The hottest online video site in the Milky Way...the second biggest search engine on the planet...the world's de facto TV station is getting better. I've said it before, and I'll say it till I'm red in the face: Voice Actors cannot ignore the value of video in their marketing. The fact that...
YouTube
Handiest Video Tool Evar
YouTube makes it so easy to share, embed, email, or otherwise post the videos you love to your fave social media sites. In fact, they make it so simple it's scary. But what if you wanted a COPY of that video? Maybe a friend asked you to edit it for them, or you need to move it from one account...
Translate Videos
What role will you assume today to make your voice over business work? We need to be audio engineers, to be able to convert documents, keep out own books, run a business, know hardware 'n' software, be public relations experts, marketers, and the list goes on and on... it's our challenge and ......
Advice Advantage
"Pay-it-Forward" became a cliché the day after the movie of the same name was released. But no one's come up with a better way to briefly phrase the ethic that extending value IN ADVANCE of reward, holds great promise as a lifestyle, a marketing plan, and a business plan. I try to live by that...
SoundCloud Grows Up
"The YouTube site for Sound"...that's what some are calling SoundCloud these days. The Berlin-based company launched in 2008, and now has 10-million users...and has just raised 50-million in venture capital funding. From an article on TechCrunch: Soundcloud "...has had over five million official...
Super Socials!
Many of you know of the close connection this blog has to John Florian's VoiceOverXtra site. I've probably contributed 10 or 12 articles to his site of late. John runs a hi-profile site. VoiceOverXtra gets a lot of traffic, and has a lot of credibility in the Voice Over world. Lately Florian...
Convert YouTube to .mp3
This is a fairly simple conversion, and can be done in several different ways, which makes it all the more surprising that the questions comes up fairly often in VO forums. This particular step-by-step process on a WIRED site is as good as any. BTW, this formula expects you to have video converter...
Writing Reigns
Among the skills I've developed in the last decade, none is more important than writing. People decry social media and how it's stolen decent physical social interaction, but people are writing now more than ever!...Twitter, Facebook, Texting, Email...it ALL demands you express yourself in written...