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Here is an interesting example of how learning styles can influence the effectiveness of your message, or how you could adapt a message to appeal to different learning styles. Not sure what your learning style is? Take the test!  Then visit the following page and play around with the 3 message styles, one for each preferred learning style of auditory, visual or kinesthetic — just check it out, you don’t have to send it!

NLP Messages

If you haven’t seen the Monster.com television advertising spot with the stork in it yet, you owe it to yourself to watch it.  See the monster.com stork struggle through …. does this ad hit a sore spot in your heart? Maybe you need to get some reptitude for yourself.

Desperate actors seeking work in Hollywood, and hard working actors who want to be proactive in managing their careers, need to gain the attention of industry folks such as agents and casting directors as part of the process of securing auditions and, ultimately, work.

Typical and generally accepted methods of getting a casting director’s (or agent’s) attention might be to submit their headshot and resume in response to an advertised project, or to perform in an industry showcase, or to personally drop a headshot and resume into “the bin” at the casting director’s office.

But sometimes judgement clouds and folks try a little harder — creating the perfect storm of inappropriate submissions.

Bonnie Gillespie, casting director, author and industry commentator extraordinaire, offers a look at what it can be like in the trenches — from the receiving end at the casting director’s point of view: Gimmicks.

What kinds of antics do other artists come up with to get attention and self promote?