Real
modeling jobs only, please.
The
reason for this post is because we keep getting modeling job posts which
are pointless or inappropriate, and which we cannot publish.
If you have a real modeling job, which is one in which the model is
paid and which is mutually beneficial for both you and the models without
it being a conflict of interest for the modeling market which they are
working in, please send it in.
If it is a modeling jobs which you used to have to go through a modeling
and talent agency to book, this is especially true. Please send it in,
and we will post it.
We will also post it at no charge; it is a free service to post modeling
job offers to our modeling job boards!
Paying modeling jobs for things such as teen modeling web sites in which
models are modeling in attire or in poses which are not age appropriate
are not welcome on this web site, however, as are adult modeling jobs
such as nude videos, models fighting or wrestling, etc. We will ignore
those offers, as we reserve the right to choose what we think is relevant
for professional models (if it is risque and the model is marketing
themselves or become the actual product, and it is not a modeling job
to develop marketing for a service, product, or business, we will NOT
publish it, as we do not think that the exploitation of the model, even
for pay, is a modeling job professionally relevant for this web site,
or any of our sister sites).
Going back to modeling jobs, however, please note that if you make money,
the models need to make money, too, even if it is for “Charity.
Professional models do not deserve to be exploited as free labor.
We will not accept jobs that are also being advertised on the radio
or in print, as well as on television, as we have never seen such modeling
job offers turn out to be legitimate; that is how modeling job scams
work, and if they are paying out money to market a modeling job offer
(especially if it is often and consistent), the models MUST consider
how the party with the modeling job is making back their money. It is
inappropriate for modeling job offers to be used as bait to sell as
model something.
Those whom offer modeling jobs are NOT permitted to seek out new or
aspiring models for jobs if they use our modeling job boards; they must
seek experienced, professional models. If we find out that they are
soliciting new or aspiring models, and that they are considering them
for their “jobs”, their job offer posts will be removed
and they will be banned from using our job boards.
Any modeling job offer which claims that “no experience is necessary”
will be ignored and refused. In our opinion, no business or modeling
job in their right mind would seek out unskilled models to work a job,
as legitimate modeling jobs have overhead to pay out (among that overhead
is what they pay the model) and objectives which will benefit all parties
involved. If you ran a business and needed models, would you want amateur
models to work your job, or experienced professional models to make
it easier to achieve?
Modeling is a very difficult profession, and to imply or state that
it is easy and that you don’t need any experience to book and
work a modeling job is not only an insult to professional models, but
we have to wonder if something else is going on, something unethical,
where aspiring models are going to be baited in with the promise of
being considered for a modeling job only to be sold something.
If you are offering a modeling job, it is our opinion that it is unethical
and that it is a conflict of interest to sell the models who respond
anything, or to require them to buy anything in order to be “considered”.
Qualified professional models already have portfolios, composite cards,
and experience, anyway, and are not in the market for anything that
you are selling. On the flip side, amateur models who ARE in need of
such tools and services are NOT eligible for any modeling jobs, so if
you are in business to sell such things, be honest about what you are
really in business to do. Using modeling jobs as bait in order to sell
a model something is, in our opinion, unethical and misleading; a deceptive
trade practice which could be fraud. Don’t be a scam.
We would like to think that you are smart enough to be able to figure
out how to run a legitimate business. We want real modeling jobs, and
not scams.
Of
middlemen and Florida modeling and talent agencies.
If you are not the actual party offering the modeling jobs, too, and
are acting as a middleman to refer models to a modeling jobs, you cannot
make a dime from referring models to those jobs, in the state of Florida,
unless you are a licensed talent agency with a TA# (this goes double
for model managers, which, in our opinion, are not legitimate businesses
unless they have a talent agency license. We also can’t see any
way that any kind of model management could be a legitimate business
in Florida, unless it is done under an agency license, and then your
get into the other problems, such as being a working conflicts of interest,
and that the agency is supposed to work for the model, etc. Models just
need to manage themselves). Can models trust you and your business sense
if you run a business where you work for free? Can you do anything for
them? We didn’t think so!
Speaking of modeling and talent agencies, they are a middleman, and
they work FOR the models whom they represent. A talent agency is only
permitted to make money by finding work for the models and by referring
them to those jobs; when the model books the job, the agency makes money
by charging the model commission (usually 15-20%) as well as the modeling
job commission (usually 15-20%), for a total commission from the job
of 30% to 40% of what the job pays out, made from charging commission
between the model and the modeling job. THAT is the ONLY way that a
legitimate modeling and talent agency is permitted to make money!
Since talent agencies work FOR the models whom they represent, they
have no business managing the models or telling them what to do with
unsolicited advice, because that would be like an employee trying to
tell their employer what to do. Also, it is our opinion that it is a
professional conflict of interest to allow an agency to manage your
modeling career and to guide your career (another reason why we can’t
see how any model management business in Florida can be legitimate).
How? Simple. The agency also works for your competition, which are other
models whom they also represent. With someone whom is working for you
also working for your competition, can you see how taking advice from
them may not be in your best interest? Can you trust their advice? If
you are a business and your sales people were also working for your
competition, would you lets your sales people tell you how to run your
business, and, for that matter, would you be cool with that?
Realizing this makes all of the people promoting that the modeling and
talent agencies, and going through them and being dependent upon them,
is the only way to have a career as a model look like idiots, doesn’t
it? It also makes the models thinking that they have to go through an
agency look like idiots. Well, when they don’t know what in the
hell they are doing, despite what they say, what do your expect them
to say? They are going to be a mindless follower and say what everyone
else is saying, and that means that they are useless to the career of
any model!
Many modeling and talent agencies in Florida are scams, too, and some
of them bait models in with the promise of booking modeling jobs in
order to sell them something or make money referring models to services.
Many of these agency scams are known as photo mills, and they exist
not to find and refer model into modeling jobs as they claim, but to
sell the models services or to make money referring models to services
that they may or may not need. These agencies are useless, and few of
them actually follow through on their promise to find and book (refer)
the models whom they represent into jobs after the models pay for something,
especially since it is easier making money that way instead of working
for find jobs for the models.
The only way to make sure that an agency is legitimate it to limit their
options, and to make sure that the only way that they can make money
doing their jobs finding and referring you into modeling jobs. This
is why it is important to find a photography company or a photographer
whom specializes in modeling portfolios and talent photography and invest
in a modeling portfolio and composite cards BEFORE you go to any talent
agency.
Another thing about agencies. They are a middleman and they take commission
from both the model and the modeling jobs. They make things more expensive.
There is no point of having a modeling job board on our web site if
we were to enable the agency way of getting modeling jobs.
For those models and people who think that the agency way is the only
way and that being represented by a talent agency makes them legit,
think again. The agencies refer you to the modeling job.... They don’t
book you into it! Once you go to the go-see (audition), or still have
to close the deal on your own. What, did you think that the agency agent
was going to go with you and help sell you? Agencies REFER models to
modeling jobs, they don’t close the deal (the exception would
be if it was an emergency and the modeling job needed a model immediately,
and that is not common).
Also, it is our opinion that models whom use their agencies to screen
modeling jobs on their own are idiots, doing their agency’s jobs
for them, especially when we have information and tools which help models
screen jobs on their own. Make the agencies work for you. Don’t
do their work for them, especially when they won’t discount the
commission that they will charge you.
What is the point of using modeling job boards to find modeling jobs
if you are just going to refer you to your agent? Will you be able to
compete with other professional models when you make things harder to
book you, and add to their overhead (you are more expensive to hire)?
Why wouldn’t the party offering the modeling job simply just go
through an agency to begin with instead of using a modeling job board
if they wanted to deal with agencies; don’t they have a choice?
Is it cool to force your agency on them? As you can see, doing the work
of your agent is not smart, and you will lose work over it. If you can’t
think for yourself and if you are not smart enough to evaluate modeling
job offers on your own, you may as well just stick to the agencies and
leave your career at their mercy, as you won’t be able to compete
with other professional models.
We will not accept modeling job offers from any talent agency, as the
point of our modeling job board is to cut out the middleman and go around
the agencies.
Professional
Collaborations (TFP/TFCD)
Which brings us to collaborations, and how we define them.
Sometimes, experienced professionals collaborate to do things such as
add to their portfolios, which are already established, and to create
images for marketing and promotion. While models should get paid for
any images used for marketing, there are exceptions. As an example,
if the model is usually paid, and the photographer is usually paid,
and they are not in the market for what the other offers (the models
does not need a modeling portfolio, and the photographer does not need
a portfolio), their collaboration is mutually beneficial and the pay
that they would normally make would cancel each other out. IF neither
will directly make money from collaborating, it is usually beneficial,
AND the time spent does not conflict with the availability to book paying
work (there are no conflicts with scheduling, and the collaboration
does not interfere with paying work or booking paying work), then the
collaboration may be considered. In that case, it MAY work, but it is
the exception to the rule of business.
Collaborations are a great way for established, experienced professionals
to network. That said, most professionals are very busy with paid work,
and they need to concentrate on that, and any collaborations will be
the exception to the rule of working a career; no professional can collaborate
all of the time, and 10% or less of their career spent collaborating
is a rule of thumb.
Another exception, too, is the evaluation collaboration, in which the
models collaborates with the intention of being evaluated for a job;
these are the best types of collaboration if the job being offered is
worthwhile.
Unless the model specializes in boudoir, glamour, and nude modeling,
collaborations in these areas ARE a conflict of interest with mainstream
modeling and should be avoided; it will cripple the mainstream marketability
of a model and will make it much harder for them to compete with professional
models and to book modeling jobs. Collaborations in these types of high
risk modeling should also be avoided; models who do this need to get
paid, and paid a lot more than most modeling jobs.
Oh, and collaborations are for evenly matched professionals, only. If
one professional is in the market for what the other professional is
in business to offer, it would be foolish to collaborate, because you
are throwing away money and undermining your business. Also, we will
NOT accept collaboration offers for anyone looking for amateurs, such
as aspiring models, to “collaborate” with in some sort of
TFP/ TFCD “arrangement”, as no professional would do that,
as it is not sustainable in a business (unless you were dumping the
market in an attempt to undermine your competition, or are misleading
models in order to sell to them, and we are not going to help you do
that, either). We have seen way too many unethical “photographers”
over the years bait in new models with the promise of TFP to build their
portfolio, only to try to turn it into a paying job by not being honest
with the model and giving them watermarked, low resolution pictures
for their “portfolio” in an attempt to force them to buy
the images (a big reason why we will not allow posts from “professionals”
looking to “collaborate” with amateurs in TFP sessions,
just like we will not allow modeling “job” posts from anyone
looking to book amateurs.... It just doesn’t add up, and it is
too risky) .
Collaborations are for professionals, only.