Don't fault me or WoVO for focusing so much on voiceover compensation rates lately. We're only trying to keep up with the crazy pace of this industry. No one topic garners more interest among freelance voice actors than this issue. World-Voices Organization members site "rates" as one of their...
My post Monday on SpeakPage sparked a lot of interest, and a wide range of comments. We heard from people who were convinced I was encouraging "bottom feeders", and others who did some quick math and decided it wasn't all that bad of a scale.Interestingly, on Anne Ganguzza's FB group "VO Peeps" a...
We're living in the middle of a paradigm shift. Every generation does...they just don't always see the forest for the trees. For us, the internet is disrupting most all the of the media channels that had been enjoying money-growing-on-trees status: TV, radio, music, publishing, photography,...
In 2003 I bought a tablet computer from Gateway...operating system made by Microsoft. It did much of the same stuff the iPad does today...even some other things the iPad STILL doesn't offer. Why did Apple's offering become an instant overwhelming success, and a similar product by Microsoft 7 years...
Aren't these fun? You could almost forget that a great deal of valuable info is exchanged in the WoVOChats, because there's so much... well.... CHATTING going on.Today's session covered acres of territory on the subject of VO coaching, and brought the added dimension of perceived differences in...
'Bottom line about the back 'n' forth on the pages of this blog in the last week as it regards questionable VO coaching practices is that positive progress is being made in a spirit of respect. Watch for more soon.You...me... any one of us have the right to speak out about things we see in our...
To recap: 1) Last week I called to task a certain hi-profile VO coaching school for utilizing a series of increasingly rude autoresponder emails to coerce wannabe VO talent to sign-up for their program. [WHEN DOES AN OFFER BECOME OFFENSIVE?] 2) I followed up the next day with some suggestions...
This article has nothing to do with traditional Washington politics.I don't remember a time when opposing views became hijacked so completely by radicals. Polarization on any number of issues is moving further away from the center, and finding purchase on the extremes.I don't see it as a Democrat...
What's the old saying? "Fool me once, shame on you...fool me twice, shame on me".This has been a week of discovery, admonition, and contrition. Tuesday, I came down hard on what I believed to be a certain sector of the coaching marketplace that takes unfair advantage of voiceover neophytes....
Clearly, the topic in yesterday's blog touched a nerve. See: "When Does an Offer Become Offensive"Nearly 800 readers voted with their visit. This is an issue people in our business care about...or they should.That was inconsiderate of me, though, to admonish, but not advise. Not unwarranted,...
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