cooljaan asked:


This is the generation of reality shows, talent hunts and cut-throat competition in every field.  When everything is so commercialized and merit-based, one really needs to strive hard to be noticed and appreciated for his talent. Online talent community resolves many a problem of these talented people.

We come across umpteen talent searching programs on television and innumerable enthusiasts participating in them. The intention behind conducting these television shows is to spot fresh talent in the field of singing, dancing, acting, modeling and a variety of other domains. “I want to be a rock star”, “I aspire to be a super model”, “I wish to win the Oscar one day” – aren’t these some of those beautiful dreams that the youth worldwide has? Yes, it does. And in order to fulfill their dreams some of these youngsters approach and spend a fortune on various talent agencies or attend auditions for reality shows, whichever feasible.  But how many of the really talented people get a chance to attend the auditions? Even if they do get through, how many of the truly talented ones get the appreciation and recognition they deserve?

Our generation is impatient, like a popular ad says. We are impatient to showcase our talent to the world. We are impatient to sit and wait for that opportunity to come and knock our door. We are impatient to rock the world. We want instant solutions for our concerns.

So what’s the solution - one that brings opportunity to your door and knocks till you open; one that provides you a platform to showcase your talent without the grueling auditions or exorbitant spending. It’s also the one that gives you global viewership and puts you in the group of talented youth. Not just that, it gives you a fair chance to prove yourself and be judged without any biases or stereotypes. In short, it’s ‘online talent community’.

Susan Boyle shot to fame with her stunning performance in Britain’s Got Talent but it’s her video on YouTube that made her an overnight world favorite. With more than 10,651,040 views in just three weeks and a newly acquired celebrity status Susan Boyle is easily one of those “get online – get famous” kind and is an inspiration for millions. Not to mention what myspace did to Lily Allen. She turned a myspace rock star with her songs “Guess Who Batman”, “Get With the Brogram”, “The Fear” (then titled “I Don’t Know”), “I Could Say”, and “Who’d Have Known” and each of these had between 250000 to one million plays. Her fame in the virtual world inspired the launch of an online game, Escape the Fear, as a part of viral marketing targeted at people unaware of Allen. As on 18 February 2009 the game had been played over two million times! In short, people have become famous, got celebrity status and due recognition of their talent through the easily accessible “online” medium.

With the advent of internet the world has not only shrunk into a global village but is also throwing numerous opportunities at us, which include the online talent communities. It’s now entirely up to us how we avail ourselves of these opportunities and bring out the best in us.



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Lewis Waller asked:


Becoming a talent agent can be the most unstable part of the whole business… I take that back – it IS the most unstable part of it all. When you’ve gotten yourself and your business established and moving along with a modicum of momentum and a bit of success, then things can generally for the most part be less of a bumpy ride, but while you’re just sticking your toes in the water in this field, the slightest mistake can seal your ultimate doom. To use a somewhat exaggerated (though not very unrealistic) example, let’s imagine you’ve found a client who wants a job in modeling, and you book work for her at some sort of grand opening at a shopping mall where she has to wear a full-body suit looking like a teddy-bear… do you think she might become a bit disenchanted with your services?

Further, what do you think she’ll tell her friends (and her friends’ friends) about your business? How fast and far will her reviews of your services spread? How much worse will it become as the story jumps from person to person and degrades in feeling? What kind of a label do you think this would earn for your business? In the end, how long do you suppose your business will survive? Due to the inescapable fact that your reputation is your calling card, the one single dynamic driving force in finding you more clients, you can plainly see how the outcome could be very destructive. This is the reason the very start of becoming a talent agent can be so critical.

However, becoming a talent agent doesn’t need to be accomplished all on your own. Actually, you can reap the benefits of having many years of experience even if you haven’ got a shred of any – you do this by taking on a mentor. Someone who has had years of experience in an illustrious career in this line of work and has now moved on to helping others find their way along the road to success in this field of work.



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Lewis Waller asked:


Starting a talent management company can have its share of challenges… for example, while you’re still in your meager beginnings, you haven’t yet been able to establish a good and lasting name for yourself or your talent agency, so you’ve really got no kind of reputation as of yet to speak of in order to fall back upon when things get rough. You might make a slight error in booking or fall shy of a potential client’s expectations of being handed to them the stardom that they are convinced that the world owes them. In your beginnings, if any client becomes slightly dissatisfied in your quality of service, word of it will be freely tossed around through text messages on their (and their friends’) cell phones until it has spread like the plague. This is how your reputation can doom you before you’ve even had the chance to create a good one for your talent agency.

You need to first discover where all the pitfalls are to avoid before you decide to be starting a talent management company, and such knowledge can only come from years of previous experience in this field. So how can anyone conceivably have a chance if they’re only starting to gain a foothold in this type of business? This is perhaps the most awkward paradoxes to overcome in this line of work, and the only way to work around this puzzling conundrum is to take on a mentor - someone who has learned and understood all of the tricks of the trade over the course of many years.

The wise sages to hunt down when starting a talent management company are the people who have had many years, perhaps even decades of hard-earned experience in this industry and have after retirement moved on to the task of tutoring and guiding others along the path who are just beginning careers in this particular niche of the entertainment industry.



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Lewis Waller asked:


Do you have any hopes of becoming a talent agent? Being established in this field can be a rewarding experience, but the task of becoming one can at times be like pushing a watermelon through a doughnut. The reason behind this is due to the familiar catch-22 situation; you just can’t succeed in this shaky sort of business without the benefit of the wisdom that comes from years of experience supporting you, and you obviously won’t have any experience under your belt if you’re just beginning in this line of work. But why is having experience so crucial at this stage of the game?

Alright, imagine this… you try to get your hands into becoming a talent agent, and you locate a few clients full of high hopes and dreams who are deeply bent on achieving stardom. If your services fall short of any expectations they may have (which may very well be inordinately high), then with a single text message sent through their cell phone which can spread like the plague at light speed, you’ve now achieved notoriety as being “the agency that sucks big time” which everyone should steer clear away from at all costs. Now that’s kind of a raw deal, isn’t it?

Situations like these as well as others can be completely avoided and worked around, but without the wisdom that comes from years of experience in the field, there isn’t any realistic way of knowing how. But of course, we should not forget about the experience. There’s the path to take – some have had years-long, successful careers in this line of work, and have now turned to the guiding of others who are in the midst of the struggle of becoming a talent agent themselves. Find these people and take them on as your mentors in this industry and you’ll greatly increase your chances of success. This is the one and only road to take in order to benefit from years or perhaps decades of experience while you yet have none of your own.



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Carl Davidson asked:


want to get gigs from talent agencies and managers, there are a few steps to follow. Agents do not work with acts that book themselves on jobs the agent got for you. Here are a few techniques that will make you attractive to talent agents and managers.

Wholesale/Retail Pricing

Let’s say you want $800.00 for a performance. If you tell people who call you or ask you that your fee is $800.00, how can the agent make anything from booking you? Agents do NOT take 10% like in the movies. They want a price from you and they mark it up. If you ask for $800.00, they make book you for $1,200.00 or even $1,500.00. If they do, that means when you talk directly to people who may want to book you, you need to quote your “retail price”. That is the price an agent will charge for your act. If you don’t, there is no way an agent will make money and they won’t book you. When you talk to agents speak in terms of your retail price and your agency price. As soon as you do, you will move way up the pile past your competitors who don’t get this important concept.

Be Happy With Your Share

If you tell an agent you want $1,000.00 for a gig and you find out they sold it for $3,000.00, be happy. You got what you wanted and you weren’t ripped off. The more they make on you, the more they will book you. If you get your price, be satisfied and happy.

Do Not Put Contact Info On Promo Materials

When you create promo materials, do not print your contact information on it. This is a sign to agents that you book directly. Agents do not like working with acts that book jobs and compete with the agency. Have a spot for contact information on brochures, DVDs etc but leave it blank so the agent can fill in their contact info.

Get Work For Them

The best way to get repeat business from an agent or manager is to get them work! If you are on a job they got you and someone comes up to ask if they can book you, avoid the temptation to book the job directly. When you are on a job, all contacts belong to the person who got you the gig. Do not give out cards, take the name and number of the person who is interested. Then, call your agent and give them the lead. You will shoot to the top of people booked by any honest agent if you do this.

Be Easy To Contact

When work comes in, agents have to know immediately if you are available. Be sure you give mobile numbers that work and get right back to them to confirm availability. They won’t accept any excuse. Be sure you have permanent numbers that won’t be changed and check you messages often.

Try Custom Packages

If you are sending a demo DVD of your band or your act, try going to the agency web site, lifting their name and logo and putting it on the DVD. Open with a graphic with their name and contact info at the beginning and at the end of your DVD. The Graphic might say “Acme Entertainment is Proud To Present” It may be too ballzy for them but some agents will be impressed and will send out your DVD immediately to clients or put the video on their site.

If you want to book directly only, you can ignore these techniques. If you want to work with agents try these techniques and you will see a big difference in how agents treat you.

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Lewis Waller asked:


If you’re going to run your own modeling agency, there’s a whole mess of things to understand before you begin in order that you don’t destroy your business before you even start. The bad news is, that a huge amount of the lessons to learn are what you would discover through good, old fashioned trial and error as you go – and much of these errors can completely ruin your business even before you have a chance to get it all up and running. Therefore, how can you run your own modeling agency without plummeting into the many traps that can cause your business to ultimately fail before you establish a name for yourself?

Training is most certainly needed here, but with the complete lack of any “modeling agency training academies” out there to enroll into, it may seem hopeless. This is the reason that many people fail before they even get a chance to get their business off the ground. Needless to say, the primary factor that makes such a business thrive is its reputation. There’s no ifs, ands or buts about it, the reputation you make for your business as you run your own modeling agency is how you attract more business opportunities in this field, and a single wrong decision or mistake made could have everyone labeling your company as “the one that bites” quicker than you can say “text message”.

Luckily however, there exist people who have been in this line of work for many years, who have retired and moved on to more challenging work… these masters search for the industry’s newcomers for the purpose of giving them guiding aid, counseling and mentoring. Being that they have all learned all of the hard lessons and became successful in this part of the entertainment industry, these people are the ones to turn to in order to get the best training and guidance in this profession.



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Lewis Waller asked:


Do you want to start a talent agency? It can be quite a profitable line of work to get into, but there is quite a heap of things to understand and realize if you want your company to grow and thrive, and not become dead in the water even before you get the chance to achieve a foothold in the industry. The sobering fact however, is that it’s nigh impossible accumulate the experiential wisdom required in order to thrive in this industry without first having spent years in the filed, and for this reason, often the fate of new talent agencies are immediately decided from their very start. It’s kind of a paradox… the wisdom of experience is required in order for your business to survive long enough to become established, but you can only get such wisdom after having had years of experience in this line of work. So what can you do?

What you need in this situation is mentoring. Mentoring from those who have spent many successful years in this industry is the primary key. The professionals who have experienced this field of work for many years, who have now retired and hope to explore deeper challenges in the entertainment industry, namely guiding and teaching those of us who want to start a talent agency but lack the experience of years in the field - these are the masters we need to look to as our mentors.

If you’ve decided that you want to start a talent agency, the first thing to remember is that the very beginnings of this kind of venture will either make or beak your reputation, and in turn, your business. Reputation is the life’s blood of how more and better business opportunities in this line of work are generated, and any foul-ups, mistakes in bookings or disappointing any clients even slightly can spell your business’s ultimate doom – you very easily may achieve wide renown as the talent agency that “sucks” with the power of a mere few text messages. This is why you need to take in the training and guidance of these masters in order to ensure your possibilities success.



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Tom Herry asked:


For years, the modeling industry has been plagued with predators and con-men who pretend to be legitimate modeling agents and claim to have top model talent agencies; but in truth, victimize teenagers and con them out of thousand and even hundreds of thousands of dollars. These criminals have spent years perfecting their evil trade and these hapless teenagers are no match for their cunning.

These, so called, modeling agents feed your ego, vanity and need to get what they want. And once you’re victimized, the authorities can do little to help you recover what you’ve lost. Save yourself from the sting of being scammed by being able to identify the red-flags warnings when dealing with these fake modeling agents.

More often than not, these bogus model talent agencies will advertise heavily on television, radio, newspapers and the internet. These scammers will try to lure you by saying that they are conducting Screen Tests for commercials. Then, these fake model talent agencies will claim that they’re clients already appear in several national ads.

Once you bite into their alluring ads, one of their modeling agents will ask you for a prepaid fee for your “screen test”. After they conduct the screen test in a local hotel, they will ask you to buy a copy of the screen test for an additional fee.

The modeling agent will, then, tell you that you’ve passed the audition to lull you into a false sense of security. But almost immediately, the fake modeling agent will ask you for, yet, another set of fees for you to be part of the model talent agency’s introduction program. The modeling agent will claim that they have a high success rate of those who join the model talent agency’s induction program. The modeling agent may also claim that the model talent agency he works for is a member of some independent modeling association to keep your confidence up.

In the end, you never truly get anything worthwhile from all the fees you’ve paid and if you still haven’t given up hope by then, the bogus model talent agency will continue to bleed you for more. Demanding a refund is next to impossible too, since they’ve covered their misdeeds with waivers and receipts and the modeling agent will use these documents against any claim you make. Always be aware of these telltale signs of a scam.

Legitimate modeling agents never ask for up-front fees of any kind. And, real model talent agencies simply ask for casual snapshots of the model applicant. So, don’t let your excitement get the better of you; and always use your head.



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Lewis Waller asked:


To start a talent agency with a modicum of staying power, you’ll need to be keenly observant of everything you do. Obviously, lacking the much needed wisdom coming from years of experience in this line of work, you are quite likely to succumb to some of the inevitable pitfalls that can be found along the path of establishing a name for yourself, and in this industry, this may prove quite destructive. In truth, the primary driving factor in this line of work is your reputation… and due to this, your primal start in this field will decide the ultimate fate of your agency – whether it takes off and succeeds or crashes and burns outright. Even the tiniest disappointment your starry-eyed, perfection-expecting clients have can brand you as “the agency that sucks”, to be avoided at all costs, with just a few cell phone text messages in a mere matter of minutes. Sounds a mite horrific, doesn’t it? So, what can a newbie do?

The benefit of years, perhaps decades of experience in this particular part of the entertainment field is pretty much a requirement. However, as should be plainly obvious to anyone, if you’re just beginning to start a talent agency, such experience is something you’ve likely haven’t a bit of. This is the reason we need to benefit from the wisdom of those who have attained such experience for years before us. Some have had very long and successful careers in this line of work, and now retired, seek to take on more challenging work. These masters mentor those of us out there in the world who are just beginning in this field.

If you start a talent agency under the guidance of these wise sages, we can learn from their many years of experience and reap the fruits of their hard-earned wisdom. This mentoring is precisely what we need to begin our business properly and gain a lasting foothold in this industry, and avoid the many mishaps that can befall us while learning the secrets of the trade in order to really help our agency grow and thrive in the entertainment business.



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Orange Model Management asked:


Today on every platform imaginable, Orange Model Management dominates the spectrum of the Canadian modeling industry. From editorial visibility in the magazines to Fashion Weeks across the globe to the bi-annual fashion and cosmetic catalogues to lucrative print and billboard campaigns to music video and TV, Orange’s ambition towards monopoly is manifest. Orange is a consistent, professional and aggressive operation that works tirelessly for both model and client but most significantly has brought an impeccable brand of corporate discipline to an often-times undisciplined business.

Orange’s credit is a new thrust to service all its client with complete corporate discipline, an ambition that is indeed making clients very happy and making Orange Models more and more of a one-stop shopping destination for models and talent across the spectrum of the market.

We wouldn’t be as   ORANGE    without our clients -

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