Marketing Secrets from a Veteran Actor / Model with Aaron Marcus

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The Real Deal with Jason Silverman with America’s Premier Acting & Commercial Modeling Career Coach, Aaron Marcus

Welcome to this edition of THE REAL DEAL with Jason Silverman!  This is a very cool podcast as most of our listeners are NOT actors or models (though you’re all attractive enough to become one!)

Jason Silverman got a chance to catch up with with America’s Premier Acting and Commercial Modeling Career Coach, Aaron Marcus.  Aaron shared some really helpful wisdom about how he marketed himself (he was the product) and how you can take those ideas and leverage them in your business.  You’re going to get a ton of value from this one!

Strap yourself in and get ready!  This is going to be great!

A little about Aaron Marcus…

Aaron Marcus is America’s Premier Acting and Commercial Modeling Career Coach. He has been a full-time actor and commercial model for nearly 3 decades. To date, he has been booked 1,207 times.

Recently, Aaron was cast as Dr. Stephen Leopold, on NBC’s show Do No Harm, was cast in 2 feature films, worked on the TV show Rectify, just shot a TV commercial for Colonial Williamsburg, VA and was cast in 2 commercial modeling projects.

You have seen him on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Wire and in the movie with George Clooney, Burn After Reading.

Aaron has been cast in ads for companies such as: Disney World, AT&T, K-MART, StarKist Tuna, Coca Cola and McDonald’s.

Aaron’s is the author of How to Become a Successful Commercial Model – now in its 5th edition. It is the most comprehensive and helpful book for actors and models

He’s given over 500 acting/modeling workshops in 4 countries to date.  Aaron is the founder of www.HowToModel.com.

His ads have appeared throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, The Netherlands and Asia, and have been seen in magazines such as: People, Maxim, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Time, Forbes and The New York Times.

He also publishes the Tear Sheet Newsletter, an incredibly helpful acting and modeling newsletter and two amazing directories.

Listen to today’s podcast and discover:

1.) What got Aaron started in acting and modeling?
2.) What kind of marketing strategies does Aaron use to stand out and get booked?
3.) What goes into finding and hiring an agent?
4.) The importance of providing free content to your audience…
5.) What’s it really like to be an actor?