Advice for Actors: Getting Noticed Repost

Hi guys,
I'm now officially half way through my exams! Only 4 more to go (they still wont go away) but here is a follow up of the post from Acting Coach Scotland where he discusses in detail the different stages for becoming a successful actor.
While this advice is interesting, whenever reading blog posts (even mine) always take a pinch of cynical thinking along with you. Not everyone will follow the same path to becoming an actor otherwise more people would "make it".
Anyway enjoy,
Terri ;D x


Dear Actor
GET GOOD – GET NOTICED – GET SIGNED – GET WORKING – GET BETTER
This is the third of my ‘Getting’ blogs. The first explained the stages of getting the acting career that you want.  The second explained how getting good is the foundation step – of course it’s the one that most people want to skip.
Today’s is about getting noticed, the third step:
Don’t miss the first step. Only the very lucky get noticed without being good, and if you are noticed and aren’t very good, it won’t last. Everyone wants to skip straight to ‘get working’ – of course they do! It would be wonderful. But it isn’t how it works, unless you are very, very lucky, everyone has to go through this process.
Everyone wants to get noticed.
Don’t expect anyone to go out of their way to notice you.
Of course, the easiest way is to go to drama school, get noticed and the rest should fall into line. But what if you don’t manage to make it into the top 1% of applicants for drama school?
No one will notice you, if you don’t know who they are.
Who casts the television shows in your area? Don’t know? How will they ever know you? The biggest change in getting noticed, is to notice who needs to notice you! Do your research and then slowly start to make polite contact with them.
Getting yourself into some good short films or perhaps semi-professional plays will now help. It’s something to prove that others have noticed you, don’t expect agents or casting directors to come, but it does demonstrate that you might be worth paying attention to, others have noticed you!
If you’re at this stage, and you aren’t good – and I’m sorry to say it is very often the case, they are going to be noticing all the wrong things and it will take a long time to change their perception of you.
Getting noticed is giving them reasons to notice you, but your job is to notice them, to know who they are, what they do and make gentle but deliberate contact. 
To You, the Best
COACH
Mark Westbrook is Senior Coach at Acting Coach Scotland