I’ve been signed! Now what?
September 18, 2009 by Joe Edelman
Filed under Modeling
Do I sit at home and wait for the phone to ring? Hell NO! Not if you are serious about being a model.
You have to understand that 5 minutes after you left the agency another pretty girl walked in and half an hour later another, and so on and so on. That process repeats itself day in and day out. How is an agency going to remember you with the constant stream of new models walking through their doors?
As if this weren’t bad enough, let’s say right after you leave the agency a client calls wanting a girl for a print ad. They want someone with your look and your age range. You are still fresh in the agent’s mind. In fact, your comp card may still be sitting on her desk. Chances are, unless you have a very unusual look that the particular client wants, you will not be called for the job even though you would be perfect for it. Why? The agency doesn’t know you. They aren’t going to take a chance on a big job with someone they have never booked before.
So what do you do- you are now just one of many pretty faces, and the agency doesn’t know you and therefore doesn’t trust you with higher paying jobs, like print jobs.
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