101 Business Tips For Actors The Things They Never Told You

Download or read book 101 Business Tips for Actors: The Things They Never Told You written by Ron Bush and published by Wheelman Press. This book was released on 2012-08-11 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acting is a business and there are too many actors who don't understand how the business side of show biz works. 101 Business Tips for Actors gives actors business related tips dealing with such topics as talent agents, casting directors, money, life and how to handle being on the job while also networking. After reading this book, you will have a better understanding of how to market yourself as an actor and how to utilize your marketing materials such as business cards, postcards, headshots and resumes to maximize their impact on your acting career. Even if you attended a college and earned your BFA, you probably were not required to take any business related classes. This book will give you basic instructions on how to keep your acting career from stalling out. As an actor, you often think that taking a scene study or other acting instruction related class is what you need to jumpstart your acting career, when it may be that you are an excellent actor, but the right people do not know it. This book will help by teaching you some basic marketing related strategies to get noticed by talent agents and casting directors, which will lead to more work. Many wonderful actors leave the business every day because the casting directors and talent agents don't know who they are, so the actors are not going on enough auditions and are not booking jobs. Most leave the business completely. The successful ones learn the business of acting. After reading 101 Business Tips For Actors, you will be in a better position to make yourself one of those successful actors who has a long and fruitful career in the entertainment industry.