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My Weekend In Las Vegas

My Weekend In Las Vegas

When you go to Las Vegas, you want to share it with friends, right?  And I'm hip to popular branding statement: "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"...but we all know that's not true.In fact, let me just tell you what me and my friends did in Las Vegas last weekend.  We sat around and talked. ...

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The Business of Your Business

The Business of Your Business

With Veteran's Day celebrations, and reaction to World-Voices' statement about P2P's, it might have been easy to miss Wednesday's WoVOChat on the subject of VO Bookkeeping.You're right, it's a yawner of a topic to most people, but this is where the rubber meets the road for your business.  It's...

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#WoVOChat Today:  Bookkeeping

#WoVOChat Today: Bookkeeping

You wanna get paid doncha? Sure you do...and because it's absolutely necessary, chances are you've devised SOME workable method for invoicing your clients for the work you've done, and keeping a record of your payments. Lemme ask you, though.  Is your method time-consuming?  So much so that you...

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Never Before…

Never Before…

....has there been a greater need for coordination of effort and advocacy among voice-actors.In a perfect world, the established talent union -- in this case SAG-AFTRA -- would do this on our behalf.  But SAG-AFTRA seems to be rather myopic.  Sure, they'll accept the dues of a VO in Des Moines,...

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Keeping it Simple

Keeping it Simple

More and more of the frustration I'm hearing about with (ahem) a certain online VO casting site has to do with the level of complexity that's been added into the mix over the years. People complain that it's hard to follow the bouncing ball.  In the early years it was a simple flow of :job...

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Finger Pointing At Close Range

Finger Pointing At Close Range

When ya get too close to something, you lose perspective.  Several situations already this week reveal the wisdom of that adage.Just ask Voices.com's David Ciccarelli, who got too close to his own one-man PR campaign...too close to see the outrage of the VO community he professes to serve, and too...

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But Wait!…There’s More!

But Wait!…There’s More!

Scores?...Hundreds? watched yesterday as Edge Studio's Managing Director Graeme Spicer conducted a face-to-face interview with Voices.com's CEO David Ciccarelli.Cicacrelli and Spicer know each other, live in the same city, and there are close ties between Edge and Voices.Much of the interview was...

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Do This…

Do This…

...watch Tuesday's Edge Studio-sponsored interview with Voices.com's CEO David Ciccarelli.Graeme Spicer, Edge Studio's Managing Director will conduct the interview in Toronto.Spicer is a World-Voices pro member, an accomplished voice-actor, and brings with him a deep knowledge of the corporate...

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Go With What You Know

Go With What You Know

Do the time, and you form a trust.  It's why I continue to buy Chevys, Microsoft, Kraft Mayonnaise, and National Geographic.Sure, I'm aware that Ford, Apple, Best Foods, and the Smithsonian make decent competing products, but not decent enough to make me switch.Part of it is tradition, part of it...

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Now, More Than Ever…We Need WoVO

Now, More Than Ever…We Need WoVO

Let me tell you what it's like to sit where I sit in the WoVO organization. It's awesome.If I'm lucky, I'll be voted in as the ACTUAL president of the organization... not just the interim president (members of the board will entertain my nomination today at the annual members meeting online).The...

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