New View Management Group

Hello and sorry to hear you are disappointed. If you were or are a signed NV Model I wish you had expressed your issues with me instead of writing here.

I would have explained that our contract and it’s terms are standard throughout the industry. Models are independent contractors, not employees. You are essentially your own business that does work at hire for various companies. When a modeling or acting job is born it starts with the client, to make it easy to follow we will call the client Company A.

Company A contacts an Advertising Agency (who we will call Company B) who helps Company A by coming up with the ad or commercial. They also figure out where the ad will be seen, how long, which type of media (print, point of purchase, billboards, website, social media, digital media, tv etc) Company B sets a budget and contacts a photographer or video director (Company C) who will contact the the Model Agency (Company D) who then contacts the model or actor (Company E). After the job has taken place, you (Company E gives us (Company D) your hours. We invoice the photographer (Company C).

The photographer collects all of his other vendors from the job (which might include a caterer, a location expense, a stylist, a makeup artist, assistants). He then invoices the totals, adds his fees to the Ad Agency (Company B) who adds their fee and presents it to the original client (Company A). Invoices are typically due in 30 days (for each).Once Company A pays B, B pays C, C pays D, we pay the model or actor. So yes I wish it were faster but if you look at it from a business point of view it actually makes sense.

Every agency on the planet charges a commission to the model or actor and an agency fee to the client. The agency fee has nothing to do with the model or actor. When we quote rates it is the rate before model commission is deducted.

If you look at all of the big Agencies online you will seethey charge a 20% agency fee to their clients. We lay all of this out in our contract which is why it’s important to read any contract before you it.

Could you contact me ...? If I give you a number

It's time to admit this company is 100% a scam. We have one where I'm from too they make you feel good about yourself and offer some lame classes but at an insane price you. To be honest I feel nothing short of felony charges should pressed against the owners.

Im not sure how we could possibly produce actual magazines to fake things. This is an absolute lie.

We dont fake magazines, tear sheets and commercials. You can see our talent in ads in magazines, in store packaging, tv commercials and on billboards. We book models and actors every day.

Our talent is the best in the business because we coach them. Joe Guerrera, Owner.

If you coach us and get us ready to make money for you then why would you ask us for over a thousand dollars to work for you!!'

Please read this with an open mind, what you fail to understand is modeling is a business, not something just to make you feel good about yourself. Coaching is training and teaching and you are attending a school.

Doctors, dentists, financial advisors, all attend schools to become proficient at their profession. Teachers need to be paid, rental on the property, electricity, water, supplies, etc. All the mundane things people tend to forget. At New View after you attend your classes you test into the agency.

Not everyone makes it. This is business the world is a big, tough place out there and in any business and Company it can be very cut-throat and dog-eat-dog, people trying to climb the corporate ladder . Again I repeat modeling is a business . Prior to New View I modeled for several years in New York City doing Runway, I had to accept the fact that I'm not very photogenic nor was I tall enough to do high fashion so I was in the junior division.Was it my big dream ?

No, but I was in New York City and I was modeling. Did I pay an agent ?you better believe it, and I had had classes to teach me how to walk the runway how to put on makeup how to do my hair how to do a quick change, all of the things that were necessary for me to excel in my profession. You were lucky that you had people as caring as the personel at New View , so many times I was told to just leave an agents office because of my height, sometimes rudely with a laugh. But I persevered and did end up Jr.

Division. You should have trusted New View a little more.

Interesting that I the owner of this Company have never heard from you. You claim we stole your money yet I have no idea who you are.

This is all very fishy. Unfortunately the Internet allows anyone to write anything they like without vetting them. The bottom line is that we have successfully launched the careers of hundreds of models. You can look at our Social Media sites and our website to see the work we do every single day.

We work very hard every do to promote our models and actors for big jobs that pay big money.

I tried to look at your Facebook social media account. There's truly nothing on it.

If someone takes a job with any company or angecy that company is obligated to send their "new hire" through training or orientation where they are taught how to do their "job"!!!! Not ask a new "employee" or new talent to pay your company $2000 to work for you.

What a joke!! I can't believe you have tricked so many into trusting you. Employers don't get paid by their employees.

They train their employees and then pay them when they do a good "job" for your company.

NV Models are working almost everyday. Some make as much as $2,000 a day.

Others might make $250. Now I know they don't go through Craigslist to get jobs because they advise us to avoid that and the crazies out there. The owner was a model before he started the company 31 years ago and has maintained his network all over the world. There are currently models in London, Milan, Greece, New York, Miami, and yes even Cincinnati, OH

You are a liar.

There is simply no other way to say it. Sorry honey. NV doesn't represent Rima? http://www.nvmodels.com/models/rima-fakih/ There is the proof.

If you have booked international jobs then say it proud. Like German Vogue, Vogue Italia I can say them because I've seen NV's work. Saddie M.'s Biore ad was just in a recent issue of Cosmo.

Ian Mellencamp is still with NV!

That is his mother agent. http://www.nvmodels.com/models/ian-mellencamp/ There is the proof to that claim.

New York and Miami were here a month or so ago recruiting our models.

You sound like a disgruntled ex employee. List names of your work and who you are so we can google you and see your proof.

Your links don't work. It says page not found?

Their links do not work because they were forced to remove them after they were threatened with law suits. If you actually look up the credits for modeling gigs NV doesn't appear.

I love that they are still claiming that they have been around for 30 years but if you look up their business license you will see that they have not.

That is public information.

Also, the are still claiming to be owned by a man who doesn't exist.

A few years back the owners, who you can also see on the business license, Chester and Kathy were investigated for fraud by the police, as a result, Kathy took the fall inorder to keep the scam going. She is now running the same scam in Louisville KY last I heard.

All of the positive reviews and replies attacking people who post negative reviews are posted by their office staff.

At NV everyone is required to take their classes, its mandatory and they will give you a contract unless you take them.

I was a model there for over four years and worked in the office.

Well do you recommend them?

Who the *** are you. You talk just like a paid shill. With all due respect from an actual signed model, screw off.

I've been with New View for 4 years and they are amazing.. I took the classes bc I knew nothing about the industry!!

If you really were apart of this awesome agency you wouldn't be on here bashing it!

you would be sing praise for all the fun things you get to do! Get serious here!

Oh new view actually has a call room where they harass people hours a day saying come in for a first interview, second they literally tell everyone they can be a model. Complete waste of time for anyone and everyone and your wallet. They sell false hopes and dreams.

You both sound pretty angry yet neither one of you seem to be on the same page here. For the first angry comment, clearly you forget their in Cincinnati OHIO.

The "top" models you talk about are currently found in new York thats where they placed where they Ian- the new face of Calvin Klein & now he got the gap campaign also Casey levins who is kicking butt with A&F & German vogue. They have a model Liz that is 5"4 in her 30s shooting with oil of Olay .... us bank ....people's bank ..... great wolf lodge ....

If ventured out into the world of bridal shows you would have seen all of the david bridal shows they did this month alone :) Even an 80 year old that works there as well is fabulous . Perhaps you never got chosen was because your attitude sucks. Did you ever try to reach your agent? I have a few friends that model there from plus sizes to high fashion types including my boyfriend & they are constantly going to castings.

Sometimes they get booked & other times they don't. It's called being in the modeling industry sweetheart. My guess is: you were probably there to work on self esteem- perhaps you should go back or better yet call them and ask what happened & what should you do to make an effort to get the real facts before you take the time to bash a company that clearly gave YOU an opportunity that you didn't take advantage from .... Also "been there" how can you be annoyed you went on several castings that sounds like they did their job ....

And perhaps you never passed math class because 25% agency fee is A: pretty standard in the industry & B: it normally takes several months to be paid before getting a check- like your angry friend : CALL if you have an issue- if you actually went to new view one can only sadly shake their head at ridiculousness. For the record, a place that isnt a good agency wouldn't still be around after a few decades if what you wrote was true.

Also, there is normally a reason why someone takes the time out of their day to release anger like the both of you had it only makes me feel like you may not of ever stepped a stiletto in this place= New View Models .... Rock on 8-) When I finish grad school I'm going to see what you can do for me !

This post was written the NV Director Bridget.

I worked with you for almost 4 years, and we both know that they scam people.