Google Alerts

The trouble with sending out postcards to casting directors is that for them to be effective they have to go out fairly often (every 2 weeks is ideal) and they have to give the casting director new information about you.

Now you can only send out so many postcards about your new class, new headshots, etc before you start to feel like you are reaching.

Here is where google alerts come in. Now You need a free gmail account for this service, so get one, if only for this service.

Go to www.google.com/alerts or google search the phrase "google alerts" and you will be taken to a free service that alerts you via email any new posts on the internet that contain your specific phrase.

So for example, I could list "Edward Gusts" or "Edward Gusts Actor" ( the quotes are so I don't get a notice every time there are wind GUSTS on Prince EDWARD Island) and google will let me know of any news items or videos that contain the phrase. This is especially helpful with small films you work on. Maybe you didn't know that your film "Dinosaur With Laryngitis" was accepted to the Rhode Island Dinosaur Film film festival; well now you do.

And you can postcard about it.

Edward