Offers through Myspace, Facebook and Modeling Websites Often Shady

Many college guys who apply to become a model through CampusMen.com do what is called “Spray and Pray”. Spraying is where you submit your photos to every male modeling directory website you can find and then “Pray” that someone contacts you.

As soon as a guy posts a shirtless pic to one of these modeling directories, he receives an email from a photographer saying the photographer likes his “look” and says he can help the college guys’ modeling career.

Getting someone to contact you is easy. But you may not want to pursue their offer. Ironically, accepting some random offer because your first chance at modeling excited you can hurt your career or end it before it begins.

Ploys to Get Guys Into Masturbation Videos

Do you know that porn producers often contact inexperienced college guys on publicly available modeling websites claiming they have legitimate modeling offers for a guy? These offers are really tricks to involve inexperienced guys in shady sex-oriented websites. The most common offer involves getting college guys who want to model to masturbate on video, which is sold to gay men through expensive memberships.

What Modeling Directories Offer You

Should you add your photos to modeling websites?

Sure – for the purpose of meeting and banging hot female models.

Some muscular guys get on websites where they can show off their bodies while lifting weights. Appearing on websites that sell memberships to gay guys who jack off to photos of you working out doesn’t help your modeling career.

Meet and Share Info With Other Male Models

You should also use these sites to connect and get information from other male models who earn at least $3000 per year from modeling jobs. If another guy truly earns money off modeling, he has something to offer you – advice, referrals, valid information. We show you why it is so important to become friends with other male models. Do college guys receive good modeling jobs through modeling directories? Yes, sometimes.

Best Photographers Too Busy To Surf Websites

However, the kind of photographers you want to shoot with are too busy conducting business to spend hours in front of a computer emailing young college guys with nice pecs. When you are done with your photo shoot with them, their time will be spent contacting other guys on modeling directories – instead of submitting your pics to real modeling jobs.

Ironically, you want to shoot with photographers who don’t want to shoot with you! The average photographer you want to shoot with is zany, busy doing coke, hanging at night clubs with fashion designers and is well connected in the male modeling biz. He likely has an assistant you will speak with and will need to be convinced to shoot you.

Best Photographers Have Clients

You want to shoot with photographers not only to obtain good photos, but also to connect with a photographer who works with businesses that hire models. Look at a multi-page photo spread in your favorite fitness magazine. The name of the photographer will appear in small print alongside a photo. That is the photographer you want to shoot with. Why? Because his work gets into print.

Fake Offers Waste Time

Some people just want to waste your time. Time is an issue to your career as well as money. Plus, sometimes a guy with a lot of potential will become discouraged after they get their hopes up and waste two months talking to someone who they thought would help them. Guys get discouraged and miss out on real opportunities.

It does nothing for you to have 57-year-old gay insurance agent contact you. Some gay guys love to talk to a hot guy. They could be simply talking to you to get their kicks. They do not really have a modeling job for you... simply wasting your cell phone minutes with a lot of promises. Look at it their way: they are bored and get to have some fun talking to a cute guy. They never need to spend a dime.

Amateur Photographers Do Not Help in Long Run

You are just being silly if you get all stirred up because some random person contacted you because they saw your photo on a website.

Being photographed by amateur photographers with no clients is not modeling. Everything you do should be directed toward a long-range approach to your modeling career. Don't just pose for the purpose of obtaining photos: you pose to develop a long-term relationship with photographers who can help you because they know industry contacts.

Having nice photos alone doesn't help you. You just end up with nice photos. Read our advice on how to choose a quality photographer.

Naive Guys Go Overboard Easily

Guys get all desperate and take the first offer that comes their way after adding their pic to a modeling directory. It is like a guy going home with a fat girl 10 minutes after arriving at a bar. Don't get desperate. Make decisions based on your career goals: if you want to appear in a fitness magazine like Fitness RX, then work toward that goal. Side-tracking your goals each time you receive an email from a stranger allows others to control your career. Instead of listening to what the photographer wants you to do, tell them what YOU want YOU to appear in.

Being Photographed is Not Modeling

A photographer may shoot professional photos, but it does not mean the photos get published in professional places. Being on a photographer's nifty website or portfolio doesn’t mean help you.

Remember, modeling is a real business with large budgets involved and it is not easy for the players in this industry to “make it.” It isn't always as easy as uploading a bunch of photos to modeling websites. You need the "right" industry professionals to see your photos. The way to success is to meet the right industry professionals who can help you.

You should take time to decide if you want to accept an offer you received after posting your photo.

You check a photographer by:

• Review his portfolio and decide if his photos were the type you would consider posing for. Does his portfolio include any examples of advertising that included his photos?

• Obtain the email of one of his previous male models and email that guy to check the references of the photographer. If the photographer cannot or will not give you a previous models’ email address, that should be a warning sign. If the photographer is such a big deal and can help you so much, then he should have helped other guys – who you can talk to.

• Search the photographer’s email address on eBay. Does he sell shady photos of guys on eBay?

If you are a student, Qualifying as a Campus Man is the perfect opportunity for a guy who wants to become a male model or who has that "male model" look. It is your first step in getting the recognition you want. Building a fanbase of followers shows that you have something that other guys do not have.

You receive a special page dedicated to male modeling. You can add photo examples to this page to show your involvement or just explain how you got started in modeling. Hot girls (we call them your "Fans" visit your modeling page to read how you qualify as a "male model."

If you are not a student, but know of a student who looks good at a campus near you, you can nominate him to become a Campus Man. Just go to our front page and click "Nominate a New Student to Become a Campus Man". The guy you nominate will be grateful someone "nominated" him for his "male model" looks!