You have to persistent and you have to be proactive. If you just sit back and say, “Oh, well I see.” You know what happens, I will put this out there and I will let my agency do all the work. Well, you probably would not work very much in the end.
When you find an agency, how do you know how much you should be doing and how much they should be doing in kind of balancing that out?
Well, my agencies are wonderful. I mean they do a lot of marketing for me whether it would be with my car, their email and all these things. But I as a model have to realize they have many models. They have many different models. So, if I do not work with my agency by updating my materials, updating my card, getting new pictures even to this day I still test. I still go to different photographers and test. Because what can happen is your books start looking old.
I am always changing my composite card. I am all every six months. I change that by get a new front to the composite card. I change around the pictures in the back and this is being established where you starting out is probably not as necessary to be so aggressive. But the point is you are giving your agencies the tools they need. But, if you sit back and you have one card and I know models that have had the same card for like ever like five and six years. In New York, I know girls that just have the same front. What happen is they stop working because clients then look at the agency cards. The agency will send a bunch of cards where digital file of all the pictures. And then they keep seeing that the same picture. And what is that to say to someone? They are not working. They are not working. If cards are the same and the pictures are the same, they are not working. And if someone else is not hiring them, why should I.
So that is why it is so important to always keep updating those materials and let your agency work for you. I mean they are approaching the clients. You are not individually working for the clients or approaching the clients, but let them work for you and give them the right.
And another point on that seen they have so many models, they are not going say, sometimes they do. They will say, what is the time to get you a new card. But agencies what you to be proactive and they want you to know that you are serious. They want to know that you are serious about this and you want to model. I mean if you are not updating your card, I mean it is not really their responsibility to be kept on telling to do that. If you are testing and giving them more to show their clients, I mean I am sure they want to tell you, but they have so many people that you kind of to fall to the cracks and then all the sudden you just never hear from them.
So another thing right now is digital shots of yourself. You take them at home just like what I explained very simple, not a style outfit, just jeans or tank tag, plain no make up. Agencies send that to the clients all the time. Because if they are looking at a card, they will say, “Okay, we want to see what she really looks like. So they want to show that. If you do not keep sending them as digitals, then again they do not have anything updated on you.
So by keeping, making sure they have updated digitals. Make sure they have an updated con card and make sure you have a concept flow of new pictures in your book that is going to help them work for you. And you know what, when you do that they are like, “Okay, this person is on a ball and we are going to push them.” We are going to push them. Because when you are dawn and they do not hear from you and they have the same thing all the time, they do not mean to forget you, but you just kind of fall by the way side. And then that person that is doing that is the one is going to end up looking with jobs.
That is a whole another thing if you change your hair. If you change anything about you drastic enough that you look different from your photos. You need to update your agencies and you would need to them, this is how look right now, new digitals, new card, and new pictures. Why do you think I have not changed
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