The Actor's Toolkit
My Three Favorite Hacks to Grow Your Career
Hey, I'm Martin Bentsen and I want you to ROCK your career!
Have you ever felt overwhelmed as an actor? Conflicting advice, expensive classes and headshots, plus zillions of actors all competing for the same small number of roles?? It can feel like making it is just a pipe dream - especially since it's almost impossible to know who to trust and who just wants to take your hard-earned money. That's exactly why I created these three special hacks. I'll lay them out in a moment, but just in case you don't know me, here's a quick bio: I've had the opportunity to help over 4,000 actors with their headshots, reels, marketing strategies, techniques, and more since I started in 2009, and my number one goal has always been to help my clients take on a leadership role in their acting careers. I've spoken at NYU, Actor's Connection, and The Actor's Green Room, and I've been fortunate enough to have built the #1 Yelp and Google rated headshot studio in New York called City Headshots. |
The Actor's Toolkit
My Three Favorite Hacks to Grow Your Career
Each of these can be used right now. Try them out and see the results for yourself!
Hack #1: Natural Networking
Build Relationships With Casting Directors Easily & Quickly
I’ve used this exact strategy to become friends with major industry players, including Mari Lyn Henry, agent Margaret Emory, casting directors Kim Graham and Alison Franck, and many others.
So what’s the secret? Well, there’s actually no secret at all. It’s not even a technique so to speak, in that there’s nothing sneaky about it. It’s all about being genuine and honest, and that’s why it works so well.
Appreciation and specificity.
If you thank someone for something valuable and specific that they helped you with, they will most likely feel compelled to respond. If you show someone how they’ve helped you, they’ll feel good about themselves and want to connect with you.
Casting directors love to hear when they’ve helped someone, especially if that person is extremely specific in their email about how they benefited from the casting director’s advice.
Here is a very simple, step by step method you can use to connect with almost any casting director in the industry— even if you haven’t met them yet:
Natural Networking
Want to go deeper on this strategy and learn how to connect with more people in the industry? Check out my completely FREE mini course The Practical Performer. |
Hack #2: Audition Anchors
Audition Better By Creating an "Anchor"
Here's a cool little technique from an advanced branch of psychology called Neuro-Linguistic Programming. It's perfect for auditions.
Essentially, this technique allows you to instantly feel calm before auditions (even if you're normally extremely nervous) so you feel much more grounded, which results in better performances:
Essentially, this technique allows you to instantly feel calm before auditions (even if you're normally extremely nervous) so you feel much more grounded, which results in better performances:
Audition Anchors
Want to go deeper on this strategy and learn how to better prepare for auditions? Check out my completely FREE mini course The Practical Performer. |
Hack #3: The 5-Word Brand
Find Your Brand in Just Ten Minutes
Most actors either don't know what their brand is or feel too overwhelmed at having received so many different words for their brand, that they have no idea what to do with all the info.
The 5-Word Brand technique is a way to simplify your entire brand down to just five words and it can be done immediately without the need for taking an entire branding workshop. It's a great place to start, and then you can slowly expand on it over time as you learn more about yourself.
The 5-Word Brand technique is a way to simplify your entire brand down to just five words and it can be done immediately without the need for taking an entire branding workshop. It's a great place to start, and then you can slowly expand on it over time as you learn more about yourself.
The 5-Word Brand
Want to go deeper on this strategy and learn how to find your brand in more depth? Check out my completely FREE mini course The Practical Performer. |
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