About us examples for models
An About page has to answer one question fast: why you rather than the other three quotes. These are ten different answers to it.
Ten of them follow, written for models rather than filled in from a template. Your customer is a casting director or brand comparing thirty portfolios in a sitting, and what they are weighing up before they get in touch is booking from a portfolio that is three years old and stats that no longer match.
Plain and direct
[Business name] is a model in [your area]. I work in editorial, commercial and runway. I am a represented model, and the measurements and digitals carry a date, and the date is recent. If you want a model who keeps the portfolio and the stats current, that is the whole pitch.
Use this if you want one paragraph that does the job and nothing more.
The origin story
[Business name] started because [founder name] kept meeting people who had been let down. What they described, over and over, was booking from a portfolio that is three years old and stats that no longer match. So I built the opposite. I am a represented model. Agency representation, measurements current within the last month, and a portfolio that is actually recent. Check the current digitals and measurements, then book through my agency. [Number] years on, most of my work still comes from people passing my name to someone else.
Use this if you started out because you were fed up with how the work was being done.
Names the worry first
Most people looking for a model are worried about the same thing: booking from a portfolio that is three years old and stats that no longer match. So here is how this works. Check the current digitals and measurements, then book through my agency. My portfolio shows this year, not three years ago. I state my representation and any union status. I am a represented model. None of that should have to be taken on faith — ask, and I will show you.
Use this when people arrive already wary, usually because of a bad experience elsewhere.
Credentials first
[Business name] is represented. Agency representation, measurements current within the last month, and a portfolio that is actually recent. I work in editorial, commercial and runway, mostly for a casting director or brand comparing thirty portfolios in a sitting. My measurements are dated and current. Qualifications are the floor rather than the pitch — but you should know they are there before anything else on this page matters.
Use this where the licence or registration is the thing people check before anything else.
Local and rooted
I am a model based in [your town], and [your town] is where I work. That matters more than it sounds. It means I know the streets, the buildings and the people you are talking about, it means you deal with the same person each time, and it means I am still here later. I work in editorial, commercial and runway. I am a represented model, and my reputation here is the only marketing I have ever needed.
Use this if you serve one area properly and that is your advantage over the national outfits.
Walks through the process
Here is what working with me looks like. You get in touch, and check the current digitals and measurements, then book through my agency. I agree what is happening and what it costs, in writing, before anything begins. Then I do the work. I am a represented model. I state my representation and any union status.
Use this if people hesitate because they do not know what happens after they get in touch.
The thing we do differently
Plenty of people will do editorial and commercial. What I am known for is keeping the digitals and measurements genuinely current. It sounds like a small thing. It is the difference between a booking that does what you hoped and one that does not. I am a represented model. My measurements are dated and current.
Use this when you can name one specific standard you hold that your competitors do not.
Short
A model in [your town], represented. I work in editorial, commercial and runway. My measurements are dated and current. View portfolio, or call first and ask anything you like.
Under sixty words — Use this when the About section is a sidebar, a footer, or a directory profile.
Small and deliberately so
It is me, not a team and not a call centre. You deal with the same person every time, which is why by the second meeting I already know what we are working with. I am a represented model, I work in editorial, commercial and runway, and I take on a limited number of clients so the standard does not slip.
Use this if being small and consistent is the point, rather than something to apologise for.
The promise
My promise is simple: my measurements are dated and current, and if I get something wrong I put it right at my cost. I am a represented model. Agency representation, measurements current within the last month, and a portfolio that is actually recent. I work in editorial, commercial and runway for a casting director or brand comparing thirty portfolios in a sitting. Check the current digitals and measurements, then book through my agency.
Use this if you are willing to put something in writing, and you actually honour it.
Writing for models: what actually matters
What should a model’s website say that a generic one does not?
Three things, in this order. That you are represented. That you understand the thing people are actually worried about, which for models is booking from a portfolio that is three years old and stats that no longer match. And what happens next: check the current digitals and measurements, then book through my agency. Everything else on the page is decoration by comparison.
What does a casting director or brand comparing thirty portfolios in a sitting check first?
The credential, then the proof. For models it sounds like this. My measurements are dated and current. My portfolio shows this year, not three years ago. I state my representation and any union status. Put at least one of those above the fold rather than on a separate page nobody opens.
What is the most common mistake on a model’s website?
Writing about the business instead of the customer. "We have been established since 1998" answers a question nobody asked. "Check the current digitals and measurements, then book through my agency" answers the one they are actually holding. If you only fix one thing, fix that.
How long should the copy be?
Shorter than you think, except where trust is being built. An About page of 120 well-chosen words beats 500 vague ones. The exception is anything explaining booking from a portfolio that is three years old and stats that no longer match — there, specifics earn their length.
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