Again looking for other sources of income, I had the idea to create a site specifically for models and actors to market their professional headshots. The concept was that each subscribed model would get a dedicated page containing their favorite pro headshots and some basic personal information. Their page would actually contain their name, as in myname.my-headhsots.com, becoming what would have been the first electronic “comp-card”. In fact, the site was designed so it could not be “browsed” — you could only get to specific pages by having the named model page link.
Then they would create things like email signatures that would include a link to their personal my-headhsots page. My idea was to get photographers who specialized in shooting headshots to pay a small fee per clients and offer the my-headshots page as an added value of their service over another headshots photographer.
Well… although I still like the concept to this day, I quickly discovered that most photographers are more into their art than their business, and thus fail to see the advantages of this. (Each headshots page also offered a link back to the model’s photographer, so this would have been good advertising for the photographer as well as for the model!)
Without getting a bunch of photographers to sign up, this was dead in the water pretty quickly. Too bad, because I think it could have been a great service –although I don’t think it would have generated much income for me!
Once again, I found a few snapshots of the site pages…
