Aaron Marcus explains what to do when two agents submit you for the same audition. Accept with one agent, tell the other immediately, and offer to pay them 20% commission if you book it. This keeps relationships intact and avoids paying 40% total to both agents.
Here's another acting and modeling quick tip with me, Aaron Marcus. Normally, I'm not this dressed up when I'm doing my quick tips, but I just finished doing an online audition for a feature film, and I want to get this to you as soon as possible. So instead of changing, I'm wearing a suit for this one. Hey, so here's a situation that happened to me recently, and it's happened to me throughout my career a number of times. It's uncomfortable, and here's how I deal with it, and hopefully this will help you tremendously. If you are fortunate If you're in a position where you are contacted by 2 different agents to attend the same go-see— a go-see is an audition for models— here's a really good way to handle it. I mean, typically, I can tell you, agents are not happy when you contact them and say, well, I've already gotten the call from another agent, so I'm just gonna go with them. So here's something to kinda smooth things out a little bit. What you can do is accept it with one of the agents, contact the other agent, and let them know, You've already been contacted about this go-see, but here's what you want to do. Since they did contact you and they did submit you for the go-see, you are still going to pay them their 20% commission fee if you book the job. Now, normally that makes people feel a lot better. Just so you know that agents, commercial print agents, typically get 40%. 20% commission from us, the models, 20% from whoever is being invoiced for the job. Sometimes the photographer, sometimes the So they're not going to be getting as much as they possibly could get, but at least you're letting them know that if you do book the job because they did submit you, you're still going to pay them a 20% commission fee. And I tell you, that goes a long way. It's not a great feeling if you do happen to book it and you are now paying 40% of what you've earned to 2 different agents. That doesn't feel great. However, it's a smart business move and it's a good way to maintain good relationships with agents. And hey, by the way, I just I just wanted to let you know I've got a great video on how to book go-sees. Click the link below. You can read all about it, and I will walk you through the entire process of learning what you need to do as soon as you hear about the go-see, how to prepare, what do you do when you get to the photographer's studio or the casting facility, techniques to use during the go-see, what to do after the go-see, how do you prepare for the next one. It is an amazing video. Video that you've got to watch if you are interested in getting commercial modeling work. It will give you your best chance for success. Click the link below, get this video. You can watch it 24/7, and you can download it and even watch it without Wi-Fi. It will be incredibly helpful to you. I'm Aaron Marcus, and, and I look forward to talking with you again soon.
