What should an independent talent website include?
Plan selected work, an accurate profile and a clear request route for a model, performer or independent creative. Includes a publication and booking checklist.
Let someone understand your work, review a current selection and send a useful request. For a model, performer or independent creative, the website should make those three tasks straightforward while keeping private details private.
Give each part of the page a job
Start with the work you actually want to be considered for. A model's editorial selection, a performer's reel and a stylist's credited projects need different material. Use the categories that help someone make a decision about your work, not a template's list of empty sections.
| Part | What it should answer | What to prepare |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | Who are you, and what kind of work do you take on? | Your professional name, a plain description and a broad base or travel note when relevant. |
| Selected work | What can someone assess here? | A deliberate selection with your role, accurate credits and publication approval. |
| Current profile | Which practical facts affect fit? | Only the current, approved details relevant to that work, with an update owner. |
| Request route | Who handles the next conversation? | The correct booking contact, a short request form or both with distinct purposes. |
Where a representative handles inquiries, use the contact and wording agreed with them. Keep independent requests and represented work clearly routed. Do not imply representation, clients or availability that you cannot substantiate.
Keep the public selection and the shared file in step
For each item, record the exact image or clip, where it may appear, the agreed credit and who can confirm changes. Label a test, collaboration or self-initiated piece accurately. An image's presence on social media is not your publication record.
Give each useful image a text alternative that reflects its purpose, following the W3C image guidance. Put your name, role, credits and contact route in page text as well. If motion is important, provide an understandable play control and useful context before someone starts it.
If you offer a downloadable profile or selection, date it and keep its contact details consistent with the website. Open the actual download on a phone. Check that it is legible and that it does not include private addresses or details left in an old export.
Your work can travel without your home address.
Ask enough to understand the proposal
A useful initial request can describe the commissioning person or company, their reply address, proposed role or service, date window, broad location and intended use of the work. Mark uncertain details as undecided. Ask only for what changes your first response.
Keep an availability request separate from a confirmed commitment. Write down who confirms the date and agreed scope, and where that confirmation is recorded. If a representative handles that decision, route it there. The website should not create a second, conflicting booking path.
A selection with one clear next step
Illustrative example: an independent performer has commissioned movement work and a self-initiated short film. The page separates the two, gives the performer's role and approved credits, and links to a request form. That form asks for the proposed role, date window, broad location, intended use and a reply address. It does not reserve a date.
Before sharing, the performer asks a colleague to find one relevant clip and draft a fictional request on a phone. The check is whether the colleague understands the work and next step without an explanation, not whether they compliment the page.
Check before you send the link
Tick after checking the actual page and keeping any evidence in your own document. These ticks stay only in this page; they are not saved or sent to dgl.
Mark the items you have checked.