Complete Guide To Promotional Modeling – Part 1

These days, it is not much hard to make some decent money through doing weekend or part-time promotional modeling and it becomes even easier if you keep up good personality and great communication skills. Let’s face it; promotional modeling, in its traditional sense, hasn’t even the farthest relations with fashion modeling, print modeling or acting. On the other hand it’s rather about directly interacting with consumers on various events such as exciting music concerts, seasonal festivals, local retail events or product launch shows etc.

Nevertheless the best thing about this job is that every next job is going to be different than earlier and each job will demand different roles and duties from you. This is why being promotional model is truly fun. Often people underrate promotional modeling as low paid job but the truth is that a lot of people move all across the city to Event Staffing Los Angeles and do promo modeling full time. There are many rumors, gossips and hearsays always out there which discourage young talent from adapting promotional modeling as a profession. So here I am explaining what it means to be a promotional model and every other thing required to be a successful promotional model.

Is Promo Model About Being A Skinny, Tall, Curvy, Girly Type?
 

Though big brands tend to hire Hollywood superstar type models as their brand ambassadors but it’s not same with small or local brands. Besides, brand ambassador is like superlative form of promo model. Well, different companies look for men and women of different shapes, sizes and colors. Generally, you must be attractive enough to get people drawn to you and then friendly enough to keep them engaged. At times being well disposed and outgoing means more in this industry because being Model Los Angeles will demand you reaching strangers all day long. Let me make this clear again, you DON’T need to be 5’11 skinny type girl; even average fitness can work wonders. And for height, whatever your height is, it must fall sweet at eyes.

What Are The Most Expected Jobs For Promotional Models?
 

Though you won’t be solving any physics equations, yet your job is quite important and demands barrels of energy and dedication from you. When a company hires you from Event Staffing Los Angeles, they will assign you the jobs. You can be asked to appear in a public event in a park. Generally, promo models work in groups, at least of two, and in that group, you can be selling gloves, passing out brochures or signing up peoples for deals. And if you are hired as Trade Show Model, you could be asked to appear in company booth and attend to the visitors. You will be required to give gather crowd, introducing them with your recruiter’s services, and give them product demonstrations. If crowd or strangers freak you out, this job is not for your type.

Are There Any Skills Required For Being Promotional Models?
 

If you are getting paid for any work, of course your work calls up for some skills and a job that involves direct engagement with people, strangers, crowd or even customers needs exceptional interpersonal skills along the way. Generally, there are no minimum education requirements for Promo Models Los Angeles, yet most of the promo models working around are at the least graduate or in the way of graduation. Other details will be discussed in 2nd part.