Online subscription services are making us lazy. Marketing your VO business properly means building relationships, and P2P’s are ruining those opportunities. Here are more lasting ways to get and keep clients.
P2P
Can You Say “Moo”?
Clients meet voice-actors, and everyone’s happy, right?
Wrong.
You can do better.
Cattle Call Marketplace
Clients meet voice-actors, and everyone’s happy, right?
Wrong.
You can do better.
Yesterday, Dominoes…Today Shuffling Cards
Dominoes was a so-so metaphor. Shuffling cards is much better. See how the VO deck is being dealt in today’s missive.
Outspoken Spot On
Online casting sites might be here to stay, but that doesn’t mean we should participate in the abuse certain P2P’s bring on our business.
VoiceHounds?
Did you get this email too? Apparently somewhere along the line, I must've expressed an interest in knowing more about this proposed VO casting site. Now they want to know if my interest is serious. From the email: "As we gravitate to finalizing the roster, I am reaching out to you to confirm you...
P2P SlideShare
Are you familiar with SlideShare? Acquired by LinkedIn not that long ago, SlideShare is an online service that lets you share your presentations. Upload or download in almost any format (Keynote, PowerPoint, etc), and share to almost anywhere. The free service is actually pretty...
Results of Exhaustive WoVO Chat Today on P2P’s
Today's #WoVOChat on the topic of online casting sites, or P2P's was so full of information, and lacked any rancor. Many of the attendees from all walks of VO contributed some invaluable suggestions that bubbled over into a worthy discussion on many aspects of the subscription sites. Frustrated...
WoVOChat Today: Online VO Casting Sites
TweetChats are fun, educational, community-building events that can also get to the heart of things 140 characters at a time. At noon Pacific time today, Wed., 2-25-15 World-Voices Organization will host a TweetChat on the topic of P2P's, subscription sites, online casting sites. Call them what...
Lowell Talks Bodalgo
For years Steven Lowell was the voice and the face of Voice123. Sure Alex Torrenegra ran the place, and a bevy of Columbian expatriates made up 99% of the staff, but Steven was the guy out front. He took a lot of flak for some of V123's actions, and (in my estimation) did a good job of explaining...