Voice actors are not alone. We simultaneously revile and revel in Social Media, just like everybody else on the planet. This whole thing with celebrity photos being hacked off iCloud...and the scare that FaceBook's Messenger app can use your mic and camera to spy on you. I could go on. The...
The new darling catch-phrase on the lips of savvy marketers and "online experts" these days is CONTENT MANAGEMENT. A professional "content manager" must be the most coveted position in the pantheon of social media expertise! Don't be fooled. I wrote about content marketing back in June. See: ...
The older I get the less time I have for frivolous; especially in emails, and emails from perfect strangers. Now, I understand "frivolous" means different things to different people, so let's apply YOUR standard...it's basically the Golden Rule. You know it.... Treat others as you would be like...
#1 Question I get from people at VO Social Media seminars: "When do you sleep?" What they really mean is..."I don't have enough time in the day to be present on all those social media sites, and do it justice. How do you do that?" To be even more succinct, their concern is that: "I don't have...
You've seen these infographics or charts before, but doggone it...they keep changing! So, here's the latest -- and it was compiled by someone I trust implicitly -- my own virtual assistant. The data was collected for someone else, but she generously shared it with me and some of her other...
There is a point of diminishing returns in creating meaningful relationships whenever you become part of a population that's too big. For that reason, FaceBook Groups and Google Communities, and Twitter Lists, and LinkedIn Groups are where the real action is. Even the Voice-Over Friends FaceBook...
Everybody's favorite voice over business coach, and prolific YouTube trainer -- Bill DeWees -- is finally getting out 'n' about. Bill and I are both introverts. Seriously. And besides being uncomfortable in the limelight, Bill is just always working. The guy is busy because he lives what he...
Oh, the biases voice actors have against Pinterest! "It's just for people to share recipes." "I'm not looking to buy shoes today!" "Who cares about what Jennifer Lawrence wore to the Oscars." OK, yes, Pinterest is guilty of all those stereotypical statements, and yes, it's dominated by the female...
They're so ubiquitous, so unobtrusive, so taken-for-granted, that we forget how powerful they are. They are present on almost every online content article you read. I have them at the top of this blog everyday. Sometimes they're at the bottom. Sometimes they float alongside the text. If...
Two days ago I posed a question to the nearly 13oo members of my FaceBook Group "Voice-Over Friends". I wanted to know how they felt about the frequent pop-up messages promoting this-or-that paid VO event; things like conferences, webinars, coaching sessions, workshops, seminars, etc. The appeals...
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