Alexia Melocchi talks about why your reputation is more important than your talent in today’s blog. She also shines the light on the three things that’ll help your reputation and the three things that could destroy it.
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Good blog
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You're right, CJ Walley. Reputation is always on my mind when I interact with people and post things online.
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Important subject.
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One of the more credible blogs I've read.
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Agreed Michael Elliott. Some accept the hard truths and run toward the light and some blow it off and rage against the darkness.
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absolutely! it seems that people forget that relationships are so important and being authentic is a major part of this. Please care about the people you are interacting with and don’t treat anyone as less than.
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This is so very true - and it's very often a case of karma in the industry as well. "What goes around comes around."
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Great points, Stephanie Moore! I've worked with the same producer/director on a lot of ghostwriting jobs, and one of the reasons is we built a relationship. I don't even have to apply for jobs with him anymore. He comes to me. I'm not bragging. I'm just giving an example of how relationships can benefit writers.
And yes, care about the people you're interacting with and don’t treat anyone as less than. It's always great to do a self-check to make sure we aren't doing those things.
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The point that sticks out the most for me is 2. YOU SEE THE PRODUCER AS A MEAL TICKET
You get this a lot in another form where people only see an industry member as a way to get to another, particularly famous industry member. I've had people reach out to me and ask me to forward their work on to people I've collaborated with. It's so insulting, partly because they're trying to take your meal ticket away in the process of getting theirs.
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It is insulting, CJ Walley. I made that mistake when I was an aspiring writer. I emailed a lady to ask her to put me in contact with a big actress. The lady was insulted. Her response was something like "You emailed me after months of not speaking only to ask me to put you in contact with one of my contacts?" I was wrong for that. Lesson learned.
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Massive respect for admitting to that and sharing it, Maurice Vaughan.
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Thanks, CJ Walley. Hopefully writers read my comment and avoid that embarrassing mistake.
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Reputation (for me) is not connected to talent. If we push the dials to their extremes and look at the effects, we prove they’re are attributes, that are not connected.
Super Famous with No Talent. These people are avoided. There was an actress married to a billionaire. He put a play on for her “The diary of Anne Frank”. When the Germans entered the building someone in the audience screamed “she’s in the attic”, desperate to get it over. Famous with no talent, equal embarrassing failure.
Unknown with massive talent. You only need a small glimmer and this person will rise. Mostly to be exploited till they get their own power.
Reputation is what people say about your talent. It is a brand.
It is virtually impossible to leap from a standing start. So you have to do something. For me it is Youtube and books. You need to put up a flag so people will look. From there with will see your talent (vast or lacking) and either cheer or run.
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"Unknown with massive talent" and "You need to put up a flag so people will look." There are SO many unknown talented people out there, Craig D Griffiths. Talent alone can lead to success, but that's not always that case, so creatives need to put themselves and their work out there, like you said about making YouTube videos and books. Creatives can pitch, be active on Stage 32, make their own videos/films/etc., join 48-hour film challenges, post their work on their Stage 32 profiles, and so much more.