In a few days, I’ll end my local TV broadcast news career. This week I share 5 valuable lessons 37 years in the industry taught me, and how it might help you in freelance VO.
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…On Minimizing Mumbo Jumbo
When the details become too…detailed, your excuses start sounding like a bit of “bull” offered in lieu of substance. Here’s what the client REALLY wants.
A Cruise Into Murky Waters
On the surface, the job looks to be lucrative, until you start doing the math. An audition that is wrong on so many levels.
5 Ways Technology Can Hamstring Your Voiceover Business
Impossible! 21st-Century technology BUILT today’s VO profession! How could it conceivably shackle your progress? Read it and weep. Chances are you’re guilty.
Goals vs. Systems
They’re not really the same. One helps you chart your progress, the other actually helps you MAKE progress. Got a minute to watch a video?
Voiceover Extended Warrranty
You can get one for your car, your home, and your electronic devices. Are they more important than the occupation that lets you buy all those things?
Automated Voice Acting?
They’ll never stop trying. The innovators, scientists, and geeks who think there’s a digital answer to nearly every human function. Now, this.
Two Rare & Quirky, But Useful Tools
Sometimes the strangest missing link in a work flow can bring the whole project to a screeching halt. Here are a couple of quick, free tools that may help.
Wednesday: What a day!
Sometimes planets align, the universe hiccups, prophecies are fulfilled, and seemingly coincidental events leave you wondering. Yesterday was one of those days.
Practice Yields Little Without…
Yes, that foundational mandate of all successful professionals will bring you little benefit without this final magic filter.
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