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Boost Your Success Rate! Professional Actors Use These Tips

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Glow and grow your awesome IMAGE.
These pointers ensure you enjoy a thoroughly enriched, long lasting career.

Although this post is directed mostly at those in the entertainment industry, people from every career sector can benefit from some of these important tips.  Remember these tips in any “role” you’re playing in life and you’ll be sure to quickly advance ranks.

 

Tips to land your next big audition, get more call backs

Know your poses & best angles! 

Eat Healthy  & Keep Fit!

Own A SOLID, Updated Headshot and resume.
Have a film reel or video introduction. Video is a huge asset now.

        Only post your best stuff, submit only your best self-tape takes, and proofread and edit often!

Be Early.
If you’re early, you’re on time. If you’re on time you are late and if you are late you’re fired.

No excuses. No one wants to hear an excuse. You are always in control.

Be a communications master. Be concise. Less words is always better.

Have your own marketing material like business cards or headshots.

For aspiring actors: Do what directors/casting ask. Read the lines perfectly. Listen to their instruction carefully. Don’t improvise unless they request it. Remember: you are not there to ‘play you’  – you are there to play their character. You are the actor, meant to bring a theatrical idea to life.

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Consider wardrobe, image, and brand. Boost your Instagram Account by taking THESE STEPS and start by getting more RT’s to potentially gain more Twitter Followers.

Keep Studying! Know your lines. Find Ways to Make Studying Work for you.

ALWAYS go to auditions. Submit to every audition you’re invited or attend any job interview. Go to them all.
BE EARLY. Submit documents early. Pay dues early.
You never know who you will meet or who will see your self tape.

Get a great Make Up Artist or stylist.

Hire someone to help you with branding, marketing and PR.  It’s worth it.

Diversify. Hone your talents. Have more than one talent. & know what you are good at.

Have strong social media presence across multiple relevant platforms.

Always invest in your career. It costs hundreds of dollars to do head shots, sign up to casting websites, get memberships to casting sites, make a demo reel,  and/or retain an agent.
It is worth every penny if you are having fun doing it and it brings you joy.

Employ these helpful tips, attend important red carpet events, ace your next script read or take perfect pictures at your next photo call.
Follow these tips if you are a model, performer, actor/actress and are serious about growing your career!

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Canadian Feature Film Actress & International Model. Qualifications include live television, feature film, radio experience, TV Host, event production, & PR. Theresa flexes her knowledge of brand development and marketing while pursing a career in the arts industry in the heart of downtown Toronto. Skilled as a strategic marketing & planning expert, Theresa Longo travels nationally and internationally as a Corporate Brand Ambassador and loves to write and record original music.