Recently (like yesterday) I got an email from someone who thought I was a guy from Comcast that they had worked with in the past. They sent me a link to their website and said they had enjoyed working with me in the past. I wasn’t this person they thought I was but I figured what the heck… I went to their website and listened to their demos and they were actually pretty good.
I responded and told this person that while I was not who they thought I was they’re demos were pretty good and to send me a demo so I could add it to my talent roster. It got me thinking, this is precisely how the industry works. People don’t get jobs because they apply for them, realistically most don’t. Everyone I know who has actually made it somewhere got there because they knew someone or met someone who connected them to someone that they knew and so on and so on.
So if it is who you know. Get knowing.