Questions
How many clients do you represent?
How many clients of my type and age range do you represent?
What type of roles do you see me playing?
What age range do you think I play?
How often are your clients going out on auditions and what is the general booking ratio?
Do you pitch your clients to casting directors?
Do you have relationships or work to develop relationships with casting directors, producers, and other influential showbusiness people? Do you meet with them face to face?
What do you expect from me as a client?
Do you develop a business plan with each client, on a case by case basis?
Do you have meetings scheduled with your clients every few months to discuss progress, create action plans, etc?
Red Flags
They call to talk about their own personal problems more than discussing plans to move your career along, give you advice, create goals, etc.
After being with them a few months, you discover that they are not familiar with your credits or the skills you have listed such as the languages you speak on the back of your resume.
They repeatedly submit you to roles that you told them you are not comfortable doing.
They have no patience.
They complain a lot, and do not communicate to resolve issues that would move things forward.
They complain about other actors they represent. This means they are probably bad mouthing you to their other clients.
They pretend to want to be your friend, but never actually follow through with any friend-like promises.