I do not know on the U.S. as a whole, but depending on what you are shooting, I would say find a college town.
I do not shoot hardcore, nor M/F, but we do mostly 'fetish' things. We have more than enough girls contacting us to keep us busy, and we can't even get them all in within a given month!
We do not do the newspaper though. Business partner used to use his connections at strip clubs and so on before I took over the recruiting. I find a lot of them from online networking groups, and word of mouth spread it from there. It was a rough go at the beginning, but after we picked up some decent one's, and they heard about the 'referral fee' then they started doing a lot of the recruiting themselves. Bringing us more girls so we did not have to be as active is promoting, or recruiting.
Now it's on auto-pilot. I get plenty who contact me weekly, and am at the point we can turn away those just looking for money, and do not have an image that will sell, or not 100% down with what we do.
If you are in a college town, if you know what you are doing, and how to recruit, you will have more than enough hunnies contacting you all the time.
As for agents, and such. I do not deal with them. I have had them contact me any number of times, and people who want to be the middle man, or whatever. We stick to the business model, no matter how hot the girl is. This is what we do, and what we pay. Period. If they don't like it, keep steppin.
We have budgets, and we are not going to blow them for some girl who's marginally better looking dealing with agents, and fees. Fuck that!
