You have no idea how proud I am to be your voice-over friend. Thank you for your loyalty in reading my blog. I'm going to take about a week hiatus from blogging. I'll be spending time with family, and traveling to a cabin in Truckee/Tahoe CA. You might see a random pic from all that here 'n'...
This'll be really simple, and you've heard it all before. You just aren't doing it, 'cause...well...we're human...and we forget. 1.) Wash your hands. For proper technique...watch this video: 2.) Don't touch your eyes, your nose, your mouth...heck!...anything on your face until April (unless...
Almost six years ago I wrote a blog about an up-and-coming voice actor in rural Georgia: Forget NYC & LA.At the time, I didn't know Kelley Buttrick at all. I was just trying to show how a talent could utilize local media as a marketing tool, and how voice actors could make a go of it without...
No one knows what to get me for Christmas.They ask, and I shrug.Oddly enough, I have no trouble finding stuff to buy for myself. Here's why:I'm a geek and frequent geeky online & brick 'n' mortar placesIt's complicated -- literally -- the stuff I want is hard to understandI'm impatient, and...
Having a little fun with this one.Just take a moment to watch...it's not long.CourVO
Ever heard of Peter Shankman?He's a gadabout, ADHD, brilliant Social Media and business entrepreneur personality and coach. The guy gets around.He does seminars at all the right conferences, and is probably best known for his daily HARO newsletter. HARO stands for Help A Reporter Out. The...
To honor this day in respect of it's official genesis, I'm going to stay in bed all day. Only the TV station really wouldn't appreciate that, and my VoiceOver clients wouldn't either.In fact the spirit of this holiday is now lost in "end of Summer" traditions, back-to-school sales, and Labor Day...
The popular thing these days is to load your resume with impressive-looking initials that indicate the position, degree, or honor that you have attained. They're called post-nominal letters. For a classless society, it provides a sort of pedigree, I suppose.Common ones are Ph.D., M.D., MBA, CPA,...
Motivational, Self-help, How-To, Inspirational training is the clichè's clichè. So ubiquitous is the genre that it used to demand entire sections of Borders Bookstore. Now it surely must take up nearly 20% of the world's bandwidth and server space, right? Of course such topics deserve attention...
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Ever the optimist, I can't help but be excited about the new year.I know it's just "another" day, week, month...but...it's also a symbolic new beginning. May 2015 bring you all the many deserved rewards you seek. I'm sure you've worked hard for them.(I know I have!) 🙂 COURVO