Aaron Marcus explains when to stick with one agent and when to add more. Stay loyal if your agent books you auditions and understands your strengths, but add agents in markets where yours has no connections. Bigger agencies aren't always better: they focus on high earners and move slowly with new talent.
Hi, welcome to another Acting and Modeling Quick Tips series with me, Aaron Marcus. And today I want to talk to you about how many agents should you have. Well, the reality is there is no one absolute answer, but let me tell you, there are a couple of suggestions that I do have. If you have one agent that is submitting you a lot, you're getting really good auditions, you're being sent out on good go-sees, you've got a good working relationship with the agent, they really understand you, Then that's easy. You stay with that one agent because things are going well. Why would you want to break up a good relationship here? If you find that you want to explore, you want to go to other markets as well, and that's not necessarily any negative statement on your agent, but, you know, your agent might not have the information about the auditions and go-sees for other markets, you know, then it's certainly, it's a good idea to explore. It does make life a little bit more complicated. But it is really helpful. One thing though, I do want to mention is bigger is not better. And sometimes people will leave a smaller agent that they've had success with to go to a bigger named agency. And that's not always good. Sometimes it is, but not always because, you know, at a really big named agency, the people who are working a lot, people who are bringing in a lot of money to the agent, You know, they're the ones who are going to get top priority. And it might take a long time, and hopefully you will at some point, but it might take a long time for people to start, you know, really understanding you and really appreciating you and really sending you out and representing you in the way that you would like. So, you know, if things are going well with a smaller agent, I wouldn't necessarily just drop them to go to a bigger name place. The other thing too is, you know, you can have multiple agents in different markets. So, you know, if you have an agent in a If you have a smaller area and you want to work in a larger market, then keep both. I mean, I don't see any reason why you would have to leave one and go to the other. And if the agent in the other market does ask for an exclusive contract, then find out what exactly does that mean. Does that mean you're exclusive to that other market, or does that mean exclusive everywhere? Because exclusivity can mean different things in different kinds of contracts. So the reality is This is your decision as to what you want to do. Look, if you want to explore and you want to have multiple agents, that's great. But like with any other kind of relationship, if things are going well, you don't want to just drop people very quickly just because somebody else has a bigger name. So look, if you, if you found this helpful and you liked it, please, if you're watching this on YouTube, you know, give it a thumbs up. If you're watching this on Facebook, Please like the page, and that way you will always receive information, new acting and modeling information that I post here. A couple other quick things. If you have one agent that you are working with, please leave a comment. I'd love to hear what you have to say. If you are freelancing and you're working with multiple agents, let us know about it as well and tell us about some of the advantages or maybe some of the disadvantages of that. And if you have any follow-up questions, you can always reach me at my website, howtomodel.com. You will find tons of other great video blogs there. Also, you can always reach me at my Facebook page, which is facebook.com/howtomodel. I'm Aaron Marcus. I look forward to talking with you again soon.
