Talent Agency In The Adult Industry Is There A Need?
Can someone tell me the purpose of a talent agency in the adult industry? Are they an advocate for their clients? Do they call daily producers or production companies to solicit roles for their clients? Do they provide health care or information about health care for their clients? Do they keep their clients informed about the legal ramifications about your profession? If the answers to any of these questions are no then you really don’t need a talent agency. Can you tell what your agency is doing to earn its commission? If you take your profession seriously then after about a year in the business you really don’t need an agency. You can do it all for yourself.
If you are new to the business I can see you gravitating to an agency for a while. But if you are observant and learn something new from every assignment then you should be able to save that commission and do the work yourself. Let me give you the lazy person example: You are a party animal and you stay out late. Lets say your day doesn’t start until noon. You get up brush your teeth; take a shower, then in your case you fix lunch. All this is takes about 90-minutes. At 1:30pm you get on the phone and call around the producers and production companies looking for work. You do this until 5:00pm. Lets say you are a really lazy person and instead of doing 5 days a week you do this 4 days a week. Now you get yourself in gear you put up a website were producers can see you and know how to get in touch with you. You put up a MySpace site and a Yahoo Club so that the fans can keep up with you. Then you work it. You mean to tell me you can work this hard for yourself?
Let me ask you this about your talent agency. Do you get any financial advise from them? Let me put this out here for all the adult talent in the industry. Why don’t a few of you get together to form an investment club? Let say 10 of you get together and put in $5,000.00 each to start the club. That’s $50,000.00 the club can that to a broker to open up an account. If you invest that in T-bills, bonds and money markets the dividends you earn maybe able to pay your rent for the year. So when some extreme producer call you to work you can tell him to go stick that coke bottle in his ass. Can you imaging if 25 or 30 of the adult talent got together and formed an investment club? If $5,000.00 is too much to come up with then bring it down to $2,500.00 to join the club. Isn’t time out for adult talent to stop leaving the business and be broke as soon as your leave? I would love it if a group of women of color got together and started an investment club but all money is green. So I would open it up to anyone that wanted to join. Think about it; your dividends could go towards a 401 k plan and you could make enough money to pay for health insurance.
This was for all the talent in the adult industry. The adult industry has a reported 12 billion dollars a year in revenue. Shouldn’t the talent in the adult industry at least live comfortable while in the industry and have some savings to look forward to after their careers? Remember this, it’s all in the numbers.
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If you are new to the business I can see you gravitating to an agency for a while. But if you are observant and learn something new from every assignment then you should be able to save that commission and do the work yourself. Let me give you the lazy person example: You are a party animal and you stay out late. Lets say your day doesn’t start until noon. You get up brush your teeth; take a shower, then in your case you fix lunch. All this is takes about 90-minutes. At 1:30pm you get on the phone and call around the producers and production companies looking for work. You do this until 5:00pm. Lets say you are a really lazy person and instead of doing 5 days a week you do this 4 days a week. Now you get yourself in gear you put up a website were producers can see you and know how to get in touch with you. You put up a MySpace site and a Yahoo Club so that the fans can keep up with you. Then you work it. You mean to tell me you can work this hard for yourself?
Let me ask you this about your talent agency. Do you get any financial advise from them? Let me put this out here for all the adult talent in the industry. Why don’t a few of you get together to form an investment club? Let say 10 of you get together and put in $5,000.00 each to start the club. That’s $50,000.00 the club can that to a broker to open up an account. If you invest that in T-bills, bonds and money markets the dividends you earn maybe able to pay your rent for the year. So when some extreme producer call you to work you can tell him to go stick that coke bottle in his ass. Can you imaging if 25 or 30 of the adult talent got together and formed an investment club? If $5,000.00 is too much to come up with then bring it down to $2,500.00 to join the club. Isn’t time out for adult talent to stop leaving the business and be broke as soon as your leave? I would love it if a group of women of color got together and started an investment club but all money is green. So I would open it up to anyone that wanted to join. Think about it; your dividends could go towards a 401 k plan and you could make enough money to pay for health insurance.
This was for all the talent in the adult industry. The adult industry has a reported 12 billion dollars a year in revenue. Shouldn’t the talent in the adult industry at least live comfortable while in the industry and have some savings to look forward to after their careers? Remember this, it’s all in the numbers.
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posted by vesuvius at 4:31 PM
2 Comments:
While I found your article informative, I disagree with your conclusion. Before entering the porn industry I owned a mainstream talent management company. Being a producer, director and distributor in adult, I saw the need for a professional talent agency to represent and advise the talent. Many of the so called agents in this industry are nothing other than smooth talking suitcase pimps. In California, the law requires that you be a licensed talent agent or attorney to represent and negotiate contracts for talent. As far as I know, only LA Direct, Tera Patrick Agency, Lighthouse Talent and myself are licensed talent agencies. I believe that Mark Speigler is an attorney. I believe that these abovementioned agencies do offer value to talent for their commission. In my case I also have an MBA and do offer/push financial advice to my talent. My twist is that I also represent my talent into the mainstream market. I also counsel new talent to make sure that they know what they are getting into. I'd rather lose a client than have them do something that they cannot live with 3 months later. The biggest threat to talent in this industry is drugs and boyfriends/girlfriends, not talent agents!
Ric Williams
Black Widow Talent
8:24 AM
I stand by my conclusion; talent agencies are unnecessary in the adult industry. The Internet has made it so. Talent can put up a web page or site for marketing and promotion. But I do agree that drugs are the biggest problem in the industry alone with the suitcase pimps. There isn't any real negotiations that goes on between producers and talent. Today in the industry most producers have a set fee as to what he's going to pay talent. There's no union information that you are going to keep them up on. Tell me what counsel do you give an 18-year-old girl looking to get into this industry accept that she needs to get the hell out of your office. That would be the honorable thing to do. But most people in the adult industry have the nonor of Romulans. Letting 18 and 19 year old girls this business is pimping and weak. And I say damn anyone that's doing it.
5:45 PM
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