How to Present Yourself Online to Book Jobs in the Entertainment Industry

It actually makes more sense in the 21st century to be using the old expression, “Watching the phone.” In this day and age of smartphones, we actually can see when a call is coming in. It makes you wonder what people were hoping to see when they’d stare at the phone on the wall or the unit that sat on the desk back in the day.

But if you find yourself nodding off because your Android or iPhone is neither ringing nor having texts come in, it very likely could be due to how you’ve presented — or not presented — yourself online, hoping to get more work in your entertainment career. This, of course, extends to emails not coming in or private/direct messages across other applications.

I don’t need to get into that it’s a business and not a hobby, and that’s why you’re on Stage 32 to begin with, right? Okay, good. So then do a self-audit and assess whether you’re presenting yourself like a business or a hobby or — gulp — a ghost.

In working with my clients and providing management and publicist-type services, I always stress the need to show people that you are busy. When someone sees how much you are always…