Marketing Tips For Actors – The Most Crucial 30 Seconds of Your Career
your audition. Repeat.
THAT IS YOUR AUDITION.
It’s over by the time you get to the monologue you memorized and on which you worked for hours with your acting coach or the cold copy script they hand you. The decision to hire you has already been made. Getting a job as an actor isn’t always about the audition. It’s about connecting with the other person. People hire people they like, know, and trust, instinctively and in the first 10-30 seconds. If there’s no one in their current circle of friends and professional contacts who is right for a role and they haven’t cast a star, they seek the first person with whom they are comfortable, is appropriate for the role AND can do the work – in that order! So if most people decide to hire you in the first 10-30 seconds… after your entrance, you’ve got 20 seconds more to go. Spend those 20 seconds being yourself – the most
