10/08/11 02:25 Model Advice
Model Advice
One of the few things I know I did right with
model
Bria Myles was create a
website for her early on to brand her image.
From the beginning, we stayed away from FLASH
and anything gimmicky and kept the website
basic, clean, and easy to navigate.
Interestingly, Bria didn’t like the site at
first, but later she came to love it because of
its simplicity, which has retained its appeal
long after its debut.
Online Resume
A good site tells people you are serious and
reachable in a professional manner. It separate you
from the hoards of models playing cat-and-mouse games
with Facebook pages that are privatized to anyone
outside of the people they party with,
pseudonymous Tumblr pages, or Twitter pages
that may tell people a little too much. A well
thought out website tells people just what you want
them to know, provides attractive images of you, an
easy way for people to contact you, and updates about
your latest projects. In many ways, it’s like an
online resume. One of Bria’s biggest jobs as an
actress in
2K Games'
Don King Presents:
Prizefighter came through a producer
reaching out to her through her website. In
addition to Prizefighter, Bria got many other
jobs through her website, including lucrative
hosting opportunities.
The Financial Payoff
As you gain a following because of appearances in
music videos and magazine covers, more and more
people will visit your website. What that means is
you can start making advertising money from it. In
2007, I added
Google Adsense on Bria’s
website, and it was one of the best moves we’ve
made. At one time, Bria’s site used to have an
Alexa traffic ranking of about 300,000, which is
pretty high for a site not selling any galleries
or memberships. Some days, her website would
earn $50 in Adsense revs just sitting there.
There were months we made $500+ on her website.
The more popular you become, the more ad
revenues you will make, without raising a
finger. As an urban model, it’s important to
maximize your streams of revenue, as you will
not be hot forever. The ad revs from a website
could pay for a new shoot (which will keep you
hot) and other marketing tools.
Those are just a few reasons why creating a
professional website to brand yourself is worthwhile.
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