Really Want
Time-Saving Tricks
7 Easy Illustrated Camera Techniques
The Perfect Storyboard Pitch
Great Art vs. Great Story
5 Tips To Fantastic Framing
Story Telling With Camera Angles
The Workshop includes in-class assignments designed to push your visual storytelling.

1.5 hours to 5 days - depending on your needs


Get More Freelance Jobs

Job Search MYTHS Exposed!

E-mailing resumes WILL NOT land you freelance gigs.

Job search mistakes most people make.
3 job search techniques that NEVER fail!
5 Steps used in hiring freelancers
Be in the right place at the right time and land more gigs.

Mark Simon has worked on over 2,700 gigs and has hired hundreds of other freelancers. He will share with you his tricks for landing more freelance jobs.

If you have any questions regarding our events or you would like to
book Mark or Jeanne for your event, contact:

Jeanne at:
JeanneSimonWrites (at) Yahoo.com
407-351-0893

Mark at:
407-370-2673