INDEPENDENT MODELING
Changing the business of modeling
MODELS WANTED FOR DEPARTMENT STORE FASHION SHOWS!
....
Or are they? Are fashion models needed now? Is there really a need for
models to be booked into all these fashion shows that are
supposedly being produced by so-called major department stores; stores
who remain unnamed and which cannot be found? No experience necessary?
These major department stores are going to book new models who don't have
experience in their fashion shows? So, models are needed for a major department
store fashion show? Models are needed for an upcoming calendar? Are there
really that many modeling jobs with such a high volume that modeling agencies
have to pay to advertise them? Are the businesses advertising these fashion
show jobs real agencies, and, if not, how do they make their money if
it is against the law to make money by referring models into the jobs
that they are paying to advertise? What's the real deal here? Click the
link to find out! Beware of modeling
job scams! You will never have to pay for anything
to be considered for a legitimate modeling job. To be eligible
for a modeling job, you must be an experienced, professional
model who already has a modeling portfolio, composite cards,
and other modeling career tools. If you are an aspiring model
who does not have the tools, you have no business trying to book a modeling
job of any type. New models must invest in the proper modeling
tools before they attempt to book any modeling job. If you do not have
a modeling portfolio, check out our modeling
career services. Please note that you are not obligated
to pay for any services offered on this site in order to use our modeling
job board or the Independent Modeling web site. Thank you.
UPDATED 06/09/09 - MODELING BLOG
UPDATED 05/13/09 - MODELING JOBS
UPDATED 05/13/09 - MODELING SCAMS
INDEPENDENT MODELS HAVE THE ADVANTAGE IN MODELING
By Independent Modeling Director C. A. Passinault
Independent modeling is not Internet modeling. Agency models are limited.
The modeling agency way is no longer the only way in modeling.
The truth about modeling will set you free. The independent model has an advantage over models who choose to be limited and blindly led by modeling and talent agencies.
Published 04/16/09 - Revised 04/25/09
What exactly is an "Independent model"? What is modeling?
Those are good
questions. We will start out by stating what Independent modeling is not.
Independent modeling is
NOT Internet modeling, and don't get confused about that. There is a big
difference. Independent models are professional models who think for themselves,
manage their own careers, and have a massive career advantage over the
typical old-modeling industry model who allows themselves to be blindly
led by a modeling and talent agency. Independent models are smarter, and
highly respected, because they educate themselves on how the modeling
industry used to work, and how it works today. Independent models are
not dependent upon modeling agencies, or on the Internet, to book modeling
jobs. Independent models know more on how to find modeling job leads than
most modeling agency bookers, which isn't saying much because anyone can
do what a booker does.
There is no difference between land-based (i.e. agency represented) and online models in the realm of the independent model. The Internet, much like modeling agencies, is but one of many sources of modeling job leads and modeling marketing available to the independent model. The independent model is not dependent on the Internet or modeling agencies to obtain modeling job leads and to book work, and can work their modeling careers without either one, if necessary. Independent models can manage their own careers, find modeling job leads, and book modeling jobs on their own even if there was not an Internet. The Internet, however, is a tool in their professional arsenal which makes their modeling career easier, but that modeling career is, by no means, dependent upon the Internet. Independent models could have managed their own modeling careers back in the 1960's if they had realized that they could, and a few did. Most models, unfortunately, were purposely kept ignorant by the modeling agencies and the old modeling industry, and as a result, they were dependent upon it and controlled by the people who were supposed to be working for them.
NO MORE! The back of the old modeling industry has been broken! Models have woken up, have declared their independence, and are no longer limited by modeling agencies and the old modeling industry.
Is
Independent Modeling against modeling and talent agencies? Are independent
models against modeling and talent agencies? Not at all. A professional
modeling and talent agency is a legitimate part of the modeling industry,
as long as they know their proper place and do not overstep their bounds.
A modeling and talent agency only makes money by referring models into
jobs. They work for the models, and not the other way around. A modeling
and talent agency should never attempt to manage the careers of the model
who they represent, and have no right to tell models what to do, as this
is a working conflict of interest. How so? Modeling and talent agencies
represent more than one model. They work for more than one model. Those
models compete against each other for the same modeling jobs. It is a
conflict of interest for a modeling agency to manage the careers of models
who compete against each other, as it opens the door to manipulative practices
and shady politics. How would you feel if you has a salesperson selling
you, as well as your competition? Unacceptable? Of course it isn't acceptable!
Yet, it was accepted for decades because models were brainwashed into
thinking that going through a modeling agency was the only legitimate
way to have a modeling career. We're too smart to accept that today, and
so are you.
Modeling and talent agencies work for the model who they represent, wether they are models who choose to be dependent upon an agency, or the smarter independent models. They should only be used as a source of modeling jobs, and nothing more. Independent models are smart enough to obtain representation from multiple modeling agencies, too, and do not allow themselves to be limited by exclusive representation agreements. Independent models are also wise enough to avoid modeling agency scams, photo mills, and other potential conflicts of interest by shopping around for the tools that their modeling careers require. They do not depend upon agency referals for photographers and composite cards. Why? Because they cannot be sure if the agency is making money by referring models to these services, and if that proves to be the case, the agency may be more motivated to sell services to models instead of finding them legitimate modeling job leads. So, the modeling and talent agency states that they have all the contacts and that models don't know what they are doing? Are you going to accept being insulted? A modeling and talent agency is merely a glorified temp agency. In the business world, temp agencies are looked down on, and are not the primary way of landing a job lead or obtaining a good job. Could you imagine the nerve of a temp agency if they told business professionals that they did not know what they were doing, that the only legitimate way to land a job was to go through them, and that they would have to be referred to a resume service in order to get their resumes done? Yes, it is a ridiculous scenario, but this is exactly how the modeling industry has been operating for the past eighty years! The modeling industry has been backwards in many ways for a long time because of manipulative practices and people on power trips. The monopoly of the modeling agency is one of the main reasons for the existence, and the effectiveness, of modeling scams. For most modeling scams, the linchpin of their operation, and the ultimate bait for them to lure aspiring models in with, is the promise of referring them to modeling and talent agencies. With the independent modeling movement in full force, and with many models waking up and opening their eyes to managing their own modeling careers, balance is finally being introduced to the modeling industry. Modeling and talent agencies are being put in their proper place, as models no longer allow them to manipulate them and to limit their modeling careers. Modeling scams are finding it hard to lure in aspiring models, as more and more people educate themselves before getting started in the modeling industry. So, you'll refer models to modeling and talent agencies after you take all their money and give them useless modeling portfolios and composite cards? Big deal. We can find reputable modeling and talent agencies on our own, thank you very much, after we shop around and find professionals who can really give us the modeling portfolios and the composite cards that we will need. Additionally, since modeling and talent agencies are no longer the only way to work a modeling career, and they are only one of many sources of modeling job leads, do you have anything useful to pitch us that we already don't know?
Anyone ever go into a modeling and talent agency and get the gut feeling that you cannot completely trust them? Trust your instincts. You call the shots. They work for you, and it is not the other way around, and make sure that they know that. Don't let a modeling and talent agency take advantage of you and enable them to be insubordinate, much like an employee telling their employer what to do. Think that the employee (the agency) will remain employed for very long with an attitude like that? You get the deal.
Independent models have an advantage over models who choose to only get their modeling job leads from the modeling agencies who represent them because the independent models does not allow themselves to be limited by the motives of others. They make the modeling agencies work for them, becuase the agencies realize that the model may be getting the modeling job leads that their bookers are trying to get by themselves, or from competiting agencies. By default, the model has leverage, and the modeling agency is kept in their proper place. The independent model, as a result of managing their own careers and not allowing others to limit them, book more work than models who are solely agency-represented. The independent model has a serious professional advantage over agency represented models.
A Warning About Modeling Job Scams
Check out the modeling adventure series Born Beautiful
Our modeling job board is now online. We still have lots to do, but are making a lot of progress. We are currently editing content, adding updated content, and are re mapping support files. Our modeling job board is very important to us, because it will help combat modeling job scams and undermine the leverage of modeling and talent agencies as the primary source of modeling job leads (although independent professional models are good at finding their own modeling job leads, and should never rely entirely upon a modeling job board or a modeling and talent agency for their job leads). We now have new checks and balances, concerning the modeling job leads on our modeling job board, to discourage our modeling job board from being misused by unethical modeling industry people, modeling and talent agencies, modeling and talent agency bookers, and modeling job scams. We have also begun contacting businesses who offer modeling jobs to have them post their modeling job leads on our modeling job board. These contact procedures submit additional information to modeling jobs so that they can help us combat, and undermine, modeling job scams. They will be checking the source of their modeling job posts in consideration of any model leads which their modeling job posts generate.
Our modeling job board is updated daily, and contains modeling job leads for models free of charge. There is no charge to utilize our modeling job board and modeling job resources, and it is provided with no obligation to buy any services or products. Because we do not manage models, we are not a modeling agency, and we cannot get paid for referring models to modeling jobs, all modeling job offers are presented as-is, with no guarantees. Models and parties offering modeling jobs assume all risks and potential liabilities, and waive Independent Modeling and our affiliates from all liability and claims of liability. Although Independent Modeling reserves the right to refuse posting any modeling job offer without reason, and we will not post any modeling job offers which are obvious modeling job scams, we will not assume any responsibility for any modeling job post lead published on our modeling job board. We have extensive articles, tutorials, and information for models on Independent Modeling. It is up to models to evaluate modeling jobs and to make sure that they are legitimate before responding to them. Independent Modeling reserves the right to post modeling job ads which are not actual modeling job offers (fake modeling job offers), and are used for helping models recognize and avoid modeling job scams (we will make sure that you know that the modeling job offer is a fake as soon as you read the description, which is accessed by clicking on the modeling job offer from the modeling job board). Independent Modeling will be posting made-up modeling job posts from time to time to help models avoid modeling job scams and to point out modeling job scams; in this capacity, our modeling job board will be an extension to our modeling scam analysis database, and will reference our modeling scam fighting resources.
On a lighter note, we are trying to get our modeling job board to a format exactly like the one described in C. A. Passinault's modeling series Born Beautiful, which was published under a pseudonym a few years ago on Independent Modeling. The new design on Independent Modeling supports that general format. We do not want to do a modeling version of Craigslist where anyone and everyone can spam a job board with shady job offers, or, just as bad, serve as a resource for modeling job scams which steal modeling job leads and then bait models into a modeling scam with the information. Our goal is to provide a modeling job board which is actually useful. At the present time, our modeling job resources already have top search engine performance, and our modeling web sites are easy to find, so we are now ready to get started.
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