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Traditional online services that helped you create and send newsletters have morphed into such multi-use platforms, that I'm not sure what to call them anymore. Constant Contact -- one of the oldest and most successful of the services, now offers marketing, surveys, metrics, social media...
At the end of February, I posted a video interview with Constantino de Miguel -- an international journalist, producer, and voice talent. You can see that interview here: DIRECTVOICES. Constan is leading a development team spread literally around the world to launch his directvoices.com site. To...
Everyone has favorites. Pat Fraley is everybody's favorite...coach, that is. But beyond that, don't you just appreciate a guy who loves his work, and takes pride in his student's achievements? That's Pat. Through and through. I've been to several of Pat's classes. He presents a consistent...
Every once in a while, I'll get a particular email response back from one of my blog subscribers. It's an automatic message, and it says the following: Hello there, In order for me to appropriately delegate my time properly to high priority tasks, I only check Emails twice a week. My Email...
You'll find it right there in the Voice Over Dictionary: VO Fatigue: "...a psycho/physiological syndrome exhibited by the accumulative stress and exhaustion resulting from the endless pursuit of freelance voice over success..." We've all been there. The syndrome strikes irrespective of age,...
How many times have you heard that you won't break through as a voice talent until you've taken some acting classes? Have you ever taken a class from Pat Fraley? No? Make an appointment with yourself to do so. (Here is a list of his upcoming workshops). If you have trained with Pat, you know what...
Very few of us can carry off an absolutely believable accent for some regionalism of our own language, much less that of another. The key is: could you fool a native of Mobile, Alabama with a Southern Accent, or would someone from Liverpool, buy your variation on the multi-faceted Queen's...
Yesterday, word spread fast that Scott Fortney had a heart attack. Scott is known to us all as a helpful voice actor who often posts Adobe Audition tutorials on YouTube, and started the Adobe Audition FaceBook group. His wife had just emerged from an illness, and now this. Prayers needed. On...
Just in the last week, I've been approached 3 times by people who want to know how to break into the business of voice-overs. No wonder it's such fertile ground for unscrupulous "coaches" promising the world in a weekend "intensive". I advise well-intentioned VO novices to read my ADVICE FOR...
Luckily it happened AFTER my holiday vacation. The common cold. Like most of you, it began with that "uh-oh" feeling you get, when alla sudden it hurts to swallow. My wife -- the RN -- saw the white spots on my tonsils and diagnosed STREP! One of my daughters in the house had come down with it...
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