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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,…

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”…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

  I have this client right now that is just STUCK, and his coach is frustrated!!! 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…

Despite going to a big acting school, I wasn’t told when I graduated that I was now an entrepreneur and owner of a small business. I wasn’t told this because the acting school didn’t know it either. And when statistics say 80 percent of small businesses fail in the first two years, what were my…

ABSOLUTELY  Branding is IMPERATIVE —If I am your customer (Casting director, Writer, Director or Producer), I need to know how to cast you in 30 seconds and with the speed of the world right now you MUST BE CLEAR, DIRECT and BRIEF. People need what they need when they need it so if you are…