Only When They Want...

Performer said...

I was a paid Platinum onemodleplace member for several years. I was listed as a publisher of which there were only about 175 in total. My company name included a .com at the end because we were a virtual publisher. After 3 and a half years they decided that the .com needed to be deleted off my main title. They said it was a company policy. All the watermarks on our pics had our web site name. Our profile text had our web site name. Our link was to our web site. I could not understand the logic at all. We were not an onemodleplace competitor either. So I told Brett that I would have to delete the account because he wouldn't allow me to be listed by my brand. The name without the .com was just a generic word.

After a few months went by I decided to do a search and low and behold I found more than a half dozen publishers and scores of photographers that used .com in their title. I blew gasket. Apparently their "company policy" is enforced only when they feel like it. Don't trust these fools one bit. They had it all and now it's slipping away. Good riddance!

December 31, 2008 12:36 AM



**Note**
I hear this a lot; The inconsistent management and enforcement. If you stay on the good side, you are golden. But say anything negative, and they enforce whatever rule they made up that day. It has happened to me.

Thanks for sharing Performer.


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JP

One more MM Forum Thread

One more MM thread to read.

http://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=389743


Note: Thread is locked

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JP

An Interesting Read

I found this to be an interesting read on the fourm's of ModelMayhem . It is a discussion in regards to onemodelplace and people sounding off on why they dislike then and/or like them. I downloaded the entire text forum in to a single PDF document before the thread was locked. You can view it http://www.shadowunit.com/documents/goodbye_OMP.pdf

or see the original: http://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=315075

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JP

*Edit: Seems the thread has been unlocked...
*Edit: (12-28-2008) Thread is locked

Thank you for providing the alternatives to onemodelplace.com. I truly understand when you say there is no recourse or appeal process when your profile is suspended. I could go into more details in the future, but I just wanted to log my complaint with your blog. I have had the opportunity to observe this clown (Brett of onemodelplace) in action. His appearance and personality kept me off guard to the unfair and ruthless person he really is. I was a published magazine photographer for many years before I got involved with onemodelplace. I made the mistake of attending cheesy onemodelplace events. All it took was one complaint from a beginner model, for Brett to delete my account at onemodelplace. The one complaint was the angle of my photos. How ridiculous. An amateur model has the nerve to tell a seasoned professional from New York and Paris, how to do photos? onemodelplace models are all cheap dogs, anyway. This is what happens when you work with people below your level. The main issue is that the jealous Brett was looking for an excuse to dump me from the site. He wants all "his models" for himself.

LW (name removed by request)

*Note: I do not believe all the models are cheap dogs; as this is lumping all of them into one stereotype. There will be good and bad in every model portfolio site. It just comes with the territory. Same goes with photographers. But they do have to get started and places like onemodel modelmayhem are a vehicles to that end. I wish good luck to all the newbie models. And remember model portfolio sites are just a tool for marketing yourself; you still have to get out and do the leg work. Jobs just don't come to you!

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JP

Its official

Well its Official. Onemodelplace is going down hill....

What you are seeing is a Traffic History Graph for onemodelplace.com over a 3 year period. As you can see its a pretty steady drop downhill. If you see the sharp spike down in late 2005; that is when onemodelplace was down for over a week due to a hurricane in FL.

Onemodelplace.com has a traffic rank of: 11,687, where as one of its leading competitors, Modelmayhem.com has a traffic rank of: 3548 (lower is better!)

So... it doesn't look very good for our boys in FL. Sad to see you go guys!

:-)

JP

Side note... If two thirds of your business goes away in two years, you need to take another look at your business model. I thought I would throw that out on the table.