by CourVO | Jul 14, 2013 | Careers, Marketing, Published Articles |
‘Nothing I love better than digging around the internet, and finding stories from local newspapers about my friends in VoiceOver. A couple of years ago, I first came across the name Kelley Buttrick this way. The December 2010 article about her in the online...
by CourVO | Jul 8, 2013 | Branding, Marketing, Social/Professional Networking |
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve seen an exponential number of new requests to be in my FaceBook Group “Voice-Over Friends”. As far as I can tell, there’s no accounting for it. Terry Daniel, who administers “Voice-Over Pros” is...
by CourVO | May 21, 2013 | Marketing |
Google is fascinating to me right now. You probably gathered that from my GOOGLE IS ON FIRE blog of last week. I’ll stop with the open infatuation after this article…but I won’t stop being a fan. There’s just so much going on with their many...
by CourVO | May 14, 2013 | Marketing |
…I was approached by a wannabe voice actor who touted his cold-calling abilities, not his great pipes. I was floored. Really. I mean, how many times a month are you contacted by a newb who claims they’re always told they have a great voice, and were...
by CourVO | May 1, 2013 | Marketing |
We THINK we know what the client wants. We BELIEVE clients see us the way we want to be perceived. We do our homework, attend conferences, get coaching, listen to webinars, take branding seriously, and talk to our peers in online forums. The sum total of our...
by CourVO | Apr 25, 2013 | Marketing, Web Resources |
We all know the importance of designing a useful signature for your professional VoiceOver emails. You know… that’s the info you include at the bottom of your email message. Any email program worth its salt, let’s you design a custom signature with...
by CourVO | Oct 17, 2012 | Audiobooks, Compensation, Marketing, Social Media/Networking |
A highly regarded local Speech-Language Pathologist contacted me the other day. I’m encouraged that my online VO profile brings people to my door, but even this advanced professional was in the dark about the current skills needed to make it in Voice Acting...
by CourVO | Jul 13, 2012 | Marketing, Social Media/Networking, Web Resources |
PowerPoint presentations are ubiquitous. Who hasn’t done one, or at least thought about doing one? The ole .ppt is at the center of just about every presentation, webinar, and teleseminar I’ve ever held or attended. For instance, a PowerPoint slideshow...
by CourVO | May 3, 2012 | Marketing, Relationships, Social Media/Networking |
In June, Terry Daniel, Trish Basanyi and I will be presenting on this very topic at VOICE2012 . That’s not all we’ll be talking about, of course, but that’s what everyone wants to know. “How do you work Twitter or FaceBook so that it leads to...
by CourVO | Apr 5, 2012 | Marketing, Software, Web Resources, Web/Tech |
Video is in. Big woop CourVO!…uh, I think we knew that. No, I mean, really…even if you don’t want to be on camera…you should learn to work with images, take videos, edit montages, graphics, and even think about posting your demos with a video...
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