Update Once and Every Page, Card and Signature Follows
Your contact details now live in exactly one place. Your contact page, your email signature, your business card, your press kit and your generated resume all read from it.
The failure this prevents
You change agents. You update the contact page, because that is the obvious one. Six months later somebody emails your old agent, having found the address in your email signature, or on a card, or in a press kit PDF you sent to a festival.
This is not a hypothetical. It is one of the most common ways an actor loses an enquiry, and it is entirely a bookkeeping problem.
What sits in there
- Your own email and phone, each with a switch for public or private.
- Your agent, with agency name, contact and territory.
- Your manager, separately.
- Additional representation by territory or discipline, for actors with a voice agent in one market and a screen agent in another.
- Location, as a market rather than an address.
Public and private are different questions
Every entry has a visibility switch, and the useful pattern for most represented actors is: agent public, own email private. Enquiries go where they should, and our notifications still reach you because the private address is what we use internally.
Unrepresented actors need a public email, and it should be one that looks professional and that you check. Our older piece on a professional email address is the right read.
Never publish a street address
City and region, yes. Your home address, no, on any of these surfaces. It will be indexed, it will be scraped, and it has never helped anybody get a job.
What still needs a human
Cards already printed. Nothing can update those, which is the argument in claiming your QR card: a card pointing at a claimed address survives a change of agent, a change of domain and a change of name, because the address is a redirect rather than a fact.
Related: the profile rebuild, and the importance of contact information.
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