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The Secret to being a WORKING ACTOR
SALES to the ACTOR That is the secret SELLING or as I like to say: CONSISTENT SALES to your CUSTOMER BASE. An Actors customer base are generally Casting Directors, Producers, Writers and Directors, these are the people Actor’s must focus on!! Most actors will tell you they knew from a very young age they wanted…
Read MoreAn Actor is an Entrepreneur
Being an actor is analogous to being an entrepreneur Which means you’ll have to build your business from the ground up. Which means in the beginning you are your agent, manager, publicist and even attorney!! As an actor, you have probably been taught that the path to success is like being on a ladder. The…
Read MoreIs Snail Mail Obsolete for the Actor?
No!! Not for our client and coach Brian Majestic!! He wrote a letter over a year ago that just resulted in 5 recurring episodes of General Hospital. Or our friend Duane Whitaker that booked a straight to offer Guest Star on a FX show based on a letter he wrote over a year before!! WOW…
Read MoreHow is the EXPONENTIAL Change affecting the Acting World?
WHAT DOES EXPONENTIAL CHANGE MEAN? I will let John Kotter from Forbes explain: *Rate of change in the world today is going up. It’s going up fast, and it’s affecting organizations in a huge way. The evidence of this can be seen almost everywhere—life-cycle of products, number of patents filed in the US Patent Office,…
Read MoreWhen and how to get a good agent.
You don’t need an agent to get started. Start at the top and sell yourself directly to buyers. Then, once you get good at selling what you offer, you can hire other people to sell for you. But you may have to school them in how to sell you. There are some “really good eggs”…
Read MoreACTOR Myths posing as RULES
A lot of the rules looming in front of you are just myths. Here are a few myths you may have heard yourself: You’re not supposed to do a drop-off. You’re not supposed to come to someone’s office. You can only do this if you have an agent. If you didn’t go to a good…
Read MoreWhat is the best way for actors to reach buyers?
There are all kinds of customers for the Actor… It goes without saying casting directors are the first people to lend a hand when it comes to you getting paid work. They are the people who open the door for you to get in front of those who will pay you because this is how…
Read MoreTOP TEN MIND F!**S of ACTORS
THERE ARE A MILLION WAYS TO GET THERE. There’s always a different way to do something other than the one that’s not working for you. There’s never just one way to do anything. There’s always an escape hatch, a different tunnel. Don’t stop looking. If you are doggedly determined because you’re unwilling to compromise on…
Read MoreThe TOP 10 Actor Mistakes
After 30 years of working with 1000’s of actors and being a working actor myself these are the TOP 10 PROBLEMS–where I see all actors fail DON’T WORRY I have solutions as well!!! #1 Don’t know your SELL So many actors’ out there don’t know “their sell”. How do you expect to get paid as…
Read MoreCONSISTENCY=Booked ACTING WORK
WHAT I HAVE NOTICED ABOUT CONSISTENT ACTORS is every time one of my clients is consistently taking actions within a year they have had a BIG BOOKING. Never fails. So I recently went to Backstage.com to check out the top 10 PODCASTS for Actor’s and out of 20 listed 60% of them were gone/out of…
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