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New
Tampa Bay Models:
Modeling
scams can cost you your career! Don’t be misled or exploited! BONUS:
Upcoming features on Tampa Bay Modeling, Summer 2011!
If they
have to mislead you in order to get your business, can they really do
anything for your modeling career? If
they rip off Tampa Bay Modeling and their competition by plagiarizing
(taking our information and passing it off as their own “advice”,
without citing the source) what is published on web sites, won’t
they steal from you, too? Can you trust them? Think about this the next
time that they advertise a modeling job, they make you go through them
in order to contact the job, and they end up selling you overpriced services,
instead. Deceptive marketing and trade practices are fraud! Modeling
job scams are the number one modeling scam in Tampa Bay,
followed by modeling school scams, model management scams and modeling
agency placement scams, the latter three which also use modeling jobs
as bait to lure in prospective victims. Also, do not trust anyone who
offers services which they are not licensed to do; if they cannot legally
make money doing what they offer, they are either lying to you or don’t
know what they are doing, and in either case, they won’t be able
to do anything for you but take your money and cripple your potential
modeling career. You must also consider this if you see any content from
Tampa Bay Modeling, or content which is on the web sites of their competitors,
before doing any business with them. Avoid them if they steal from others.
There are times in your modeling career where you will have to invest
in it. Just make sure that those who you buy from are qualified, and that
they are honest about what they are really in business to do. Also, check
references, and make sure that their work is appropriate, and relevant,
for your modeling career. New models should avoid any high-risk modeling
work, especially in their modeling portfolios; avoid provocative poses
(make sure that you would be comfortable showing your parents the pictures,
as a rule of thumb. Sexy has no business being in the portfolio of a new
model, and it CAN backfire!), skimpy bikinis, glamour modeling, boudoir
modeling, and any underdressed or clothing-optional modeling. They are
all legitimate fields of modeling, but they are too dangerous for new
models; you have to have experience, and know what you are doing, before
attempting any modeling which is high-risk. High-risk modeling work can
cripple or destroy your marketability as a model, and make it much more
difficult for you to book most modeling jobs. Also, pictures cannot be
undone, and once they are out there, you have no control over them.
Speaking of control over how pictures will be used, make sure that you
have the terms of any photography shoot, in writing, before you book the
shoot, and make sure that any modeling release that you sign supports
what was already agreed upon. If it is different, DON’T SIGN IT,
and take both the release, and the original written information, to your
attorney! A change of the terms and conditions after the job is done is
a scam, because it was misleading!
Also, if you book a shoot or some modeling job, and the terms change,
without warning, just before the job, let them know that it is inappropriate
for them to do so, and walk away. Keep everything in writing so that you
have evidence to back you up if they blame you. Stick to your guns, and
do not allow anyone to take advantage of you!
Get everything is writing, and save everything for evidence. Verbal agreements
have no business in a modeling career. If they mean what they say, they
will put it in writing, and they will also sign it!
We published this warning now because of the recurring instances of modeling
scam activity in the Tampa Bay area, because we have found some of our
content and content from Independent Modeling on other web sites, and
because we have a ton of new content, modeling tools, modeling pay vouchers,
forms and agreements, interactive tutorials, video tutorials, and other
cool features coming to all of our modeling sites the summer of 2011!
Also, as an exclusive to Tampa Bay Modeling, is a new story series about
a fictional Tampa Bay model named Kat (which is short for Katherine),
who is a modern independent model. Kat finds and books modeling work on
her own, uses several different modeling and talent agencies as an additional
source of modeling job leads to cover all of the angles, and she also
takes the time to investigate modeling scams and make them accountable,
taking them down! This story series, by C. A. Passinault, is very much
in the spirit of Passinault’s previous modeling serial on Independent
Modeling, Born
Beautiful, which was published on the site back in 2004
(and, for the convenience of our readers, is now also available here on
Tampa Bay Modeling). Born Beautiful was a series of two short stories
about an independent model named Cammy, and dealt with her booking work
as a model, her personal life, and some insecurities that she had to work
through. Born Beautiful was also set in 2004/ 2005, and a lot has changed
in the industry since then (Born Beautiful may be continued as a story
series, continuing years later in the present day with its third episode,
or maybe even continuing set in back in that time period, but Passinault
has not decided, yet, if he will continue the series, as he wants to focus
on new properties). Kat, the character in the new story series, is much
more experienced, and a lot more sure of herself because of that experience.
More accomplished, knowledgeable, headstrong and sure of herself, Kat
will be spending a lot of time doing what all professionals have an obligation
to do: to police the industry and to help bring accountability and order
to it. Kat will be constantly balancing her career and working as a model
with her scam fighting activities. Kat will also balance her modeling
career with the unpleasant job of putting clueless portfolio networking
site models, models who refuse to invest in their careers, in their place,
while taking jobs from other models. The new story series, which is still
untitled, is set in the present day. The first of these stories will be
published this summer, and will also be featured in C. A. Passinault’s
upcoming Advanced Model modeling book, which will, now, also have bonus
sections added for actors and talent.
There’s more, too. Expect a lot more modeling stories and anecdotes
to be published on Independent Modeling, Advanced Model, Florida Modeling
Career, and, yes, even on Tampa Bay Modeling. We are going to inform while
we entertain! Similar work, relevant to their prospective industries,
will be published on the other Tampa Bay Talent and Independent Talent
sites (Passinault wants to get back into writing fiction, which was his
first love as a writer).
Regarding Tampa Bay modeling scams and fighting modeling scams on Tampa
Bay Modeling, our new modeling scam analysis database, coming this summer,
will have an easy-to-use scenario-based front end so that you can easily
figure out if something is a scam or not, what could happen if you were
scammed, and how to avoid and address it. It will also lead to a new generation
of free, easy to use tools which can help you fight back against the modeling
scams and help maintain professional standards and integrity in the Tampa
Bay modeling industry!
PUBLISHED 05/13/11
UPDATED 05/13/11
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