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Wednesday,
November 22, 2006
Is The Agency Way The Only Way?
This
is an old argument, and one that will end soon. That’s when many
models and other professionals in the industry wake up and realize that
sites like Tampa Bay Modeling and Independent Modeling have been right
all along. They will also realize that they have been horribly and maliciously
misled by those in the industry who feel that they have something to lose
and who do not have the best interests of the models in mind.
The modeling industry, like any industry, is all about business. It is
about supply and demand, and it’s about professionals investing
in the tools that they need in order to make money. The industry is what
you make it, and you will get out of it what you put into it. If you want
to go out there and book work without an agency, you most certainly can,
and there is information on Tampa Bay Modeling and Independent Modeling
that can teach you how to. It works, we have proof, and it won’t
cost you a thing; you have nothing to lose by learning from us regardless
of if you choose to let an agency refer you to jobs or if you are one
of those who are smart enough to see things as they actually are and who
get work on their own. We have been set up by professionals who realize
that the only way to improve the integrity of the industry is to help
others and to free them from the limitations that the industry typically
tries to impose on people. Our people not only teach, but they go out
and do it, and we all know that it works.
Show me a monopoly, and I will show you corruption. Show me a monopoly,
and I will show you a flawed market which can never last. Show me professionals
who defend those monopolies, and I will show you compromise and a lack
of integrity which betray their words and claims. What is their motivation?
Are they really interested in helping models, or do they lack the courage
to think outside of the box and to stand against the crowd? Even if their
intentions are genuine, if you show me a “professional” who
plays it safe and tries to be friends with the monopolies, and I will
show you someone who is worthless in the industry. We have too many followers
in the modeling industry. We need leaders.
There is a saying that pioneers take all of the arrows. It is very true,
although the arrows often are little more than twigs which bounce off
harmlessly. Spineless followers in the industry will follow the crowd
and stand against those who they feel pose the least threat, which in
this case would be professionals who realize that model and talent agencies
no longer are the only way. Those clueless, so-called professionals who
feebly try to stand against progress are the first ones to pay the price
for their arrogance and outright stupidity. We have those out there who
denounce sites like ours and who try to “help” models by teaching
them an outdated business model which has been proven to be a flawed conflict-of-interest.
Their motivation? Some feel that they have something to lose, others are
arrogant nobodies who will always be nobodies, and still others lash out
in spite because they cannot compete and are afraid of the threat of change.
Almost all of them are in denial. They have invested heavily into the
only industry with spineless ass-kissing, politics, and the lack of integrity
which come along with getting into bed with a delusional monopoly.
The agency way is not the only way. Show me a professional who tries to
claim that and I will show you someone to avoid, as they cannot help the
careers of genuine professionals. How can I be so sure? Well, don’t
take my word for it. Take a look around.
Sure, modeling agencies probably made more sense back in the days of before
the Internet and low cost professional resources, when it was very difficult
to obtain professional contacts and to market yourself. Times have changed.
While agencies can still be used as a source of modeling jobs, the back
of the old monopoly had been broken, and the agencies know it. Since the
industry has already changed and continues to change, agencies should
only be used as source of modeling jobs and little else. Agencies have
no business trying to manage models or to tell them who to work with simply
because of the potential for ethical and professional conflicts of interests.
I, for one, know that many people who agencies choose to work with are
less than professional and ethical, and that is because their greed comes
before the best interests of the models who they supposedly represent.
Show me a model who solely depends upon an agency for their work in any
market other than a primary, and I will show you a stupid, lazy individual
with limited professional prospects. Those of us who think for ourselves,
actually learn how business works, and work hard to market and promote
ourselves have every advantage over them, especially when we tend to go
back into the agencies and snake the jobs from them with our more impressive
portfolio of experience.
How many businesses in the business world hire employees from temp agencies?
Couldn't it be said that model agencies are set up like temp agencies
and serve the same purpose? As you can guess, it is not the main way that
they do things. The modeling industry is growing up, and it is beginning
to work in much the same way as the real business world. Sure, I am sure
that agencies will always be around in some form or another, but in the
near future they will not be the standard. Even today, the industry has
already changed. Those who say that agencies are the only way are laughed
at by those of us who booking work on our own today, and I will have to
say that they deserve it. Those who say that the agency way is the only
way often don’t know enough about the business to help you anyway,
and that’s why they often hijack other sources and the credibility
of others to make themselves appear to be more legitimate, and that’s
just pathetic. Models who choose to hook up with people who really don't
know what in the hell they are doing and who tell them that the agency
way is the only way deserve what they get. They deserve to lose what little
potential that they have for a modeling career, especially if they are
dumb enough to be misled with this in a market like Tampa Bay. It really
won't matter to those who feed them this, however, as their success if
not what they are interested in; by the time that the models figure out
that they have been swindled, their money and their career will be gone
anyway as those who push the agency way go onto new victims.
~ Danielle Cooper, Editor
Tampa Bay Modeling
Clearwater Beach, Florida
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