Nothing's better than getting a local publication to write an article about what you do. Golden. It can be a newspaper, a local radio station, a local weekly, a local TV station or talk show...you name it. Nothing will elevate your profile to the market where you live better than this. Convince a...
Over a week ago, I put it out there: Anybody interested in a reprise of the VOAToday September promotion? The response was a big thumbs-up! VOAToday is strictly my construct. It stands for Voice Over Awareness Today...and was kind of a next-gen National-Voice-Over-Appreciation-Month derivative....
This week, I'm moving the youngest of my three daughters into her new dorm room as a Freshman at the University of Goodbye Retirement. Blog posts may seem haphazard, off-topic, or downright pathetic, but on the other hand, it could be fun. Regardless, I couldn't help but start off the week with...
I consider myself a STUDENT of social media. There are no social media experts in my POV. (OK...maybe Chris Brogan or Brian Solis). Not everyone in voice over land believes social networking is a valuable way to market, promote, find clients, or build valuable relationships. That's OK. I'm no...
WARNING: Geeky-type post! Although it's had a tepid response in the marketplace, I could certainly see the vision behind the Google ChromeBook. No hard drive, instant boot-up, constant cloud connection. Wherever you are, there's your (digital) stuff. No more thumb-drives or sending yourself...
My newfound source of insider information -- "JJ" -- calls it Zeitgeist. Of course, that's a word from our Teutonic neighbors that means: "...the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era..." Ace VO coach and producer Nancy Wolfson would probably call it the author's...
Say what you want about so-called Pay-to-Play (P2P) services like Voice123.com and Voices.com, but they (and others like them) are usually at the heart of trends in this business...things like pay-scales, the job marketplace, internet prospects, and more. In that sense what they do, and the...
For whatever reason, the last two Septembers were busy times of VO community-building for me. September 2010, I launched National VoiceOver Appreciation Day. The site is still up: http://www.nationalvoiceovermonth.com. September 2011, I upped the ante a little, and built an interactive site with...
TRUE OR FALSE: (A) AudioBooks are what you do as a voice-actor when you can't get commercial work. (B) Only the really good voice-actors are the ones capable of mustering the talent needed to complete an audiobook. (C) AudioBooks don't pay well, but they're much more fulfilling to the actor within...
When the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was in Las Vegas in January, I made a B-Line for the Blue Microphones booth so I could drool. I wrote about that visit in this January blog: CES for VO's...then again in March: CourVO on Blue Blog. I also met with the Blue mic reps at their VOICE2012...
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