emodel.com, Options Talent Group
To Whom It May Concern:
First off, I'd like to thank you for the site. It's
very informative, and a great service to protect people
from being hurt in one of the most dispicable ways.
I worked as a scout for eModel last year, and what I
saw there made me nauseous.
You've heard the typical scout experience in several
other letters, so I won't waste your time describing
it again.
Suffice it to say that I worked my butt off, actually
spent money, believing that it would be made up for by
a paycheck, but I never saw a dime.
I did pick up some interesting information, however.
Did you know that Talent Executives have to maintain
a 50% enrollment rate to keep their jobs?
After an open call, I heard a corporate trainer and
the franchise manager talking, and I distinctly heard
one of them say that girls from a particularly well-off
part of town were great prospects, because they were
gullible, vain, and they had the money to feed their
egos.
I had a sneaking suspicion that something was wrong
from the beginning. The Corporate Trainer tried to weasel
out of the questions that I asked him about the service.
I've been modeling since I was three years old, and
so I was interested in joining the site.
Unfortunately, no one could tell me what kind of jobs
were being offered to eModel members, or whether anyone
had been picked up by big agencies.
They said that the only contact that they knew about
was the initial contact, and everything else was conducted
by phone, so they had no way to track it.
If this is true, how do they know about callback statistics?
It is honestly not hard to find work as a model if you
have drive, determination, and a desire to succeed.
Comp cards don't even have to be expensive, as there
are photographers out there who are more than happy to
do TFP (Time for Prints) work.
OneModelPlace.com is a free listing service for models
and photographers, and I've set up several paid shoots
through that site, and I did TFP work for my portfolio.
(Yes, I only paid for printing for my portfolio and comp
cards. It can be done).
At this point, I genuinely feel bad that I led 50 people
to eModel, instead of pointing them to a reputable photographer
instead.
Some of the people that I scouted had potential, and
I'd hate to think that they've been disillusioned by
this.
B.A.
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