"Oh yeah!...I'm on LinkedIn...I just don't use it much." ('Wish I had a Neumann for ever time I heard that!) In about three weeks and three days I'll take the stage with Terry Daniel and Trish Basanyi at the Disneyland hotel during VOICE2012 to talk Social Media strategies. Terry will present...
Time and time again I get questions about LinkedIn. People gush over on FaceBook, and they play on Twitter, but they just aren't sure WHAT to do with LinkedIn. Like the other popular social media platforms, LinkedIn has been smart about constantly morphing their platform to accept new trends. In...
Repeat after me: Voice Acting is a business...Voice Acting is a business...Voice Acting is a business. Yeah, it's a fun business. There are real ego-boosting moments. It's performance, it's technology, it's rubbing up against Hollywood. All that. But above all, it's a business. Getting down...
Each day this week, I'll contribute a new blog article in a 5-point plan to benefit your VO business in the Social Networks. This is not daunting, nor difficult. It will require some time, esp. if you haven't started yet, and it WILL require the real YOU to step forward. Not some proxy...
What works for your doesn't always work for me...and vice versa. A comment on a VO forum recently noted that when seeking freelance VO jobs, it's all about relationship. He said that FaceBook, Twitter, and LinkedIn was a time-suck, and "if you can't get on the phone and sell yourself and work a...
After starting a Facebook group for voice over artists, a potential client looking for a medical voice over artist posted in our group seeking male voice over talent.
Every day I'm reminded that we live in swashbuckling times. Not that we should have parrot on our shoulder, or a snarl on our breath...rather a swashbuckler -- in the truest sense -- is an adventurer. Every generation has it's opportunities for adventure. Think of the explorers, the railroad or...
....is more than just a quandary, it's actually a group forum over on LinkedIn. Lately, there's been some lively discussion about pricing long-format narrations (with some side-notes about how the industry is in the throes of trying to decide how much it wants to pay). You can find the discussion...
When do you become an "expert"? That word makes me uncomfortable. That's why, when I started my teleseminar Saturday morning (Leveraging Social Media for Your VoiceOver Business) on behalf of the VoiceOverDirectory, I began by saying I'm a fan of Social Media, I enjoy Social Networking, I'm...
Everyone pretty much stayed civil and pleasant in their responses to my post about “Sharing or Show-off”?