The Voice Over Demo and Scripts
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in General Info, Marketing | 1 Comment »This week has had the theme of voice over marketing thanks to Voicebank.net, Amber Dahlin's Q&A with me Wednesday and Thursday. She just emailed me that one of the most common questions (one she was asked again yesterday from a ...
Q&A with Voicebank.net’s Actor Services Sales Director, Amber Dahlin
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in General Info, Marketing, Q & A | No Comments »Most people in the voice over world have heard of Voicebank.net by now, so I thought it was time to ask Sales Director of Voicebank's Actor Services division (since 1999) Amber Dahlin, a few questions, especially because she seems to ...
First Come, First Served Part 2
Friday, March 21st, 2008 Posted in General Info, Talent Agency | 4 Comments »Last week I wrote a blog called, "First Come, First Served." It generated 9 comments. Clearly this is an issue that has a lot of opinions. And when I got a comment from Talent Agent, Elynne Dale at The Big ...
Who Am I? Branding and Voice Over
Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in General Info, Marketing | No Comments »I was just talking to another voice talent today about branding. The question is who am I? And what is my brand? (of voice) But, as voice actors, do we focus on being ourselves or try to be Super VO? ...
Spring Cleaning and Voice Over Marketing
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in General Info, Marketing | 1 Comment »They say (who are they anyway?) that getting rid of clutter opens up new opportunities. Just like blog sites need to be constantly filled with new posts, voice over sites need to change as well. So I decided to unclutter ...
Attention Voice Talent! Voice Over Job!
Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in Finding Work, General Info | No Comments »Literati Audio, Inc. ( formed by a former Time Warner Audiobooks producer) is looking for a British female actor (20s-30s) to narrate three abridged Jane Austen titles. Job pays $1,200 non-union flat fee and will likely record in June in ...
Voice Over Networking in the 21st Century
Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in Finding Work, General Info, Marketing | No Comments »"It's all about connecting" says veteran voice actor (a.k.a. "storyteller") and blogger, Bob Souer. Just as we are literally connecting through the internet we are also connecting with each other building new relationships across cyberspace. The internet is one more ...
What Do We Call Ourselves?
Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in General Info, Marketing | No Comments »Names are important to any business. They can act as our verbal calling card. When someone asks, "what do you do?" we voice over "folks" seem to have several names. Voice Over Actor, Voice Over Talent, Voice Over Artist. I ...
First Come First Served
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in General Info, Talent Agency | 10 Comments »So many of us have voice over representation in cities across the country. Sometimes doubling up on agents can result in doubling up on invitations for the same audition. Rule of thumb? The first agent to send the audition gets ...
The New Way to Market your Voice
Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Marketing, Q & A | No Comments »In 2005, Bob Souer forged a new way to get his voice out there...in cyberspace. He started The Voiceover Boblog. It was a time when almost no one was blogging about the voice over industry. In my interview ...
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