When you start out in voice-over work...what's the first demo you put together? Commercial, right? We all kinda want that to be our bread 'n' butter. It doesn't always work out that way...but that seems to be most everyone's hope.So, little wonder that WoVOChats would eventually touch on...
This is the sad state of affairs in today's world: everything is cursory.I'm speaking mostly of content, attention spans, and trends. Nothing stands still. Everything is always in transition.Boy, that's profound, Dave!...haven't you ever heard that the only thing that's constant is change? Yes...
An entire generation of "millennial" consumers have no idea what a TV antenna is, have never purchased a cable subscription, and can't wait for wearable computing to hit its stride (Apple iWatch is a start).In the first three months of 2015, traditional cable lost 105,000 subscribers, satellite...
...and I don't mean money (at least not in THIS post).No, I'm talking about banking information...the new currency.There is SO MUCH valuable content online these days, that one MUST have a mechanism for relegating it to a holding tank for later consideration, or you'd spend the whole day reading,...
Most all of my uber-talented, seasoned, and generous peers in voiceover land will share their experience freely if you just ask.Mike Lenz asked...he asked a lot of people, including me.Mike and I recorded one of his many podcasts a week ago, but it's just today being released....and I'm only the...
Lord knows it's hard enough to be honest with YOURSELF about your demos. It's even harder to be candid, yet diplomatic with your peers when they ask you for an opinion about THEIR demo.And yet, the call eventually comes...that email with an attachment. Someone thinks you're a sage, and that...
Some voice-actors put audiobook narration at the center of their business. The rest just shake their heads, and are often known to say: "...I just don't know how they do it!..."You could say that about eLearning, and technical/medical narrations, and radio imaging too, but for some reason we all...
Every time I see 2.9% shaved off the top of a PayPal payment I grit my teeth.There have been endless VO forum threads about this, and a vast majority say they just write this off as the cost of doing business. They claim the charge on their yearly tax return as a transaction fee. Maybe so, but...
That's a fine distinction, but much like a mission statement, or a business plan, once you've decided the career v. job conundrum - and commit to it -- everything flows from it.There is no right answer...and the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive, although while a job can be part of a...
You might be sick of talking about VO rates...I promise I'll find other VO things to write about...but this week's blog seems to belong to this topic.The spectrum of online responses to the compensation issue reveals why this is such a tough nut to crack...why there may not be any definitive...
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