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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Can anyone give any advice on how to get more involved with these types of jobs? Product presenters and so forth? They pay about 1000+ a day for experienced presenters with earprompter experience. It would be a good way to pay bills in between jobs… The most I have ever gotten is $50.00 and hour or $500.00 for a ten hour day. Much of the work I have gotten is from networking back when I did product demos/pitches in dept stores. I even audition for an informercial due to such netwroking. Then when I have worked in trade shows, on my breaks I would chat DISCREETLY with NON COMPETING exhibitors, leaving my card begind. I would DISCREETLY leave press releases at the Press Room (all trade shows have one). When I worked in Chicago Housewares Show I woudl often arrive and hour earlier then my scheduled start time just to network. I handed out as many as 1000-2000 business cards (with a calendar at the back) a year. When working trade shows I woudl also pick up an Exhibitor Directory to write to people when I got back to NYC. Rita and I also worked Home Ec Show in Atlantic City done many shows in NYC. I got FREE ear promter classes at SAG, but have not practised as I should. Everything I did was ad lib.

Great advice Ray, There’s too many people who just sit back and just wait for an agent to get them work. The more work you get for yourself, the more the agent hustles on your behalf. They need to in order to keep their jobs. Networking at conventions is a great way to do it. If you live in Chicago, you are sitting on a virtual "GOLD MINE" of convention work. McCormack Place is NEVER empty. If you want to make the big money with conventions however, you must be willing to travel, and know the company’s products inside & out. Some companies typically attend annual conventions, so work there can be consistently set aside for traditional slow periods in your region. Moreso, depending on how high a profile the convention has within it’s particular industry, you have a better chance of meeting some of the upper echelon decision makers within the company. Chances are, the more influential and higher up your contact is, the more influential and higher up their circle of contacts are. When I was in Network marketing, a common theme we preached to our downlines was "ALWAYS RECRUIT UP!" Because in network distribution of a product, whether that product is *YOU*, or a potion, lotion, or pill, it’s not always about who YOU know and what you can do, but who THEY know and they can do for your product. Drama Queen — No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.                                                         – Lester Pearson

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Can anyone give any advice on how to get more involved with these types of jobs? Product presenters and so forth? They pay about 1000+ a day for experienced presenters with earprompter experience. It would be a good way to pay bills in between jobs…

The most I have ever gotten is $50.00 and hour or $500.00 for a ten hour day. Much of the work I have gotten is from networking back when I did product demos/pitches in dept stores. I even audition for an informercial due to such netwroking. Then when I have worked in trade shows, on my breaks I would chat DISCREETLY with NON COMPETING exhibitors, leaving my card begind. I would DISCREETLY leave press releases at the Press Room (all trade shows have one). When I worked in Chicago Housewares Show I woudl often arrive and hour earlier then my scheduled start time just to network. I handed out as many as 1000-2000 business cards (with a calendar at the back) a year. When working trade shows I woudl also pick up an Exhibitor Directory to write to people when I got back to NYC. Rita and I also worked Home Ec Show in Atlantic City done many shows in NYC. I got FREE ear promter classes at SAG, but have not practised as I should. Everything I did was ad lib. Before you buy.

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Can anyone give any advice on how to get more involved with these types of jobs? Product presenters and so forth? They pay about 1000+ a day for experienced presenters with earprompter experience. It would be a good way to pay bills in between jobs… Thank you in advance for the input… :)

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Can anyone give any advice on how to get more involved with these types of jobs?

Sometimes, my agent will call me when she has a need for a stand-up comic, or even Improv entertainers.  I mean, she’s my regular agent for other projects, but periodically she will get calls from Conventioneers, needing a night’s worth of entertainment.  My point, is that sometimes too, they will call her when they need someone to do specific product work like you are outlining.  Call some local agents and see what they say. — Opus (: "Joe Hackett at a Pearl Jam concert??  Pearl Bailey maybe…"– Lowell Mather on aging. http://www.carla.coble.com -Acting site http://members.home.net/coble/OpusGraphics -Original graphics

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