Tampa Bay Modeling and our allies are preparing to launch a renewed offensive in our ongoing conflict in the modeling industry. This offensive, which will last for years, as well as obtain and maintain an intensity not seen since this all began with Independent Modeling back in 2001, is for change in the modeling industry. The impact will be felt the most in the Tampa Bay market. Tampa Bay Modeling will be expanded, with new resources and tools. Independent Modeling will be relaunched, with a rebooted web site which has been in the works since 2010, and Independent Modeling will become the core resource for all of our modeling resource sites. Florida Modeling Career, which launched back in the summer of 2008 and has been adrift on the Internet since, will become fully operational. Advanced Model, too, will finally launch this Spring.
Tampa Bay Modeling will update our existing regional support sites and will deploy new ones, too. Tampa Modeling Agency and Tampa Talent Agency will be expanded. Tampa Talent Scams will become a huge scam activity database and scam fighting site. Act Model Now will also be expanded. We are now deploying our new Tampa Model Management site, which will neuter the attempts of agencies which try to manage models, as well as educate everyone on why model management simply does not work in Florida. Agency-represented, independent, or a blend of both, models should manage their own careers. Agencies managing the models who they are supposed to be working for is a blatant working conflict of interest, in our opinion, and anyone who is not an agency cannot make any money finding and referring models that they supposedly manage into jobs, so that pretty much counts them out. Well, that is, unless you want to be blindly misled and ripped off. Tampa Bay Modeling has yet to see a single model management business in the Tampa Bay market, which is not an agency, turn out to be legitimate.
Despite modeling and talent agencies being a legitimate part of the modeling industry, we are now at the point that we no longer trust Tampa Bay modeling and talent agencies. They did it to themselves. We keep discovering that supposedly-reputable talent agency owners in the Tampa Bay area are allowing their bookers to openly slander professionals, professionals who they do not control. Sorry, but we do not allow agencies to control us (and models should not allow agencies to control them, either). Modeling and talent agencies answer to US, as well as to smart professional models (the real ones who are independent and who think for themselves, not the ones who claim to be smart, kiss agency butt, and spread slander about genuine industry professionals; being dependent upon agencies and helping them to spread rumors is not smart). The games and the shady business deals are over, agencies. Hellfire is about to rain down upon this market, in a figurative and business sense, and the agencies will pay for their sins; paying in lost business. We are going to raise so many questions about agencies that they are going to find it very difficult to do business. Regulation? That’s easy to deal with compared to what we are going to do. The agencies will be forced to do their jobs and will be put in their proper place, especially when models realize that they do not have to dependent upon agencies and begin to scrutinize them. How is this possible? Well, we do happen to have the dominant voice and leverage in this market, and models do read this site, so there you go. The agencies already knew this, though (and we do rather enjoy watching them and their slow-witted webmasters react to everything that we do. Follow the leader, primitives!)
Agencies, slandering others does not work, and it backfires. We are going to teach you this lesson. Allow us to demonstrate by helping models compete with you and to take away your market share (and, as a result, the model who are stupid enough to be dependent upon agencies for jobs will also lose work). You are in the wrong, and things that will happen in the market are the fruits of the unethical seeds that you have sown. It’s just sad that you have lost our respect, and that you deserve that loss of respect. The agencies simply need to do their jobs by working for models and finding them work, while keeping their mouths shut.
We are already at the top of the game in this market, with more exposure than all of the agencies and the models combined, and that lead is about to be substantially increased.

PUBLISHED 03/30/12

UPDATED 04/02/12

 

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