by CourVO | Mar 25, 2020 | VO Business |
Fair journalists know there is no “good” news or “bad” news. There is just NEWS. What makes it good or bad is how it is perceived by each person who receives it. Same with this pandemic. It’s tragic for those who have lost a loved one,...
by CourVO | Mar 23, 2020 | VO Business |
My middle daughter is on the front lines of COVID-19 right now. She’s a Physician Assistant serving in an Infectious Diseases (ID) clinic. To say each day at work for her is a panic, is an understatement. I can hear it in her voice. Like most of the rest of...
by CourVO | Mar 18, 2020 | VO Business |
In the span of what seems to be a few short days, we’ve all had to adjust like never ever before. “Social Distancing”. That new buzzword phrase perfectly connotes our greatest paradox: we cannot do what we all really WANT to do…come together...
by CourVO | Mar 16, 2020 | VO Business |
The Illinois farm I own with my two sisters is about 50 miles straight East of St. Louis. I grew up here. My parents are both gone, but the farm is their legacy to us. 320 acres of black Illinois loam. 80 acres of that is woodland. There’s a lake, and the...
by CourVO | Mar 11, 2020 | VO Business |
{NOTE: As of Wednesday evening, 3-11-2020, Voiceover Atlanta organizer Gerald Griffith has agreed to postpone the event planned for later this month until a better time to gather people together after the COVID-19 threat has passed} People are relational. They tend...
by CourVO | Mar 2, 2020 | VO Business |
Notice I didn’t say, “…Will the Coronavirus Affect Your VO Business. That would be different…and the answer would likely be “no”. But the FEAR of the coronavirus. That’s different. And, yes, there’s a good chance that...
by CourVO | Feb 28, 2020 | More Than Just a Voice |
No matter how you decide to go about it, writing and publishing a book is a lot of work, with not a small amount of money involved. The 2nd edition of my book “More Than Just a Voice, the REAL Secret to Voiceover Success” is now available for public...
by CourVO | Feb 25, 2020 | Marketing, VO Business |
Honestly, I don’t even remember who told me. But I was intrigued. I do remember that the source was reliable, and the pitch was believable. When I got home that night, I called up NetFlix on my TV, and started watching “Stranger Things”. In the...
by CourVO | Feb 24, 2020 | More Than Just a Voice |
Coaching is not my thing. First, I’m not sure I’m as qualified as many of the fine voiceover coaches currently practicing; and secondly, taking on that task would draw me away from what I love: doing the voice work. I’m not sure I could serve both...
by CourVO | Feb 20, 2020 | Software, VO Business |
What??!!! Our clients don’t trust us with their corporate secrets? Alas, for our end-clients to launch their latest work of greatness, their public presentations will have to be voiced by freelance voice artists. But can pedestrian rabble such as that be...
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