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You know it when you see it, you know it when you taste it, and you know it when you hear it. Excellence. Cream of the crop. This weekend, I heard it...I heard a lot of it...and I'm more the blessed for it. For two days I shared a close room with 12 other talented male VO artists from three...
5 TIPS FOR TAKING ADVANTAGE OF DOWNTIME What happened? Every freelancer hits that wall. The work…just…stops. Nothing’s coming in. Leads are long gone, and clients are clamming up. Hopefully it’s just a day or two…a week or two at the most. You’d go crazy trying to figure out why. Sure, there...
....or Congress should declare it as such. I know there are always workshops and conferences and meet-ups going on EVERY month, but for some reason September seems to be a veritable cornucopia of opportunities. First and foremost, there's FAFFCON. Ho, boy! Have you signed up for this yet? Do....
My fervent hope is that something in the list below will spark a self-helpful action for your VO business. Honestly...I compose it for me as much as anyone. Whatever the consistent time-suck is in your life, like me, I'm sure it draws attention away from the important things. [Remember our talk...
Voice coaching is something to approach with caution. Usually the best way to know whether it's worth the time/money is through a referral from a trusted friend, and even then you should qualify whether your needs are the same as your friend's. Some coaches are so way off-the-charts in demand...
The responses to the question I posed a couple of days ago in 'VOICE OR TEACH' were most edifying. I thought I had this issue all sussed out, and I wasn't even close. The crux of my argument probably came out this way: "...Don’t you just want to put all your waking energy into getting better VO...
That's such a loaded term these days. But, look...as voice actors we tend to wear lots of hats to keep our business going, and guess what gets lost in the shuffle? Auditioning. Practicing. Learning. Marketing. Growing. Cold-calling...the CORE activities that define our central goal. Didja...
More and more I've been thinking about all the great voice-actors who are teaching: Pat Fraley, Deb Munro, Marc Cashman, Hillary Huber, Bettye Zoller, Harlan Hogan... Why?... I mean, is teaching VO more lucrative than DOING VO? If you can do both, then, of course, more power to ya!...but all I...
This is Part-3 of a loosely-told story from Dave's real-world experience in setting rates for a voice job. Part one is HERE. Part two is HERE. You'll remember, I'd hoped for permission from my anonymous (but quite real) female VO pro to excerpt an extremely well-stated philosophy for setting...
. At 3:54am PST, I ponder this issue. How much more of my personal time can I afford to give over to Social Media? That simple question begets a rash of other questions that belie the complexity of the issue. First of all is the question: “Can I afford NOT to give that time, if I want a successful...
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