AniaR
09-22-2012, 08:54 PM
So I have talked about this topic before but it really just hit home for me so I wanted to share. I've said before you should be careful what you put online and how you share it if you're putting it under the professional name you want to use for being a professional mermaid. Anything people find could either make them want to hire you or not. I just got to shoot my first music video! It was an amazing experience. I asked the casting director how she found me- curious if it was from some of my recent media, facebook, someone mutual or what. Well when she told me I had to laugh.
She found me from a totally lame and embarrassing over a year old video I submitted to a contest. I had my old tail, my old hair style, and look nothing like I do now. Terrible video and editing lol I didn't put the video on my main youtube, or my FB. I submitted it to the contest youtube. It had no links back to my website or any contact info. In fact- I tried to find this bad video on youtube and I can't even find it myself!
But they liked it so much they hired me. And they were thrilled with my new tail/look so that was great. So here is something I totally forgot about, am kinda embarrassed about, and didn't even have any contact info on and they still tracked me down. Luckily for me it turned out really well :D
So yeah, keep in mind that the things you put out there even if you don't put much effort into them- are still things people will find and use when they reference you. Hopefully you'll be lucky and it'll be good like it was for me! ;)
She found me from a totally lame and embarrassing over a year old video I submitted to a contest. I had my old tail, my old hair style, and look nothing like I do now. Terrible video and editing lol I didn't put the video on my main youtube, or my FB. I submitted it to the contest youtube. It had no links back to my website or any contact info. In fact- I tried to find this bad video on youtube and I can't even find it myself!
But they liked it so much they hired me. And they were thrilled with my new tail/look so that was great. So here is something I totally forgot about, am kinda embarrassed about, and didn't even have any contact info on and they still tracked me down. Luckily for me it turned out really well :D
So yeah, keep in mind that the things you put out there even if you don't put much effort into them- are still things people will find and use when they reference you. Hopefully you'll be lucky and it'll be good like it was for me! ;)